Busy Weekend

It has been a busy weekend and it's not over yet. Friday, I basically worked graveyard and then was up half the night working on the girls birthday cake for their party. Here is the finished product:


Saturday morning was their party and of course, I was running late. The lady that was doing the balloons took forever! Lesson learned for any future parties...order balloons ahead of time! Then I was given the wrong information about how the party was going to go, and instead of swimming first at we were told, we had the room first. Of course due to the miscommunication, we did not have the pizza ready. In the end, it all worked out, even though over half the invited and confirmed guest had to cancel last minute due to illness. Here are the girls blowing out their candles:



Today was more running, but at least had a bit of a chance to relax. Tomorrow it is back to being busy with doctor appointments and then my parents coming in for a visit.

Mommy's Project 52:4 Dirty

Dirty Diapers!!! That has been life this week. My poor baby girl has been sick since last Thursday and we have been going through diapers like there is no tomorrow. She was even sick on her birthday. Here hoping tomorrow she will finally be feeling better and We can stop going through the diapers.

Mommy's Project 52:3 Challenging

It seems that lately everything for me is a challenge…going to work, being a mother, being a wife, volunteering, etc. In spite of all these challenges, I have decided to add another to the list. For about 3 weeks now, I have been working out. Sounds simple enough, but that is rarely the case. I go to a facility called Fit 2 Your Core and they really work you. It would be so easy for me to just sit at home and stay the same as I am instead of adding more to my plate. However, I want to be more active. I want to be healthy. I want to be skinny. Most of all, I want to be able to keep up with my girls. And let’s face it…anybody who is a parent knows that children have endless amounts of energy. So for 3 weeks I have been going 3 times a week to work out. It has not been easy. The company really does provide the motivation though, at least for me. They hold me accountable. This is not a come and go as you wish place. I have to register for the class times that I will be there. By doing that, they are expecting me. I have this big issue about letting other’s down, so if I say I am going to be someplace, I will be there. This has helped me to make sure I am not wasting money and that I am going. Is my working out help me to achieve my goals? Well, so far I have realized how out of shape I am. I have a lot of trouble keeping up with the workouts, but I try. This is just one of the challenges that I have faced. Scheduling has been a problem for me as well. The best time for me is to go right after work; however that interrupts dinner time with the family. For now though, we are making that work. The last challenge that I have faced since I began working out is my health. Apparently, my lungs do not like all this added activity and is giving me a really difficult time with breathing during and after the work outs. It has been suggested that this is the result of exercise induced asthma, but I still need to go to the doctor to find out. Hopefully, Monday will bring some answers since that’s when my appointment is. Until then, I will keep pushing through all the challenges that I face everyday and hope that this one gets easier as time goes on.

Mommy's Project 52:2 Silly

I have been trying to figure out something silly to post all day long, and honestly, I havent been able to. So, I am going to post a couple of pictures of my children. My mother in law is always calling them Silly-Dilly and that is what my children are...Silly.

This on is my youngest making toilet paper jammies when she was supposed to be in bed:


My oldest, sleeping inside her pillow case:

Tranquility

Child's Imagination

You have to love a child's imagination. Some of the excuses that they can come up with are amazing. Usually my daughter's excuses are limited to reasons why she can't go to bed, however, the following is her first excuse to attempt to get out of trouble. What an attempt it was!

A couple of weeks ago, my oldest decided to get her own breakfast instead of waking her grandmother up to help her. What did she have...a banana and a slice of whole wheat bread. Okay, it was a pretty good breakfast for a not quite 4 years old. She then decided that she would be very independent and feed 2 of our dogs breakfast as well. And what did they enjoy? Well, bananas and bread of course. Let me be more specific...They had a total of 4 bananas, 1 loaf (minus 1 slice that my daughter had) of whole wheat bread, and a half loaf of homemade wheat bread! All the while, her grandmother and sister were sleeping. I, who was at work, eventually received a text from her grandmother that simply stated "call me". The worst was going through my mind. I quickly called and grandma explained the events to me. Besides being relieved that it was nothing more serious, I was confused as to why she did it, upset about all the wasted food, laughing to myself at what a sight it would have been, and of course, worried about what kind of effect this would have on the dogs. During dinner that night, I started to question my daughter about why she fed the dogs all that food. After several minutes of her thinking and me rephrasing the question a couple times, I finally had an answer... "The worm in the clock made me do it"! There you go. That's the best excuse I have heard all year. It even beats the excuse her daddy used to tell his mom when he didn't want to get in trouble which was "The elephant did it".

Changes

Wow it has been awhile. In the past 10 months or so there have been a few changes. The biggest of which is the promotion that I got in May. The promotion is good, but it has been hard to adjust to the schedule changes. I think I have actually gone backward in any progression I have made with my mood swings because of it. Bottom line...I am just not a morning person. Things get better for a while and then they tend to slide back again. It's a daily struggle.

I have also become Co-Chapter Manager of my mommies group, vegasmommies.com. That has been a learning experience and takes a lot more time than I thought it would. I am mostly enjoying it though.

Though all the changes that have been happening lately, I have started writing again. Granted its poetry and usually the only time I write poetry is when I am in a really dark place. Judging from what I have been writing though, that dark place is pretty obvious. I dont think I have ever written anything so dark. Getting it out helps though. I really think if I did it more often, I would feel a lot better. I have a tendency to hold things in and let them build to the breaking point. I have already had one minor breakdown and if I dont want to have another, I need to learn to get these feelings out.