Once again, I’ve changed the look of this blog. :) I can’t help it, I get restless and want to change it all the time. My tabs that were on top are now on the side under “menu.”
Hope you all enjoy the new look! I’ll tweak it a bit, but it should be just fine.
Yesterday both of the girls decided they wanted their hair down for the day. “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.”
This was Hannah’s hair shortly after she got out of the shower. Oh my goodness, my little girl is growing up at lightning speed, isn’t she? Damn, she’s gorgeous.
Kali was telling me about all the dirt she had on her hand. :) That pink dress is about 2 years old and she wears it all the time. She was very happy to finally wash the dirt off of her hand after she was done helping Daddy outside.
Last night was Earth Hour. At 8:30 we shut off all the lights, computers, and TV and hung out for a quiet hour. Well, Alex was desperately trying to find the basketball game on his phone, which was quite amusing. Kali read to us by candlelight. I was thrilled that she read to us! Normally she won’t read to anyone else but me, and only when we do our school work.
I would show you pictures of our Earth Hour, but it was too dark!
While I enjoyed hanging out in the dark with everyone, I was slightly glad when 9:30 rolled around and I could see again! It was either that, or I was going to fall asleep on the couch because my brain thought it was bedtime after I sat in the dark for an hour!
On a parenting message board that I belong to, there’s a “list ten things about yourself” post.
Ten is not enough. Not that I’m some fantastic human being, but because I have too many quirks.
I will list my million here, and y’all will be kind and leave a comment with your 10 or more.
1. I'm 5'10" - short compared to my 6'8" dh!
2. I never thought I'd have more than 1 child.
3. I really want to travel - a lot.
4. I have not had a working vehicle since the middle of December.
5. I thought homeschooling was only for crazy people! Hmmm...I might be crazy then!
6. I cannot stand fake people or liars. No room in my life for that.
7. I cannot keep plants alive. I try, oh how I try, and I keep killing them.
8. My youngest has some undiagnosed "issues." However, if I could clone her and have 10 more, I would. I tell her if everyone in the world had her heart, there would be no more war.
9. I love to cook. I'm making dinner for a bunch of friends Friday night. 
10. If Disney would let me, I'd live there and work for them for free. Come on, Mickey, give a girl a chance!
11. I hate making phone calls.
12. Bent paper makes me twitch. And I have to have more than one piece to write on – like it needs to be stacked neatly, not bent, and have at least 2 or more pieces. :)
13. I love to run. In the dark. Alone. With my iPod. :)
14. I am a total homebody.
15. I am a glass half full/eternal optimist kind of girl. Better to look on the bright side than be constantly complaining, right?!
16. Streak-free windows are not something I can manage to do.
Oh there’s more, but this could take all day! Your turn!
At the top of my handy-dandy blog here are two little tabs. One is for my favorite place in the world, and the other one is a brand-spankin’ new tab. Click on it, then tell me what you think. Pretty please? With sugar on top? I’d appreciate it.
I’m talking about calories here. Why, oh why, do they have to be the reason I gain weight?! ;) Maybe I should stop shoving food in my mouth, huh?
1 pound = 3,500 calories. Can’t the calorie fairy make it, oh, more than that?
I’m back to tracking my calories on SparkPeople. I really need to drop another 20 pounds, and I need to figure out where my calories are going. Can we say…..coffee, milk, and sugar?! So by calculations I should be eating around 1,800 calories a day and burning a total of 500 calories a day more than I’m eating which will give a 1 pound a week loss. That’s doable, right?
Thankfully, running kills off about 100 calories per mile. I ran 4 miles this morning. :) I figure the more I run, the more I’ll lose. The more I lose, the more I’ll run! What a concept, right?! I am just tired of attempting to run with all this extra weight floppin’ around on me. Do they make a sports bra for your butt?! No, really, I’m serious.
Tracking calories is a tedious, PITA thing to do. But it’s a necessary evil. Also, it makes me realize that I need to up my protein intake. That, in turn, will improve my running, too. It also makes me realize that I consume wayyyyy too many carbs. Damn. I love my carbs. I refuse to give them up, but I will cut down on them.
I had a really nice 4 mile run this morning. Well, the first mile was hell. Why is the first mile always my worst? My legs are usually begging me to turn around and go back home. And then there’s the whole “I need a sports bra for my butt” thing. Mile 2 was better. Mile 3 was even better. On mile 4 I decided to put it into high gear; running fast can’t kill me, right?! I took about 2 minutes off my mile pace time, and at one point in that mile, had taken it down 4 minutes. By the end of that last mile, I was 2 minutes ahead of my pace, totally out of breath, and thrilled. I love that feeling.
Remind me of that when my alarm goes off in the morning, okay?
