Friday, June 28, 2013

Sometimes I wonder

I wonder sometimes what I would be doing and how different my life would be if we didn't have 2 beautiful kids. 

Today was one of those days. These 2 fought like cats and dogs, threw fits at the store and were just all around naughty today. I wanted to throw in the towel. Now, I know I never would because I love my children dearly, however, I think I would have paid someone to take them today.

So, if I wasn't a mommy yet, what would I be doing? There are a few options.

1. Be on the road with Marty. He would have never stopped driving if he didn't miss the kids so much when he was gone.

2. Would I finally be in nursing school? Since that is still my goal.

3. Would I be done with nursing school and be working at one of the hospitals around here?

4. I won't do it now because of the kids, but I always thought it would be really cool to be a flight attendant and fly for a living. Maybe I'd be in a plane right now! 

There are so many more options of course, the sky's the limit. But I'm not doing any of those things, I'm a mom. No matter how frustrating they are at times, I still love them.

It's funny, someone I love dearly bought me a plaque that says, "raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken." I didn't understand it when I received the plaque, I defiantly understand it after today!

Good night! And hopefully my weekend is 1,000,000 x better than today was!




They're lucky they're so dang cute!



Thursday, June 27, 2013

The weight has left this body!

Not all of the weight of course, but 30 lbs of it so far! I'm pretty excited! I've worked really hard to get where I am so far, and I'm really proud of myself!

We've been eating a lot of protein and veggies. Mainly chicken and fish. I don't think the kids are enjoying the diet change but they're just getting more and more picky with there food. 

However, they've been happy to either let me do my own workouts, or workout with me. I've been doing zumba a lot and they like the "dance parties" we have in the living room!

Anyways, 4 months in and I'm down 30 lbs. I have 50 lbs to go until my first goal and 70 lbs until my ultimate goal. 

This is from the first day of working out and yesterday!

Friday, June 7, 2013

Marty's Birthday

Marty's birthday was June 1, so I'm a little late. Oh well, that seems to happen pretty often.

He turned 28! He was not so happy about it, which I can't figure out. I told him, "you're not 30 yet, and look at your brother, he's going to be 34!" That didn't seem to help. Oh well.

Because he wasn't "feeling" his birthday this year, I tried to make it a bit more special for him. So we made signs and put them up on the doors on his path in the house, put streamers up in the doorway, got a big balloon, made a cake (which I make every year), and got him exactly what he asked for, for his gift; underwear, socks and 2 new tshirts.

Weirdo making faces :)


His birthday turned out very nice, he even took the night off work!