Category: daily life

To say the Least.

This is going to sound a little whiny but here it goes anyway. I have been trying to ride my bike 2 to 3 miles 3 to 5 times a week. Last week i got sick and could barely breathe. This week i have been getting back into it and am feeling great despite the fact I think I have royally killed my knee!!! So anyway It was time to add some strength training to this exercise routine. i decided a while ago that low impact was a good idea since having three kids has not been nice to my joints…mot to mention I still have small bouts of fibromyalgia..Also I wanted something that I could continue with when and if I ever get pregnant with our fourth and last child!So I decided to go with THE FIRM Ypga and Pilates work out (They came in the same box.. I have both DVDs and the mat along with the brick and the Pilates band but I am missing the Yoga belt strap thingy. the kids had it Hubby took it away from them handed it to me and I said that I would put it in a safe place so they couldn’t find it…HAHAHA. they can’t find it and neither can I!! So If you see it laying around my blog somewhere pick it up and send it through my cyberspace to my email
Thanks a bunch!

Oh and here is a photo in case you have no idea what you are looking for.

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It’s amazing how hard it can be to keep up on things around the house. I am a Stay at Home mom and before that a Stay at Home Wife. You would think that with all i have been doing around our house it would look a little better…That couldn’t be further from the truth. I work all day around the house and by the end of the day I am frustrated because I feel as though I have absolutely nothing to show for it. It’s frustrating . Hopefully by the end of the week there will be a considerable change though. After all sometimes it has to get worse before it gets better Right?

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Disgusting,Absolutely Disgusting! On My computer clock as I type it is 4:10..That would be AM. YUCK!

To what do I owe this pleasure of being awake at this awful hour? Sickness. When we went away on vacation one week ago we left Thursday night. We got to the Bible Conference and set up camp. Yes we took the three kids tent camping and had a blast. The kids did great despite the fact they woke up Friday morning with three runny noses. I was told by the nursery workers that a near by farm had just mowed three fields of hay. Ding Ding..Allergies. Anyway by Friday they had coughs that left a lot to be desired!

I was having trouble with my hay fever a bit but it was nothing outside the norm, that is until Tuesday morning when I woke up not feeling up to snuff! Boy did that spiral downwards fast!

This thing is like half cold and half flu. Complete with fever/chills! Not bad ones..just enough to make you miserable! Poor tornado though he coughs so hard he makes himself sick!

So back to the reason for this post. It is just after 4 am and I DO NOT want to be awake.. I took Day Quil when I went to bed.. Yes that sounds stupid but I have a really good reason. NyQuil knocks me out for a day and a half, and makes me so loopy and out of it so as a mom and a wife that just isn’t possible (or safe)! So I take Day Quil and it knocks me out too. Only just not as long and I am not half as loopy;) That is until i am on the mend….and there is no way of knowing that Until I hit a n almost sleepless night!So TaDa I must be on the mend.

Which I am sure everyone including my house will be very grateful for!

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Today hubby and I made a small step together closer to a goal we set last week. This goal id for hubby to loose about 20 pounds and for me to loose about 35 pounds. This last pregnancy really did me in.

We weigh ourselves once a week. Mondays to be exact. We don’t want to be slaves to the scale. We are exercising 3 to 5 days a week and we are watching what we eat. Calories and portions as a matter of fact.

I must confess that I have had some not so healthy “dieting” practices in the past. The one being I skipped meals. I had real problems with my blood sugar plummeting! So I would eat in be tween meals to compensate and I would not pick healthy alternatives!! You guessed I wasn’t losing anything and in fact gained 10 pounds!

Then I heard a startling statistic that really hit home! %0 percent of all women who sip breakfast everyday are overweight….ding ding ding you guessed it . That was me. I was so hungry by mid morning I was searching for something, anything that would give me more energy..especially sugar!

So after one week of being consistent in watching what we eat, and exercising 3to 5 times a week Both hubby and I have lost 2 pounds. that’s within the safe range of weight loss recommended by doctors. We have had so much fun exercising. We have each picked something we enjoy and then we share walking together and the kids too! Hubby is Running and I am riding my bike about 2 to 3 miles every other day. Along with Pilates and yoga for Toning…and yes I have time with 3 kids 3 and under!

I once thought that p[laying with my kids and doing housework was enough but now I am seeing actual results. Please pray for us as we choose to live a more healthy life style. We want to be able to have healthy minds and bodies for many years to come!

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Yep that’s right we are leaving our home once again, but this time it is purely for fun! We leave tonight for a Bible conference near where we live! And boy are we all excited. Right down to Tornado who refused to go to bed because he wanted to help daddy pack the Ford truck and when all was packed he looked up at daddy and stated, “Otay me doh det in my seat and you drive to….’ The place shall remain unstated but the pronunciation was to say the least hilarious! All of that happened at 11 PM!!

Oh if you knew Tornado!

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