it's the little things...

Sometimes it's just the little things that make me smile.  Tonight was one of those things.  Everyone always says Saige is my mini-me.  She looks like me (especially pictures from when I was younger) and she acts a lot like I do (except with a lot more sass.  I don't have as much sass in my entire body as she does in one finger, ha).  Tonight she came into my room complaining she had a stomach ache.  The girl was just in her underwear, she hates pajamas.  Well, given it's 42 degrees right now (and weather.com says it "feels like 37 out") I informed her that she needed to put some clothes on.  While she was arguing with me a thought popped into my head.  Whenever I'm in bed at night and I'm too cold/don't have warm enough pajamas on, I get a stomach ache and feel nauseous.  No idea why that happens, but thats how I've always been since I can remember.   I told her about this and told her she just needed to try to put some clothes on for me and to see what happens.  She put on pants and a long sleeved shirt and no less than 10 minutes later she was out cold.  Guess that helped her stomach ache.  She really is a lot like me!  :-)

just once i want some normalcy, just once...

Mom's back in the hospital again.  She had a knee replacement done last friday and has been in a rehab for almost a week.  She has breathing problems to begin with, so they're supposed to be keeping a close eye on her in there.  They haven't been giving her medications on time and last night they called my sister and me at 3 am saying they had called 911 because she got up to go to the bathroom and ended up not being able to breathe.  The hospital originally thought she had a big clot in her lung, but test results showed she has severe pneumonia.  How does a place that's regularly checking her breathing not catch that?  sigh.  So, they have her on IV meds and a vent until tomorrow, but hopefully she'll be ok.  It's one thing after another.

mommy adventures...

My 6 year old is the love of my life.  She's full of spunk and energy and is incredibly smart and quick witted.  Lately however, those qualities that I love about her so much have been bringing us less than joy.  She's turned into the 6 year old going on 17.  I'm not really sure what brought on the sudden change, but parts of our days have definitely been challenging the past few weeks.  She thinks she knows everything, whines when she doesn't get what she wants and rolls her eyes at me.  The other day was the last straw.  It was the first few days of summer vacation and my nerves were shot.  I decided something had to be done.  She's going to be spending a lot of time at home this summer (only doing camp every other week) and I work at home, so in an effort for some peace and structure, I decided on creating a summer schedule for her.  I also decided to give her chores/responsibilities she needs to tend to every day, and limit her tv to an hour in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon (after lunch til bedtime).

In an effort to avoid creating a riot in the house I asked her to help me make the list.  We sat together and thought of things she should be doing every day and household chores she could do at her age.  She seemed excited for it, but I figured the first actual day of the new schedule would be the true test.  I woke up expecting the worst and was completely, and pleasantly, surprised by her.  She woke up and immediately asked for the dust rag (her house chore was dusting yesterday) and just did really well the rest of the day.  Day two went just as well.  She was super excited to be allowed to run the vacuum today.  I'm pleasantly surprised, relieved and proud of her for taking the change so well.  Bring on summer!

Blog Train

I'm not sure who invited me to this (whoever you are, thank you!) but it's a pretty cool site.  You just go here, put your blog address in and it will help you get more followers.  You also get points for visiting blogs through that site and whatever else...though I'm not really sure what this purpose of the points is yet, I'm still new to this.  I've found a few cool blogs through that site that I started following too.  If you want more followers you should check it out!  my blog train link

today's to do list...

trying to get all of this done today!  keep your fingers crossed!

laundry (2 loads... wash and fold/put away)
couponing
grocery shopping
pick up dog's mess in the back yard
gardening/get saige a seed for school ready
run/walk
cook dinner
meal plan for the week


ready...go!

Trying something new

<p>Today i joined weight watchers online. I wanted a little extra something to help keep me on track and people rave about their success using this program so i finally took the plunge and joined. A few years ago I joined the south beach diet site, and while it reminds me a lot of the weight watchers site, the food was awful on that program. I like the idea of eating what I want but but just being aware of WHAT I'm putting in my body. We'll see how it goes,  wish me luck.

First day of 2012 - new and improved?

I'm trying to start myself out on the right foot this year. My big goal I really really want to accomplish this year is getting myself back into shape and losing some serious pounds. I also want to become a runner, which I think I mentioned in my blog the other day. Well, today I took the first step towards both of those goals. I registered (with trish!) For a 5k on March 30th. There's no turning back now. I think I needed to register so I had something I have to work towards, to train for. Tomorrow starts training. I'm really nervous I won't be able to get myself into the shape I need to but I've got 89 days ...plenty of time.  I'm excited to start this new chapter in my life and I'm glad to have a friend on the journey with me!