Clifford

I am grateful for my little man Clifford JR. He makes me laugh all of the time and is hilarious! I am so glad that he came to our family. Clifford lights up my life and is so smart it amazes me the things he puts together. Clifford really wants to start school and he still has one more year before he begins. Clifford is a goof off, if people are doing something, he tries to get them to laugh! I love him so much

Calendars

Today I am grateful for calendars. I have so many appointments lately with work and home and church that I would be missing out on a lot of things I need if I did not have a convenient place to write it all down. I am grateful for Google calendars where I can sync my husbands school and church calendar with mine. It is wonderful!

My post today is going to be very short. I am thankful for mt husband Clifford and his ability to stay up late and sleep through anything and then get up in the middle of the night with a crying baby, then back to bed and still sleep well. He stayed up with Emily till 2 AM slept for 2 hours while I was up with her and hen at came and got her again so I could sleep. He knows I have trouble sleeping during the day. I love him so much!

A Sisters Love

Thanks to my face book friend Danae, I am going to try to start a gratitude blog. Mostly to help me remember how great my life is, even on the roughest of days or weeks. I am grateful for so many things that I don't mention. I am going to try to continue this for as long as I can, it may be a post everyday or every week, we will see. I am not placing these posts in any order, just how I am feeling at the moment. Here are some basic things that I am grateful for that I am feeling guilty not posting about first; My Heavenly Father, My Hubby and My Children.

I am extremely grateful for my sisters today. Very specifically Shauna and Shannon. I miss my sisters terribly and at times my heart aches when I can't see them, or know that they are missing my children grow. My sisters have been my rock! I talk to one of them on the phone every day at least once. They give me advice (sometimes when I don't feel like hearing it), They listen to my go on and on about my own life, not asking about theirs and they do not judge anything that I have ever done wrong(and they have called me on a lot of them). When I am having a rough day, they cheer me up. I call them! I love them so much and at times feel like if I did not have them as my best friends, I would go insane! My sisters are my best friends! I am grateful for their patience for me and their love for me, I love them!

Week 4

This week was awful! I ate like crap and a lot of it. I did exercise hard 3 times this week but it really did not make a difference with the stuff I ate. I am going to try harder to work out harder.

week 3

Week three I only worked out 3 times this week and one of the weeks was only a 20 min workout. I am trying very hard to fit in my schedule a constant work out, but it is hard mondays and tuesdays but I am working on it. This coming week I will do pretty good eating! We will see how week 4 goes!

Week 2

The Past week did not go so well. I am going to try to do better this coming week. I did exercise every day this week and could feel a difference in how much I can do. I am for sure going to continue the working out. I think I will do a lot better this week.

One week.

I exercised every day this week, ate okay and only over ate one night of dinner. I did a work out Friday and my muscles are killing me today, I rode the bike for 20 minutes to loosen up my back and hip muscles. I really havent been eating to lose weight, but havent had food that is bad for me. We will see how it goes this next week! I will do better!

Struggling today

I had a pretty good work out today, I rode the bike for 30 minutes and went 8 miles. I ate healthy foods today, but not a lot of food. I started my cycle today and have been very emotional, I finally broke down and had a chocolate bar. Hopefully I will do better in the coming days.

Day 4

So far this morning I rode the stationary bike for 30 minutes and went 7.1 miles. I did not beat my old record, my muscles were tired and I was tired; maybe on Wednesday. I didn't do a great job at eating, I missed breakfast and had a few pieces of left over pizza for lunch. Dinner was better with pan seared shrimp, asparagus, and a cup of rice a roni. I also had a couple of handfuls of popcorn after dinner.

Day 3 (Sunday)

Today was a harder day with my eating. I had a very late breakfast and would not call it breakfast, it was a turkey sandwich and yogurt before church at 10:00. After church I ate a lot of vegetables with Ranch and peanut butter. I ate on homeade BBQ chicken pizza and one piece of Hawaiian pizza. I did not exercise because it was Sunday and my morning was so busy, but will resume my workout in the morning. I am going to go to sleep soon so that I don't eat anything else tonight! I have been doing pretty well at drinking enough water or coming close to it!

Day 2 (Saturday)

I started the morning out working out to turbo jam for 25 minutes. It kicked my butt! my arms are very sore. I used to be able to do this exercise and barely break a sweat. I had a large bowl of honey bunches of oats for breakfast and some vegetables left from last nights veggie tray. I was running a lot of errands today with the kids, they were really good so we stopped at arctic circle and let them play and eat lunch, I had to grilled chicken sandwich and that it all, no soda or fries or yummy milk shake. I did have a bite of my son's chicken nugget. I snacked on a few slices of turkey meat and then Clifford and I made Steak and a large salad for dinner. I had some yogurt after wards and was feelings really good about myself today. During our movie I was doing great not eating my son's popcorn, but crashed when he came and sat with me. I still feel okay about today, at least I worked out. I won't be working out tomorrow, so I need to be really good about what I eat. Hopefully we can do good!

Day 1-
I rode the stationary bike for 30 minutes and went 7.8 Miles. I want to try to beat that every time I get on the bike. Maybe not the 30 minutes but the mileage. I did pretty good at eating and drinking water. I had eggs and toast for breakfast, with a little butter. I snacked on a few carrots. For lunch I struggled a little bit, but still okay. I had a turkey sandwich on whole wheat a TBS of May and mustard, I cup on Apple sauce and a lrg plate of chips. Yeah, that was the down fall, but I got rid of the chips in the house, i threw them in the garbage. I did not have a snack between lunch and dinner which i should have. for dinner I had a coconut crusted tilapia fish fillet, a lot aof asparagus, and peaches. For a snack during our Friday night movie my son and I shared a large vegetable platter with ranch. I tried to go easy on the dip, but got distracted. I feel like I did a pretty good job, not perfect, but good for me. I will try tomorrow to do better, and not falter on the chips or stuff like that. Tomorrow can always be a better day!