This week's stats

Well, I'm the ONLY ONE WHO HAS POSTED their stats this week, so the new totals reflect only my stuff. C'mon ladies, I'm NOT doing this alone.

Yesterday

So i didn't get to this yesterday. So, here it is late. As i always am these days.

Yesterday i:
*ran the dishwasher
*hand washed the pans
*wiped down the kitchen surfaces
*picked everything up in the kitchen
*washed down the coffee table
*feather dusted
*picked up everything in the living room
*did 3 loads of laundry
*made the beds
*cleaned the bathroom
*bathed, dressed to the collar, and sorta fixed my hair
*filled out my fitday
*made lunch and dinner
*paid the gas bill

AND, most importantly, didn't strangle Bkid.

Hello ladies

As you may or may not know, we are a homeschooling family. School begins in a couple of weeks, so I might be quieter than usual as I get ready to get him started on 3rd grade. I'm trying something new this year. ROUTINES! For the past 2 months, our morning & evening routines have been followed by me, my 8 yr old and my 2 yr old. So much so that last night, they actually went in and brushed their teeth and washed their faces WITHOUT ME! AND 45 minutes EARLY! I'm so proud of them. I have a.d.d. and keeping any kind of routine has always been just about impossible for me, but thanks to flylady's insistance that I can do anything, I've succeeded in not only mine but my children's success.

This year, we're going to try working with unit studies. These are different than what we've done in the past, and I'm hoping they're going to help us both stay focused. The first 3 years have been difficult, with teaching him to read. But now that he's got that down pretty well, we're ready to move on! I'm psyched, I really am. And I'm also going to begin my 2 yr old daughter on a sort of pre-school program to keep her occupied while I work with my son. I don't have any preconceived notions that by the end of the school year, she'll KNOW this stuff, but I figure if it's instilled early enough, maybe it won't be so bad when it really comes time. I did the same thing with my son, and so he knew his alphabet & numbers very early on. As I said, I'm so proud of them both.

So, if I don't post as much as I usually do, you'll know why. Getting these unit studies together and keeping the house, kids and hubby happy is certainly a full-time job. Add that in with my extracurricular activities and watch out! :)

Oh, and I FINALLY lost that one damned pound I've been working on for 2 WEEKS!! I've officially lost 30 lbs now :D *doing the happy dance*

Yay :D

~Dawn

My Day

I had every intention of sleeping all day but a co-worker called and woke my ass up at 10:45! That's the crack of dawn for me! I screwed around until about 2:00.

THEN, I made my grocery order (online like a good snothead!)WEG, vacuumed the bedrooms, upper hall and downstairs, cleaned up the bathrooms and of course made my bed! I will admit, a made bed looks nice even if we don't have to die for bedroom furniture!

I am seriously thinking of trying a Jazzercise class. I used to do it and loved it. I just worry it will make my knee hurt worse. I'm thinking that possibly sitting at the computer for so long with my legs under me or standing for 10 hours in work is what the problem is. Maybe I just need so good stretching or something.

The first week is free so I have nothing to lose. Just a matter of getting my lazy ass over there. I can't decide if I should do it now, then have to break when we go to Florida in two weeks or just wait until school starts and I am up early every day.

Hope everyone is having a good week. Two more days until our honeymoon period ends and the terrorists come home!

Dawn's day

Today, I've:

• got dressed to shoes
  
• cooked, roasted, fried (burned) a bunch of zucchini & eggplant
• made breakfast, lunch & dinner
• reworked my template for my other blog
• fixed photoshop!
• washed down the walls in mine & my son's rooms where the two yr old has tracked
  
• vacuumed our bedrooms and hall
• swished & swiped the bathroom

Annnnd that was about it lol

grumble

Lazy day

Today, I was a bit lazy, just rested on my laurels lol

I:

• made breakfast, lunch & dinner
• took my son to the dentist
• bought my mother's deathSTICKS and mailed them
• walked 2 miles
• returned the videos to the library.
• of course, made my bed

That was it. I 'm a slacker, I know :)

HOT DAMN SAM

Guess what I just found out? I found out that the Shop-Rite grocery store not 20 miles from us has ONLINE SERVICE! You do your shopping online and tell them when you will pick it it. You drive it at your convenience and BAM, it's done, bagged up and put into your car for you. You can use your coupons and they only charge $10.00 for the service! Hot damn, I would pay that and drive three hours NOT to go to the stupid grocery. Guess who is going to sign up tonight! And here I thought I would have to go there before the little men return home. NOPE, I will just drive up! Betcha's are jealous..na na na na na. LMAO Maybe if I toss in another fiver they will come home and put it all away for me. Naaaaaaaaah, guess you can't have everything!!!!

sooooo... i should carry my sorry ass over here and post more

i'm sorry guys. As another way of defeating lazy bitchitis, this will be my last post as phoenix. i'm going to bring my main blogger account over and post as angel from now on. i'm always signed in on that account, and too trifling to sign in and out. So in the interest of more posts, i'm adding that account here.
Now, as for what i did today.

i managed not to throttle Bkid. Which is very tough these days. He is bored lonely and pissed off because he is not in school right now. So he's hard to handle these days.

i cleaned my living room and kitchen, ran the dishwasher, wiped down the kitchen surfaces and the coffee table, feather dusted, made the beds, and did a load of laundry. Much less than i normally do, but still, i got something done today. So i'm celbrating the little things as Dawn says. Also, i had a very hard day today with nutsiness... the fact that i got off my ass at all and did anything makes me want to dance. Thanks millie and Dawn. i couldn't have done it without you guys.

You guys are doing GREAT!!!

I'm ashamed to add my tiny little bit. But I am a newbie remember! This is our last week of freedom before the boys come home Saturaday so don't even expect me to cook this week! LOL

I worked 10 hours today. Monday is my loooooong day. BUT, I made the bed, threw in a load of wash before I left. Again, I stopped home at lunch to throw it into the dryer. Soon as I walked in the door tonight, I grabbed it, folded it and put it away!

BUT, this may redeem me. Yesterday The Great One and I went shopping. I bought a nice three compartment clothes sorter for boys bathroom and one for our bedroom. This saves time by having the clothes already sorted so I can grab and go! We also got the boys rooms totally done. I got them each a new comforter and sheet set. Don;t even get me started on trying to find a bed in a bag for less them 200.00!!! WTF???? So they got comforters on sale for 19.99 and sheets on sale for 9.99! HA. Their rooms are done, beds made up nicely. All they need are dressers.

I am not nearly where you guys are, but I am taking my baby steps and staying with it. Give me time.

Keep up the great work everyone. Dawn, I will be visiting your recipe site often once the monsters get back! Hopefully I can join the confab Wednesday since I had to switch my days and I 'm working tomorrow!

Today's accomplishments

Well, I 27-thing flinged my way through my pantry this morning, tossing all kinds of stuff that doesn't bring me joy (extra sippee cups, lids to misc. things I don't have or don't want). I did a detailed cleaning of my pantry. Cupboard doors washed down, all counters cleared, washed and the JUNK removed. It's a LONG TIME coming! It looks great though! I even took the knobs off the stove, the drip plates out, washed everything, dried and put back. I washed the fish tank for the fish we haven't had in nearly a year. LOL no, I haven't had dirty fish water - but I had put water in the tank to wash it out a couple of months ago, so I could buy fish... and then it sat there. Now it's shiny clean and just waiting for a fish. Whether I buy one or not remains to be seen LOL

Angel & I flew this morning, on an adjusted schedule to fit us. 20 min on, 10 off. I know I got tons accomplished, thanks to her.

Oh, I also swept and washed both pantry & kitchen floors, cleared the MAJOR hotspot of a table too. I also made breakfast, lunch AND dinner, which was fantabulous. I'm posting the recipe for tonight's dinner on Tasty Space, cuz it was awesome.

OH! And I just got back from walking 3 MILES!!!

*doin a little happy dance*

I had a good weekend, and I'm hoping this week will be fun too!!!!!

Today

I like your suggestion Dawn, although I can't promise to do it every day. I am struggling to find enough time in the day to do what MUST get done. I will try though.

Today I washed the dishes, cleaned the counters in the kitchen, swept the floor, washed off the table, cleaned out the refridgerator, washed the mirror in the hallway, cleaned the downstairs bathroom, including toilet, cleaned off the hotspot I have in the living room (glass coffee table), took out several boxes and a couple of bags of garbage (well, Chris did that, but we got it done), worked on the website, vacumed the living room, the stairs, the upstairs hallway, both the kids' room, put up some more posters in their room, straightened everything up, cleaned the upstairs bathroom, including toilet (ugh), cleaned out the desk in the boys' room, made dinner, and drank three bottles of water so far, only two more to go tonight.

Speaking of accomplishments, as you know, I did not do measurments when I started. I still haven't done them, probably won't, simply because of time constraints. However, I can tell you that I now fit into two pairs of pants I had that were too small for me, and have to wear a belt with two more pair because they now literally sag off my waist down to my hips.

I am feeling better, but not as good as I should be. I think it is going to take a while for my body to realize it doesn't need to horde the fluids as I continue to feed it more and more. I am up to drinking anywhere from 80-100 oz a day. I know I still need to do more, but, a huge improvement from barely 20.

I am not sure if I mentioned it or not, but I have been doing flylady's routine for about three years now. It does not mean my house has always stayed in shape. It means that when I remember to do it flylady way, it looks great, too often I was forgetting.

So, a huge thank you to all my flybaby sisters who have reminded, poked and prodded me not only about flying, but, about my health issues, especially my drinking problem (yes flyladies, I have admitted I have a drinking problem) My life has been changed thanks to all of you and there are no words that can express my gratitude and love for you, not even if I used every word in the dictionary. It seems small, but the only words I have are Thank you.

a decision

So, it's kind of occurred to me that we're not celebrating the everyday accomplishments that we've been quietly having. I think that each day, we should each post everything we've accomplished in the day. I think, seeing it in print, will help us see that we're really DOING stuff, and that this stuff is ALOT more than what we USED to do :)

Today, I:

• got dressed to shoes
• washed the comforter and the white clothes
• made my bed
• made breakfast, lunch & have dinner marinating
• went to the store for water, and the farmer's market
• gave the baby a bath

Who's next?

Woohoo to all of us!

See, we told ya! Baby steps.

My morning routine takes me about 2 hours, but that includes breakfast and reading time with my kids. BUT! I feel super when I get it all done!

I'm getting into the whole menu planning thing now, and O M G, it makes my days SO much easier. I used to get soooo annoyed every day because I didn't know what to make, or didn't have the ingredients I needed, etc. Now, I make my menu out at the beginning of the week (Saturday), hit the stores and farmer's market and I'm good to go for the week. Now, I just look at my little index card and poof, I know exactly what I need to take out in the morning, etc.

As for the crock, I LOVE MY CROCK POT!!! Yes, just about anything can go into that baby. Frozen doesn't matter if you're going to cook it all day. I'm glad your roast came out good, too :) I have been using it alot for chicken (typically thighs). Just throw them in, season them with whatever is handy, and leave them! I usually cook them on high for about 5 hours and they just FALL off the bone. Breasts tend to dry out, so that's why I stick with (cheaper) darker meats.

As for me, I've had an iffy weekend. I have been struggling with my carb intake (and I shouldn't be by now, I feel), and then feel really guilty when I eat something I shouldn't. Oh well. I dont' want to backslide, and I can easily see that happens.

So, here's hoping that this week goes better. I'll post my menu later.

Have a GREAT week, flybabies!