What a week

I'm so glad to finally have a day to just relax. Monday I took the day off to go on Kim's first field trip. We went with her class to Walter's Fruit Farm. We learned all about apples. This particular farm has 26 different varieties of apples. There are 2500 different kinds in American and there are 7500 different kinds of apples in the world. Who would have thought that you could get that many varieties out of Red, Yellow, Green ~ Sweet and Tart.

The kids all got to pick their own apples off the trees. They learned about how apple cider is made. They also got to pick a pumpkin.
They got to pet goats, go through a hay bale maze, they played on this big slide together and also got to play in a sandbox that was full of dried peas. We all had lunch together on the farm too. We are looking forward to Halloween when we get to go to Cat Tales. It was a great day for all the kids.

The rest of the week wasn't quite as good. My boss's granddaughter, 6 year old Gracie, was rushed to the hospital on Sunday with a severe case of pneumonia. She has been in Pediatric ICU at Sacred Heart since. She's had 2 surgeries this past week and has been in a drug induced coma and on a respirator since Wednesday night. If you believe in the power of prayer please keep this sweet little girl in your prayers.

Due to Gracie being so sick I spent most of the week in the office by myself. Doing more then my normal daily work. Making for a long tiring week. But it's all ok because we do what we have to do. And the most important thing is that Gracie gets well soon.

15 Years ago today

October 2nd, 1993 Larry and I were married. I can't believe that we have made it 15 years and we're still going strong. It hasn't been all easy by any means but we were able to work through all the stuff and see that we loved each other enough to fight our way back each time. Some people will say that walking away is the easy way out but for us it has always been easier to work it out then to walk away. I'm happy that we have. Now 15 years later and we have our sweet girl to be thankful for as well. Life is good.

Making a goal

I set myself a goal to lose 5 pounds and 5 inches in the month of September. So Tuesday before I started my morning workout at Curves I weighed and measured. Much to my surprise I MADE IT. I lost 5.5 pounds and 5.5 inches. YAY!!!!! My next goal is 10 pounds and 12 inches. I'll be working to make the one foot club hopefully before the end of October.

Just a reminder

Just wanted to remind everyone who downloads the blog kit to make sure to give credit somewhere on your blog to MCA Designs. Thanks so much.

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Hope you have a great week and find lots of great stuff you just have to have in the store.

On my way to a new me

School started for Kim 2 weeks ago. Since she has to be at school by 8:00 and I don't have to be at work until 9:30 I decided that it was a good time for me to spend an hour on ME. I started on the first day of school going to Curves and getting in a good workout before heading to work. I have been so frustrated with myself. A year and a half ago I had lost just over 20 pounds and then gained it all back. But I don't want to be where I'm at when I'm 35 and that's not that far off. So I'm making some changes for myself. And to show Kimmie a better way to live. I don't want her to have these same issues when she's older.

It's been 2 weeks and I just had to see what kind of progress I've made. So I took a minute to weigh and measure this morning before starting my workout. In 2 short weeks I have lost 5.25 pounds and 3 inches. YAY!!!!!!!

I'm half way to my first goal of 10 pounds. I have a lot more then that to lose but I have to break it down into smaller goals. 2 pounds a week, 8 pounds a month, 10 pounds at a time. So far I'm ahead of my weekly goals.

I feel better. I'm sleeping better. I even get up in the morning easier at the God awful hour of 5:00am. I'm just feeling so much better about what I'm doing for myself. Some good quality "me time".

I added a ticker to the bottom of my blog to keep track of my progress. What have you been doing for yourself lately.

We've been busy

Kim started Preschool on Tuesday at the Christian Academy. I was going to take pictures of her before we left the house but the batteries in my camera were dead. She informed me that we could buy new ones and then I could take pictures of her when we got to school. Even then it was a bit of a struggle to get her to hold still long enough for me to get a couple.

She had told me that she had fun "learning with Alex and Leah" at school on Wednesday when I picked her up from the sitter. I just thought that they were kids in her class. Then on Thursday she told me a little more. She said that Alex and Leah were a movie they watched at school. And then she showed me that she could sign a few letters. She was especially excited about signing a "K" for Kimmie. Apparently "Learning with Alex and Leah" is a dvd that they watch in class that teaches the kids sign language.

Last week on Saturday she and I went to get some lunch and she said that she wanted to go get her ears peirced NOW. We had been telling her for a while now that when she wanted to go get them done that we would. So off we went and after having to buy the stuff at Walmart and go to another place to have them done (because you can never get any help at our Walmart). She is the proud wearer of a new pair of earrings. She's been pretty bossy lately and not to good about letting me take pictures so I haven't really gotten any good ones of them yet.

Of course her birthday was a few weeks ago now. How can my baby be 4 now? We had a party at the part with her friends from her old daycare. She was very excited to see them. The kids had a lot of fun playing games and eating cake.

David had his first birthday this week and we will be celebrating tomorrow. Then we will be back to another week of school and work. Me getting up at 5:00 to get myself ready for the day and then Kim up at 6:00. Out the door by 7:30 and to school by 7:45. Makes for a tiring morning but we are getting through it. I'm hoping that it will get easier for us both. I have also added a workout at Curves for myself. I have a little more then an hour between dropping Kim off at school and me getting to work so I decided to do a little something for myself. I'll be going to Curves 4 days a week. I'm really looking forward to it and looking forward to getting rid of my butt as well.