Here it goes.....Meal Planning Week 1

Meal planning. It's something that I have good intentions doing and I have all the food for it I just can't seem to get in it in order and get it done. So today I'll start and see how long it lasts.

Monday- Steaks, sweet potatoes fries, corn, and rolls.

Tuesday- Spaghetti & Garlic bread

Wednesday- Crock pot Cubed Steak, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans, rolls.

Thursday- Tacos

Friday- Homemade pizza & breadsticks

What is on your menu for the week?

It's just around the corner....

School starts in 6 days. EEK! I bought school supplies today...really....almost $100. WHAT?! What happened to the days where you brought crayons, glues, and scissors? Now it's a mixture of things. My kindergartner has to take highlighters...yup you read that right...HIGHLIGHTERS. WHY?! I understand that times have changed and things are advanced but I still don't understand highlighters for a kindergartner.

Happy August....

Where did summer go? My kids both start school in 9 days. I'm quite saddened this yr...With one in 3rd grade and one just starting kindergarten I feel a little uneasy. There will be no more preschool programs, no more play dates or trips to Pizza Hut after preschool for lunch, no more cute art projects, or sweet Christmas gifts made out of fingerprints.

Where does the time go? With summer ending I look back and realize there was alot I had planned and just never got to it. Makes me sad...could I have balanced my time better and made it happen or was there just not enough hours in the day?

I sit with my date book in front of me and start planning our late summer and fall already. Before you know it you'll start seeing the Christmas countdowns. UGH.

I'm struggling....

I was doing great in my weight loss and of course my weigh in following the 4th of July wasn't pretty and now I'm backtracking. :( UGH. You mind plays some pretty mean tricks on you.

So starting tomorrow I've decided even though my body feels like it needs a coke every morning to get me going that starting tomorrow there is no more. I'll start the day with a power booster smoothie and go from there. I'm drinking half my body weight in water which in turn will help keep me "full."

It will come off...It will come off.

Almost 10 years.....

So I'm 43 days away from my 10 yr wedding anniversary....it's hard to believe that so much has happened in 10 yrs. We've seen it all. We had children, arguments, birthday parties, loss of loved ones, depression, family vacations, seperations, gained a few pounds, surgeries..... The list could go on and on. We've survived everything but still have our ups and downs.

As a women one of the biggest things that bother me when looking back at the hundreds of pictures taken since then is how different I look since the day I was married. I've put on a few pounds...I gained some while pregnant, lost some...then lost the rest when my mother passed away. Apparently being in shock and not eating will do that to you. Then after having my gall bladder out I've gained that plus some back on.

So I have 43 days til my ten yr anniversary....can you guess what my gift to myself will be?! Losing the weight I've gained and hoping to be back to my wedding day size.

I'm down one pound which isn't much but is a start.

Innocent and Overstepping.

There are people out there in the world that no matter what never wanna see you happy. There are people out there that are always the victim. There are people out there that play everyone around them. Play the innocent one. There are people out there that no matter what never wanna seem like a bad person. There are people out there that are two faced. Sadly they are everywhere.

Are you supposed to be a doormat and let everyone walk all over you. Apparently.

Respect....where is it anymore?

People AMAZE me.

It's been awhile...

Where does time go?! It's been since April since I last posted. I was going to start this blog post with how much fun I had on vacation, but then I realized that my last post was about vacation. See in March I took a trip to see my sister for her birthday. Alone with no husband or children. And the beginning of June I went on just a vacation with the husband and the children. So now all it looks like I do is vacation. :) Trust me it isn't....I wish...but it isn't.

Life has been busy...The kids got out of the school the last week of May, baseball started up mid-May, we finished dance with a recital at the beginning of May, and now the pool is open. Can we add another?!

My garden is yet to be planted. The weeds in my flowerbeds have yet to be pulled. And we have rain about every other day. UGH.

Planting season for our farm was a nightmare. It went well into June. But now everything is in the ground and now we wait for harvest season.

Picture blog is next......