Saturday Stuff

It's been about forever since I have blogged! Even with having my own computer, some days (a lot lately) I have a hard time sitting down to organize my thoughts! Maybe that's my problem....too much thinking through it. Just write, think later!

Tate is 8 months old now!! I'll have to do her 8-month post later, but she said "da-da" and has started trying to pull up on stuff now. She waves and says "ha" for hi. She's asleep in her swing right now, but the swing won't be in use much longer! If she's mad about being in there she puts her hand out to stop it! It's amazing how much babies learn to do in such a short time. I can't believe she'll soon be a toddler! We go to her 9-month appointment on March 19th and then I think she'll be "ready" to eat anything and everything. Although, she has been eating lots of things already, just not dairy or meat, only because the doctor told us not to give her those things. She LOVES green beans, puffs, lil crunchies and just about anything else you'll give her! She has a FIT if she runs out of food! We cut her off, I think she may explode if you just kept letting her eat!!

Housework is calling my name....yuck! I do so good with keeping up and then I slack off and it gets out of control! Drives me crazy!! If only I could be as organized at home and I am at school! I guess it's a never-ending battle. And laundry, don't even get me started! I detest HATE laundry. Ben does it most of the time, thank you sir! And folding...ugh, a never ending battle. Why we have dirt and dust I will never understand!!

Well, I'll go try and be productive today! Need some motivation!!

Snowed in Again!!

This past week went by so fast! Last weekend we got abou 13.5 inches of snow. I did not have school on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. We did go in on a 2-hour delay on Thursday. I spent the day with a student at another school, transitioning him back to his campus. Then Friday I was woken up at 5:35 by a phone call from the district saying that we were closed for the day. Poor Ben had to work everyday this week, although he did leave early yesterday.

Tate and I got ready and I packed up and we came to my mom's. We made a quick run to Sonic and Target for a few "essentials" before the snow started coming down much. By the time we left Target (around 10:30-10:45) the sidewalks were already getting slick!!

We came home and had lunch, played and watched the snow. Last night we made spaghetti and had dinner. We talked for about 3 hours, it was really fun!

This morning when I got up and brought Tate downstairs, I slipped and fell about 3-4 steps down. She was fine, thankfully! I think she may have bumped her butt on the step, but I took the brunt of the fall! I hurt my butt and arm. I am ok, but it scared me to death!! Tate didn't cry, but I did! I was going slow, but my feet are very stiff in the a.m. I'm just so glad that we are ok!

Mom and I ate breakfast, looked at stuff for her embroidery business and did the Wii Step! 35 minutes!!! We did really good last weekend and the days I stayed here, but we missed the last 3 days, so today was a killer!! This is my 4th week at Weight Watchers where I have been losing weight! I have lost about 7lbs. I have been doing W.W. for a long time (Since Tate was born this time) but I have been very UP and DOWN. In January I decided that I was not happy with my weight and I haven't been for a long time, and I needed to get serious. The BEST thing that I have been doing is tracking online. They give you a little paper tracker at the meetings, but I do the E-Tools and that helps track everything for me. Since I use my computer all day at school it is easy to track everything online. So far, so good! I only lost .8 this week (my lowest so far) but considering I had cake, brownies and lots of other food last weekend when we were snowed in, I was thrilled to have lost that much! I was just hoping to lose!!

Doing the Wii Step has been great too. Mom got out her other step and we do it together, one of us on each one. That way we are both doing it at the same time. We had been walking, but with all the snow and how cold it is right now, that's not working too well! So far, the step has been great!