Precious Hand Me Downs

I mentioned in a previous post that Caroline's room is filled with hand knit baby clothes made by my grandmother, well, here is one example. That's a picture of me at 6-8 months and here is the dress and bloomer set that I was wearing. I can't wait to see our little girl in it and to take a picture of her to send to my Grandma, what a precious gift!

Monday, October 19, 2009

It was one crazy weekend at our house! It all started with my mom flying in on Thursday, I drove to Burbank to pick her up and then we hung out a bit before driving back home. I made her a special birthday dinner and birthday cake. On Friday we got up early and drove down to Anaheim to M&L Fabrics and then to lunch in Long Beach at Chik-Fil-A then I left my mom with my sister and drove to Malibu to watch an embarassing soccer loss and then we went home and I attempted to frost a cake for a wedding. Thankfully, not the wedding cake but the groom's cake. It was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be to make the frosting smooth and look decent. I finally got it looking good after several attempts and then crashed. I woke up early on Saturday and went to pick up the flowers for the wedding and then out to Paramount Ranch where the wedding was held. It was hot! I'm talking close to 100 degrees and the wedding was outdoors! I arranged 75 mason jars with flowers and then hurried home to change and get ready for the actual wedding. The ceremony was beautiful, the only real snag was that one of the bridesmaids passed out - she was okay, just hot and dehydrated and wearing super tall shoes. We hung out at the reception long enough to watch my cake get cut and then we headed back down to Anaheim for dinner at Goofy's Kitchen and then brought mom back to our place. Sunday I taught Sunday school, enjoyed a wonderful sermon during church and then went home to help my mom pack up all of her purchases from the weekend. We had lunch and then headed back to Burbank. After dropping her off I went to Ikea and then to Target before finally coming home. It was exhausting! I was ready to crash as soon as I got home but unfortunately I had drank caffeine at lunch and slept horribly. Today, no caffeine on the agenda and no real stress. I'm just going to be at work until 5pm and then I'm heading home for dinner and Bible Study. I am very excited that there is only one thing on my schedule for next weekend :)

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Oops, I sort of fell off the wagon. It all began on Saturday when we went to help my sister and her family move. While we were arranging furniture she told me that she is expecting a baby. Big shock. We had just been discussing non-hormonal BC options the week before. Definitely an unplanned pregnancy. I began to get stressed on her behalf. I am looking forward to being close by for this little ones first few years since I missed that with her other kids but, all I could think was, how on earth are they going to pay for this? Where will they put the baby? What will she do about work? I know it's not my place to worry and I should be thrilled but it's scary. Doctors aren't sure how the chemo and herceptin treatments from her breast cancer (finished treatments 2 years ago) will affect the baby. I guess all I can do is pray that the baby is healthy but I'm just worried. So, I ate a bunch of greasy fried stuff for dinner.

Then, Sunday was my first anniversary with my husband. We laid on the beach and didn't have enough water with us. We went to dinner and then to Golden Spoon. It was a perfect day and I really enjoyed the relaxation but it got me out of the habit of logging my food.

Last night was a dinner gathering with friends where the husbands were in charge of the food and there was a lot of meat without many sides! It tasted good but wasn't so healthy.

Today was my first day at work alone with the kid. I'm a nanny and the mom had a c-section this afternoon so I took the kid to school, made play dough, made pancakes and froze them for dad, picked him up and took him to his second preschool, picked him up again and entertained him. It all went really smoothly but I took advantage of being out and about and bought some sour patch kids and ate leftovers that were very tasty but not very healthy.

Well, the leftovers are gone. I'm blogging all of the catastrophe and I'll move on tomorrow and get back on track. I'm certain that I'll be posting a gain tomorrow which is really sad since I got down to 202.8 on Thursday morning last week. Now I'm heading into that time of the month and I probably won't see a loss for a few weeks, especially since we are going to Vegas this weekend to visit my grandparents and attend a wedding. This will be my first time staying on the strip and I've already told my husband that I will be drinking and taking advantage of the weekend away :)

Okay, that's all for now. I'll post my progress tomorrow and let you know what the scale said.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Overall, this has been a pretty darn good week aside from the sickness and biopsy :) I managed to stay within my points almost everyday and I got in 300 minutes of exercise so I'm excited to see what the scale will say when I weigh in on Wednesday. This weeks weigh-in I was still at 210 but it's "that time of the month" so I know there was a bit of water weight in that number. I'm really hoping to see a drop this week so that I know I'm doing the right things. I feel good, I feel like I'm making healthier choices now I want to be rewarded for all that work!

Anyway, today my dad is coming in for a visit. He called up last night and said "what are you doing this weekend?" when my sister said "not much" he said he'd be here at 9am. He lives 600 miles away! He is flying in his tiny little plane to come and see us and my sister and her kids so that will be fun. I hope he can make it, he's been having hip trouble (broke it in August) and will be having it replaced in a month or so. I'll let you know how it went tomorrow!

Also, I'm so glad that people commented on the wonton wrapper post. I tried butternut squash last night and that would make a yummy ravioli that's super low in calories! I bought lots of veggies and fruit so that I can up my intake of them. I also think I need to cut the soda out again. I gave it up for lent and then after Easter I've gone crazy, the added sodium cannot be helping me out with my weight!

I think that's all I have on my mind right now.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Thursday night my mom and aunt drove down to visit and I made dinner and did really well with my food. Friday we drove down to Anaheim and ate at Chick-fil-a and I made some good choices, made a healthy dinner. All was good until Saturday. Saturday was a disaster. We packed sandwiches and carrots and some soy crisps for our day at the beach and I ate mine but we left the beach at 2pm and my mom and aunt decided they wanted to stop and get lunch. We ended up at Island's for burgers and that's when the disaster began, I wasn't even that hungry but I ate a burger (with guac and cheese) and onion rings (only 2, but still). Then, we had reservations at Duke's in Malibu for dinner. I ate bread and clam chowder and worst of all - Hula Pie. At least I saved most of my dinner and took it home. But what a frustrating day. Then to top it all off I woke up this morning with a hacking cough and unable to breath through my nose. So frustrating. At this point, I'm not sure I'll make my May 1st goal of being under 200 pounds. That makes me really sad. I also worry that I'm not yet able to make smart food choices on my own. How do I get to a point where healthy food sounds great and I don't crave things like Hula pie?

Today is a day for getting back on track, drinking water, resting and putting my house back in order after having company. I guess I'll see on Wednesday where my weight is after all of this.