Random Abandon

1 more day and then I'm free to breath without someone asking me why!!!!!

It is still blowing my mind that I will have 2 kids in Middle School this year. I just keep repeating my new mantra. I am not that old, I am not that old, I. am. not. that. old!!

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an
injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are
aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz

One day, One choice, One pound at a time

No numbers. I know, I know. Stop screaming at me. We have been really busy, I haven't had time to breath. Have to have Jo somewhere by 8 this morning and then return to the normal chaos so I don't have time to get on the WiiFit this morning. However on an up note. The kids start school Tuesday, I should be able to get back to a routine. I wish I was more disciplined and could get up early every morning and exercise but when I don't have to get up, my body just won't let me. I promise better things starting next week. I'm going to start trying different things too, health wise, I mean. So if anyone has any suggestions, anything you would like for me to try or at least check in to, let me know. I'm up for just about anything. That's how you find what works for you.

What a Plan!!

While filling up my truck yesterday I had a thought. Rare I know but I think I'm on to something here. I think that the price of gas got so high because they knew that we would not want to except higher prices. Now that the prices have been ridiculously high we are not going to complain about paying well over $3 a gallon. As long as we aren't having to pay the $4 and more that we were paying we aren't going to complain. So they push it up way high for a month or so and now we will no longer complain about $3.79. It makes since to me and if it was the plan it worked -brilliantly. What do you think?

2 vs. 3

I have 3 boys. They give me a run for my money. I have been wondering here lately why it is that when one of them is gone my life is so much easier. It doesn't matter which one, you can take away any one and it gives me the same result. My day is a lot easier. They are good kids, for the most part but when you put all 3 of them together it just seems to breed chaos. Two of them will play all day together and I will not hear a peep out of them. When all three of them are here I never quit hearing it. This is a phenomenon that I can not figure out. It makes it very tempting to find a revolving permanent babysitter though.

Our Family History

Part 6: Drew should love

Roller Coasters(emphasized)

For every ounce of emotion from my pregnancy and his birth, there was 5 times that amount of emotion over the next 6 months. Both of our parents told us that the 3rd kid was the hardest (and they both would know) but we chose not to believe them. They were right, of course. From the first day of his life he was a handful. He gave me the most trouble in birth and only proceeded to get worse from there. The first few weeks were just all around tough. I had a 4 year old, an 18 month old and a newborn. Of course it was tough. Then his colic set in. Audrey and Joe had been good babies, this was something I had no idea how to handle. He would cry for hours on end. Hubby was on day shift at the time and had to get up at 4:30. Around 4 every morning Drew would finally fall asleep, so at that point there was no sense in going to sleep. When hubby would leave I would try to lay down for a while but by the time I was good and asleep Jo would get up. Jo was and still is notorious for getting up early, getting him to sleep past 7 is a major achievement. To say that I was sleep deprived would be the biggest understatement of all time. When I look back now, I wonder how I ever made it through but I did. We all did. Then when he was around 4 months old he got a severe case of Croop and was in the hospital for awhile. The antibiotics gave him the worst case of Thrush I have ever seen. We had to throw away all nipples, pacifiers etc. every other day. Even though he was one of my bigger babies, from there on out he was small. It took him forever to gain any weight and he is still a skinny little thing. After his birth and first year I was painfully sure that I didn't want any more kids. Hubby had other ideas though, obviously.

Next: Part 7:Just one more Please!

Random Abandon

8 days until school starts! I'm so excited and I just can't hide it!!(I'm dancing in my mind, can you tell?)

The Olympics are great!! Does it get any better than Michael Phelps? We have, of course, watched a lot of the volleyball and they are great. I've watched a little of the diving but I keep missing it, hopefully I will get to see the finals.

One of Nintendo's developers has been told that he is not allowed to speak about his "hobbies" in public or to the press. Can you imagine? I understand that his ideas are golden but can they really tell him that he's not allowed to talk about what he likes to anyone. To me that just seems ludicrous. (See the story here.)

Dr. Meredith Grey: Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on
its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy
answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain
can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits
way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through,
because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more.

One day, One choice, One pound at a time

SW-218
LW-190.3
CW-190.1
GW-160

To be redundant, I am hanging in there. Waiting for my moment to shine. I promise this will get more interesting once the kids are back in school. For this little time I needed to concentrate on them though.