busy busy friday

Earlier this week I had decided to get the kiddo out of the house and to one of our homeschooler get togethers for a PE DAY (few hours of games/fun)--wouldn't you know it--it rains like heck the day before and the morning of the get together.So needless to say it was a TOTAL WASHOUT!LOL Hopefully it will be warm enough and sunny enough where we can take the pooper and the kiddo to the park for some play and walking time.I'm getting my hair highlighted tomorrow-kind of a birthday treat for myself.My neice does hair and gives me a little discount-gotta love that one!I can't wait-I'll be out of the house for about 2 hours LOL no kid or hubby,what will I do?This has been a challenging week for me-at least for eating and stressing.Stress is a major cause for me to "eat anything in site".I didn't do too bad,but I did go over points about half the week.But picked up some salad fixings and other "good" things to eat.I picked up the things to make a chocolate cake from scratch-I'm going to see how I can "de-fat" it some so it won't be toooo terribly bad for me.I feel deprived that I haven't had a birthday cake yet! ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me

Woke up to pretty flowers and birthday cards from zach and the hubbs this morning.It's so funny listening to a 7 yr old trying to sneak and SHHHH and think mom won't hear! The hubbs wanted to get me a cake from the store but I told him not to do it-since they don't cater to "sugar free" or even "low sugar" at the deli LOL.I would rather make my own and be able to enjoy it than eat something I know isn't good for me.It will taste better if I do it myself too.Now I just gotta get to the store and get the stuff to make it with.It's a yucky,rainy day here in East Central Mississippi today.And he has banned me from driving.Not really,but he doesn't want me out on the wet roads today.Makes sense and I know he's looking out for my safety,but I have soooo much that needs to be done today it's just not funny.I'm tempted to see if I can get it all done and be back in the house before he wakes up from his "coma" LOL.He hasn't gotten much sleep the past few days and he's in there snoring the roof down.But I guess we'll have to make do with what we have/don't have in the house today....unless I get a wild hair and sneak out!

An AWFUL VERY BAD DAY

oh boy today was one of those days where you look at your kid and say "REALLY? Is this my kid? It can't be my kid!" We made the mistake of passing by the electronics department at walmart and he found an MP3 player he wanted-but they were out of the two that were priced the most "kid friendly".Meltdown over that-right in the middle of the store.I had an appointment with my neice to cut his hair this afternoon.We get there and he's bouncing off the walls in the salon while she's finishing another customer--a quite well behaved little boy I might add.When it's his turn,he just freaks out in the chair literally screaming and causing quite a scene in salon-right in the middle of the mall.I pay her the full price and got him out as quickly as I could.She is graciously coming over to our house tomorrow on her day off to finish cutting his hair for us.She said we wouldn't owe her anything but I'm going to pay her something anyway.These past few weeks it just seems like he's so EMOTIOINAL and WHINEY and just UNREAL that I don't know what to do.I am at my wits end.I've tried being more stern in our punishment.I've tried being less stern.I just don't know what to do.We have had him tested for the dreaded ADD/ADHD and even autism.They said he didn't fit all the symptoms for either.I am soooo stressed!

Big pot of chicken and rice

Monday I made chicken drumsticks in the crockpot using lipton onion soup mix.It had the whole house smelling good.The hubby wanted "happy husband chili" so I had to make something for myself and I was getting tired of quinoa LOL.Today I morphed the meat from the drumsticks into chicken and rice.I used some of the oniony broth and pulled the meat from the bones although it practically came off by itself.I used brown rice and made a huge batch.I'm going to take a bowl full to my sister of thursday when I go out to get my allergy shots.I skipped them last week and said I was going to go earlier in this week but it just didn't happen.Normally,I'd tease you with a nice photo of a big bowl of chicken and rice,but the camera isn't working tonight.

Tuesday-Tuesday

Well,today turned out to be a horrid day-very stressful.I took Zach and the Pooper to a local park to try and teach the Pooper how to walk on a leash without freaking out or wriggling out of her harness like she did the last time we tried this exercise.She did very well today.I didn't let her down to walk until she relaxed somewhat (yes,I've been watching the DOG WHISPERER) and this time she didn't fight the leash.We let her lead where she was interested in walking-and sniffing.We walked around a local soccer field about 4 times and then we walked around the kiddie playground area while Zach played a little while.I can see us doing this on a regular basis.I would like to get into the habit of getting up early and going out there so we could have the place to ourselves-exercise for all 3 of us-might even nag the hubby into coming along next time.

I've seen somewhat of an improvement in my blood sugars in the past two weeks since starting WW.Some mornings I'll wake up to low blood sugar actually-nothing to cause an emergency,but still low.I wish it would become a regular occurance.Slowly but surely.

Monday eatings

Breakfast
1bowl of cinnamon honeycomb cereal
1 whole wheat grilled cheese sandwich
iced tea w/equal

lunch
2 oscar mayer turkey hotdogs
2slices of white wheat bread
square of hersheybar w/almonds
iced tea w/equal
cauliflower pizza slice

caffeine free diet pepsi

supper
1bulgar turkey burger with spicy mustard
a few bites of no yolks egg noodles
diced potato/onion sauteed in olive oil
iced tea w/equal

HELLO FEBRUARY!!

After declaring he was tired of eating beans and the "happy husband chili" over the weekend,low and behold,the husband asked for me to make it today--LOL--after he saw that I had taken out the dreaded CHICKEN to thaw for supper.He will do anything to get out of eating chicken-except for KFC chicken which he would gladly eat on a daily basis if he could.I had the thought of "bake/frying" half of it in the oven,but laziness got the best of me,and I put it all in the crockpot with some onion soup mix and sliced onions.Sounds good to me!

I always get crabby and moody around the time of my birthday.And this year is no exception.I don't know why-it's a subconscious thing-I don't decide OK there are 5 days till my birthday,let's get into a bad mood now!And it's not about turning whatever age either.I don't know what it is.My birthday is Thursday and I'll be 39-no shame in that....The husband brought me back 2 GIANT chocolate almond candy bars from the store today.(Thanks honey,but I am on a DIET remember?-I'm going to have to eat it square by square I guess)I said "do you think I need chocolate?" He grinned and said "yeah,you've been stressing and crabby".Poor thing-I'm really not mean to the poor guy-I swear! ;)