Losing Weight - Week 2

Ok, so I am going to have to call a mulligan on this. After one week of eating horribly I have gained half a pound. And I knew I would. Chuck was away for three days and when he goes away I just eat too much and cheesy things. So I will have to start over this week - even though Chuck will once again be gone for three days.

I AM going to count my calories.

I AM going to start Thursday spin class (if Eve can help.)

I AM going to lose weight.

Losing My Sanity

Today I lost it. Sometimes all of the problems that aren't that bad come to a head at the same time and it happens most when it is stupidly hot.

I try so hard to be a good mom, a good wife, a good housekeeper, a good everything. For the most part I thiink I do a fairly good job. I have my shortcomings don't get me wrong. There are a lot of things I could do better

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Losing Brain Function

I am so tired. I am on my droid. I am going to sleep.

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Losing Soft Supple Hands

I realized today that I have a callus on my hand from my wedding ring. This has developed from carrying the car seat with James in it around. How silly is this? I have a ring callus from carrying my baby. The real kicker is that if I carried James another way something else would pay the price. Sometimes I wear him in a sling, but that puts me off balance and hurts my back. Sometimes I wear him in a wrap and that isn't so bad but can be a pain in the butt to get set up. The real problem with both of these is that they don't work for the short tip from the car to the house. Or the trip from the car to the shopping cart.

The problems I have as a mom!

Losing Weight - Week 1

Before I found out I was pregnant with James, I had lost 25 pounds. I gained 29 pounds while pregnant and now at six weeks post delivery I have lost most of it but still have quite a ways to go. I gave myself these six weeks before I really started trying to be good. So I weighed in this morning (higher than I would have liked) and now comes the fun part!

I will be counting my calories. This was the way I lost the weight before and if I am diligent it will work again. The hardest part is not eating Amelia's snacks. Without kids dieting is easy you just don't buy certain foods. But with Amelia we always have delicious Goldfish in the house and man do I love Goldfish!

I am also going to start back at the gym this week. I won't be able to go as often as I was before James but something is better than nothing. I am also hoping that I can make a Thursday spin class when Eve comes to help out. I have missed my spin classes.

So wish me luck and stay tuned! With your help I will look awesome for Sean and Erin's wedding at the end of October.

Losing the Baby out of my Baby Girl

Amelia turned two today. It is hard to believe that she is two, I have no idea where the time has gone. Two years ago we were in the hospital waiting to meet our little bundle and now here we are wondering if we can put her back! Just kidding. I can't imagine my life without her. It is funny to think about life when she came home. We were so new at parenting and she was such a handful, even as just a tiny baby. We battled her eating when she was little and we are still battling her today. She has always been strong willed and I love it. It is hard to handle some days but it is who she is. I hope she stays strong willed throughout her life.

Two years ago we brought Amelia into this world and I have loved her more everyday since then.

Losing Control - I

I label this post Losing Control - I because I know there will be more to follow. Do you ever get the feeling that you are losing control of everything around you? I get that feeling a lot but it tends to do with a needy cat, a two year old, and a new baby. There is just only so much you can do during the day with a two year old when you have to stop every three hours and nurse a baby. And when you have to nurse the baby, what do you do with the two year old? I pose this not as a funny or rhetorical question but for real - what DO you do with a two year old when you have to nurse a baby? So far I haven't figured this out. I close as many doors as I can and hope for the best.

Thus far in the six weeks we have been doing this Amelia has managed to harass the cat without me able to stop her, climb into the pack and play (playpen to all you non baby people out there) which we have been trying to discourage since we don't want her in there with James, color on the couch (sorry Chuck but it did come off!), pull scissors out of the utility drawer, the list just goes on and on. I try to put on her shows but that doesn't always work, or it only works for a short time.

She generally will systematically destroy the order of the living room, starting with her dinosaur puzzles - 30 giant puzzle pieces strewn about the floor. Then come the hard plastic dinosaurs; these usually get thrust onto James and me. When I tell her that James can't have hard toys she starts to bring the snuggly toys to us and even though I have put most of them back in her room, they keep finding their way back down. Once Amelia realizes that I am not going to play with her, she decides she will play by herself with her little people - so many little people that she dumps all over the floor. That occupies her for a while but she eventually gets bored and decides it is time to read a book. Amelia has a LOT of books and she needs to look most of them over before deciding on one. And if you have never seen a two year old choose a book it is not an orderly process.

So by then end of the ten or twenty minute feeding session my living room looks like a tornado has gone through it. And if I am very lucky it will just be the living room! But a bit of good news to finish up this post - Amelia helped me put all her puzzles away today and that is a big ol' check in the win column!