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I was down 1.2 for the week. Not much…and I likely won’t make my goal by Christmas…but a loss is a loss and I’ll take it!
Kidless Adulting Party Time!
Not to toot my own horn, LOL, but I thought I looked damn good and I felt amazing in my $20 size 14 dress. 🙂
Everyone I saw at the party that I knew (a small handful of the 40-odd people) told me I looked amazing. I honestly felt like a fairy princess and didn’t want the night to end. I can’t remember a time—EVER—when I’ve felt that good about myself and/or how I looked. Not even at my wedding (though that was an awesome day!).
I see the dress on a hanger and think “Man that looks small. There’s no way I fit into that.” But I obviously did. And I killed it. 🙂 (And I still have about 40-50 more pounds to go! I cannot even FATHOM that.)
Also tonight? Wearing a winter coat I last wore…in high school. Yes, I’ve kept it for 24 years because it was an awesome coat and dammit I was going to fit into it again someday!
How she watches a movie with Uncle Rob.Â
Promise them candy and look what cute faces you get.
And the comparison photo from 2012!
This gets me excited for two reasons.
Three if you count that it means a kidless night out at a holiday party.
If you can’t guess the two reasons, it’s 1) size 14 and 2) a good deal!
The backstory? I needed something to wear for a holiday party. I had NOTHING holiday-ish in my closet at all. No dress slacks, no khakis, no skirts, no dressy sweaters even. I had one dress that would have been okay, but I kind of wanted something new that was a bit more holiday-party-appropriate. So I went shopping at Ross and was looking at 16s. 16s!!! (I now wear size 16 jeans so thought a dress would be the same.) I haven’t bought a size 16 dress in…since maybe high school? So I picked four and tried them all on—and they all fit. Wait. What? I’m used to maybe one thing fitting and hoping it doesn’t look awful, LOL. So I was able to pick the one Iiked the best. And it was on clearance! So imagine my surprise when I got home and realized it was a 14! Holy crap! I never would have looked at the size 14 section! 🙂
Little Girl Pouts
A little bouncing.Â
The place where the kids have swim lessons (and Owen had his summer activity camp) had an Open House today so people could swim and bounce for free to test it out. The kids have been asking to bounce, so we thought it would be a fun thing today. Owen loved it, but Katie was pretty much a mess. There were A TON of kids there (including a lot of rambunctious and NOT well-behaved ones which made everything worse) and she had a fit on every bounce house because there were “too many people” — except it was mostly her fault because unless she was the only one on the ladder, she would stop wherever she was and then as the kids would try to get past her and she’d get upset (and if she’d just have kept going up the ladder, they would have gone up behind her and things would have been just fine). So…we didn’t stay quite as long as we anticipated.
2015 Videos from Santa!
We got these from Santa about a week or so ago. The kids were very excited to watch them! Do you think they both made the naughty or nice list? The kids LOVE these videos SO much and get SO excited about them it’s worth the $12 I pay to make them. 🙂
Owen – Secret Places
Katie – Tour the Post Office
And surprise! Tonight we got these two new videos! Uncle Rob and daddy were able to watch along with us!
Owen – Movie Star
Katie – Elf House
Katie playing bongos on Uncle Rob’s head
Morning Program Poetry Helper
Every week, 10 students help read a poem during Morning Program. This week was finally Owen’s turn! Daddy didn’t think he was going to be able to make it…but he did! And Uncle Rob was there, too!
We couldn’t hear him, of course, but his lips were moving and he wasn’t crying or hiding so it was all good!
Minecraft in the morning.Â
The last day of the year is Pajama Day!
And of course Katie didn’t want to wear PJs on the one day she technically could…
How she watched a movie today.Â
Clutching her purse… 🙂
Cute & Comfy Charlie
I love that paw wrapped around her face.
I fell off the wagon.
Phew.
I fell off the wagon at lunch. Too many Biscuits and Gravy potato chips (probably the equivalent of a single serving bag) and about 9 peanut M&Ms when making pretzel/Rolo/M&M treats. Then two pretzel treats.
Since I felt the day was already a bust, LOL, I splurged on a margarita wine cooler while getting dinner ready.
Then we made a batch of garlic toast (amazing stuff) and I had the equivalent of two slices of bread over the dinner hour (before, during, and after)…while still eating dinner, of course.
Overall, today was completely unlike 99.9% of my NS days. Too much sugar plus too much food plus alcohol. EEK.
But.
BUT.
It was still light years different from pretty much 90% of my pre-NS days—today’s consumption would have been a light day. I probably would have eaten half a bag of chips with lunch, two handfuls of M&Ms, a handful of finished pretzel treats, had two drinks, at least three pieces or more of bread/toast…plus twice as much dinner as I ate. Plus I wouldn’t have walked a mile during the day.
So I still call today a win. And that’s why NS is the bomb.
Katie LOVES swinging.
She still swings the entire time I’m taking my walk (which is about 18-20 minutes). I usually still have to get her started with a big push, but today she started all on her own! She was waiting for me to come push her and was just swinging her legs back and forth…and she started moving. I saw it happening and procrastinated getting over there…and soon she was swinging as high as ever! I love her hair in slo-mo!
With her friend Cayenne.
Another great slo-mo on the slide.
Kidisms 20
Me: Katie, can you help me put these [dishes] away?
Katie: Of course, my dear!
We were shopping at Marshall’s and testing out a squeaker dog toy.
Me: [squeak squeak]
Katie: MAMA! That’s Maggie’s sound!!
I cracked my neck.
Katie: Mama! Don’t break your bones!
Katie wanted to take a picture of me so I gave her my phone. She backed up, looked to be framing the shot, and took the picture.
Me, looking at it: Good job, Bug!
Katie, smiling proudly: I made sure your head wasn’t cut off!
Seeing a mannequin in lingerie at Kohl’s:
Katie: Mama! She forgot to put clothes on!
Christmas treat success!
Rolos were the key! And I added red sprinkles! Most of these are going to Owen’s teacher. 🙂
So I haven’t done this in…ever.
She fell asleep on the way home from Woodbridge (and didn’t wake up when we got home!) so I’m sitting in the driveway enjoying the gorgeous day while she naps. This is apparently what happens when she gets up to pee twice at night.
How Katie reads a book.
Two napping daddiesÂ
I went into Katie’s room and found this. We have blankets and Bs and doll accessories aplenty, but she used tissues. 🙂
Owen’s Sensory Color Poem
I think the only one you might have trouble figuring out is tastes like…its squishy blueberries. 🙂
Matching Santa hats!
Finally! Owen has had his for years and once I had Katie I kept checking but Pottery Barn never had them again! Until this year!
I’ll get better (more seasonal) pics later. 🙂
He brought the sword but then found a bow and arrow.
Awesome December weather for swim lessons!
I just might make my first goal by Christmas after all!!
Christmas treat fail.Â
I’m guessing you shouldn’t use old chocolate. (Of course, there were some new chocolates mixed in as well…but only two pieces melted correctly.)
I’ve since learned from others that Rolos work much better than Kisses.
Another shot at Santa
Our community clubhouse had cookies and activities with Santa this morning, so we thought we’d try with the kids again—just in case we got a better picture (since I could dress the kids up).
But first, the at-home pictures:
And then while waiting for Santa, they did some crafts and coloring:
Katie wanted NOTHING to do with Santa, so it was just Owen!
But she did make more rings to put on the tree!
Katie’s afternoon challenge
She’s done a handful of letters at a time but never the whole set…but she’s very good at it so I dumped them all out and left her to it.
She did quite well until a little more than halfway through when she started whining that it was useless and she couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to help her too much, but I arranged them a bit and tried to put wrong letters in wrong pieces which got her interested again (to tell me I was wrong).
Finished!
Putting them away!
