I saw this on Robyns Online World and I thought it was really cute.  I would have to agree, maybe it’s because I move a lot but I don’t have any local friends.  Anybody I would consider a friend is online.  Either I met them blogging or they are long time friends and we have moved away from each other so we keep in touch online.

You are all my friends!  Thanks for reading!

I haven’t really posted about this lately and that is only because I kinda “relapsed” if you will.  Back in August of last year I set out to lose weight and get in shape.  I told myself I wanted to hit my final goal by Jan 2010.  I know that seems like a long time but I had gained 60lbs with both lil ones and I was in need of losing weight before I even had kids.

I dedicated and motivated.  I started off moderate and that was only because I was so out of shape and still recovering from a c-section.  Over a very short period of time, I think a month, I became really strong and was able to turn up my intensity.

I went in to the “weight loss” idea FULL FORCE.  I didn’t eat sweets, I logged all my food, counted calories to a “T” and worked out every day.  Maybe I sabotaged myself by doing things that way.  I CRAVED sweets.  It was really difficult around the holidays to stay on track.  For Thanksgiving, I was still trying.  I made sure I didn’t over do it, I even made a low-fat/calorie apple pie.  I love apple pie and that was really hard.  I missed having the traditional pie.  By Christmas, I think I was just over worked and burned out.

For the last few weeks in December, i was no longer counting calories, the week of Christmas I wasn’t even working out.  As of this point, however, I had lost 60lbs.  I was about halfway to my goal.

I thought I was going to get back on track for the New Year and I did go workout on occasion but I wasn’t watching what I ate or counting calories.  I mean I ate my 6 small meals and ate in moderation.  I still tried to stay away from certain foods.

Well as the month of January went by and now almost February I have completely gone back to my old ways.  I don’t eat it for any other reason besides…IT’S TASTY! It is also A LOT of work.  To constantly count calories and watch what I eat.  I have had a few things going on in my life, trying to make some money from home and now the move.  I couldn’t figure out how to be a mom, start my online business, do my chores, spend time with the kids and Tony, workout and sleep.

I chose the things that were important to me at that time.  I have maintained my weight and I am for the most part pleased about that.  One of the other things keeping me from eating well is that funds have been a little tight so I have not been able to get the healthy foods I would like to eat.

I vowed to myself, however, next week the move will be final, I have made some items to add to my Etsy and Ebay stores and we have money to stock the house with good foods.

So I don’t necessarily want to say March 1 I will start again because Monday and Tuesday and well Wednesday too will be hard to get my 6 small healthy meals in.  We will be moving, packing and driving.  So as soon as everything calms down I will get back on the “wagon”.  Back to working out and eating healthy.  I don’t want to take any diet pills because they always make me feel jittery.  I do think I will take some Super Cissus.  Basically it is supposed to help with joint pain.  I am getting old and sometimes just feel all my body in pain.  Working out sometimes intensifies it.

I am halfway to my goal.  I am going to set a smaller goal to hit sooner.  Basically cut in half what I have to lose, hit that goal and then go on.  I just think when I see the big picture and how much I have to lose, I get discouraged when I am losing the healthy 1-2 pounds a week.

So I will keep you updated. 

I posted previous about how Lil T learned how to climb out of his crib.  That was something I don’t think I was prepared for.  He learned how to climb out, almost a week ago and it has been an interesting week.

Several nights and naps I have had to lay on the twin bed next to him just to make sure he falls asleep.  I know I should just let him fall asleep where ever but he gets a much better sleep when he is in his crib.  He has also started to refuse to sleep.  He doesn’t want to go to bed until after 11pm and naps….well that can be a joke.

The problem is, he stills needs the sleep.  Last night he seriously could not have gotten more than 4 hrs of sleep and that was broken up….an hour here and hour there.  In turn I got no sleep.  He has been really clingy today and as usual my daughter is too.  So who needs diet pills when you just add a little stress(from moving), sleep deprivation, a toddler, an infant and a sassy pre-teen and you will never have time to eat.  LOL!

Lil T passed out on my lap so I went to put him down for a nap and he woke up and is FIGHTING a nap.  I need a nap.  My pinched nerve is killing me and I am one CRANKY mommy right about now.

I going to put my daughter down for a nap and try to get some sleep myself.  I am seriously working off MAYBE an hour sleep.

Counting down the days now, only 5 more days until moving day.  Still trying to get everything in order.  As the day approaches I get more and more stressed.  Will this move go more smoothly than past moves.  With 2 lil ones, will we get done as much as we need to and get out the door in a timely manner.  I pack a couple boxes a day.  What I am trying to do is go through everything and get rid of stuff I haven’t used in forever.

I have some boxes that I haven’t opened in years.  I just keep moving it from house to house.  Not even sure what’s in it.  I told myself and Tony and Nicki, that if we come across a box and we can’t tell me what’s in it…..it gets thrown away.  We are not even looking inside.

Well a couple boxes I decided to open and just see what I would be throwing away.  LOL!  In some of the boxes I found garbage, broken crayons, industrial knobs, bills from years ago…. I mean seriously I can’t even name everything that was packed in these boxes.  It seemed as though I just swiped my arm across my counters (which are usually filled with junk) and pushed it in a box.   The knobs were not even ours, I think one of the houses we rented they were in a drawer (it was a new construction house) and I think we just packed it.  LOL!

Nicki’s boxes were worse, she had rocks and leaves and balls of crap…..just junk.

So needless to say we have thrown away a lot of things and hopefully this will be an easier move since we have thrown away a bunch of things.

I have the worst pinched nerve.  Sunday night when I finally made my way to bed, can’t remember what time it was, probably after 1am Isabel woke up and started screaming.  I brought in to bed with us and she fell right asleep.  The way I fell sleep cuddling her probably didn’t help my back, actually I think that is what started all the mess.

Then last night, Lil Tony would not sleep at all.  He fell asleep pretty good but the same thing as the night before happened.  I went and crawled in to bed about 12:45am and around 1:30am he woke up screaming.  I went in to his room, put him in his crib (he knows how to climb out now) and laid on the twin bed next to him.  He tossed and turned for several hours.  About 4am, I think, he was sleeping (or so I thought) so I quietly left his room.  As soon as I walked out, he started to cry, climbed out of his crib and cried by the door.  So I went back in.  We did this again for a short period of time, he fell asleep, I snuck out……

I made it to my room for less than 30 min and he started to cry again.  So this time I went in and we cuddled together on the twin bed.  His face was rosey and he felt really warm and he had a slight cough.  He sort of fell asleep.  It was weird, he would sleep, wake and fuss, sleep and in his sleep he would start giggling and then wake and fuss.  That was actually how it was all night.

So now it’s 7:30am, I get up and get him some Tylenol and then we try and climb in my bed….Isabel needs to get up and eat.  We manage to lay in bed long enough to let her drink her bottle and then Lil T has had enough.  So he’s screaming, he wants out of the bed.  We made our way to the living room.  He sat on my lap on the couch for about 5 min, the Tylenol must have kicked in because now he is playing with his toys and having a much better time.

My whole point was that not having a good night sleep in my bed has caused me to have this incredibly painful pinched nerve.  I can’t do anything, turn my head to the right, left….I tried to lift my hands over my head to put my hair up and it hurt, I tried to lean forwrd to give him a kiss and it hurts.  Oh wait, I spoke too soon, he is screaming again.

It’s gonna be a long day!

I am not sure how any of you get started but my mornings are pretty routine.  Well heck most of my days are pretty routine too.   That may all change, however, now that Lil T knows how to climb out his crib.  I may have to make sure I wake up way before he does.  LOL!

My usual mornings were to sleep or just relax in bed until about 8:30/8:45am then get up and get some coffee brewing.  I would try to clean up the kitchen a little, turn on the TV and get it on the channel that has Regis and Kelly.  Then I would get Lil T out of bed, get him some juice and something to eat.

My point is though that I have to start my day with coffee.  I drink about a  cup or two of coffee a day.  I would probably make the coffee franchises, like Starbucks, a lot of money if I went out and bought a caffeinated drink everyday.  I have loved coffee since I was really young.  I used to eat this candy called Nips candy, they had a coffee flavored, when I was younger.  They were tasty.

I haven’t had one of those since I have been drinking coffee. I might have to go out and buy a package now because I am thinking about how great they were.

Packing, newspaper, boxes, packing tape, packing, newspaper, boxes, packing tape!

That is all I tried to do this weekend, with a little cleaning of course.  Our move is just a little over 7 days away and I feel I got a lot done but with kids and their toys all over the place it makes it hard to see the progress.

There is just stuff everywhere.  I haven’t put my craft stuff away yet either and that is a site for sore eyes.  LOL!  I have crap everywhere.  I packed a bunch of boxes and threw away a bunch of crap.  Nicki threw a bunch of junk away from in her room, I threw away a tv stand or two, a twin mattress will be going in the trash along with a night stand and two desks and some dishes.

We are trying to be able to get all of our stuff in a 24′ truck.  We have 2 4-wheelers we have to get in there too and that takes up some space.

Next week I believe it is going to be hectic.  Well, this Friday, I will be going to Nicki’s school to submit her withdraw paperwork.  Then starting Monday, we pick up the rental truck early in the morning.  Tony will be out in the garage part of the morning getting all that stuff packed in the truck first.

Hopefully he will get done well before the kids need to take a nap and then we can get all the stuff from the house in there.  When we moved in to the apartment 6 months ago, we had pretty much all of the stuff from the house in the truck by about 11 am.  We had a “Florida room” or as most people would call it a screened patio….it was filled with JUNK.  That patio took about 2-3 hours to sort though and get on the truck.  Most of it ended up in the trash but this time we don’t have all that junk piled up.

We then plan to call it an early evening, get some take out of some sort and watch a little tv and get an early nights sleep.  Tuesday morning we will get up before the sun, hopefully, load up the cribs, remaining beds and last minutes items.  Do some last minute cleaning and then get on the road.

I am hoping to be all loaded and on the road by 10am.  We will have about a 5-6 HOUR drive ahead of us.  I hate driving.  Really I do, but I will be excited to get this move over with.

We have to meet the landlord of the new house at the house at a decent time so we can get the keys.

Early Wednesday morning we will have Brighthouse come and install our internet.  We will also spend the day unloading the truck.  Thursday will be mostly getting organized and registering Nicki for school.  Friday we have DirecTV coming to hook up the satellite.  We will then have all weekend and Monday to chill and hang out until Tony has to return to work on Tuesday.  Hopefully with Tony home all week we will be able to get most of the boxes unpacked and the house somewhat organized.

Well now I am off to bath the kids and make dinner!