YAY!!

I can post today!! Thanks blogger!! it wasn't letting me get this far yesterday :S so much in my head today going to attempt to organize it w/a list:

• Seriously pumped about our childcare Friday events this summer!!! something every Friday June 18-August 6!!!! ROCK ON!!! movie, fire station, farmer's market, animal shelter, vet clinic, train depot, conservation board, nurse consultant, even another provider's home for 4th of July craft!! GET OUT!!
• Today is the first official day of Summer Vacation! Whohoooooooo it started w/a pretty big thunderstorm & an inch of rain! LOL welcome to Iowa twenty-ten.
• I have childcare 'baby training' & dinner tonight, food training in Creston on the 22nd, need to go thru my QRS paperwork & see what needs done to turn in by 7/1
• helpers start tomorrow
• My body teased me w/a weigh in on Sunday that made me squeal. of course I gained it back in the past couple of days but hope to work it back off this week!
• I did 42 wii fit minutes + 2 new 10 minute target workouts on Sunday.. LOVE them!!!
• Have to miss the Farmer's Market tonight :(

now time for True Confessions:

1. living on water & string cheese last week helped the scale look good
2. but it threw my body into starvation mode & it stored what i ate on Sunday & I gained 3# back
3. at least that is my interpretation of the scale roller coaster I am on
4. I am still under my #5 button  :)
5. seeing that new number on the scale lit a fire I haven't had for a long time!
6. it was 1# shy of a 10# button!!
7. I was even too tired to eat all of my supper last night
8. then totally sabotaged everything by napping on the couch after supper for 2 hrs! 
9. boo!
10. today its raining cats & dogs already
11. so there will be no outside time *sigh*
12. yoga for kids & maybe a 10 minute session or 2
13. depending on how cooperative the kids are...
14. it is their first day of summer vacay after all!!

what are your confessions?? be honest! :)

Happy Hump Day!!!

its been a bit crazy around here so a list will have to do :)

• I have sorted all completed scrap pages & albums into piles by years
• I have put 2007 into an album & gone thru my online processing site & made a list of what is yet to scrap
• Next step there is to take said list & go thru the photo storage box & mark what is yet to print
• last night I put 2005 into an album but feel like I have more somewhere else hmmmmm
• Yesterday's late start day @ school threw off my day a bit
• We have another one today but I am not as thrown off :)
• Yoga after breakfast!!
• Homemade bread in the oven
• I heard the country roads are drifted almost shut again :(
• Gotta start scrap-packing for the weekend
• ETA: I want to try this project next month!!

Keep warm!!!

needing to start over

G.R.O.U.C.H.Y. this morning :( I think it started @ 2:30 when I stubbed a 'ring' toe on the bed post while taking Gus out :( ouch! it was a stomach turner :( HATE those!! then the kids started coming in& everyone was grouchy too... ewwwwwww THEN Tim was rude in the way he TOLD me how to clean the tar out of the dryer that HE did NOT tell me was on HIS work jeans. ewwwww .. breakfast served & dryer drum scrubbed, kids yoga disc done, they r picking up now so we can go 4 a walk as soon as the last am arrival walks in :)

JUST one of those days I'D like to go back to bed & START OVER!!!!!

ACCOUNTABILITY: yesterday was better!!!!! I drank 64 oz of water, ate 6f/v, did an hour yoga class, walked on the treadmill going 2.5 miles, & not sore today :) so relieved!!

hoping the day gets better! the sun is shining.. it can't be all bad!! :)
-out-

T.G.I.F.

what a week! I know I say that alot but this was a doozy! if you've been bored enough to read along you already know :) I am just so looking fwd to a weekend w/o plans or obligations!!! hoping to put a serious dent in our to-do list! & get this house back to looking like people live here instead of stop & drop here! :)

ACCOUNTABILITY: yesterday/Thursday I got 80oz, 5 fv, kids yoga in the AM & shredded for day 6of8 :) hoping to not miss anymore for a while! I will weigh in tomorrow.

Shred report: it was alot easier last night than past nights!! even have taking a nap first shhhhh pretend you didn't just read that OK? thanks :) my arms & back are just a little sore today & my left calf is unhappy when it has to work but it will get over it I am sure LOL I was undecided whta to call my day 10 as they recommend changing to level 2 on day 11.. do I switch on day11 of starting it or day 11 of Doing it? I think since I am already so behind the others @ the sisterhood, I'll just keep diligent & switch over on day 11 of doing it so if all stays as is then it will be day 11 of 13 for me & I am good w/that :)

APPRECIATE: I appreciate this coming weekend of quiet, cleaning, & unplans :) I appreciate the parents that called to let me know they weren't coming today=quiet day. some how there is a bug going around that isn't happening here (2 families of 2 each are out w/one sickie) :( I appreciate the past days of nice enough temps to get outside & soak up some sun!!

I see the sky getting bright to the east & hear Natalye in the kitchen so I better get to fixing something for breakfast :) I hope everyone has a GREAT WEEKEND!!!

True Confessions-Thursday :)

I feel like I don't have anything to say today so here goes:

• I skipped the shred last night due to the strenuous yoga class
• instead I lounged on the couch for an hour then showered & went to bed to read
• I was asleep shortly after 9!
• Gus is back to only getting up 1x in the middle of the night :)
• I am looving the spring temps!!!
• my daffodils are blooming but I learned I nee dto clump them as they are much prettier together. do they spread themselves??
• my hyacinths are also budded!!!
• both of my itty bitties are napping
• I am not worried about filling my spots
• I made some income decisions yesterday (no more multi-child discount- simple & effective)
• & enforced it for the first time last night -filling a spot for fall + a school ager part time :)
• I enjoyed catching up w/another provider friend on the phone yesterday
• she gave me the confidence to make said decision
• I should be doing yoga w/the kids right now but we have a potty training line happening instead
• this is such a fun, manageable group :)
• I am not quite ready for summer vacation
• I am ready for Memorial weekend camping!!!! hoping it will NOT be as rainy & frigid as 08
• ok 3rd shot @ getting this finished.
• Accountabilility: I got my 96oz in, 5fv, & one hour of yoga yesterday
• Appreciate: I appreciate that I could & did go to bed early. I appreciate YOGA class! I appreciate the smaller group I will have even if for only a month.
• NOW they wanna go yoga. here we go!! :)

oh my ....

ok, first some play center photos:
they took this plastic wall,this rock wall & the beams that connected them

here's the whole thing a few yrs ago :)

here's what we saw when we got there. & this is how we left it(actually we pushed the othe tower over first)

In other happenings, I am so glad its Wednesday!!! its:

• middle of the week
• yoga night
• back to school :)

No one can say I am not giving my all on this shrinking quest!! Yesterday I:

• did kids yoga w/the kids=doing the pose w/the teacher, helping each child do each of the 12 poses, doing the stretching after-definatly worked up a sweat + got all stretched out
• tore down play center w/Tim for 1.5 hr=running screw gun, ratchet, bending, lifting &climbing
• day 5of6 SHRED :) added 3# weights for part of it!
• walked @ 2.5 clip for 25 minutes
  OMG I AM TIRED!!!!! TODAY!!!!

APPRECIATE: I appreciate Tim for working harder than me on the playcenter. I appreciate the orders I got that made my Signature party a success! (yup it came yesterday & it was like Christmas unpacking it all LOL) I appreciate the good nights sleep I got last night :D I appreciate the nice warmer temps!!!

ACCOUNTABILITY: 96+oz, 5fv, lots of movement! Tim is really working hard on the treadmill every night too... he's showing a 3# loss 2 ams in a row.. the puke!! lol

still handwashing dishes down stairs, still thinking we can make it w/o filling BOTH spots, still looking fwd to them going back to school today!! :)

OFF. WE. GO.

posting before I forget.

I managed in 11 fit minutes today @ nap time:) as soon as the itty bitties drifted off & the mediums were settled into a movie & drifting off I ran upstairs & threw that baby in! I unlocked the super hula for the hula challenge & OMG I suck @ hula!!! so I also did a step session & a balance game. FUN time. still sore from last night's yoga session but I'll live w/it :)

After that I got word that the 30 day shred dvd was dirt cheap on amazon. so off I typed :) while there why not get the kids their yoga dvd?? obvious! & OH so excited to get them both!! & decided to check & see if they carried by some strange chance of luck, anamalz. YEA THEY DO!!! SO I ordered 4 of these zoo guys!!! I think its going to be like Christmas around here for me for the next couple of weeks as this fun stuff arrives. :D

I am on my 3rd 32oz bottle of water today!!

I am watching the final ER. I was a HUGE fan back a few years ago. for a LONG time. I don't handle show change well so when they started losing the main characters I was losing interest just as fast. I do love a good reunion show :D

ok.. enough for tonight :)