Nadeen tagged me...

A - Attached or single: Attached. Happily!
B - Best Friend: Hmm, lots of really good ones! Maybe my mom??
C - Cake or Pie: I think cake, but I can't pass up a good chocolate pie!
D - Day of the Week: Saturday
E - Essential Item: cell phone,
F - Favorite Color: Blue
G - Gummi Bears or Gummi Worms: Bears if these are the choices. Cokes & Cherries are actually my favorite gummi's!
H - Hair Product: time to actually do my hair!
I - Indulgences: really nice yarn
J - January or July?: Actually I like May or Sept - I'm a cheater!
K - Kids: Andrew & Katie of course!
L - Life is incomplete without: good friends and lots of love
M - Marriage Date: April 13
N - Number of Siblings: 1 sister - Debbie
O - Oranges or Apples: Granny Smith Apples
P - Phobias or Fears: big snakes, my parents dying
Q - Quote: "The most important thing she's learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one." Jill Churchill
R - Reason To Smile: Andrew & Katie playing together, or both playing with Dad in the back yard
S - Season: Spring AND Fall, I'm going with Nadeen on this one!!
T - Tag Three: Debbie, Amber, Kendra/Tina
U- Unknown fact about me: I was on the cover of a magazine. Um, I impeached a president? (of our sorority!)
V - Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: Definitely a carnivore!
W - Worst Habit: Not doing things right away
X - Rays or Ultrasounds: I'm going to choose neither!
Y - Your favorite food: Right now, the bison bolognese dish at Cafe Jordano, but I like lots of stuff!
Z - Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Getting out of my funk!

So I've been in a bit of a funk lately. There's only so much mental energy you can focus on getting your boy to poop in the potty (although he has done it once so far - Happy Dances all around!!!) and then the let down after VBS busyness and traveling and a messy house and way too much laundry and Aaron working a lot has brought me down a bit. I haven't even had anything I want to knit!

So I'm working to get myself out of it now. I cleaned a bathroom, went to tae bo twice this week, I'm making Andrew pick up legos and I'm tackling laundry. AND I had some retail therapy in the form of yarn, books and pattern shopping online! So now I have 4-5 projects I can start on now or very soon! whee!!

I'll do this on in different colors...

And this one in the same blues.

And I bought yarn online to start on this one - a whole knitted Nativity scene!

Andrew

Nadeen inspired me to go ahead and blog about this.
My andrew is 3.5, he'll be 4 in August. He will not go poo in the potty. I've bribed, threatened, pleaded, cleaned out, everything and he will not go in the potty. We are seeing an elimination specialist so he's taking miralax, ex-lax & mineral oil & doing a poop sit in the afternoon & getting check marks towards a goal. he also knows he'll get a lego ship & indy motorcycle when he (ever) goes poo on the potty but nope, nothing. He (and I, I guess) have gotten lazy and he's back to wearing pull ups only because his poo is pretty much liquid so now he's not even pee'ing in the potty. ugh.
So today i decided no video game unless he wears undies. Which he did and proceeded to pee "just barely" on the couch and the floor. fun for mommy! I threatened to take away the game if he ever did it again AND put him in baby diapers instead of pullups and he promised it won't happen.
But I am just so stinking tired of this! Why won't this child poo in the potty?!?!? He has to go to prek in the fall!
Ok, rant over, off to get more things done and check on the couch.

post-VBS summer!

Ok, I can now begin my Post-VBS summer! I mentally divide the summer into pre- and post-VBS as it is such a huge event in my life and it is now done!!! It was a pretty good success this year I think - I'm worn out, my kids are all clingy and everyone had a good time.
But now it is time to let myself think past it and holy cow is there a lot left in the summer! And some of it is coming up quick!!! We leave for TX for a wedding this Wed and I am totally not ready - eek! Then we get to go to Grand Lake for a family vacation in July and then it will be August. yikes! I need to treasure these days and enjoy them instead of race through them and lose them all.
I guess post-vbs summer really = family summer! I like that!

Tae Bo Challenge Finale!!!

So I went to my ending measurement time for the tae bo mommy challenge today and while I won't be winning any free months, I am pretty darn proud of myself!!! I've lost 4lb, 22" and 5% body fat!!! I'm waiting to see what you other girls do - YAY for us!!

Halfway there with Tae Bo!

So we're officially halfway done with our 8 week Tae Bo challenge and I can tell that I'm doing better in the classes now. Although they are not going easy on us anymore so the classes are definitely harder! I did get Sonja to do my midpoint measurements and I've lost.... 12.75 inches so far!!! I'm totally impressed with myself!! I knew my jeans were fitting a bit better but it is pretty cool to have some numbers to back it up. I haven't lost any weight really, but inches are good! I'm curious to see how I do in the next 4 weeks - she won't do body fat until then and I really need to improve that for my health.
So - yay for me (and all of us doing this torture thing!)

Women's retreat

Ok, just a quick update on the retreat this weekend. It was awesome! What a privilege to spend time with such amazing ladies and friends! To be able to laugh and conquer fears and encourage and pray and listen and yell and eat and just be real is such a treat that we don't get very often and I enjoyed every minute of it!