Friends

Tonight we had our neighbors and their three kids come over for margaritas and for the kids to play.  It was a great time. It's so nice to have other adults around for an evening. I find myself going semi loopy during the day talking to an almost two year old all day long.  There son just turned 1 Jan, 1 and Avi is about to turn 2, but they had a great time together and played very well.  So I had to catch some pictures of them together!

Dinner

Along with my last post we have been eating pretty good. Avi more so than Kade. Chicken, brown rice, carrots, edamame, snap peas, and black beans for dinner for all of us. Just gotta keep it up with every meal!

Body Image

Body image is a funny thing. One day I'm at piece with the extra chunk I have and know it takes hard work to get it off and the next I'm hating myself and too disgusted to look in the mirror. It's this constant up/down that's depressing. I hate feeling the way I do. I don't need to look model perfect, heck I don't even need to be super skinny. I just want to be back to my healthy size and to feel good about myself. I find myself making excuses for not working out. Oh the house needs to be cleaned, the kids need this, dinner needs to be made, groceries are needed, etc. It's almost easier that way because I have a legitimate excuse on why I didn't get up and be active. Then at the end of the day I feel horrible because I didn't take that 30 minutes out of my day to be selfish and work on me. I can't figure out why I feel like I need to do everything for everyone else. I need to get in the mind set that certain things can wait a little while, I don't need to run to every yell, groceries can wait a little while.
So with all that being said, I worked out today :) I did my Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred and plan on finally sticking with it for the full 30 days. I cut out beer and fast food (which rarely gets eaten in our house), and soda. I hope I finally have the motivation to do this for me and only me.

Magical Pens

It's times like these when I want to do a lot of writing that I wish I had that magical quill that Rita Skeeter has in the Harry Potter books...that would be amazing. Just talk and it shall write.
Why can't magic be real?

My Sister's Keeper

I read My Sister's Keeper last night and am still heart broken over the entire book. The movie is coming out in June and I'm not sure I'll be able to sit through the entire movie. I cried the entire last half of the book. Even though it's sad, it's still a must read. I couldn't put it down!

kids, cops and UPS men

I find myself constantly wanting to get online and post bulletins on myspace about random events of the day or opinions yet myspace seems like the wrong place to do it so here I am on a blog.
So thoughts at the moment:
I recently had baby number 2 and my almost 6 year old son has been having a hard time adjusting to not getting all the attention anymore. He's been acting out, but lately has been slowly getting a little better. At first he was so upset that he was like a walking tornado. Our house was a disaster because of him, he spilled things in the kitchen, in the living room, the bathroom and then wouldn't tell us until we stumbled across the mess. He even called 911 one day because he was mad.
Having a cop come to my door asking what was wrong was one of the more embarrassing things to happen to me. Really only because I was on the couch nursing the baby and the house was a mess when he showed up. Which reminds me of when the UPS man showed up and my husband answered the door holding the baby. I was in the kitchen cooking and doing laundry. Great combination if you ask me. I had just thrown the shirt I was wearing into the washer so I was only in a bra while I stirred the spaghetti. The UPS man 'kindly' brought the package in the house because my husband couldn't grab it. He got more than he bargained for because he looked directly at me and didn't know what to do or say. Lovely.
But back to my son, he cleaned his room yesterday. He even vacuumed it all by himself. I have to say I was mighty impressed because even though it needed some more organizing , it looked nice. That is until today when I went in there and lifted up a blanket in the corner of his room. Toys and trash were all stuffed underneath it!! Where do we learn to clean like that?