I am trying to make myself exercise at home today. I just put Lance down for a nap and my 12 yr old niece is here today, so it is the perfect time for me to spend a couple hours exercising and then taking a bath. If the baby gets up my niece can get him, so I need to do it. No, I will do it. If I don't go to the gym I dont' exercise anymore. SO, I need to get back into the habit of doing it at home too since I can't go to the gym everyday.
Hope everyone had a great Mother's Day! Mine was pretty good. We went to church and then brunch w/ my MIL and was home by noon. That was nice. Then I took a nap then got up and started cleaning up from the party. I think next year I won't have the party the night before Mother's day because I don't want to spend MOther's Day cleaning every year. I did get a nap though and relax a little.
Lance's party went well. We had about 50 people here. Everyone raved over the food. It was great. Danny made it all, smoked pork, baked potato salad/casserole, green beans, baked beans and pecan cobbler. We have leftovers for dinner all week.lol I will cook one night, but not tonight. Tonight is my MOMS night out, so we are going to a place on the river. Patty is going w/ me. I am glad she is getting out. Oh, she is going home this weekend to Boston for her sister's baby shower, but her sister's water broke Sunday, so she has prob. had it by now. So, Patty will get to see the baby too while she is there. And Evan is scheduled to come home on the Wed. after she gets back(next Wed. the 24th). But, he will come home on oxygen, so they have to have a tank w/ them everywhere they go. At night he has a Bipap machine to help him breathe. I don't know how long he will have those. He will have his colostomy bag til Jan. probably. So, he will be coming home, but w/ more than he left w/.
Kathy~Hope school is over for you and you did well. How is Justin doing? I keep forgetting to ask.
Brooke~Glad your brother is ok.
I need to get busy.
TTYL, Cindi
DEBBIESTBS 5/15/06 10:13 P
Happy Belated Mother's Day everyone! Mother's Day was pretty relaxing. We went to church, Costco for pizza and groceries and then we came home. Mark mowed the yard and then we went out to eat Mexican food. It was a pretty low key day.
I'm trying really hard not to stress this week, but I'm failing terribly. I hurt my achilles heal in jazzercise Sat morning and I've been limping ever since. Hopefully I will be able to go back next week. The homeschool curriculum fair is this Friday and so is my dental appt. to get my crown. The dentist is also going to look at Ashlyn for possible orthodontic work. My parents are flying in on Sat and that is my main concern. It's really hard on me emotionally to have them here. In a nutshell my father was very mentally abusive to all of us kids growing up so I automatically have my guard up when I'm around him. It's so bad that Mark(my dh) will screen any emails I get from him. On top of that, my mom has Alzheimer's and it is getting worse. It's going to be a long 5 days while they are here. I pray everything goes smoothly.
Brooke ~ I'm so glad your brother is okay.
Michelle ~ Glad you had some quality time with the family.
Kathy ~ How are the tests going?
Hi to everyone else. I'm going to try to get to bed early tonight.
Debbie
MICHELLESTBS 5/15/06 4:29 P
Brooke~glad to hear everything was fine with your brother. Teenagers just don't realized how we worry so easily. I guess they'll know when they become parents. :)
Hope everybody had a great Mother's Day. I did. Even though it poured all day long and we were stuck inside. O-well, got some quality time w/the family, and I guess that's all that counts, right?
Kathy~are you tests over? Enjoy time w/your family.
BEGRILL 5/15/06 11:19 A
Just wanted you to know my brother was completely fine just being a teenager I guess. He met up with a friend at the mall and on the way back to my parents house they got in a fender bender. They are fine. The paperwork and whatnot took awhile and he knew my parents were already gone so he just didn't call. He came home thinking nothing was wrong.
BEGRILL 5/14/06 12:26 P
Happy mother's day to everyone. After yesterday I need a relaxing lazy day. I had my mother, father, brother, brother's girlfriend and my other brother was suppossed to come to for dinner. It was going to be a fun game night mother's day dinner. Only the younger, 16 year old brother, disappeared. My parents went shopping, came back and found a note saying he went to the mall and would be back in time for dinner. He never came back. My mother and father came over still, but were a wreck. They left early we never played any games and I was upset because anything could've happened. Around 10:00 my brother called and said he was alright, my mother must've made him. I asked what happened and he just said long story!!! I'll find out more later cuz were going to drop off my mother's gift today. I am dreading the teenage years!!! I'm just thankful he's ok.
MICHELLESTBS 5/13/06 2:09 P
Happy Mother's Day!!
KATHYSTBS 5/13/06 9:04 A
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO EVERYONE!!
DEBBIESTBS 5/12/06 12:05 P
Brooke~ Oh man, I feel for you on the skunk! We had one a few months back decide to make his home under our back porch. Unfortunately he decided to spray first and it caused our whole basement to reek. That's when I started schooling upstairs! We finally were able to get rid of the skunk and eventually the smell went away. Just wanted to say I totally emphathize with you!
Kathy ~ Good luck on your finals!
Cindy ~ I've been having trouble opening pics lately. I'll have to try again today.
Hi to everyone else. I can't stay on here long. The kids have friends over today while their mom is at a curriculum fair. Have a great day!
Debbie
BEGRILL 5/12/06 10:46 A
How's everyone doing? Good here except I got a large cafe mocha on the way to Kaitlyn's gym class. I was dying this morning. I only slept a handful of hours. We went out last night and although didn't get home late or anything we pulled in the garage and just got this huge smell of skunk and I saw our stupid cat go running through the yard. He got sprayed. So we had to wash him in vinegar and shampoo so now the house smells like skunk, vinegar and peaches!!! It's enough to make ya sick. So when we went to bed I just crashed. Kaitlyn woke up at 2:00 and need to be tucked back in and then I just couldn't go back to sleep. I'm not sure if it was my husband or just the house, but oh my God it reeked. Not that my husband stinks, but he did most of the washing of the cat and I think got most of it on him. Then we had to wake up early for gym class and my husband (who slept like a log)proceeds to be as loud as humanly possible when he woke up this morning. Asking about his pants keeping the door open to the bathroom while he gets ready playing the radio. I almost killed him and I think I would've gotten off!!!! So although the cafe mochas has about a million calories. Each one was worth it!!!! The good news is they always fill me up so I probably won't eat lunch. I ate a healthy light breakfast so I should be alright. So I'll stop babbling and let you all get on with your life.
MICHELLESTBS 5/11/06 4:49 P
Cindi~i really can't believe Chris got sent home! I was in total shock!! I liked all of them. It would've been sad to see any of them go. LOVED the pics! Kathryn does have beautiful blue eyes. And I cannot believe Lance is already 1. Time flies when you're having fun. LOL Is he walking yet?
Kathy~have fun w/your family and lab. Winston is cute. We are getting another maltipoo. They are such sweet dogs.
Hi Randi, Debbie, and other skinnies.
Boys have a game tonight. Better go finish up supper.
Love, Michelle
KATHYSTBS 5/11/06 6:36 A
Hi.
Cindi - Great pictures! I was glad to see Kathryn's recent pictures. She is a little doll. I love those blue eyes!
Next Tuesday is my last day of school, so I will be back then. Today is my Micro Lab final. Then Tuesday is Lecture final & stats final. I'll be so glad when it is over.
My aunt from Vegas & 2 cousins are coming next Tuesday. I didn't see much of them growing up...maybe only once? My aunt more, but not my cousins. I am looking forward to spending some time with them.
Better get back to my Lab slides....
Just wanted to say hi& I'll be back next week.
Kathy
CINDISTBS 5/10/06 10:39 P
Michelle, where are you??? Did you watch American Idol tonight?? Are you still in shock??? I AM!! I can't believe it! I couldn't decide if I wanted to Chris or Katherine to win the finals, guess I know now! I just can't believe it. I think he will still get some kind of record deal. I think it would be crazy if he didn't. He is good. Simon said he thinks he is the best one ever on A.I. That right there says something about him.
Well, I am off to bed. I am tired tonight and have a busy couple days ahead of me.
TTYL, Cindi
CINDISTBS 5/10/06 5:49 P
I finally got my pictures put on Snapfish and sent them out, about 5 months worth. I am not as good as Jocelyn and getting them out monthly. So, I emailed them. If anyone wants to see them that didn't get them let me know and I will email them to you.
I need to get Sarah to dance.
TTYL, Cindi
BEGRILL 5/10/06 3:09 P
Debbie - I'm very lucky to have parents who just love to baby-sit. In fact my parents are generously baby-sitting so Shawn and I can go out tomorrow after my mother-in-law bailed on us yet again (long story)! I've always been jealous of tiny people. All of my friends are tiny and I was like this giant at 5'7". I'm big boned too and always have been. I'll be happy when I'm down to either my goal weight or into a size 10. I haven't been a size ten in many years. I think I'll be really happy with how I look when I can slide comfortably into a size 10 jean.
DEBBIESTBS 5/10/06 12:24 P
Cindi ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LANCE! I can't believe he is already a year old.
Brooke ~ Mark & I have been trying to do more date nights since we took a marriage class together. Our babysitter's rate just went up to $7/hr, though, so we are probably going to scale it way back. It cost us $41 to go to a movie last night after we added in the babysitter fees. Yikes! Your away football game weekend sounds like a lot of fun.
Randi ~ Yes, don't feel bad about the sz 4 thing. I'm very small boned and short to boot. I'm only 5'2" and when I was in college, I thought I was getting fat when I hit 110 lbs. Boy, do I wish I could get back to 110lbs! After having kids, and finally geting some hips, I doubt if I would look healthy at 110. Btw, your church picnic sounded fun. Ours got rained out last weekend, but we still managed to have a good bbq inside. lol
Speaking of rain, we are under the threat of possible tornadoes for this afternoon and evening. I need to get the basement ready to sleep in tonight. Have a great day!
Debbie
CINDISTBS 5/10/06 11:56 A
Good Morning/Afternoon!
Today is my baby's first bday!! I can't believe it. I am sad:( It went by way too fast and knowing he is my last makes it sad. He slept til past 9am, so I wasn't going to go to yoga, but then he got up and Daniel was up and I was tired, but knew I should do something so I packed them up and went to the gym. Well, no one else showed up. I didn't want to just leave, so I did my upper body workout. I think I got a good workout since I worked my muscles to fatigue. I need to feel the burn to feel like I got a good workout, so tomorrow morning I should be feeling it. If not I will work them harder Friday. I am glad I stayed and worked out. It is a rainy, dreary day today, so it would have been so easy to just stay home or leave the gym when no one showed up for yoga, but I made myself do it and am glad I did. Same for Monday, made myself and was glad I did. I didn't make myself last night because it was a busy day and everyone was tired, so I didn't workout yesterday. I have been so tired this week. I just laid Lance down for a nap, so I think I will close my eyes for a bit to and try to catch up on some rest.
Last night I worked on a plan for myself starting next Monday, so I need to finish it today and I need to cook up some food for the week. I might cook up more and freeze it for next. I am also going to print out some recipes and make myself a little binder.
Kathy~Hope all is going well w/ school!
I better rest while I can.
TTYL, Cindi
BEGRILL 5/9/06 2:26 P
Sounds like everyone had a busy weekend. I'm so glad you are taking some time to go out with your husband, Debbie. We used to spend more time together, but with his work and the baby that has become few a far between. We are planning our away football game trip though. Once a year for the past couple of years we have been going to one away Ohio State football game. I think this year we are going to Iowa. It'll be a nice weekend alone. I'm not sure what we're going to do there, but we always have a good time. We've been to Michigan State, Penn State and last year the University of Minnesota. I was going to have a girls night out on Saturday, but my friends have cancelled again. The one says we should still go with out the other, but I'd rather wait till Ican go out with both. Plus money is really tight right now and so I really should wait until the end of the month when things get better. Next week is my anniversary. Three years and counting. I don't know if we'll do anything special, but I think I'm going to force him to just spend time with me and Kaitlyn without working in the yard or working on the computer. Wish me luck!
CINDISTBS 5/9/06 12:47 P
Good Afternoon!
I had my MOMS group meeting today. It was our last meeting til Sept., but we still do our MOMS nights out during summer and get together at the parks once or twice a month w/ the kids. THat is fun and good time for socialization. I am looking forward to it, since it gets me and the kids out of the house in the summer.
Debbie~That is great that you have friends that want to come over and babysit so you all can go out. Do they not have kids? Danny went to the Parthenon once when he was younger and his uncle lived there. He was with a friend and being silly and threw his keys in the air and they got stuck up on top of it and they had to call the fire dept. to come w/ their truck/ladder to get up there and get his keys down. I am glad you all got a night out. You definitely deserve it. I keep saying I am going to plan a night for Danny and I. I need to do that. Oh, and I did start a new thread yesterday, but I never finished it, so I deleted it.lol
Randi~Believe me, I never, never, never thought I would buy 4's. Notice I didn't say be a 4, because I am not. The only 4's I have must be big ones because my butt is a round one and doesn't fit well in tight pants.lol I was a 6 when I got married and am back into them, but am not down to where I was when I got married. Don't know if I ever will after having 3 kids. I am 10-15lbs heavier and everything has shifted. You will get there. I gained 50-55lbs with all 3 kids and was 190 after having Lance. I got down to 182 and got stuck there, then finally got to 175 and got stuck there, then finally got down to 150 and am now up and down in the 140's. From 175 down to 150 happened in 5 weeks of just being strict. So, just make a plan of being strict w/ exercise and eating right for one month and it will get you in a groove and next thing you know 10-15 lbs. will be gone. That just might be the kickstart you need. You aren't at 200 like you were when you first came back a few months ago, so you are headed in the right direction. I know it is hard, it just takes making up your mind and doing it. I have gotten back on track this week, but it has been gradual. I am gradually cutting out some stuff I have been letting myself have. THen next week, after Lance's bday party and Mother's day, I will get strict again. I am going to try to go for another 5-6 weeks and get down to goal. I am tired of playing around w/ these last 10 or so lbs. So, maybe next week we can start some kind of challenge. Any ideas?
Lance is napping and I have to pick up Sarah in less than 2 hours, so I am going to go relax a bit since my house is all clean, except for my office, which I have to finish before Friday when the ladies come to do my spring cleaning for me. I also left all the bathrooms for them because I hate bathrooms and dusting. SO, they get to do all that:)
Have a great day!! Cindi
LADYDREAMER 5/9/06 10:49 A
Good Morning, Skinnies!
Yikes! Looks like I went MIA for longer than I thought. Sorry about that! I've been trying to get the house ready for Bible class tonight. If I could just keep it clean all the time I wouldn't have so much trouble with it when it was time for class at our house!
I got in a great hike on Sunday after Meeting. We had an ecclesia (church) picnic at Petit Jean Mountain and then a bunch of us went on a hike. That's were I dislocated & broke my finger back in March so I wasn't sure if I was going to hike or not, but I'm glad I did. I lost a pound on that hike!!! Spent an hour hiking down the mountain and an hour back up! It was great! And I got in an hour walk (if you count walking in Wal-Mart walking) yesterday. Today I hope to get in some toning. I have been getting some arm work in scrubbing the counters! ;-)
Brooke~ Thanks for that reminder. Sometimes I have to remember to focus on the health not the weight. I mean if I look great at 145 I may not need to get to 130. I'd love to get back to that, but I may not need to in order to be healthy and happy. And who cares if I'm never in a 4. I'm happy for those who are, but God never gave me a size 4 body (unless it was when I was in elementary school LOL!). I'm 5' 5", and big boned too. But my wide hips will never fit into size 4 ever! And I really am not worried. If I can ever see 8's again I'll be amazed. Honestly I will be happy with 10's seeing as I'm in 18's & 20's (mostly 20's) right now. :-)
Cindi~ Okay I'm a little jealous of you too. But I'll get over it. :-) Give Lance a birthday hug from "Auntie Randi" tomorrow!!! :-) I can't believe he's turning 1 already!!! I'm up for a challenge! I like the cushiony socks too so let me know if the ones you got are any good. :-)
Just a suggestion, but you can use notepad or wordpad to write your posts and not have to go back to edit unless you find an error later. It's what I do. Just like I did on eDiets. ;-)
Kathy~ How is school going?? Good luck on your exams!!! And good luck on reaching your goal!!! I think I'll be in shock when I reach 6 pounds within goal. I've been 50 away from goal for sooooo long!
Michelle~ It's good to see you again!!!!! It's a bit easier if you go to the home page and click on "my posts". That will get you a list of all your posts and you can find it from there. Hope that helps a bit.
Debbie~ I've been to the Parthenon in Nashville! It was in highschool on a band trip. It was fun I think I still have the pictures somewhere. Not sure where though or in how good of shape either that was over 15 years ago. Glad you had a great date night!
To everyone else: I hope everyone is doing well! Have a great, healthy day! I'll catch y'all later. {{{HUGS}}} to all! Gotta run. Lots to do!
(188/187/130) Randi
DEBBIESTBS 5/8/06 11:29 P
Hi Gals, Wow, I thought someone would have started this thread already. Everyone must be busy!
Here's my recap of the weekend.
Friday, I took the kids to Plaza Art in downtown Nashville for a 2 hour watercolor class with our homeschool group. Everyone really enjoyed it so we will probably do that again. After lunch we went to the Frist Center. We looked at more art and then we took the kids upstairs where they have different stations set up where the kids can do art projects. The Frist is neat b/c the kids were free and I only had to pay $3. It was a great deal and the kids loved it.
After that, we went shopping at Costco and then I drove home and made dinner for my friend, Tonya, who just had a baby boy. He was so cute. Mark then took us all out to eat.
Saturday I went to jazzercise and had a killer workout. My bumpkin is still sore from that one! When I got home, our friends Tim & Melissa called and said they would watch the kids for us to give us a date night. So...I started frantically cleaning since they decided they would spend the night too. After they got here, Mark & I drove to Franklin, ate at PF Chang's on the patio, which was nice until it started to rain. We left and ate the rest of our dinner at Mark's work. After that we drove to Nashville and saw the Parthenon(the only exact replica of the real one in Greece). We were going to walk across the bridge over the Cumberland River, but it wasn't the best part of town so we decided to wait to do that with a group of people. We drove back into Franklin and had Ben & Jerry's ice cream, which we realized we had never had before. We decided that we would just buy a 1/2 gallon of Breyer's next time. lol On the drive home, we drove onto the Natchez Trace and went to an overlook to see the city. It was too foggy so we couldn't see a thing so we just drove home. It was a really nice, relaxing date night for us.
On Sunday, Tim & Melissa went to church with us and then we all had Famous Dave's BBQ at the church. It was supposed to be a church picnic, but was rained out. I hope they schedule another one so the kids can play more.
Today, I was on the phone most of the morning setting up an appt for a 2nd opinion on my tooth. The local dentist wants to do a root canal, but something about the whole thing made me uneasy so I'm following my intuition and getting a 2nd opinion before I shell out almost $1400 to have the root canal and crown done. ugh!
I need to get some sleep...school in the morning, dentist and chiro in the afternoon and then Mark set up ANOTHER date night for us. Have a great rest of the week! Debbie
