I'm having a tough week, the kids are sick. Coughing a lot at night and keeping me up and awake. I'm tired. I haven't worked out in almost two weeks. I'm starting to feel it in my joints. This morning I woke up very stiff and in the most unusual places, my hands and wrists today are sore and tired. My weight went up at the beginning of the week and it's slowly going back down again. I think I was eating too much salt.

The boys are doing well other than being sick. They are enjoying their summer and growing so fast. They are all taller and slimmer, I've noticed lately. They are developing and doing very well. I'm happy with them and they are content.

Random Bullet Thoughts

*It's been some time since I've felt the urge to write anything whether this blog or the story I'm working on. Life just seems to get in the way sometimes. Raising my 3 boys takes up so much of my time,that keeping up with general housework seems a chore.

*Just finished my 2 weeks off, house still looks messy even though I cleaned it at least twice. I'm trying not to pull my hair out over that and just go with it.

* My garden looks fabulous at the moment and I love it. I did a lot of work. I put in a corner garden for raspberry bushes and then I dug a trench and filled it with soil and made a strawberry patch. Some neighbourhood cat is crapping in there. I ordered a CatStop yesterday, to help. It's supposed to put out some noice a cat doesn't like.

*I'm not down 30lbs since November 2008. I'm very happy with the results I'm getting, mindfully eating is really helping me and honestly I'm surprised that it's getting easier to just stop myself from eating whatever I want.

*Exercise is great! I love aquafit and going to the gym, I just need to walk more, I miss walking.

*I did hurt my leg this week ( thinking from moving the gravel around in the wheel barrow on Saturday and Sunday, didn't feel it until Monday), so I'm missing out on the aquafit! I went Monday but then felt sick, they didn't have it on Wednesday because of Canada Day and today I'm babying my leg and arm both of which are sore, don't want to overdo it.

*The last week has been stressful because I have been sick and the boys have been their usual selves and Hubby is back to long hours again. It's getting hot.

*It's supposed to keep getting hot too! I'm actually looking forward to a nice hot weekend.

*Did I mention i love my garden.

Longing for those dog days of summer...

What? Whatever!

So last night we were up at my Folks place for a visit after eating out bbq steak and going for ice cream. SmartGuy found a collar and lease and took the dog out for a walk in his fenced-in dog yard.

He then asked me if he could get a dog for his birthday. I said I didn't know and I would talk to Daddy. He talked about all the things he would need, bed, collar, leash, two bowls for food and water, dog house and on and on. The talked about wanting to get a girl dog so we could have more puppies and names, names, names (Bolt, Cody, Corbin, etc...). He wanted to know what we would do if we went on a car trip and would hotels take dogs or what if we went on an airplane what would happen then. At some point I said that we could get a house sitter and they would watch the dog (on this fictional trip of ours). He didn't like that idea and thought the dog should come with us! So it's the main topic of conversation right now.

We have to look into hyp0allergenic dogs, though SmartGuy said he's not allergic any more. I wonder when he became an allergist? The whole time Buddy was agreeing and copy names for his dog!

This will lead to many discussions I'm sure and I hope sometime in the future we'll get a dog. I just don' t know when!

Summer, summer, summer...

We've been having some beautiful weather. We've had a little bit of rain but not enough to put a damper on enjoying the nice sunny days.



With summer in full swing and my Husband working long hours, it's just me and the boys. We've been spending a lot of time in the yard and garden, the boys are all on their bikes. Bubba refuses to try and pedal his tricycle. But Buddy on his training weeks is racing after his older brother and trying to keep up. Right now, he hates not being able to beat his brother at anything.

I have been busy with the boys every morning and night, working all day, my lunches are spent either at the gym or at the pool. But I'm feeling pretty good, doing things with the kids and getting things done.

I built a garden box on Sunday and yesterday I had dirt delivered so I spent a few hours hauling the dirt in the wheel barrow. So I skipped the gym today and relaxed and read at the office and then walked over to the daycare to visit with Buddy for a bit and then walked SmartGuy to daycamp.

Things are going well. I'm now down 26lb putting me under 300lb for the first time since last summer/fall, I don't know what exactly that tragedy happened and it's never going to happen again. I just don't know how I got to the place in live but it's changing and it's only going to keep getting better.

We walked today. Well I walked to town this morning and Hubby took the van and the kids to daycare for me. His truck is incapacitated for the next few weeks waiting for a part so we'll make do with one vehicle. I figured it would be a great excuse to get some exercise in. Until this morning when I was halfway to town and I realized I wore the wrong shoes. How could I wear the wrong shoes you may ask? Well I have a pair of runners that I have had for ages but I don't wear them very often, just to the gym so they are not wore in and halfway to town I started feeling the blisters that were forming. So my half hour walk took about 40 minutes and I was hurting by the time I got to work. I borrow a work truck and went home to get my flip flops which I ended up wearing all day and subsequently walked on in.

So tonight I am pretty darn tired but the boys, even after having walked home do not in fact seem tired. Sigh!!!!

My Day

Started like so many other days lately, us sleeping to late and me being grumpy. It was a little different this morning though, I wasn't yelling or getting too frustrated. It's hard getting back to the summer routine with Hubby working ridiculous hours and me holding down the fort. The part the sucks about it is Hubby is up late so he stays up later and wants to sleep later which is totally impossible in our house because the kids bedrooms and bathroom are right by our room and the morning can be chaos some days.

So I was late and never got breakfast in me before we left so I went to the grocery store before work and got something to eat and of course it was way too high in calories and for some reason I bought myself chocolate milk, so by the time I was done eating my breakfast I'd already had something like 800-900 calories, sorry I don't have my journal in front of me. I was compensating high though using www.calorieking.com. It's a really great site. Plus tonight was bad junk food wise, I bought a can of pop and I had gotten the boys an ice cream cone earlier and myself one (only 150 cal) but then I had gotten them cheesies and started munching on those but at least I know how many calories that was. Just terrible, i haven't added up my journal yet for this evening and I'm scared. I would have been fine with just the ice cream today.

Work was majorly slow today but I have a project I've been working on. At lunch I went to Aquafit for the first time and it was a lot of fun and it was a great workout. I'm so glad that I went. A friend of mine was asking me to go with her last year and I just didn't feel like it. But this year I plan on going on Monday and Friday lunch breaks. My Tuesday and Thursday lunches will be at the gym and my Wednesday will be just me. I'll walk down along front street find some grass and just relax while I nibble on lunch and read a book. It sounds heavenly and you know what? I deserve it!

I ran home after the workout because didn't pack and lunch and just threw a salad together with some chicken. Same lunch I've had all week. I'm really liking my lunch time meals. I got some salmon from mom yesterday, a big chunk I'll have to cook and I think I'll have to wait for a rainy day to turn on the oven and some smoked salmon (which will be good with my lunches as well).

So after work, I ran to the post office, bank, paid for SmartGuy's Art Camp that starts next week, went grocery shopping (bought a bunch of fruit today, lot's of berries), picked up the kids. We stopped at Max's so I could by some smokes. Yes, I'm still smoking, I'm working on it. I have a plan now, only 7 more days I hope. We walked to the ice cream place and Bubba (2yo) spotted a teeny tiny puppy, so we had to go say hi. It was so cute!

We all want a puppy so bad and I'm thinking next year may be the year. Just have to do some research on hypoallergenic dogs and find the right fit for our family.

There was an incident at Daycamp today where SmartGuy did something to another child to hurt them and the teacher talked to me after about it because I told her I want to know what is happening at Daycamp, especially after the bully last year.

So SmartGuy and I had another huge talk tonight, seems like we do this every week. Talking about trust, being respectful and kind, doing the right thing, making the right choices and honesty. He swears up and down that he didn't do this and that the others are lying about him and they always lie about him to get him in trouble. I'm tempted to believe him but then in the later part of the conversation he was telling me another story and sounding so believable but it wasn't real and I knew that but then he wouldn't admit it right away and when he finally did, I thought how do I believe you when you can tell stories so convincingly. Something I have to talk to Hubby about. Funny thing is my husband is the same way with story telling, he quite often makes up things and passes them off as the truth. It's more of a see how gullible you are thing we do with each other but seems our oldest son is picking it up.

So right now we are working on a Star Chart for SmartGuy to earn a video camera and work on his listening, respectfulness and kindness issues. He's also getting a weekly allowance now to learn about money and the value of things. I will not longer buy him frivolous things, he has to pay for those things himself and we'll start a bank account for him soon and he'll have to safe money to put into that account. Parenting is a lot of work I tell ya!

We went and visited Hubby at work tonight briefly, brought him some dinner and the boys got to see him for a change. He's been getting off at 10 most nights, he, in fact just walked through the door now, so I'll sign of now. Night!