I volunteered to do the posterboard table signs for Owen’s school’s Fall Festival this coming Friday (these are for tables with games and activities). I may have gone a tiny bit overboard (EVERYTHING was designed and printed then cut and glued!), but it felt great to do something creative for once!
It was COLD this morning—in the high 40s, I think—when we set out. We were in multi-layers, Owen had gloves, and we both had our hoods up. 🙂
Today’s weapon was a lightsaber. 🙂
As we were walking along, I was getting the usual commentary about weapons and which bad guys are in the forest and why the minotaurs are no longer there…and then suddenly he stops, turns around, and says “Shhh! We’re in skeleton forest!”
I love this boy. :heart:
Holy shit.
A loss of 7.2# and I’m just past 75# lost overall.
Wow.
And I’m wearing Tom’s old XL jogging pants. My matching ones were donated in the last go-round and he was going to give his away but I snagged them! They were a bit tight, but they’re perfect now! 🙂
Well, I was able to get into the old bridesmaid dress and it wouldn’t need altering…but I just love the red dress so much (and it looks more like a ball gown) so now I have a few weeks to get it altered.
We had frost and freeze warnings so I picked ALL of the remaining basil—which ended up to be about eight cups! I made two double batches of pesto for the freezer…then wondered what the hell to do with the rest of it!
I searched my recipes in Evernote…and ended up with Basil Salt! It’s just equal parts basil and kosher salt, ground and then dried in the oven.
The kitchen smelled wonderful!!!
Most of the videos I post I edit down so we only see Owen’s actual hit. But today I left in the whole thing—sometimes he whiffs it, but mostly he smacks it the first time!
I ran out of time at home before the t-ball game to set up the tripod to take our picture, so we grabbed an MSU-alum (a dad!) at the game. 🙂
I’m wearing Tom’s jersey…because mine is way too big! 🙂
She loves hanging upside down…for about six seconds. She doesn’t do it alone, though—you can see me holding her legs.
This is what happened after the first handful of food was thrown:
This is a 2T outfit—he was in it under 2 and she’s in it over 3! I’ve been meaning to put her in it for quite some time now and finally did it today; the pants are slightly too short but the jacket is almost too big.
Edited to add: Whoops! Those aren’t the right pants! Now I remember why I haven’t put her in that outfit before now… I couldn’t find the pants that go with that outfit!
Tom just came home early and threw Katie in the air a few times then put her down.
Katie: Do it again!
Tom: Daddy’s back hurts. I just had a major back cracking.
Katie: OHHH NOOOO!! Are you okay?
We asked Alexa to play some Christmas music. She started playing O Little Town of Bethlehem.
Katie: That’s not Christmas music. It’s not jingle jingle.
Katie was playing with my pill container.
Katie: Mama, when I want a pill can I have a pill?
Me: You don’t need any pills.
Katie: I KNOW THAT!
My phone alarm rang at 7:45 signaling Owen’s bedtime.
Me: Owen, it’s time for bed.
Owen: I don’t want to go to bed. I’m not tired. He wastes some time whining. I want to go to bed at 7:50.
Me: That’s four minutes.
Owen: Okay! Daaaad! I’m staying up late tonight! 7:50!
Tom: Laughs.
So after the big boohoo I had this weekend about my .4 weight gain…I finally opened my spreadsheet today to input the info (I skipped it because I wasn’t ready to input hard proof of a gain) and…WHAT IS THIS? I lost .4 pounds?! That’s what you get for weighing more than once a week and you look at the wrong date it Fitbit to calculate your weekly loss.
So, it was still a sucky week and I still needed to get back on track, but at least I don’t have that small upward blip anymore! And it made me look back at previous weeks…and I had one other week where I only lost .2 so this wasn’t even my worst week. 🙂
Here’s my chart thus far on my Excel spreadsheet:
And with the same data at Naturally Slim:
I love it. 🙂
We happened upon Rapunzel, Snow White, and ghoul costumes at the thrift store Sunday. Today Katie put two of them together.
I know there are creepy crawlies found in nature…I just don’t want to run across evidence of such things while I’m waking through nature.
/shudder
So my weigh-in day came yesterday and I didn’t lose anything. In fact, I gained weight. It was only .4 pounds, but that’s disheartening after consistently losing 2-4# a week for 20 weeks.
You may think that’s a bit of craziness after gaining less than half a pound…but gaining is not an option.
Oh yes, there will be times I gain weight during the rest of my life (think a vacation or special event), but the program has ways to deal with it: When you catch it immediately, you go hard core and within a few days, the “fluff” weight should fall right off. If you let it go and let the .4 turn into 1.4 turn into 3.2 turn into 5.6 then you have a problem and it takes more work to drop the extra pounds.
Sooo…I knew I hadn’t been following the principles as closely as I should have been for still being in weight loss mode (vs maintenance) and it was my own fault. So, true to my word—I said as soon as I stopped losing I was going back to the hard core principles—I did.
I went on a double walk (I did our 2-mile hiking trail instead of my usual 1-mile treadmill), drank my H2OJ religiously, skipped lunch because I wasn’t hungry, then ate my small dinner S…L…O…W…L…Y (and when I say small dinner, I mean 1/4 of a grilled hamburger, two bites of avocado, and about four chips—and I honestly wasn’t even hungry but you should eat at least once a day).
And this morning I had lost 1.6—which officially dropped me into the 23X category (my next goal!) and upped my overall loss to 70#!
That said, it annoys me to no end that I have that tiny upward blip on my weight loss line. I keep vacillating on just switching my Sunday weight to today’s weight but then I don’t. 🙂
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this week will be a banner weight loss week to keep up my average 3.3# loss per week.
Protecting me from zombies, minotaurs, and poop-ball-throwing purple dragons. 🙂
And she’s sporting freshly painted nails and a new purse!
Owen: Mom, come here and see what I am!
Me: A GARGOYLE! I LOVE IT!
We went the dollar store route this year—plastic face pieces!
We got to the field quite early, so we had plenty of time to use the field ourselves. We gave Katie her first try at batting and she did very well! She missed three right-handed attempts…and then got the first left-handed attempt! Maybe she’ll be like mama! (I also tried and hit 2 out of 3—left-handed of course!)
And then what I think all the kids think is the best part of every practice or game…snack time!
Another nice day, another trip to the playground. But we also went down to the water today because she heard another kid talking about the pond and she wanted to go, too! 🙂
Throwing rocks and twigs in—a favorite activity.
And then as we were standing there, a bunch of Canadian geese flew in and landed in front of us!
Be sure to listen for this in the last section:
Mom, they’re so cute! Maybe I could be a mermaid and go in the water with them!
And then a few artsy pictures of the boats. 🙂
Katie desperately wanted to ride in one of the cars at the mall. Since she was a good girl while we were shopping, we let her (them).
Of course, as soon as it started, she couldn’t have cared less. 🙂
I’m trying to figure out what I’m wearing to the birthday ball this year. I figured since we haven’t gone in a few years and I’ll have lost almost 75#, I deserve a new dress.
So, let me recap today:
GAH!!!! What the hell? The one that amazes me the most is the dress that I wore for the wedding 12 years ago. It was for my best friend Angi’s wedding and I had just lost 60#. The dress fit perfectly. So when I was thinking about ball gowns, it was in the back of my head that worst case, I’d just wear that one because it would obviously fit. Ha. WTF body? What’s going on?
There’s nothing like tripping on nothing? a small rock? in your driveway, falling and scraping both feet, smashing a knee, and scraping and smacking your wrist to make you appreciate how good you HAD been feeling.
Within 10 minutes my back was hurting along with everything else and I had to take some painkillers.
I knew I should have left the garbage and recycling bins for Tom to bring in. 🙂
Back to the park again since it was so much fun yesterday!
And I love the look on her face. She loves the curvy slide but it’s obviously a bit crazy on the way down. 🙂
I didn’t get the best picture, but these two were having a stare down at lunch.
