Weight Loss Wednesday

Hi Y'all! I'mma back! (Channeling my inner Luigi from Mario Bros Wii) haha! I've been walking 1 to 3 miles every day of the week Mon-Fri for the past two weeks. The first week I lost 5 pounds and I was so excited and today I weighed in at the exact weight I did last week so no weight loss this week but I feel better and my clothes are fitting better. I'm staying  motivated and by the summer I'm going to be the hot mama rocking the bikini. haha!

I'll have to catch y'all up on what's been going on around here soon so stay tuned! I didn't want y'all to think I had died!

And a blog post isn't complete without a picture of this little cutie!

Not so Happy Monday Y'all!

Well, I posted about my walking adventures on Friday which led me to think about how a carrier would be awesome for EA because she gets tired of the stroller about mile 2 and wants me to carry her. So I google ergo carrier and I click on a website and BAM! I got a stinkin' virus on my computer. It was just that simple and just that quick.

I thought consumer websites were safer than others but I guess I learned a lesson the hard way so blogging will probably be slim until I get my computer back which will hopefully be sooner rather than later. Until then, I'll be posting from the hub's computer so bare with me.

EA did get a new car today! Check her out!

She loves it! I love it too because I get to spend time with my baby girl while walking off this weight! Double Win! Here's to a better week!

Weigh Less Wednesday

Yes, I realize I'm just posting this on a FRIDAY, but I've been contemplating starting this and I wanted to make sure I was committed before doing so.

Truth: I weigh 5.5 lbs more today than I did on the day I delivered EA. I weigh 17.5 lbs more today than Bruce did when we started dating. I weigh 47.5 lbs more today than I want to.

Therefore, I have began walking and counting calories so let's see how fast I can get to my goal weight of 150 lbs.

So yes. I weigh 197.5 lbs. I don't really know where the weight came from because on EA's birthday I weighed 192. At my four week post baby appointment back in June, I weighed 174 lbs so I've gained 23 lbs in 9 months. Crazy!

Tuesday: 3 miles
Wednesday: 2 miles
Thursday: 2 miles


Here's a picture of my 197.5 lb self with the most beautiful little girl in the world and my motivation to loose this weight and get healthy!!!

Things aren't always so negative 'round here!

As I was reading my last two posts, I realized that y'all may be thinking I'm a negative nelly BUT I'm not! haha! I usually just post happy/good posts but I figured it was time to be real because don't you dislike those people that seem like they have it all together and nothing ever gets them upset.?. Most of the time things are happy around here but we all have those not so good times.

So here is a my baby and I reading a book! She loves to read and for me to read to her! The book title is "Pat the Bunny". She loves to turn the pages and play peek a boo with Paul! haha!

Mama Needs a Timeout

Do you ever have those moments where YOU need a timeout? Well I'm currently in timeout. I'm trying to get tax  stuff(YUCK!) together and I realized that I was missing a form for my school loan. Well, back in November my school loan was transferred from one company to another and so when I attempted to log on to the first company to get the form, my username was invalid and basically the website had never heard of me SO I had to call to request the form. So after I waited for an enternity approximately 10 minutes I finally got to speak to a representative. Well, imagine attempting to explain the situation and listen to a resolution all while my nine month old is hollering (playing) in the background and her Daddy is ENCOURAGING IT!!!!!

FOR THE LOVE OF PETE AND MAMA'S SANITY please reduce the noise level(DADDY!) so I can take care of this. So in order to restore my sanity, I'm in timeout!

On a happier note;

I'm a Bad Mom Because

I find myself frequently telling myself "I'm a bad mom because_______________(fill in the blank)". In reality I KNOW I'm a GOOD mom, but this sentence haunts me every.day. I'm not writing this post for your sympathy, I'm just being real.

Basically, my feelings of being a bad mom stem from "if I don't do everything for my child" I'm a bad mom and with such a helpful husband I feel as if I don't even even pull my share of doing 1/2 of everything for my child. Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for my helpful husband and I really do realize how helpful he is just by observing other dads, but sometimes I feel as if people view me as a "lazy mom or sorry mom" if they see Bruce changing a diaper, holding her, playing with her. It really is a sad way to look at things instead of being thankful for such an awesome helpmate, I'm feeling inadequate as a mom.

Many moms would give anything for their husbands to help as much as Bruce helps me. I am truly thankful for him and his help because honestly I couldn't do this by myself. My emotions, my anxiety would make me loose my marbles if I had to do everything but at the same time I feel inadequate for not doing everything. It is a double edged sword.

My goal is to no longer feel inadequate when Bruce helps out with EA because he's not helping out because I can't do it, he's helping because he WANTS to. He reminded me this morning that he also waited for two years to have a child and he wants to do everything he can for her. I am blessed beyond measure.

Me? Germaphobe? NEVER!

Having a kid has caused me to become LESS selfish which is a GREAT thing but it has also caused me to look at the world in a whole new light especially concerning GERMS!!!

Don't touch that menu, please don't put your mouth on the table, please don't touch her hands, please don't kiss her hands, PLEASE DO NOT KISS HER ON THE MOUTH are just some of the things I've said in the past 9 months. AH my baby is 9 months old today! I'll have to do a separate post on that milestone but back to the germs.

I have numerous bottles of germX and I find myself constantly washing my hands, her hands, her toys, her blankets, her face. Well, not CONSTANTLY but I do it frequently and I only wash her toys when we take them to a restuarant and lay them on the table because I'm not that crazy....yet.....haha!

HOWEVER, I do not understand the need for this

or these

because you touch the faucet handles to turn it on before you get soap and you wash your hands AFTER you touch the soap pump but you touch the faucet handles AFTER you wash your hands and you dry your hands AFTER you've washed them so really what's the point of an automatic soap dispenser and dispoable hand towels?

However, a touch faucet is the ticket

and I have one of those in my kitchen! SEE!

I am becoming less of a germaphobe the older EA gets but I still wipe her hands after people touch them and I cringe when she plays with toys other than her own. I also bathe her after a lot of people hold and touch her ( I usually bathe her every other night but if we are around alot of other people two days in a row, she gets bathed both nights.) and Yes we've made people mad about not kissing on her lips but who kisses a kid on the lips anyways? NOT US! and NOT YOU when we are around! It is just nasty. Well, I've been planning this post for awhile because everytime a commercial comes on for the automatic soap dispenser and Kleenex hand towels, I think "what's the point in that". So if you have a clue ENLIGHTEN ME because even the germaphobe side of me has no desire to own either one of those! However, the faucet comes in handy in the kitchen especially after cutting up chicken or patting out hamburgers. YUCK!

Here is a pic of EA playing in her wagon yesterday enjoying the awesome weather we are having!