Once Upon a Time....

Once upon a time, long, long ago these were my kids. So young and so Innocent. The world had not yet exposed them to such horror and corruption. They hung out with us they. They smiled when they got there picture taken. Family trips were fun and exciting, not heal dragging and torture filled.

Once upon a time this was my little boy with the most contagious laugh in all the world. Until puberty took it and made it deeper. He wore his hair short and you could see his beautiful face. When he smiled he had deep, wonderful dimples. And he called me his best friend.

Once upon a time this little girl let me play with her hair. She loved french braides and playing dress up. Princess movies was her favorite pass time as was helping me in the kitchen. When I used to fall asleep on the couch in the afternoon this little girl would cover me up with a blanket and I would wake up to a clean house and the sweetest smile "mommy did you sleep good. Look I clean for you so you could sleep."

Sometimes they let their guard down and I get a glimpse of those kids I had once upon a time.

Gouls, Ghosts, & Gobblins

A few weeks ago Jeremy won two free tickets to CornBelly's Corn Maze on Facebook. Since he only won two we decided to go as a date. For those of you who don't know what CornBelly's is its a small carnival type place for families during Halloween time down in Lehi at Thanksgiving Point. I think it's a bit young for my kids but they do have a haunted corn maze. This years haunted corn maze spelled out Fablehaven which is a book series we are reading and love. The book is full of great fantasy creatures and I was excited to see them in the maze. Well much to my disappointment the only character from the book was the witch. I was bummed about that. But I have to say that this haunted maze was way scarier then Nightmare on 13th. I don't know if they went easy on us there because we had Jessi and two of her friends with us whom are all short for their ages, or if the fact I stared at the ground the whole time and I bored them. Either way Nightmare on 13th was pretty tame compared to CornBelly's. I stared at the ground but that seemed to egg them on to try harder to scary me. I happen to startle quite easily. I may not be "scared" but I jump anyway. Just ask my family they think its hilarious. So these "spooks" would come up and say "boo" or make a loud noise and I jumped, even screamed out once (or twice but who's counting) OOOH I think they had too much fun with me. I didn't like it too much. This is the last haunting I am going to. No more. I think I said that a few years ago and ended up going to two this year. But really this is it, no more. I don't like that stuff.
So while at CornBelly's Jer saw the bucking bull. He begged. He pleaded. He promised not to say a word if he through his back out. I gave in and he road it. I will see if he will up load the video I took onto this blog later. I was so nervous that he would get hurt but he seems to be fine. Although his arms hurt from holding on. :)
It was a pretty fun date.

Unfit

So I didn't make it to Weight Watchers last night. Thursday is a new night for me, I used to go on Wednesdays and a friend called to ask if I would go to a movie with her. I remembered W.W. about an hour before she came to pick me up.

But I did try a new recipe that was FANTASTIC!! I am always leery about eating cooked spinach because I think of canned spinach and well YUCK!! But fresh is so yummy. I really think you all should try this:

5.8 oz of couscous prepared (next time I am gonna cook with chicken broth)
1/3 cup chopped walnuts heated for 2 minutes in a sprayed pan then set aside
1.5 lbs cut up chicken breast (i added a little season salt) browned
6 cups of spinach add to chicken along with walnuts once chicken is cooked all the way. (I actually only used about 3 or 4 cups, 6 just seemed too much.) Serve chicken on top of the couscous. Once I topped the couscous with the chicken I thought it just needed some tomatoes for the eye appeal. I was right it was so pretty once I did that. And it tasted very good. My kids wouldn't touch it, but you know what I am passed caring about that.

Also yesterday I decided to walk on my treadmill during nap time. About 28 minutes into my planned 1 hour work out my legs started to itch. At the 34 minute mark my legs we so itchy and burning I just could not bare it any longer so I stopped and went to shower. My legs were bright red and starting to swell and felt very hot to the touch. After showering I went on line to look this up and see if there was a name for it and if I should worry. This is not the first time I have had this happen. I discovered what was going on.... I am unfit!! It was a hard thing to swallow. I guess while exercising my muscles get warmed up and require more blood but the capillaries can't supply the blood fast enough which causes the itching. This really broke my heart. It takes so much work and effort and time to become fit but it only takes minutes to become unfit. My new plan of action is to walk a little slower and maybe cut it in half and just exercise twice a day instead of all at once.

A new begining

So yesterday I expressed my desire to blog again and asked what I should blog about. My friend Holly made some suggestions that got my wheels spinning. So here's the plan:
Monday- possibly blogging about date night. I love to do dates that as close to free as I can get. I thought it would be fun to blog what we do and how it was free.
Wednesday- "remember when" I will try to blog about passed things we did with the kids. You know before blogging was around.
Friday- health/nutrition/exercise stuff. Which works out great since Thursdays are my weight watcher days and the days I experiment a new recipe on my family and my sisters family. I am hoping it will give me an accountability to you guys and I will be too embarrassed to have a down fall so I will stay on track. here's to hoping.

So here we go with the first "remember when"

I thought it would be good to post pictures of my kids dressed up for Halloween. I think this is when Jessica was in Kindergarten and Bri was in 4th, so 2004. Bri had bugged me non stop for a scary costume. I caved! I didn't usually allow scary. But I only bought the mask he had to come up with the rest him self.



Jessica wanted to be a princess. But of course she refused to be Ariel. I couldn't talk her into it for nothing. So we went to the dollar store and got the gross hair spray, that probably causes lung cancer, because she wanted a wig and I didn't have that kind of money. Halloween in Utah is too cold for costumes. I think Jess has sweat pants on under her dress.

On a side note look at my tree it looks so tiny compared to today. Happy Halloween everyone.

Blogging

I have not blogged in forever. A couple of reasons 1. I now watch a baby. Jack's mommy had a baby for me :) Good thing too my baby itch was getting so unnerving. I find that I miss her over the weekends though. And 2. my kids don't do fun things to blog about. In fact if I blogged about my kids on a daily basis those of you who had kids would give them up for adoption the summer before they went off to junior high and those of you who don't have kids would never have kids.

So during the summer I decided I wanted to run a 1/2 marathon next fall. Why oh why do I shut down when I give myself a dead line. Do any of you do that. I gave myself a dead line for my weight loss because I wasn't doing so good and I am still not doing good. Just stressing that I will never be healthy and never fit into a normal standard of weight. It's quite depressing. So now that I have set the goal of running a 1/2 I no longer have the desire to run at all. Someone please tell me that they are this way too! (I have probably lost the 2 or 3 readers since I stopped blogging)

So I am looking for a subject to blog about. I think I really need an outlet, some where I can ramble on and on about a subject. It gets kinda lonely in the babysitting world. I can talk to the kids but they just ask me if I want a crabby patty or stare at me with a blank look. Plus nap time well yeah that is just a bore for me. I have considered putting the boys down at different times so I have someone to play with at all time but in reality I need a break. So if any of you have a suggestion let me know. I just refuse to do politics, not my cup of tea.

Another give away from my friend

For a chance to win a betty crocker give away go to my friends blog at www.familyfishbowl2.blogspot.com it's easy to do. Good luck to you all.

It's breast cancer awarness month

Yep that's right it breast cancer awearness month. I am gearing up to do my annual run/walk with my weight wathcers group. This year it's not a 5K it's 5 MILES!! Woo hoo!! and Jeremy is gonna go with me.
On my very good friend Lori's blog you can enter to win a breast cancer package from yoplait, who have been a Susan G. Komen supporter for years. Go here www.familyfishbowl2.blogspot.com to enter for a chance to win. Good luck