Riding in the car with Moses

Riding in the car with Moses

“Uh oh, Charlie (the train) fell down.”  (He tossed him off the edge of his car seat)
“Get Charlie, Daddy.” ( I want him back now)
“No over there. No over there. That way. Right there Daddy!” (Frustration is building as his directional language barrier is getting bigger and he realizes Davy doesn’t understand where he is)
“Moses, I can’t find him” Davy proclaims (Moses’ biggest fear)
“He is swimming in the middle of the basket.”  (His motorized train engine is one and his wheels and turning but stuck in the middle of the toy basket)
“Ah, here he is, Moses.”
(Face lights up) “THANKS Daddy…that’s what I’m talking about!”
Moses: ….are younggggg
 …..on fireeeeee
 …..uh oh ooooo
 …..tonight, we are younggggg
Moses, are you singing this song on the radio right now? I question.
Yes.
Who likes this song?
Daddy!
 ….unnnn
 …..oohhh yooo
(He doesn’t really know the words besides tonight we are young but he hears Daddy blast it and sing along so he knows the general sounds the words make and wants to sing too!)

May {The 25}

I never wanted this to be a reason I avoided blogging or to ever feel overwhelming by the tasks; it’s supposed to be fun. It has been fun. Just because I miss a few things on the list that were intended to be monthly doesn’t mean I just need to push the entire list aside, right? Right? Right.

#3 Lose 20 pounds.

Check.

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WEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! Check Check Check Mark! This was the hardest most farfetched thing on my list because I was sitting at a weight I was extremely uncomfortable at yet I let it ride out for months and months without doing a thing about it. How was I going to lose 5? 8? 12 pounds? 20…gone!

#6 Write a friend a letter at least once a month (12)

Finally sent out a few letters! I knew who the first person on my letter list would be and she continued to sit at #1 for the past few months while I avoided pulling out stationary. Then one day, out of the blue, I get a letter from her in the mail! A sweet letter of encouragement and it made my day! Then I thought to myself, if this made my day why the heck am I not sending out a letter to someone every week! It feels great to get something personal in the mail and I have to remember these letters aren’t for me but to encourage the person who receives them.

#12 Entertain friends/ family at least once a month at our house (12)

It was last minute but we had my mother in law over one night for dinner before she watched Moses so we could date. This happens almost every time we do something alone with Davy’s mom; we think “Gee that was nice, let’s remember to hang out with her alone more often” and then we never do! She lives alone and keeps busy by shopping and working on her house and loving on her grandkids but it’s nice have her over. Next up we must invite my parents over because sadly we never have had them for dinner. Weird, right?

And welp, that’s it! I have a few things planned out which will help tackle the list that I’m pretty excited about considering only 3 things got done last month it’s time to get out of my bubble and live a little more!

The Weight Watcher Diary

Here’s the deal: I have a blog but no convenient place to write. It’s kind of ironic because I stare at a computer screen 8 hours a day but an office is no place to blog. We don’t have home internet (or cable, big shocker!) and trying to type anything over 140 characters is extremely annoying on a Smartphone. So all these posts float around my head but rarely flow out into sentences. For instance, the Weight Watcher daily diary I was doing a couple of weeks ago…boom, just stopped. Basically I kept with the eating and exercising the rest of the week and ended up losing 2.4 pounds at my weigh in Saturday morning.

There is no magic pill and surviving on shakes and carrots is no way to live if you want long lasting results. You saw exactly how I acted all week; I ate 3 meals a day plus snacks, I made mostly good food choices when I did eat those meals, and I got my heart rate up and burned calories. Along with that I consumed water all day everyday and took a multivitamin and…that’s it! That is the secret to success.

Here are some of my favorite excuses: I hate water…okay then drink diet coke, water, and put crystal lite in your water. I don’t have time to track what I eat…but you have time to tweet? It’s THAT easy people! Or I can’t put it 5 hours a week at the gym…so go outside and brisk walk for 30 minutes. In fact, you don’t ever have to exercise to lose weight if you’re tracking your food but I can guarantee it will help.

There are some days (like this past Tuesday) where I convinced Davy to order breadsticks and I sat there and  ate 5 of them for dinner or days when I don’t count at all because x,y,z but then I get right back on it and continue to look forward.