Two Weeks Old.

Hope my birth story didn't bore anyone - I wanted to include it since it's Miss M's journey, but I know it was long and quite detailed. I'm hoping to get to some other posts, and possibly back to some healthy living posts soon, but I am enjoying all the time I can with Molly.

Miss M,

Since our first week, you've learned to like your crib more now, and had a few nights of sleeping all night in the crib! Well, I say all night, but I mean sleeping for about 2.5 hours, up to nurse, then right back down in the crib until the next feeding about 3 hours later. On Saturday night, you were a little fussy, and Momma got a little upset with you because you wouldn't eat very well - you wouldn't latch on. I think it was a mix of sleeping all. day. long. and the walk Daddy and I took you on once he came home from work. We were going to try to go to church on Sunday morning, but I slept with you in the recliner for about 4 hours so that didn't work out. I was a little worried because you were only eating for about 5 minutes during the night, and going so long in between feedings, I didn't want you to starve, or have my supply go down, but I trusted my instincts to just let you go, if you were hungry, you'd fuss and I'd feed you.


You're such a great sleeper! We don't have to be quiet when you're napping, even if we're holding you, which tends to happen during the day. Oh well, Grammy loves to spoil you! We've been on a good schedule at night, getting up to eat every 2-4 hours or so, and not getting up in the morning until about 8am. I honestly don't mind getting up multiple times to feed you at night when I still get to sleep in until that late!

I think we're dealing with a little over supply issue, either that or my milk comes out really fast. You haven't choked, but I know it's coming out fast because it overflows while you're nursing. I always have to make sure to have a burp cloth handy so that I can wipe up whatever milk is overflowing everywhere. Sometimes I feel like a cow with milk shooting everywhere, but I know it's what's best for you and we'll work through it. Daddy is such a great help when I get frustrated. He always takes the first "shift" until about 11pm or so, unless you get hungry earlier. He loves spending time with you and hates if he has to work late since he gets to spend so little time with you anyway. He loves you so, so much and I love to see that connection you have with him. You're already Daddy's little girl.

 You're more awake for periods now, and we've started tummy time with you. You really don't mind it at all! We put you on our chests a lot and you're already so strong and pick your head up! Daddy is amazed at you each time you do it! I love watching all your faces and your smiles, even if they aren't real smiles yet. They're adorable! I could just stare at you all day!

We went for our first stroller walk this week! You slept the whole time! It felt good to get out of the house and go somewhere, I hope to keep that up with Grammy over the summer when it isn't too hot out. Daddy pushed you for a little bit, but then I wanted to push you since I need the exercise more! You were a little fussy that night, and Daddy thought it was because you were outside and we threw off your schedule, but I don't think so. I think you were just fussy, but when I say fussy, I mean that you were basically just making noises, you still haven't really cried.

Oh, we also went to Uncle Billy's graduation Wednesday night. You were awesome - sleeping through the entire thing, not even waking up to eat for 4 hours. You cried the whole way home since you were so hungry but we flew home and you ate for 25 minutes! You generally don't eat that long anymore. I felt bad, you seemed like you thought we were never going to feed you again. I was so worried during graduation that you'd cry and I'd have to feed you, which wouldn't have been bad, but I had to take pictures of Uncle Billy since it was only Grammy and I and she had the camcorder. Daddy had to work late, but he still came after work, he missed the ceremony but came to carry you around afterwards for pictures.

We also took our first couple outings this week! Sunday we went to Great Gma Crane's house and you slept in your carseat for most of the day, and Wednesday we went up to Kohl's and Babies R Us, and you slept the whole time there, too. You love sleeping in the car!

We gave you a pacifier again this week, and you like the one from the hospital. I don't think it's messed with our nursing routine, and you don't use it a lot, just when you're done eating and need something to suck on. I think once you find your finger/thumb you'll be very content, but I know that might not be for a while, and I'm okay giving you a pacified occasionally. I just don't want it to be a crutch that we try first if you're fussy, I want it to be a last resort, and so far, that's worked.


How's Mom?


I actually feel 100% healed! I want to take some pictures of what my post-baby body looks like, but I'm so proud of what my body did that all the flabby skin and stretch marks don't bother me one bit. I had a little bit of a hard time being okay with how I looked at graduation, but I thought I looked pretty good for 2 weeks post partum, if I do say so myself. I felt great on that walk we took, although out of breath, but I'm so out of shape it's not even funny. Sometimes I feel like a cow when I'm feeding, but that's normal. I don't think I have any "baby blues" at least not yet. I get frustrated sometimes, and the tears fall, but that's normal, too. Usually it's when I'm nursing and I feel bad because my milk is coming out too fast and Molly's hungry, but don't want to eat because there's so much. At least that's what I feel like is going on.

I know I can't push myself too hard, and I'll stick to walking for now, and maybe some yoga thrown back in if I can when Miss M is sleeping. I've been good with my sleep, too. I haven't had to nap in about a week or so. I might have to next week since I'm going to be here myself with Miss M, but we'll play that by ear. I know my mom works right down the road if I need her to come home quickly, she can.

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Any moms reading who have any advice for over supply/fast milk flow?

Four Years Ago.

Sorry for the delay in my 23 week update. It's coming. I promise. Hopefully tomorrow. I have a ton of topics I want to blog about, just having a hard time coming up with the time to sit down and write them. My days off (Monday & Wednesday) are my normal blogging days, since I don't like to sit in front of the computer once Mr. Skinny comes home. But this past Monday was hectic, I had a to-do list a mile long, including going to town to get some things to rip down our wallpaper, hideous wallpaper, in our bedroom. Today, I'm going to meet a new-ish friend for lunch (hopefully writing a topic on that), and then it's time for me to make dinner for today and tomorrow. I like my days packed, but I also like my time to do what I want, especially considering that I know most, if not all of that, is going out the window in about 4ish months.

Okay, so four years ago today, Mr. Skinny proposed to me. I don't know if I've divulged in our history before, forgive me if I did (blame prego-brain), but I wanted to do that today.

It all started way back in 5th grade. Yes, really. I started 5th grade at a new elementary school because I live in the sticks and our elementary school only went up to 4th grade, they've since remodeled, but that was what happened to me. Like any other 11 year old girl, I found a guy to have a crush on. He had dimples and glasses. So what does an 11-year old girl do to that boy? Why, poke his dimples and steal his glasses. Duh, that's how she tells him she likes him. Said boy thought that this girl was really annoying and just put up with her.

Yep, Mr. Skinny and I in 5th grade.

Fast forward a few years, to eighth grade. This girl had a boyfriend who was a jerk, but whatever, he thought she loved him. Psh. The boy like the girl, but new she was "going out" with this other boy, but they still hung out every day in 5th period, telling the study hall teacher that they were going to the library, and telling the librarian they were going back to study hall. They hung out with another couple who was actually dating and the boy and girl flirted. A lot.

 The next year, in 9th grade, the girl and her boyfriend broke up, and the boy who she flirted with was still her friend and they still hung out in school a lot.  That summer was a hard one for the girl. It was spent hanging out with some friends, but it being her first "single" summer in a few years, she was a little down.  She actually thought about the boy a lot that summer and thought about calling him to hang out, even looking his phone number up in the phone book (remember those days??). She never got the courage up to do it though.

The boy had an equally hard summer. He's an extremely hard worker and spent his summer working at a banquet hall every weekend, trying to save enough money to finish his 1982 CJ7 jeep. After work each night, he'd come home and steal a beer from his dad, because that's what his dad did when he wanted to relax. When he wasn't working, he was with his dad or grandfather, helping them with something around the house. He never hung out with friends, he helped his family or worked.

Once school started that year, tenth grade, the boy and girl met up again and talked. The girl still remembers that first day hello, awkward since they both kind of liked each other, but they didn't say anything. The next month was a blur, but they hung out every Friday after school, walking to a restaurant for dinner before the girl had to cheer at the football game. The boy watching each game that he could. Finally, a month after school started, the girl and boy started dating, and the rest is history.

Us at semi in 10th grade. 

They made it through those last 3 years of high school, never breaking up once, always sticking together. They were voted class couple of their senior class.

The girl went away to college, 200 miles and 3 hours away to college. They still never broke up. That first semester was tough, the first month the boy didn't have a car, and all they could do was talk on the phone each night, and they did. They were determined to make it work.

In January, the boy had a dream that it was time for them to get engaged. So he went to the mall, and picked out a ring, with the girl's guidelines, of course. He wanted to wait until Valentine's Day, but was too nervous he was going to loose the ring. He had a plan, he was going to bring the girl back to his apartment, make dinner and propose, but the girl was nervous about this plan. She didn't want her mom to find out that she was staying at his apartment overnight, so she tried to lie to her mom, even though her mom knew the plan from the boy already. Both of their families knew that he was going to propose. The weather almost stopped them. The normal 2 hour drive from the boy's apartment to the girl's college took about 5 hours with the snow and slush. He picked her up and brought her back to his apartment.

They made pizza and caesar salad for dinner. Just before the girl started eating, the boy said "wait" and put a flannel jacket (ironically the one that belong to the girl's boyfriend from 8th grade). He said he had a surprise. When the boy took the jacket off the girl's head, he made her close her eyes, and he got down on one knee.

"Megan, you know I love you. Will you marry me?"

When she opened her eyes, there he was, on one knee with the perfect engagement ring in a box, waiting for an answer.

"Of course" she replied.

Then she ran to get her phone to text her friends and her parents as well got the boy's computer to update her Facebook status and relationship status. Clearly, this was the engagement of an 18 year old and a 19 year old.

The only picture I have of the night we got engaged.

Fast forward nearly two years, and they got married!

And yet another two years, and they are expecting their first baby together!

Hard to believe it all started with a crush on a boy way back in 5th grade. God definitely worked on our lives and brought us together in perfect timing. Sure, we might be young, but there is no doubt in my mind that this is where we're supposed to be. We've gone through our ups and downs, but our love holds us together - I know, how corny. 

Oh, and Mr. Skinny's jeep still isn't done, and if I would have tried to call him that summer before we started dating, I would have ended up calling his grandparents house because he has the same middle name as him when I thought that he would have had the same middle name as his dad. That would have been awkward, I'm really glad I didn't call him actually. 

Tell me:

Do you think that some people are too young to get engaged or married? 

How did you meet your significant other?

Fill In The Blank Friday.

I've seen a couple bloggers do these little fill in the blank things on Friday, and now that my 10 week challenge is over, I needed something else to do on Fridays, and this seems perfect!

On a side note let me say that my pregnancy acne is terrible! Holy cow! I put make up on for the first time in months because I'm so self conscious about it. I'd take a picture, but I won't do that do you. This is reminiscent of my teenage years acne and at least I could take prescription pills and use prescription face wash and stuff to get rid of it. Then I loved my face when I was on birth control and now it's just terrible! This baby better be a girl and she better be gorgeous the way she's making my face look. :)

Fill in the Blank Friday:


1. A nervous habit I have is: well, I don't get nervous frequently, and when I do, I don't tend to bite my nails or twirl my hair. I try to pray, but I don't know if that's a habit...? I might blush, though, I guess that's it. I do bite my nails, but that's not when I'm nervous, just when they get too long :)

2. Something that makes me sad is: a ton of things make me sad. One thing that made me sad in the past couple days though is this post by Jana. America is so run by money, and not by caring about people, it's very sad.

3. Today I am thankful for: my God, my family, my online support, and the baby that is growing inside of me. 13 weeks tomorrow!

4. My favorite room in my house is: well, since we live with my parents, I'll have to say that my and Mr. Skinny's room is my favorite room because that's ours. Second though would have to be the kitchen since the kitchen table is where we all sit and talk daily.


5. If I had an extra $100 to spend on whatever I wanted today I would: Considering I just bought a slew of maternity clothes and I don't really need anything, I'd probably put it toward bills, but I will saw the pair of Bearpaws I've been eyeing up for Christmas sound good, too!


6. The last person I hung out with was: Does Mr. Skinny count? I don't have many friends up here and so my family are usually the only ones I "hang out" with. 

From Disney on Ice in 2008. Wow, my face is chubby!

Pick one and answer yourself! 


Any exciting plans this weekend?

Mr. Skinny's Birthday Weekend.

I'll be doing my weekly pregnancy update tomorrow, I wanted to talk about my weekend for once! Today actually is Mr. Skinny's birthday, he's a Halloween baby, by the way, Happy Halloween! Anyway, growing up, his birthday wasn't ever special. I don't blame his parents, they have 5 kids and they weren't raised that way, as far as I can tell, but since I was raised with your birthday being your special day, you eat what you wanted and got to go where you wanted, within reason, of course. Well, I know how much Mr. Skinny loves trains, and since we're only about an hour from the Steamtown National Historic Site, I thought it would be a nice excuse to get away for a weekend and take a long train ride. And that it was. Minus the snowstorm that came out of nowhere! It was a beautiful preview of Christmas though and made me remember how beautiful snow is, even though I hate the cold. 

Now I can bombard you with pictures! 

The view from our room during the snow!

Because of the snow, Mr. Skinny actually got off work on Saturday, he didn't have to go in at all! He was happy about that for his birthday weekend. Once we knew the storm was coming we didn't know if we'd be able to go up at all and because I purchased the advanced reservations for our hotel (read: couldn't cancel the reservations, we would have just lost our money if we didn't go), we really didn't want to loose that money. And I was looking forward to a weekend alone. We decided to leave early and walk around the Steamtown Mall before we could check into our room. That was the best idea. I actually got my first pair of maternity jeans! They were on sale for $20 and they were petites, so I just had to get them. I've been wearing my bella band, but that's not entirely comfortable either. 

We ate at TGI Fridays, and I had pasta which was okay, but exactly what I wanted, I finished the whole thing, and then felt sick afterwards. Go figure! I can't eat as big of meals as I could before! We watched a lot of TV and spend time together. There was a pool, but we didn't go in it, Mr. Skinny was passed out by 8pm on Saturday night! 

The same view the next morning!

Sunday morning we were lounging around until the power went off in our hotel, so we checked out a little early and headed to breakfast at Perkins. Then off to our train ride.

Waiting for our train ride.

Our train.

The view during our ride.

I'm actually really happy there was snow, or else the ride would have probably been quite boring. It was a little annoying because the steam kept fogging up our windows and I couldn't get too many good pictures. The ride was about an hour and a half, then we stopped at the Tobyhanna Station and got out to look at the model trains, and grab a bite to eat, before getting on the train for the ride back. I actually fell asleep on the way back, I'm surprised Mr. Skinny didn't take a picture of that. But, I have an excuse to sleep randomly throughout the day.

Since today is Mr. Skinny's actual birthday, I'm making him a meatloaf for dinner and my mom is going to make mashed potatoes and broccoli. Seriously, I can't make good, creamy mashed potatoes to save my life! It's rather terrible actually. Then we have ice cream cake for dessert. I don't think we'll be able to eat as a family, but that's okay, Mr. Skinny felt like his birthday was this weekend anyway, not so much today.

All in all, it was a good weekend, but weekends slip away to nothing so quickly! How does that happen?! I keep telling Mr. Skinny we need to take a long weekend baby moon, but he'd rather pay off our debts than take a weekend vacation. I need to convince him to change that. :)

Tell me:


Have you ever been on a train?
Were your birthdays special growing up? Are you planning on making them a big deal for your kids?

seriously, i need to brag

I have the best husband. No lie. Last night we decided to not go to church and just watch Charles Stanley on TV. Yes, we should have gone to church, but it's so much easier to just watch a sermon from bed on a Sunday morning. Anyways, we decided that it would be a cleaning day today. We haven't been home together for a full weekend since October, and we haven't done a good cleaning since the beginning of December. Our Christmas decorations were still up, and I mean everything; the tree, the manger, the little Christmas village. Everything. We just haven't gotten around to taking it down. So today was the day.

We got up and watched our sermon which was a good one, by the way, about whether you are a giver or a getter. It really got me thinking. Once we got up, we made breakfast, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns and toast - mmm! After breakfast Mr. Skinny got right up and started the laundry, stripped the bed, grabbed the towels from the bathroom, and tossed it in the laundry. He's been on laundry duty all day! The only thing I had to do pertaining to laundry was putting my clothes back on hangers and hanging them. Oh, and I had to help him make the bed. He even cleaned the bathroom sink for me! He helped dry the dishes, too!

Not that he's never this great of a husband, he is, but just him helping out, no questions asked, and without me reminding him about the laundry or what else needed to be done reminded me that I married the right man. I know that no matter what, he'll take care of me, he'll provide for me and our family and be a wonderful dad when that time comes in a few years. Sure, our day might not be complete without a few football breaks, but it is playoffs, what right do I have to pull Mr. Skinny away from the football scores? The Christmas decorations are completely away, our bedroom, the living room, kitchen and bathroom are all in order.

Now all that's left is to dust and vacuum.

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What little things does your significant other do to remind you that you're with the right person?

goals for 2011

It's that time again. Time for everyone to set their get healthier, lose weight, be a better person goals for 2011. I've been thinking about mine. I didn't set any for last year because I just didn't think about it. I was in Disney World, on my honeymoon and enjoying life with Mr. Skinny. I guess our only goal was to get Mr. Skinny a job. That took quite a while, but eventually (March) he found one. The month that we would have had to move home if he didn't find a job, as our savings account was dwindling to nothing, literally, and that's what we were pulling from to pay all our bills.

Mr. Skinny and I have been talking about where we'd like to see ourselves by the end of 2011. He would love to see us be completely out of credit card debt. I agree, but don't know how realistic it is to dig ourselves out of $10,000+ of credit card debt in 1 year. That will be on our list, however, to come up with a strict budget, stick to it, and pay off as much debt as we possibly can. I graduate from college in May, and I'll probably just stick to working at my student job now, and I can as long as I'm still a student, part time or more. I can go to community college and keep working. I will look for a real job, but seeing as how I want to have kids in a year or so, I'm not going to sweat it if I can't find a full time job. God has a plan for us.

1. Pay off as much debt as possible. That doesn't mean the minimum payment. If I want to have a baby, we need to have $0 credit card debt.
2. Keep putting money away in a savings account, save as much money as possible.
3. Continue working on being healthy; losing weight, working out, running, eating healthy. Hopefully this means getting to goal, looking hot and feeling awesome about myself, but I'm not going to beat myself up if I can't get to that.
4. Try new foods, new cuisines. Cook new recipes that I would never have tried before.
5. Get closer with God. Go to church weekly, get involved in a church. God has blessed my life and marriage and I owe Him a lot, and have been neglecting that relationship.
6. Get closer to my husband. We've only been married a year, but it definitely is different when you're married. We see each other pretty much daily, but it's easy to fall into a habit and not take the time to spend a day together. I know we'll be on a strict budget, but I'd like to go on a few weekend trips throughout the year and just spend time together.
7. Move toward vegetarianism. I'm pretty sure I could never become a full vegetarian, the combination of my hate of the texture of beans and my husband's love of meat will prevent that, but I can make a few meatless meals a week, and incorporate vegetarian meals and foods into my diet.
8. Work on my 101 in 1,001 list - there are a few accomplishable goals on this list, and I can keep this list in the back of my mind and get a few crossed out.

There ya have it - my 2011 goals.

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What are your goals/resolution for 2011?

I'm baa-ack!

Sorry I've been slacking. I felt like I didn't have anything very important to update you guys on. I've fallen off the WW bandwagon, it's terrible. I think the bandwagon is dragging me along behind it actually. I can see it, it's always in my mind, but I don't really want to try to climb back on. I'm enjoying my crab dip, and banana bread w/ butter, and chicken noodle soup w/ buttered bread wayyy too much to climb back on that bandwagon right now. After Thanksgiving, I'll hop back on the bandwagon. I already have my meals planned out for next week, complete with points and all, even though they may be completely irrelevant because of the new WW plan. I do eat mostly home cooked, healthy meals, so I'm just going to keep my menu, and I'll see how the points play out with it.

On an update with my life. I went to see Harry Potter at midnight Thursday night/Friday am and I thought it was pretty awesome. This was the best movie by far. They followed the storyline, included a lot of lines from the book, although some things did annoy me, but that's what happens when you make a movie from a book.

My friends and I at the premiere.

Saturday I went with my mom up to NYC to see the Rockettes. We walked around Times Square, went into Macy's - holy cow is that Macy's HUGE! If you've never been there, it's 9 floors and takes up a whole block! It's incredible. Then we walked around the Toys R Us which is also huge, they have a ferris wheel in the Toys R Us - for real! And a Hagan-Daas, Seattle's Best Coffee, a moving T-Rex and a real size Barbie House. It was pretty cool.

Then we went to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, and the show was really great, it was only about an hour and a half, but the synchronization was incredible. The costumes were really great, too.

Mom and I at Radio City

The Living Nativity

Christmas in NYC (I think?)

We had a great time in NYC. I think we're going to make it an annual thing for us. I'd like to go on a shopping trip next time, so we have the whole day to just walk around. I want to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and just walk around all day.

On a side note - I'm getting sick, I think. My throat is starting to feel funny, and I'm blaming myself and the fact that I haven't been taking my vitamins like I used to. I did do a 30 minute run yesterday, and I'm pretty excited for that. Once the hubs gets on a normal paying schedule, like, ya know, without missing paid holidays because he just had to start a new job, I'm going to join a gym. I love running outside, and the cold doesn't bother me, but I don't really have the space to run. Okay, well I do, but it's all hills, and when I say ALL hills, I mean it. Yesterday I had to run on the road, there was no sidewalk since I ran farther, and I am not very excited about that. It made me very nervous.

The hubs seems to like his job, which is pretty good, he's working a lot longer days, which it hard for both of us to get used to. We'll have to start going away on weekends he's not working, just to spend some time together.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and I've decided that I will only eat stuffing, turkey and green bean casserole, and I will only have 1 plateful. That's my plan for my parents' thanksgiving dinner. My in-laws might be a different story however, and I'm not sure what my plan of attack will be for that dinner.

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What is your plan of attack for Thanksgiving dinner?

Where are you going for T-day?

Awesome Weekend

I had a great weekend. My field trip to Jamestown was pretty fun and I got to hang out with new people, which was a lot more fun than I thought. We went to Jamestown Settlement on Saturday, which was really hands on and great for kids, although it had it's faults. Yesterday we went to Historic Jamestown, where the actual site of the original settlement was, and had a tour there.

The highlight of the weekend was Saturday night though. I got to hang out with people I usually don't, 3 other people, and we went out to eat at a tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, and we went to a bar. I know I'm super lame, but this is the first bar I'd ever been to. I had no idea what to order, so one of the guys I was with was super sweet and ordered me the drink that one of his old girlfriends used to drink, and I have to say, it was pretty good. We didn't drink too much, I only had one drink and we were back to our hotel by 10pm. If we weren't up that morning at 6am, I bet we would have stayed out later. My dinner was soo good! I had crab stuffed flounder with fresh veggies and oven roasted potatoes. There were no lights in the tavern, so we ate by candlelight, which was different. I had a great time, really. It was so much fun.

Once I got home yesterday, I roughly tracked everything, expecting to go wayyy over my points, and surprisingly, I tracked most of what I can remember, and I'm still OP. I used most of my APs and all my weeklies, but I didn't go totally overboard. I'm super proud of myself. Walking around most of Saturday totally helped me, and I went for a run yesterday morning, so it all balanced out.

I am super excited for this week. I'm only working 2 days this week (I normally work 3) because of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 comes out on Thursday night, well Friday morning, however you want to look at it. Thursday night at midnight, so technically Friday. I took off work on Friday because of that, I knew that I'd be dead tired if I came to work. Saturday I'm going to NYC with my mom to see the Rockettes, and I'm super excited about that, too. I had a paper due this week, but the prof. moved the date, so it's not due until after Thanksgiving now.

DH started his new job today, I'll let you guys know how he likes it either tomorrow or on Tuesday. I'm praying he's not nervous, and he likes everyone who he's working with.

Happy Monday everyone!

Relaxing Weekend

We had a great weekend, I'm not going to lie and it was glorious! Friday night we went to Costco and Walmart to get our food for the next week. Well more than a week's worth of food at Costco. Saturday we slept in, watched college football then finally got dressed and went on a date! :) We went to see Due Date, which was pretty funny, not as good as The Hangover, but still pretty funny. We grabbed some pizza and went out for ice cream. I tracked everything, used my weeklies, but I tracked everything as best I could.

Today we got up and watched Charles Stanley. I had a field trip to go on, so we couldn't go to church. We went to the Smithsonian - Museum of Natural History. After we were done with the exhibit, a bunch of us grabbed lunch. We went to a pub, it was the only restaurant that we could find, and I got a chicken Caesar salad, but I split a brownie sundae with one of the other girls. We didn't eat the whole thing, which was a NSV - non scale victory - in itself. We got some walking in, too, so that was a plus. I didn't get to run this weekend, though. It was a relaxing weekend.

I will say that I stayed OP all weekend, I tracked everything, and I used all my weeklies and 2 of my APs, but that's okay. I made the plan work, and I'm determined to have a good WI on Tuesday.

The hubs applied to a few more jobs, but we're really hoping for this one job, and it's the only lead we have. He's going to call the company again on Tuesday and see if they have any updates. I pray that we get this job, and soon. I know God has a plan for us though. I'm okay though, and I don't really know why. I'm not worried, it's strange. I'm still happy. I'm hoping that its because I know God has a plan, but it might just be that it didn't hit us yet.

WI Friday - not really

I peeked at the scale today - I had to, it's Friday and I have weighed myself every Friday for months, since May. I'm down 2 lbs. since Tuesday!!! I was debating on changing my WI day to Friday since I think I do really well on Friday, even after eating not very well all weekend, I still managed to loose a pound. I seriously have no idea how that happened, but it did.

Another thing, I think I have to change my workout schedule. Initially I wanted to work out 5x/week, and I think I'll still do that, but instead of doing my 30 Day Shred on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings, I'm going to change it to yoga on those mornings. I still need to strength train sometime, but I'm still not so sure when I can do that. I should just do it after I run, or before I run - which is better?

Updates about the hub's job - he might have work until the 19th, maybe. But he might have found another job! There is an excavating company about 30 minutes from where we live, and we went there yesterday to apply and they have a position! We're definitely praying for this one, but we'll see how it goes. I won't get my hopes up, but I know that our God is an awesome God and can do anything. Nothing is impossible with Him! Please pray that we find something, and soon.

I can eat Red Robin and STILL stay within my daily calories?

Yes, you read that correctly. It's a friend's birthday today and she wants us all to go to Red Robin. Red Robin has to be my almost favorite restaurant, I have quite a number of favorite chain restaurants, but anyways yes, Red Robin. Yum! I normally get either a Whiskey River BBQ Chicken Wrap, a Whiskey River BBQ Chicken or normal burger. I love the bbq sauce and most of all, on the burgers, I love the onion straws. I wanted to plan this one out, I know that last time I went to Red Robin, I ended up eating 37 points, and I did not want to do that again. I'm going to get a Whiskey River BBQ chicken burger with no mayo, no cheese, and no tomato. That cut down 300 calories. I added it in my SP, along with everything else I'm eating today, and I didn't go over my calories! I was so excited, I thought I'd for sure go over, but the only thing I went over in was calcium. Super excited! I might steal one of the hubs french fries, but I will stick to my burger and enjoy the delicious fried onion straws.

Over the weekend I kept tracking mostly on SP, but along with WW. I keep using weeklies, which is what I know they're there for, but I normally don't use them during the week. It's hard for me to see them going down when I'm not really using them for anything really bad for me like I'm used to. I guess this is how I should be breaking down my weeklies and dailies.

Yesterday the hubs and I went to church, followed by a trip to Lowes. Why Lowes you ask? Well two reasons: 1) I love Christmas and they have Christmas decorations out, and 2) I don't feel compelled to buy anything there. I wanted to get out of the house, really I wanted to go shopping, but I know we have NO money for that sort of thing. When I go to Lowes or Home Depot, I can dream. I know we're going to build our own house, and I can dream of the huge kitchen that I know isn't really realistic. We walked around Lowes, dreaming of our house, and then we went home and watched football.

I ate pretty well this weekend, I even ate when I wasn't hungry, which I know I need to work on, but it's so hard because when it's dinnertime, I want to eat something. Saturday I made choc. chip cookies, so I munched on a few of those throughout the weekened, tracking most of them. I had a ballin' C25K day on Saturday, and we played tennis last night. I even got a compliment out of the hubs! He told me that I looked skinnier than the last time we played tennis :) He knows the way to my heart. I can tell that I have a lot more energy now when we play than when we started playing. I actually run after the ball now, and not walk. I can also pick the ball off the ground without using my racket to push myself back up. I'm impressed with the change that I'm encountering, and I'm proud of myself, super proud. I know I can keep truckin' and I'll get to that goal weight, whatever it may be.

It's Hump Day!

I'm pretty happy about this. I did leave work at 11:30 on Monday and I successfully wrote my paper for tomorrow. I had one midterm last night, and it went okay. I have another tomorrow and my professor for the last one decided to do a take home midterm, which I'm kind of bummed about. I was looking forward to being done with midterms and since I don't have any midterms the week after fall break, I'm planning on vegging on the couch all weekend. I know I have some catch up work to do, but that's it.

I'm going to make the hubs his favorite meal - Sicilian meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, and broccoli smothered in butter. WW friendly? Heck no, but it'll be worth it. He's kind of stressed with our money situation right now, and I'm not helping at all. Hubs does the bills, and I feel like I need to take that over, then maybe it will teach me that we don't have money, and that money doesn't grow on trees, and we don't have a hidden savings somewhere. Then hopefully he won't be as stressed. He's having a hard time at work, too. He's such a hard worker, and the people that the company hires are crap. They're older, sliding from job to job to pay their child support and their divorces and new girlfriends. Chuck's waiting for a foreman title, then I think he's going to look elsewhere for a new job. I pray that he can find one, he's not making enough money for what he's doing, and the company is so tiny and is always on the edge of bankruptcy.

With that, I get to work for the day. I'm eating terrible this week, and I am fully expecting that scale to stay where it was last week or go up. Honestly, I might not weight myself this week and just wait until next week. I'm not feeling it this week, and I think that's okay. Maybe next Mon/Tues while I'm home I can get some good workouts in, maybe go for a walk and jog. I think I like that idea better than weighing myself on Friday, I just get depressed when the scale goes up.

Side note: I was talking to the hubs about eating healthier. His great grandfather died of a heart attack, his grandfather has a terrible heart, his father had a heart attack at 47, and I know who's next in this line.. He keeps saying that he works off all the calories, which he does, he's as thin as a rail, but he's not eating healthy. I'm going to try to help him. I mean he eats vegetables at home for dinner, but that's about it. I've been trying to give him grapes or something in his lunch, but he needs something he can grab and go, and I don't really have good ideas about that. Any suggestions?