May is Here

May 1st - Columbia's Slimdown Challenge has begun! Oh I hope I can lose at least 20 lbs by August 1st when the challenge ends...and keep losing after that. I've downloaded an app that will help me track my calories. I've just got to be disciplined to enter what I eat and to exercise. I've stopped running b/c I got sick with a nasty cough. I think I'm getting better...so may try to Jazzercise tonight if there's no softball game. Otherwise, I will do a workout video at home. My team is depending on me so I must do this!!!!

Oh these next few weeks are gonna be TOUGH. Baseball and softball games have started...kind of. Yesterday was supposed to be Christopher's first game but it was rained out. Kayla is supposed to have a softball game tonight...will the fields be dry enough?? So much stuff this month with dance recitals, ballgames, girl scouts, gymnastics, conditioning classes, field trips, end of school year functions, etc.

Tomorrow is a spring social at Christopher's school and it's right after school so that's nice. So I take Kayla to ballet and do her hair, race over to get Christopher and bring him back to dance. Chris will pick him up after work. Meanwhile after ballet comes jazz and it's an in class dress rehearsal. So I must remember her costume. Immediately following jazz is a softball game, so I must remember her uniform. Christopher also plays tomorrow night at 7:30pm. So we should be home around 9:30pm - and that's when we'll start dinner and homework and showers...

Counting today - only 18 more days of school left!!

Exercising SUCKS

So I finally download a C25K app, loaded some music, dusted off the running shoes, and hit the pavement. 30 seconds into it I wanted to die. Last week was my first week, and though I didn't complete it the way you're supposed to, I tried. I'm redoing week one, and still haven't completed it like I'm supposed to. But I'm trying. I've cut WAAAAAAY back on soda and have been drinking lots of water. Somehow I gained 2lbs last week?? I am hoping to make it to Jazzercise tonight - maybe that will defunk me b/c running just isn't my thing. I'd like to be able to run at least one 5k in my life, and I'm hoping for September. We shall see.

I can't believe school is almost over and done. I've been trying to make some summer fun plans - think I'm going to put a bunch of fun things in a jar and have the kids pull one out a day. Trying to come up with new ideas is hard!! Some that I have so far are:

• tye dying shirts
• bleach tye dying shirts
• chalkboard paint something
• make an outdoor twister board
• finger painting
• work on scrapbooks

If anyone has ideas to add, please share them!!!

Trip to the Lake

So we headed to the Lake to do some shopping...for a gun cabinet for Chris's birthday. The cabinet was on clearance and Chris sold me when he said that the kids were old enough now that the guns needed to be properly stored. BUT, had I known that his intentions were to put the gun cabinet in our bedroom I would have said NO!!

Chris dropped Kayla and me off at the outlet stores where we returned some Crocs and bought a new pair, socks and a Crocman - too cute. We hit Gap and got some flip flops and then stopped at Under Armour and got a shirt. By that time the boys were back with the gun cabinet and it was time to head home.

Crocman

Now to prepare for Easter festivities...

Misses Spring Break

Oh how I miss Spring Break. We had such a wonderful, peaceful, no schedule week. It was a slow paced, do whatever, no fighting, no homework week. Why can't we have that every week? I'm so happy tomorrow is Friday because this week has been full of dance, girl scouts, homework, reading, dance, baseball practice, gymnastics, conditioning, parent computer club night at school...I think that's it. Nevermind getting ready for Easter which always seems to sneak up on me.