We have gotten all our bills paid current, still have money in savings and our buffer in the checking.  It is a good thing we have a buffer in the checking and some savings accounts because Tony’s boss has only been scheduling him for 37-38 hrs a week.  It doesn’t seem like much but when you look at it over a month that is a substantial amount out of our income. 

Tony has finally finished paying for his work clothes.  They take $5 out of every check until it is paid.  It feels like we have been paying forever.  Plus he has money taken out for a 401k.  It is really a good thing he doesn’t have insurance coming out or money to go in to a health savings account because then we really would really be hurting. 

So all in all things are ok.  Oh and the good thing about his hours is that as of next week he is transferring to another store, one that is busier so I am sure they will need him his 40 hrs a week.  Yippee!

Much, much better week than last week.  I am back on track.  This week has been pretty rough though trying to get my calories in.  I seem to be falling a bit short of calories every day and I am not even adding back the calories from working out.  I am not sure if it has been an extra busy week or because me kids have been sick. 

Anywho, here are the results:

weight down 0.6 pounds
lean pounds up 2.28
h2o pounds up 0.82
fat pounds down 2.88

So overall a very good week.  Now if we were to take a look back 6 weeks ago, I have pretty much maintained my lean pounds while I was losing fat pounds.  I have lost 6.63 pounds of fat in those 6 weeks and only lost about 0.15 lean pounds.  The best part is it wasn’t difficult.  Other than having to count calories and measure and weigh all my food it wasn’t very difficult.  I mean yeah I had to use some will power and control sporadic eating and eating junk but other than that I didn’t change much about my eating.  For example the other day we ate Chicken Alfredo, yummy! 

Hopefully this week will be just as good, I haven’t been able to get to the gym, my 3 lil ones have been sick the second half of this week.  Tony has also been feeling a bit under the weather so I didn’t want to leave him alone with the cranky clingy kids.  Weigh in is in 2 days so we will see.

I am so excited that I became a wholesaler with many craft companies.  Basic Grey, American Crafts, Bazzill, Cosmo Cricket, just to name a few.  I am trying to find ways to make money from home.  We really like Tony’s position at work, not as much responsibility as a manager and he works his 40 hrs and comes home.  It’s fabulous.  But we do need a tad bit more income monthly to be able to save and eventually own a home of our own. 

With this new venture I won’t need to look for jobs outside the home.  I did a search a while back and all that seemed to come up was New York job searches.  That will most certainly not work for us.  I am really hoping to not have to move anymore. 

Well if you know anyone in to paper crafting have them check out my site, artfuldelight.com or my eBay store stores.ebay.com/artfuldelight.

We have been working on Nicki’s room over the last couple weeks.  Painting, building the bed frame, putting up shelves and a clothes rod and setting up Nicki’s computer.  She has a flat screen monitor so I ordered a plasma mount online to put the monitor up on the wall.   It looks amazing. 

I also got a sewing machine a week or so ago.  I was so excited, I will have to take a pic and post it up.  I plan on using the flat sheet from Nicki’s bedding to make curtains.  She has french glass doors so she needs curtains to give her a little privacy.  It has been hard to work on with the 3 lil ones but I did manage to get one panel done. 

After I completely finish her room, I will finish up lil Tony’s room.  I started painting a Cars the movie theme.  Our house is feeling a bit more cozy.

Horrible week.  LOL!  Maybe it was the hormones from that time of the month or maybe it was something else.  What cracks me up is that my overall weight was down 2 pounds but because the fat pounds and lean pounds went in the wrong direction I was a bit bummed.  Ok enough small talk, here is the results:

weight down 1.4 pounds
lean pounds down 3.43
h2o pounds down 2.5
fat pounds up 2.03

So as you can see the numbers this week really SUCKED!  I didn’t work out much because I was having a really HORRIBLE “aunt flow”.  I felt bloated and like I was retaining water but that doesn’t reflect in the numbers.  Also because I was bloated and didn’t work out much last week I also didn’t drink much water.  Overall it just SUCKED!  This week will hopefully get back on track.  Oh also last week I adjusted my calories and started eating more.  That may not have been so bad if I was also working out.  But because I was not working out and I was eating several 100 more calories a day, maybe that is why the scale was so messed up.  Either way, if this week doesn’t show better numbers I will have to cut back on my calories next week. 

Hopefully next week will be better.

I am so ready for this nasty cold weather to go away.  My kids have some terrible cabin fever.  Let’s see it rained yesterday and today we had some snow flurries.  I need some sun and warm weather. 

Tony was going to work on the car today but since it was cold and wet outside he was not able to.  That wasn’t totally a bad thing because he did get some things done in the house. 

I want to be able to take the kids outside, get some fresh air.  I am hoping that I won’t need any allergy relief, this will be our first Spring/Summer here in Virginia.  When we moved to Nevada I experienced some horrible allergies.  Maybe it was just the dry weather, I dunno but on top of being miserable pregnant I also had terrible allergy headaches.  I sure hope that doesn’t happen here.  I want to enjoy the time outside with my kids. 

I sure do hope that Spring gets here soon!!