I may faint!

After almost ten years of not going anywhere we are now going on our second trip in 2 months. We are on the road as I am writing this. Hopefully I will have internet somewhere to post it. The last real trip we took before my brothers wedding was to the same place we are going now and we had Dear One’s mom with us. It’s been a little hard for him, I’m sure, the memories of having her with us. It was a miserable trip but one that we would give anything to relive now. We only had 2 kids then, Audrey would have been around 3 and Jo was just a baby. I was pregnant with Drew and didn’t know it, thus the reason for it being a miserable trip. I was sick and uncomfortable the whole time. Then before we knew it we had 4 small kids and not much money so going anywhere besides to the store to buy milk and diapers was out of the question. So to have the freedom and money to go now is a blessing. We will probably be home before most of you read this, Dear One doesn’t stay anywhere for long but still the kids will have been able to see a new place and have a few new experiences. Traveling with kids is never pleasant, no matter their age and I’m quite sure teenagers are the worst!!

Random Abandon

I prefer the word homemaker because housewife seems to imply

that there may be a wife someplace else.

A quote from the Gilmore Girls;

Emily-"Well then what do you usually eat for breakfast?"
Rory-"Usually
just a pop tart."
Emily-"I'll have the maid whip one up for you."

Oh to be so posh that you don't know what a pop tart is!!

One day, One choice, One pound at a time

SW-218
CW-186
LW-184.8
GW-160

It's simple if you eat more calories than you burn in a day then you can't lose weight. I had moved away from the habit of keeping track of what I was eating and this has been my downfall (or is there such a thing as an upfall haha). I've kept track the last couple of days and it isn't pretty. I haven't been doing that bad but all of those little habits are slipping back in. It's time to cut myself off and straighten myself up. Hopefully now that I know exactly where I am going wrong I can talk myself out of it. I need to keep that motivational factor of being able to be here for my kids futures in mind. I need to set a good example for them.

P.S. I don't think there is such a thing as an upfall - my spell check doesn't like that word.

The idea for - Our Family History

I have had the thought many times lately that I wish I had been blogging when the kids were little. There are so many stories that I would love to have compiled some place for them. I read all of these blogs from mothers with young kids and think how great it is going to be for them to be able to look back and see how things were and what they did. Why is it too late? It's not, so I am going to start recording some of the stories from when they were small to go along with the ones from now. I am sure that as they get older technology will only continue to advance and this is going to be better than any scrapbook I could ever make. I'm working on getting all of our home videos onto here or DVD's (just started the research actually) and may be adding in some videos too at some point. I am working on the first story to post now and you will have it soon, hopefully (I am becoming too much of a perfectionist about some things).

A New Look

Free at last, free at last!!!

So if your here very often you have noticed that I have slowed down a bit lately on my postings but (again) if you are here often you see the reason why now!! I, who had no previous html or css knowledge, designed this new look all by myself. I started working on it a few weeks after taking my blog public, when I discovered these things could be done. The last 2 nights I have been up until 4 working on it (thank goodness it's summer or I would seriously be dragging) but don't tell Dear One (and honey if your reading this, I love you). So I hope it is pleasing. I still have a few tweaks to do that couldn't be done before actually posting the template but I must get sleep. If you could see how I just spelled sleep before erasing it you would see that. Let me know what you think, I can take it.

59 days till school starts!!

I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

One of my favorite quotes has forever been

I know God will not give me anything that I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

I was looking at my daughter today and this quote came to my mind. Did God know what he was doing when he gave me these children to raise? I think that he did. Sometimes there are situations that leave me wondering what on earth he was thinking. Had he met me at the time? I was a 17 year old kid without a clue what she was doing. I have grown up with my kids and while that has been interesting I'm not sure it provided them with the best mother possible. I can already look back and see so many mistakes that I have made. The guilt of having 4 kids is overwhelming at times, there is not a possible way to provide all of them with the time that they deserve and Audrey has probably drawn the shortest stick from that pile. I try now to make up for what she missed all of those years that I was barefoot and pregnant. I hope that I have taught her well. There are times that we have to make decisions that are hard, when we know that someone that we care about is going to get hurt by what we say or do but make the decision to do the right thing anyway.Life isn't always easy, in fact it seldom is but being able to say "I did the right thing" is priceless. I hope at least that I have taught her that.

60 days till school starts!!

Stuck in the Middle

I'm a little bummed today and no matter how hard I try when I write I keep drifting towards things that I can't really talk about and don't want to talk about. So today your not getting much. I'll just leave you this:

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am stuck in the middle with you.

Come be stuck in the middle with me, Please. Somebody.

61 days till school starts!!