Could Things Get Any Worse?

Later in the afternoon yesterday after hanging out with Melanie, Kathryn and Reed, Jayni started feeling sick when we were at Target. So we decided to part ways and I brought Jayni and Mason home to nap. As I was helping Jayni get ready for her nap she started throwing up. Luckily she was standing over the sink and was able to make it to the toilet! Not much to clean up, but I did have to wash a couple towels and put her clothes in the wash too just to take up more room. I set her up in her bed with a bowl and she had to use it a couple times but no messes!

When I went to bed I checked in on the kids and after investigating found that Jayni had a little mess in her pants. Poor thing! So we got her cleaned up and I put in some things to wash. Tom had to leave at 3:30 this morning (won't be home until tomorrow evening) and when I went to bed I couldn't sleep because he kept tossing and turning. He was worried his alarm wouldn't go off although I set mine too! He finally got up around 2:30 to lay on the couch. Came in to tell me goodbye at 3:40 but said there was a little girl on the couch who said she wasn't tired anymore but feeling better. Mason woke up at 4:30. Jayni went to the bathroom around 8:20 and didn't realize she had a little drip (nicest way I could think to put it!) so we had to change her underwear again and when I put them in the wash I knocked over the FULL liquid detergent bottle that a few seconds later, I found leaking all over the top and side of the washer because obviously in the daze of lateness last night I didn't put the cap on tight. Then when the washer began to drain it was backing up into the bathroom and coming out the top of the toilet. Luckily I was in there and was able to get a towel around it and wasn't much of a mess.

Since then things have gone alright. We all took a nap from about 10:30 until 2:30. Crossing my fingers that the day will end well! I want to apologize for this very imperfect post. I'm much too tired to read through and fix spelling and punctuation and make sure everything makes sense, which is really hard for me to do since I have to go through post a good three or four times before posting!

Another Success

I hit a big milestone at WW yesterday. I've lost 10% of my starting weight. I've now shed a total of 25.6 lbs, 20.6 with WW! This key ring is my reward and when I get to other milestones I'll receive charms to attach.

This has been such a beneficial program for me and I have appreciated all that have encouraged and helped me through this process. I want to be healthy, active and teach my children the importance of doing so.

I share with all of you my experiences so that it may possibly inspire. I've had ups and downs. Good weeks and bad weeks. I'm finding that I wouldn't be where I'm at as quickly as I've gotten here without the love and support of others and also exercise. That's the big one...EXERCISE! I believe it is the key to the successes I'm achieving. I'm making it a habit that will hopefully stick!

I'm also including my experiences for me personally. This is a big life changing experience I'm going through at this time in my life. It's a major part of my life and something that I struggle to find time doing with young children to take care of and spend quality time with. Oh, and the husband too! I don't have a lot of extra time on my hands at this time in my life and I'm forever grateful to my dear husband for his willingness to change up his schedule and do a little extra in order for me to do something for myself.

The difficulty I'm finding this week is that Tom started coaching high school basketball and hasn't gotten home until 9:30 or later in the evenings. He assures me that practices won't be as late once the volleyball season is finished. It's been a struggle to find the energy to head to the gym that late but once I finish my workout I always feel so much better! I'm actually pretty dang proud of myself for not letting this be a reason for me to take a break. I'm afraid that if I do so then I will start letting other things slide and I don't want that to happen!

Next mini goal - lose 7 more lbs to be at the top of the healthy range for my height. Then my ultimate goal of somewhere in the middle of my healthy range.

My progress chart so far.

My Milestones

Key:
5 POUNDS 5 POUNDS ADD'L 10% GOAL

WEIGHT WATCHERS MEETINGS
ANOTHER LOCATION

Fall Soccer

The last two Saturdays of September and four Saturdays in October we spent watching Jayni play soccer for the first time on a team. Here she is on her first day getting a pep talk from their coach. We were really lucky to have a good coach that showed up every game. Most teams didn't have consistent coaches. I also think this is the only day that all 6 kids showed up on the same day.

I really can't say we watched her "play". She did a lot of this...

...and my personal favorite, a lot of that.

Mason would do this...

...and then that. Aren't these guys handsome?

But at the last game, Jayni was doing a little of this...

...and some of that.

Jayni's coach really tried to get her to score a goal the last game. She was scared when there would be a group around the ball. She had many opportunities that game to kick in a goal but was too scared. I'm not quite sure if soccer is her sport yet. She did do a lot of dancing and cheering though, sorry Tom!

Layer by Layer & Wind Turbines

I just have to share my excitement! I've lost a total of 22.8 lbs since deciding to be a healthier me (17.8 lbs since joining WW). Just over half of my goal.

I had my Weight Watchers meeting today and lost another 3.6 lbs. The most I've lost in a single week since joining! I was really excited and I'm having a hard time controlling it. I really feel amazing!! I had somewhat disappointing results the last couple weeks. Both losses but not really great ones. The first week Tom was out of town for business so I wasn't able to do too much and the second week was Halloween and that candy was just too tempting!!

I joined a gym a month ago and I really enjoy going. It's definitely helping to obtain my weight loss goal. It's also helped relieve stress and I feel so much healthier. I've been going in the evenings for 1-1.5 hours, 5-6 days a week. It's become my ME time. I think part of the reason I enjoy it so much is because all the cardio equipment have individual televisions so I'm able to enjoy my shows still and not worry about missing them. I'm a huge TV junkie!! But really it helps keep my mind off of the exercising part.

Thank you Tom for the email today! I really appreciate your words of encouragement and all the support you give to me.

As I was driving home from WW, I decided to drive up into the hills to get a closer look at the wind turbines above our house. Tom has taken the kids up there a couple times and Jayni loves it. I haven't been up there before and was a little curious so we made the drive.

Jayni didn't really want to get out of the car but Mason was all for some pictures so I was playing around with my camera and these are a few cute pictures.

The view from up there was amazing. This picture definitely doesn't do it justice.