Ha! Just as I was typing in the date I almost put 1996 for the year. You see, my oldest son's birthday is today and so usually when I am writing, typing or saying the date I have to add in the year he was born! It must just be second nature now. Who knew 16 years could fly by so fast? Where did the time go?
So Happy Birthday to my Big Guy and Happy Mother's Day to all those moms out there! We aren't celebrating Mother's Day this year- just our big 16 year olds birthday (it still means a good dinner and dessert so who can complain?!)
As I talked about in my craves yesterday, somedays I wish I could go back and enjoy some quiet time with them when they were babies. As much as that was enjoyable however, this phase of our lives is very nice as well. I get to sleep all night long, I don't have to get up with them early in the morning all summer long (heck usually I am the first one up now), and babysitters are a thing of the past. After tomorrow, I will also have someone else who can run to the store or pick up the rest of the kids. Yeah!
So this past week has been a rather busy, crazy, wild week. Of course there were some slip ups- what else is new. I had one rather rough day that resulted in an early to bed night but hey don't we all deserve those occasionally? So here are my Sunday Confessions for this past week:
1. Fast food and soda: Wednesday was a very busy day. I ran through McDonald's for a quick breakfast and then hit Arby's for lunch. I did have a soda for lunch but thankfully it was a medium one. Wednesday night I was not feeling well at all. Directly after dinner, I hit the bed and stayed there (leaving the kitchen a mess for my poor hubby). I knew I needed to get enough rest so I could function on Thursday (I was scheduled to sub all day in 3rd grade). All in all, I learned my lesson-- too much fast food and I am done for. I think I did well soda wise though-- only 1!
2. Lunch Meat: As a rule I try to avoid lunch meat. It doesn't like me and I am not very fond of it. Wednesday for lunch I had a turkey sandwich from Arby's. Thursday I had a quarter of a sandwich from Jimmy Johns (teacher appreciation week and those of us subbing were treated to lunch too), and then Friday I grabbed a sandwich for lunch because I was too lazy to make anything else. Next week I know I need to scale back, way back. Thankfully this isn't too hard to do.
3. Resting my foot: I thought I was misbehaving when I would try to stay off my foot as much as possible the past couple of weeks. I did find out today that I was actually doing the right thing. Phew! I knew that too much walking and standing was causing me pain but I was warned against not using my achilles tendon enough. Apparently my achilles cannot get any tighter (oopps!) so resting it is not going to harm me any further. So I am going to continue to take advantage of sitting my behind down and sticking my foot up!
4. Stretching more: Apparently my achilles tendon has probably always been too tight-- thus I have large calves. I never knew this. Had I known, then I would have probably stretched my achilles more. But I never realized that I had this issue-- I have always walked a great deal without issue. I can squat and keep both heels on the floor. I never realized that I was walking funny because I don't have much ankle movement. So now I realize that stretching can be important- not just before exercising but throughout life. Keep those muscles loose!
5. Weeds, weeds and more weeds: The front flower area of our house needs some desperate weeding done. I have watched the weeds grow larger and larger. I know that I need to pull those weeds and get some new mulch on them to prevent more from sprouting. It has been bad for weeks. Maybe had I gotten them under control early on, there wouldn't have been so much to get control over. But I didn't. And I need to stop procrastinating!
Not a bad week really. Just some new information for me to process and probably a new way of living for awhile. But hey, I like to keep things interesting- don't you? Okay I agree, boring and no pain really are the top two craves in my life at the moment. Thank goodness it is almost summer.
Thanks for stopping by and visiting me here on the hill, I hope you drop by again soon.
So Happy Birthday to my Big Guy and Happy Mother's Day to all those moms out there! We aren't celebrating Mother's Day this year- just our big 16 year olds birthday (it still means a good dinner and dessert so who can complain?!)
As I talked about in my craves yesterday, somedays I wish I could go back and enjoy some quiet time with them when they were babies. As much as that was enjoyable however, this phase of our lives is very nice as well. I get to sleep all night long, I don't have to get up with them early in the morning all summer long (heck usually I am the first one up now), and babysitters are a thing of the past. After tomorrow, I will also have someone else who can run to the store or pick up the rest of the kids. Yeah!
So this past week has been a rather busy, crazy, wild week. Of course there were some slip ups- what else is new. I had one rather rough day that resulted in an early to bed night but hey don't we all deserve those occasionally? So here are my Sunday Confessions for this past week:
1. Fast food and soda: Wednesday was a very busy day. I ran through McDonald's for a quick breakfast and then hit Arby's for lunch. I did have a soda for lunch but thankfully it was a medium one. Wednesday night I was not feeling well at all. Directly after dinner, I hit the bed and stayed there (leaving the kitchen a mess for my poor hubby). I knew I needed to get enough rest so I could function on Thursday (I was scheduled to sub all day in 3rd grade). All in all, I learned my lesson-- too much fast food and I am done for. I think I did well soda wise though-- only 1!
2. Lunch Meat: As a rule I try to avoid lunch meat. It doesn't like me and I am not very fond of it. Wednesday for lunch I had a turkey sandwich from Arby's. Thursday I had a quarter of a sandwich from Jimmy Johns (teacher appreciation week and those of us subbing were treated to lunch too), and then Friday I grabbed a sandwich for lunch because I was too lazy to make anything else. Next week I know I need to scale back, way back. Thankfully this isn't too hard to do.
3. Resting my foot: I thought I was misbehaving when I would try to stay off my foot as much as possible the past couple of weeks. I did find out today that I was actually doing the right thing. Phew! I knew that too much walking and standing was causing me pain but I was warned against not using my achilles tendon enough. Apparently my achilles cannot get any tighter (oopps!) so resting it is not going to harm me any further. So I am going to continue to take advantage of sitting my behind down and sticking my foot up!
4. Stretching more: Apparently my achilles tendon has probably always been too tight-- thus I have large calves. I never knew this. Had I known, then I would have probably stretched my achilles more. But I never realized that I had this issue-- I have always walked a great deal without issue. I can squat and keep both heels on the floor. I never realized that I was walking funny because I don't have much ankle movement. So now I realize that stretching can be important- not just before exercising but throughout life. Keep those muscles loose!
5. Weeds, weeds and more weeds: The front flower area of our house needs some desperate weeding done. I have watched the weeds grow larger and larger. I know that I need to pull those weeds and get some new mulch on them to prevent more from sprouting. It has been bad for weeks. Maybe had I gotten them under control early on, there wouldn't have been so much to get control over. But I didn't. And I need to stop procrastinating!
Not a bad week really. Just some new information for me to process and probably a new way of living for awhile. But hey, I like to keep things interesting- don't you? Okay I agree, boring and no pain really are the top two craves in my life at the moment. Thank goodness it is almost summer.
Thanks for stopping by and visiting me here on the hill, I hope you drop by again soon.
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