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! :)

Time to get serious!

ok so maybe its past time but better late than never I suppose :)

as many of you know I attempt to shrink w/the sisterhood. however, this winter I have grown instead of shrunk :( I put on 24# in the past year! GET OUT!! I have said for a few (5) years that I don't need to lose, just maintain & get healthy. well if getting healthy is THIS I take it all back!! b/c now I need to lose!

I am doing something I have never ever done b4, I posted my weight over @ the 'hood. EEK that scares the crap outa me!!! I won't be putting it here b/c that's just too much. hoping that putting it up over there will keep me that much more accountable for doing something to shrink.
There is a new challenge @ the Sisterhood. Shrinking days of Summer!! just like last year & I did great last year. I think. of course I wasn't happy w/what I weighed then either but that is a whole different post (a pretty deep one that I have actually typed up & ready to go when I am feeling either especially brave or down in the dumps or maybe it might take both) . The Sisterhood ROCKS!!! they have DAILY activities planned for this challenge! whohoooooooo!!! just what I need! something new every day to keep me thinking about what I am doing, eating, walking, etc. & why!

SO far I have tried on 2 pr of shorts from last year & they FIT. *whew* I was terrified they'd not even go on & some won't, but at least they fit. they are TIGHT but atleast they fit! :) some of my shirts may not as I have a full blown muffin top this year. ouch. working on it! wii fit yoga reminded me last night just how much I looooooooooooooooooove yoga & how powerful it can be & I hope to get some in 3x/week! OH speaking of Yoga!! Lauren & I are doing some @ the lake this weekend!!! :) camping + yoga. I bet we can find some quiet out of the way -hopefully out of sight- spot to do some quick morning yoga a couple of the mornings :) YAY!!!!

ACCOUNTABILITY for Tuesday:

• 96oz
• 5f/v
• 3 dairy
• no vites
• 1.5 mile @ 3-4mph on treadmill
• 30 fit minutes

On our Facebook group we decided that June's challenge should be combining miles/minutes moved (walk, run, jog, bike, swim, etc.) w/a fresh fruit or veggie every day! thanks Stacey!! I am totally pumped to get it rolling on Tuesday!!!
I am energized by it all now.. I just hope I keep it :) what are you doing for yourself?

when it rains...

it pours.. this time I am not talking about the weather! its my job. yesterday was very trying w/the school boys. oye! I wanted to do something drastic.. it was a CRAZY day filled w/CRAZY things: 2 broken dishwashers, people stealing pieces of my wooden playground from the old property (really??? get a life!!!), 2 boys not listening, one being rude & mean (yet cries the victim), all w/a fussy 20# baby. WOW amazing I made it thru. I still get all tense when I think about it all. I am relieved for one family! a family w/a mom in the wrong job situation hating life in general about it found something different! yes it means less money for me but HELLO?! who deserves to be THAT unhappy??

so then today ... the other shoe dropped... the family of 3 that I have struggled w/for over a year for various things gave me notice. Next Thursday will be their last day & I have friday off. totally shocked me as I expected them to hang out till June 1 when the closing time officially changed as that is the reason she's giving. I think yesterday has something to do w/it. oh well. what's done is done & what's meant to be will be. on to bigger & better things (budgeting a bit tighter until I decide what to do.)

OPTIONS: do I pick up another preschooler? or maybe a toddler? I have a family expecting in August so I know I don't want another infant!! or do I ride the summer out & wait for fall when I have 3 going to Kindergarten? I have a list of possibilities... hmmmm number crunching to happen tonight. not today. I will try to focus on the work @ hand not the worries of tomorrow. unless that tomorrow thought means the repair guy bringing my new handle for my cc d/w then I will think about tomorrow!! :D I will definately just let this brew & make notes to talk to Tim about tonight NOT making any phone calls today. something's telling me to wait. does that happen to you? you think you should jump & act but something tells you to chill on it a bit .. then everything works out peacefully :) I love it when that happens!! I will fill my time w/kids yoga, list making & dishwashing by hand today LOL.. all very theraputic!!

back to the regularly scheduled program:

APPRECIATE: I appreciate TIM! he came home after a C.R.A.P.P.Y. day @ work, set his mother's toilet, tore into my cc d/w, found problem, tore into upstairs d/w & FIXED problem, got baby cereal while @ walmart looking for new d/w hose they didnt' carry, still ate what I fixed for supper & walked on the treadmill!!!!!!! I appreciate the sudden burst of guilt that drove me to shred while he was gone to walmart. I appreciate that the cc d/w is the $40 option instead of the $250! I appreciate the consideration of most of my cc families. :)

ACCOUNTABILITY: Monday's r rough but yday was good healthy-wise :) 96oz, 5f/v, & shred day 4 of 5. I would have done fit yoga after the shred, but I couldn't get the wii to communicate w/the tv so I took it as a sign to relax on the couch :)

eye, yey, yey! hitting it full speed ahead today!

ugh

not feeling so hot today... verystuffy & headachy but toughing it out so I have no one to whine to LOL.. planning to visit the walk in clinic on Saturday if it stays as by then it will surely be considered an infection. hot tea (16oz)#2 going down now.

Monday's Accountability!! I HAVE SOMETHING TO REPORT!! I did 10 fit minutes (which is like 20 in real time :) its a tiny bit but its SOMETHING which is better than the past 29 days LOL I also got 60 oz down & 5 fr/v servings!!! sooooo happy :)

Appreciate: the families that keep their sickies home, the parents that ask how I am feeling, that we did an easy breakfast (pb toast, oatmeal & apple wedges) & the kids liked it :)

wanting to nap but resisting for the kids' sakes LOL maybe I'll put a roast in... oh that sounds like quite a plan! :)

ACCOUNTABILITY!!

OK so I finally used the FIT Today.. after 5 days of avoidance.. I clocked in 30 minutes & feel great.. yesterday I drank my 80oz of water YEHAWW for the 2nd day in a row.. plus I hopped on the scale well ok,,, eased on the scale & saw that I am @ the bottom of my 'normal yo-yo' weights... THEN I am reading blogs & Shanen posts THIS & I join THIS!

I am going to work on getting on the FIT for 30 minutes + drinking 80oz. of water every day for the next 30.

how about you?