thank you 2010 & hello 2011

I have a glorious list of things I can check off as DONE or atleast I followed my One Little Word for the year-DO- just DID alot of things I was questioning, worrying about, or just plain chicken to try :)  I posted a list in November & am still in shock of all the changes I made in ONE YEAR! :) pretty intense the effect One Little Word can have on a person!

I thought I'd pick Simplify for this year's OLW as I tend to over-obsess, over-detail, over-organize, over-communicate, over-everything, everything I do. :) Picking Simplify makes me wonder what I will cut, delete, ignore in my current life & will I miss it? I can't come up w/anything else that works, or feels right so I guess Simplify picked me.

Also, in 2011 I plan to:

• keep running--I love that we've started a local running group! Go Eat Pray Run! We've already set up teams for 2 events this Spring! And want to host or co-host a 5k this year! eeeeeeek!
• keep scrapping--I am too far in to quit now! I'd love to get on a design team, maybe my Simplified pages will catch someone's eye
• keep blogging
• join a local, real-live book club--this makes me so happy to even consider- its a grown up thing I never thought I'd get to do
• sew--fix the cord that was a puppy casualty ;) & get busy!
• live more frugally--I try not to burden others w/our financial views as that is one thing I don't think needs discussed out of the home, simply put, we are working to become closer to debt free this year
• garden & compost more, can & freeze more, bake & cook from scratch more
• sort, donate, pitch, recycle more
• have more Girl's Nights Out
• continue in my healthier lifestyle--fruits/veggies, dairy, water, running, chiro-work on Power of 1 list
• get back to yoga
• get better about deadlines, turning paperwork in before its due, being more repectful of another's time
• get the childcare off of paper towels--alter &hang a rack for cloth towels
• switch to homemade cleansers
• find a balance to Simplify it all

What is your One Little Word for the year? What do you plan to accomplish in the new year?

HAPPY Hump Day!!!

I totally made up for not taking the kids on a walk yday... Tim & I were loading firewood for the weekend & discovered the garden was dry enough to till, so I thinned out the radishes, planted more green beans, counted 14 onions & some lettuce babies peeking thru!! then we planted 4 rows of 3 variations of sweet corn! When we got home I jumped on the treadmill for my .5 mile walk/jog (while I watched part of Monday night's Castle online) & then took Gus for our normal 1 mile walk! (Tim couldn't go as his foot is hurting & the tiller had given him a work out!) I didn't get my shoes off until 10 till 9 when I was getting in the shower but it was so worth it when I jumped on the scale this morning :))

Weigh in Wednesday: I am down one from Monday & down 3 from last Wednesday YEEEEEEEEEEE-frickin-HAAAAAAAAW!!! feels so good to see that scale move! :D

21 DAYS: soooooo that is my 30 minutes of exercise, I got my 5 f/v in AAAAAAANNNNDDDDD I remembered my vitamins!! OH & I got my 96 oz in too for the first time all week.

Today is going to be about getting the camping bedding freshened up, going on a walk, & maybe work on repairing my bench planter if I get some time. OH & working on setting up weekly summer activities for the child care homes in Osceola! Stacey, I am contacting you today! :) Tonight is a provider appreciation get together in Creston & I am hoping to be back in time to walk-maybe I should have taken Gus out on our route @ 5 this morning when he was restless.

Look @ all the things I am DOing :) yay for the power of One Little Word!!! What are you DOing? Do you have a word for the year? if you do please share!!

TGIF!!

Seems I completely missed posting yesterday OOPS... I was doing so good!! :S ah well. here's the photo collage from Wed & Thursday.

Looking here you will see Lots of kid stuff... niece K loving on itty bitty A, itty bitty B not so itty bitty anymore! littes A&B reading books together! I am so glad I braved the paint & checked the mini-well off my to-DO list :) I love it black!! then ended my day w/some scrappiness :)
Yesterday, I captured mom's old house, our shadows while walking, the 3 littles picking flower petals off the sidewalk 'for me', B watching, afternoon paperwork & snack @ the picnic table :D me reading Breaking Dawn(almost done :)) the mushrooms Tim found yesterday.

Today is the last day of WITL!!! wow this week has gone fast for that project! next I will need to get it into a book form! that may take a bit longer. I AM almost done w/Tim's surprise birthday chapter. its raining today so the photos may be a bit different-more tasks, less fun.

Oh the weekend!!! 3 cavities filled tomorrow, mushroom hunting, yard work, picking up a used tiller, hopefully some down time & finishing this book!! :)
What will your weekend include??

WhataWednesday :)

I have rather neglected my OLW for the year: DO. however, I've been DOing it w/o even realizing it :) GOOOD WORD! Now to keep on the DO train (not to be confused w/the do-do train ha! don't pretend you didn't think it b/c I know you did ;))

Things I would like to DO:

1. tranform an old frame into a tray
2. spray paint the old mini wishing well
3. curbshop a chair I've spied
4. garage sale
5. take my flowerbeds from my mind to the ground
6. keep the garden growing
7. build a bench for the entry way
8. build lawn chairs
9. keep cleaning up the Ayers Lot
10. keep feeding the kids better

& I will stop there :)

Last night I got back on the treadmill. Tim's so much better about it than I & I was feeling a bit jealous while I was cooking supper (a rarity in itself) that he IS so good about it, then realized, he is b/c he WANTS to & I don't b/c I am using every excuse in the book to avoid it & that *I* am the only person that can fix that! I am weighing 20# more than I did last year & on my body, that is ALOT. so. here's hoping it will fall off ;) I am down 2# this morning already WHOHOOOOO so only 18 more to go :)

Farmer's Market is so close I can almost smell it :) I.CAN.NOT.WAIT.! 10 days Baby & I am so there!! local first of course!! then Downtown, then West GLen :) dreammmmmmmmmmmy!! Then we will be visiting my brother Philip in the hospital as he is having a tumor regrowth removed from his brain.

here's my collage of photos from yday for my WITL

off we go to get some outside time.

A List

From a busy weekend.

• our new fridge is way cool(hahaha get it ...) my only complaint is that it does not say "made in the USA" *sigh* someday maybe he'll get it
• I have found myself decorating the top of the fridge this round. never ever before have I done this! I have a neato black Longaberger bowl I got for Christmas & a plant from my scraproom up there along w/our cereal in storers & our box of warrenty/manual/etc.
• I finally got my sewing machine from my great gma's house. OYE I knew the working machine didn't 'belong' in teh cabinet but never did I comprehend that there was STILL a machine in the cabinet! so I brought home a working machine, a cabinet (that's 2x the size I remembered) w/old singer inside, & chair that 'belongs' w/it all. they don't match but ok whatever :)
• Since the cabinet is so much bigger than I rememered, I worked for 3 hours LAST NIGHT making room for it in my scrap room. I am almost 1/3 of the way there. :)
• in the mean time, I should be reading the manual & getting acquainted but I am not, I am still trying to finish New Moon. I am much more disciplined w/it than I was w/Twilight!
• Is it rude to say you went 'junking' @ someone's house? LOL I picked thru my mom's 'donate' pile & scavenged a coffee table (I remember her stripping & redoing when we were kids) for the child care kids to play on/with (that may someday -if I get brave enough -turn into a padded bench for them!), 2 door mirrors w/water damaged backings, 6 chairs that are now finding their way to donate from here as they are too wide for my cc table(which means I need to either get serious about building 2 benches for the table or recovering the existing chairs we have there), a welcome home sign I plan to paint over for St. Patt'ys day & 2 sets of sheers for a white 'rag' wreath(I might have mentioned these last 2 on Friday as I nabbed them on Thursday). I think that's it.
• I now have a bin in my room of 'to do' items-things I have run across & kept just for a project. now to get a move on, on those projects!
• Hope to get my room orgnized so I can work on those projects!!

making 2010 a DO it year!!!!!!!!!!

thursday misc.

today's list:

• spending freezes SUCK! especially self inforced ones b/c really... no one else even knows I am on it, so who will know if I cheat? ME that's who! :(( I am sometimes my own worst enemy. but it will all be worth it to get some more things paid off & get Tim's new truck sooner
• foot dr appt today=afternoon off. hmmm what to do what to do.. think my time is already full
• Driver's license renewal -ugh something I can do on my afternoon off
• Helping mom finish move out her old house this afternoon
• mmmm cheese tots for breakfast
• prepping house this evening for delivery of new fridge tomorrow (spur for spending freeze)
• take down vday decor & start in on St. Patty's day goodies :)
• laundry
• make homemade refried beans-wish me luck

there it is folks. out there for all to see (the 10 of you that read hehe). my agenda for today. now its time to DO it.

What a Winter!!

our poor school kids will be in school until the middle of June if Winter keeps up this pace! I am not sure but I think we've missed a record number of days already & Its only January! :( Our summer activities start date will be delayed a few weeks. Until then I am pulling out the back up, big guns for Snow/ice days. :) Today: Painting! WHOHOOOOOOO!! maybe a new recipe to bake too!

ACCOUNTABILITY: yesterday I was surprised to get in over 96oz since I started 4 hours later than normal. I also managed 3 fruits & a dairy! WHOHOOOOOOOO

DO: as much as I wanted to be a bum & play online all morning yesterday I made myself DO something while I was on the clock. I managed my normal Wednesday laundry :) so I can proudly say I did DO something. Today is full day w/a full house (I assume) so I will start to DO my tax prep-bleck! -when I can steal quiet moments. I should start by calling & making my appointment, giving myself a deadline usually gets me into gear! ahhh out comes the to-DO list!

Sorry for the boring photo free postings! I haven't put any photo software on Tim's computer yet. Mine is back @ the store from repair shop so thinking when we get it, I'll just do them both @ the same time as I got a new hard drive installed & will need to start it allllllllllllllllllll over agaaaaaaaaaaaaain. *sigh*

Ok off to catch upon what I missed last night while the internet & phone lines were down in our area. :) happy to be back up & running!!!

Weigh In Wednesday..

WOW! I don't usually have RESULTS but this week I DO. & before I say numbers I will mention that ALL I CHANGED was increasing my water to 96oz/daily & cutting junk snacking. I haven't added any movement at all. NOW. the NUMBERS. I weighed in @ my heaviest ever on Monday 1/11/10 @ the dr office. it was truely an eye opening experience for me & very easily could have thrown me into a bout of deep depression had I chosen that avenue. but this time I proudly chose to DO something! (word of the year DO) YAY KIM!! by Saturday I was down 4# & today I am down another 4#. NOW I am not all giddy & excited thinking its a serious weightloss. I know its just water but for the scale to show A LOSS, I am happy :) just the boost I need to keep up on the water, lack of snacking & get some movement plan in place!

ok.. off to enjoy the ice/snow day we are having that ended up giving me the afternoon off :) Scraproom time!

Monday Mantra: Just DO Something!

over @ the sisterhood they have added so much cool new stuff I am struggling to keep up. SO I am going to combine my One Little Word for the year DO w/this week's mantra! Just DO Something.

W/the plantar faciitis I am off of running atleast another week but I have been seriously, strictly, monitoring everything that goes into my body. I started slowly last week w/just making sure I get my 96oz of water daily. WOW do I feel so much better just from that lil thing! A couple of days I even had 120+ oz! lovely!!! :) my skin feels so much softer when properly hydrated! I also have so much more energy, focus & less feminine issues due to the added water! YAY WATER!

The food monitoring took some constant attention! I had really no idea how much I mindlessly snack :( Last week I questioned every little bite that I was considering before it went in. If I didn't have a good enough reason for wanting/needing it, it didn't get ingested. This is HUGE for me. I just figured since I am on my feet most of the day chasing kids, cooking & cleaning that I am working off what I eat but obviously not as the jeans are getting tighter than they were in the fall when I pulled them from storage. Even this weekend I focused on my fruits & veggies & water, along w/portions of the pizza & then chips & salsa on Saturday. I am really proud to say I cut myself off from the Fiesta/Jalapeno Wheat Beer Bread lastnight even tho I wanted 'just one more bite'!! I know I wouldn't have stopped @ one more so I bagged it up into portions & put it on the back of the counter!! its STILL THERE!!:) So far today I have had one piece of whole grain white toast w/a smear of organic peanut butter on top, 2 cups of coffee & working on my water!

Along w/following along w/the Sisterhood, I discovered This Blog this morning & am totally digging their inspirational postings! I would love to be this Badass too!!! I need to get back to moving. I want to try to get back on the treadmill even w/the PF shoe. Moving is moving & there is no jumping jacks or running for another week so I want to atleast get to walking! Maybe I'll get that Wii moved tonight so I can get back on the fit! I have alot of options.

OH almost forgot to mention that after weighing in @ the dr office @ my absolute heaviest in my life on Monday I was down 4# by Saturday morning. JUST from upping the water & cutting snacking! NIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!! Now to add some moving & keep that going!!

Have a great Monday! I am off to Just DO Something! :)

Back to Routine!! :)

no matter how much I love productivity & naps I do love me some routine as much!!

we buzzed thru the house this past 3 day weekend & got a TON done!! short list:

• un-Christmas-ed the house
• Valentine's-ed it
• shampooed the dining carpet
• cleaned living & hallway ready to shampoo
• hung wedding pic
• hung kitchen shelf
• cleaned out/changed out 2 basket shelf display
• hung bath decor
• laundry
• crockpot cooking 2 days

I have an appointment w/my nurse practitioner for my foot pain on next monday evening. in the mean time I am wearing my new 'running' shoes for work to see if it is just a case of broken down shoes. Seriously someone should come up w/a definate indicator of when shoes need replaced. I could really benefit from it. plus then I could justify it to Tim :D

my ONE LITTLE WORD for 2010 has given me quite the problems! I have changed it several times.. I have now settled on DO! instead of watch, wish, & dream, just DO it! (totally 90's Nike commercial but what can I DO?? ha! ;))

feels so good to be back to a 'normal' routine!! even if this did take several sessions to get typed out :D totally worth it!!