Archive for June, 2007

Catching up….

Posted June 14, 2007 * Comments(19)
So much has happened since the last time I wrote, I am sure to forget many things. 
 
One of the coolest, that I want to make sure not to forget is when we had company visiting for Memorial Day Weekend.  My mom, her husband and their son came.  My husbands mother, father, sister, her daughter and her fiance all came too.  We hadn’t seen them all since early February.  They were all so full of compliments, it was AWESOME.  My mom’s husband said I looked GREAT and my mom kept talking about how “tiny” I was….if you could believe that one!  Obviously I am far from tiny, but apparently I seem tiny compared to what I was before.  My mother in law said, “Where’d you go?!?!”  I thought that was very sweet.
 
My husband, Brice, is away for a couple of weeks in Pennsylvania for a school that is work related.  He’s at Penn State and says the course is going very well.  We pick him up at the San Diego airport next Friday night.  In the mean time, I’ve got all the kids home for their respective summer breaks.  Nick and Noah are only here for another two weeks because they’re in year round school and only get a four week break.  Brice and Britney have been going to a traditional year round school and they’re off for the usual.  BUT…when it’s time to go back to school, I will be homeschooling them using an area charter school.  Our high school is just too big and the kids aren’t getting the education they deserve.  This charter school seems like it’s going to be really great, and we’re very much looking forward to it.
 
 
My weight loss continues to go exceptionally well.  I have not yet had a week where I didn’t lose at least 1-2 lbs. and I am so thankful for that!  I will admit that staying on track has been a bit more difficult these past couple of weeks.  My life at the moment has a bit of a chaotic feel to it.  But, I am managing to stay on track with my eating right and being active.  I’ve been able to get in loads of swimming due to the wonderous heat.  Never thought I’d say wonderous and heat together like that….but we’re really enjoying it now that we’ve got the pool.  Yesterday we got up to 107?, and today we will surpass that without doubt.  I believe it’s going to be somewhere around 113?-115?.  Swimming is such a great way to get in exercise!
 
My little guy, Noah, who is 5 going on 6 this August, was injured at church Sunday.  After church he and my 11 year old son Nick, and the pastor’s 11 year old son are always running around wild having a great time.  This time while doing so, a door was accidentally closed on Noah’s head somehow.  He got an inch long laceration, and you know head wounds, it bled like mad.  Was a bit scary for me, but I handled it calmly, got the blood stopped fairly quickly.  Shoulda seen me carrying him like a baby in my arms and running for the bathroom when all that blood was flowing though!  I literally RAN with him in my arms….something I know I wouldn’t have been able to do back in January.  Anyway, long story short, it was borderline for needing stitches and instead of putting him through all that I decided to treat him at home.  Thinking that if things didn’t go well for the first few hours, I would bring him to the hospital to get stitched up.  I cut the hair around the wound, and with some antibiotic ointment, gauze and bandage, it’s gone quite well.  His wound never did start bleeding again and he’s healing up quite nicely.  I got him an Ace bandage and loosely wrap it around his head, he loves it because it makes him feel like a wounded Marine.  It’s a bit uneccesary for him to wear, but if it makes him feel better, that is all I care about.  It’s pretty cute.  Will have to post a picture up here of it.
 
I’m 22 weeks into this thing, and am at a total loss of 83 lbs. so far.  That is something I am very proud of.  My 37th birthday is July 31st, and I am hoping that I will have lost 100 lbs. by then.  What a GREAT birthday present to myself that will be!
 
Do you remember that I started this thing way back on January 7th as a “Biggest Loser” contest with a lady from church, her husband and two of their friends?  Well, things on that front aren’t going so good for me.  Not that I am losing, far from it.  I am actually the only one that has lost any weight at all!  But apparently, I am the only one that put in the $2.00 a week too.  Also, they’re suddenly wanting to change things on me and are saying that I won’t be the only winner, there’s going to be two.  I’d like to know just how that is possible, when I am the ONLY ONE who has lost any weight on this thing?  We were supposed to end on the 10th of June.  But, the two friends never put in their money and want to delay the end until July 1st now.  I think what is going to happen is that instead of winning the pot of $240 like I am supposed to, I will end up having to just request the monies back  that I put into it, and have done with the whole thing.
 
It’s really screwed up how this thing has turned out.  Two weeks ago they were saying let’s all do this again in July for 4 months this time.  Now they’re saying they don’t want to do it again.  My husband agrees with me that they likely are going to do it again, just among themselves.  I guess I proved to be too tough of a competition for them.  My husband says to be proud of that.  But, I am having a hard time with it, because I had wanted to motivate them.  Now it seems like I’ve just gone and pissed them off.
 
In the end though, what matters the most to me, is that I have won the victory over myself and my bad lifestyle.  If I don’t win the pot of money that I was supposed to win, my victory will still remain.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  -  Phillipians 4:13

 
I hope that you, who happens to read this, will have a blessed day!