After a week off, whole new hours....

Havn't been around since Lee had the week off last week. Got a call Saturday night though that he'll be going back to 12 hr shifts from 5am-5pm *!&@#$& The hours will certainly help with out financial situation but he'll essentially be home and awake for 3 hrs a day :(

Olivia has started walking with greater accuracy! She has walked a distance of up to 6 feet! She's soooo proud of herself too! I got a short video yesterday but am trying to get a better one, then I'll figure out how to post it here. Olivia also had her first bowl of spaghetti! Typical results lol

Brianna is doing pretty well on her behaviour chart. We're still having some issues but it is a lot better than before. She has already earned enough stars to go to the park for an hour! She'll be sleeping at Grandma's in no time!

I'm stuck at 183.2lbs. Weigh in this morning said the same as last week. I guess that's better than a gain though! I did some weight work last week but was also so busy getting ready for the mom sale! I did pretty good there too. Sold the bassinet and rocker and some other smaller things. Even got a custom cross stitch order! I'm about half done it already so the customer should be able to pick it up tomorrow!

Arrgggg!

After my "YAY Brianna" post it was discovered that she stole twice today. First I caught her stealing chocolates from my desk, then Lee discovered that she stole 2 juice boxes for school. I am so lost on this stealing thing. I *need* her to show improvements or I'm gonna start pulling out my hair!

On another crappy note... it is so freaking HOT! Lee insisted on going to feed the ducks. Well I aint gonna be doing that again when it's still 32C! We got back over an hour and a half ago and I'm finally cooling down. The upstairs must be cooling down though, Olivia only fussed a minute or 2 before going to sleep.

I *really* need to get back to my strength training. I have skipped it for the last 2-3 wks. I'm still walking (not as much cause of the heat and too dumb to think to pull down the treadmill), but of course my body is used to walking so I really need to go back to adding something else. I'm gonna do a day of legs and abs, then a day of arms and stretching, then go back. My clothes are looser and the scale is moving but I don't seem any smaller to me. Lee says he can tell but I can't.

A Pretty Good, But HOT Weekend

Haven't been here in a while but things are going pretty good.

Saturday we went to Ottawa to see Isaac. Not 5 minutes before we arrived, Olivia fell asleep in the car. So Brianna and I went a head in and mom text me to come get Olivia when she woke up. Took some new *all three of the kids* pics.

After the visit we dropped Brianna off at Gilles and went to go visit Kate. Olivia had a grand ole time playing in the dirt while Lee cringed lol She was filthy! We had Taco Bell for supper.... bad idea. Holy salt! I came home and drank about 5 glasses of water in half an hour!

Sunday promised to be a hot day. We planned to BBQ so mom and I each took out bunches of meats to throw on. Olivia had decided that grass isn't so bad and will now crawl around in it. She loved mom's water bottle and kept trying to drink from it. If you helped her, she thought it was great fun to drink the water and dribble it down herself.

After the BBQ mom took Brianna down to the park to feed some birds. Brianna was all excited to see some goslings but no ducklings yet. The seagulls got pretty close to her as she threw out the bread. Brianna got a bit of a scrape when her and Grandma were playing hip check and she fell.

Holiday Monday was even hotter. Got all the crocheted blankets for the mom sale washed and line-dried. Now just gotta finish up our cross stitching and make up some more bows.

Lee took Brianna over to the Splash Pad that opened up this weekend. She thought it was great that she could walk there in just her swimsuit. Apparently she met a bunch of her friends from school too.

We got the air conditioner in on Sunday but the upstairs is still pretty warm. Olivia is not appreciating the heat. We have her sleeping in just onsies but she's quite fussy at night because of the heat. She's also quite clingy during the day. I'm hoping she pops some teeth as a result of this!

Brianna did pretty good behaviour wise this weekend. She got all 3 stars on Saturday, picked a fight with Lee on Sunday so only got 2 stars, but again got all 3 stars on Monday! YAY Brianna!

And just a funny shot of Olivia being silly with puffs in her hair lol

GOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!

Wooooooooooooo me! I hit an surpassed my 10lb goal by .4lbs! I am sooooooooo excited! So now I'm set up with my new goal of 5lbs by Father's Day.

Lee installed the new washer and dryer today. The washer actually has a working hot water hose so I can once again separate my clothes and wash my whites in HOT! Woooooooo! And even though it was a nice day I had to do one load in the dryer just to see how it works. Lee started calling it a piece of junk cause the cycle was almost over and the clothes were still wet and it seemed there was very little heat. Crap. So I fiddled with the settings and found one that works! Lots of heat and perfectly dry clothes YAY!

Brianna had a fairly decent day. Picked a stupid fight with Lee over wiping up a mess she made. Why do kids pick the hard way?! It would have been sooooo much easier just to clean up the mess she made, properly, the first time! She's having a sleep over with Grandma tonight. I know, I know, she hasn't hit 50 stars yet, but it was a planned event.

Lee's on vacation! I get him for a whole week now! We can't really afford for him to take time off, but I do love when he's here. Where's that winning lotto ticket?

I finally got around to cleaning out the toy room. Got rid of 1 big bag of garbage and to big bags of stuff for the Agape. Looks soooo nice in there now! Tomorrow when we get home from Ottawa I'm getting Brianna to go through the stuff I left behind and take out anything she's not playing with. We're also getting rid of the air hockey table. She loved/s playing with the one at our visits with Isaac but so rarely plays with ours so GONE! It'll be nice to have that space. It's not huge but it would be an extra 4x3 feet! YAY!

Almost a Good Day

So we had a mostly good day....

Took Brianna to her hearing test. While the tech said the vibrations weren't as high as she liked (but didn't explain that at all *sigh*) her hearing is perfect :S HUH? So what's with the yelling and the odd accent??? The yelling she said is common enough that she sees at least 2 kids a week for, but she couldn't explain the odd accent. So we'll go back to Dr. Joseph June 17th for a follow up of her feet and ears and see what he thinks.

Come back into town and pop by my old friend's house to check out the washer and dryer we were discussing yesterday. Not as new as I thought it would be but her dad gave me a "warranty" on them saying he'd give me my money back if I don't like them within 30 days. Sold. $100 for a washer AND a dryer! They even delivered them to my house! I can't wait for Lee to install them tomorrow!!!

Tried Value Village for new shorts as mine are starting to fall off even though the scale hates me. No go. God I hate buying clothes! Thankfully I've got a few shorts that still fit. Supposed to get hotter over the weekend and hit 30C by Tuesday! (And somehow I've got to get Brianna to wear her sneakers/inserts to school in this heat!)

Came home, ended up having to nurse Olivia since I didn't pump this morning and was gonna blow up (and at that point I'm too engorged to pump). So I guess she'll start her noon sippy feedings tomorrow. We both went for a nap while Lee sat on the porch watching Brianna play outside. When we got up Olivia and I went to the grocery store while Lee and Brianna played a game on the computer (since she had been good all day). Come home and Brianna's playing on the computer by herself, obviously Lee was happy with her.

Made a totally awesome chicken bake for supper. OMG yum! Starting to massively heat up in the house so we've got all the windows open. Olivia highly protested going to sleep cause she was hot and sweating in only a onsie. Maybe we should put in the air conditioner? Get Brianna to get ready for bed. I'm on the porch and hear: LEE!!!! Go inside and all I can smell is Lee's cologne. *sigh* Lee's done what I did the other day and turned off the bathroom light to ignore her tantrum. Ensuing fit. In the bath tub again. Finally get it out of her that she just wanted to smell it. So I showed her how she can smell the cologne anytime she likes without having to pour it down the drain and waste is. She thinks it's wonderful that she has permission. (WOW, another time where ASKING is better than just doing something).

Soooooo hoping that we can make it through the WHOLE day tomorrow being a good day!

The scale finally moves!

Forgot to post this morning that the scale finally woke up and I'm down .4lbs! Still .8lbs away from goal but at least it's moving again! Hopefully I can hit that .8lbs on Friday! My next goal date is Father's Day so I gotta get my butt in gear!!!

Child Slavery Day

So Brianna's home today working. She swept and washed all my floors this morning and as soon as Olivia falls asleep she's gonna weed the gardens. She ended up having to sweep and wash the bathroom floor 3 times cause she didn't do it properly. And I know she hates weeding.

She's already be caught stealing twice today. This morning there were Gusher wrappers floating around (I knew I never should have gotten those). Later she was supposed to be washing the kitchen floor and she was into my chocolates on my desk.

Hopefully we can get around to making up her chart. Between her screaming match yesterday and her stealing and chores today I havn't even told her about it. She loves charts so I'm really hoping it works.

Had to go get more chocolate bars for the school fund raiser. Mom asked for a new case yesterday and it's already 1/2 gone! I'm bringing our other box to Gilles tomorrow to sell until I bring Brianna by on Saturday. With any luck I'll need to ask the school for another case on Monday!

New Plan

So had my meeting with the principal.... he approves of me giving Brianna a strike against her field trip and wants me to tell her teacher as well. He suggests a short running behaviour chart. Running no more than 2-3 days before a reward and using no more than 3 behaviours that we want to change. He approved of Brianna's desire to watch tv as a reward because it's obviously something she really wants and will work towards.

So we're gonna do a sticker chart with No Stealing, Not Arguing with Lee and Doing Chores Without Complaint as our behaviours. She can earn up to 3 stickers a day. If she earns 6 stars she can watch a movie or get 1.5 hrs tv time. If those 6 stars are earned in only 2 days one of us will play a board game with her. If she earns all 3 stickers for 3 days in a row she can have 1 hour of computer time. 25 stickers and she gets another reward (I'm going to let her have a say in this reward) and at 50 stars she gets a sleep over at Grandma's.

I didn't get to do up the chart with her today though cause she decided to have a screaming fit for over an hour about whether she should get out of her grounding early or not (can you guess what the answer was?). It was almost 8pm before her chores (that she started at 4pm) were done (properly).

Tomorrow she is staying home from school and I'm putting her to work. Child slavery! She'll be able to find out how easy the chores she has are! And of course, she'll have to do school work in there too.

On a good note, I did manage to walk from my house around the park and the Civic Complex to the clock tower in 20 minutes. At a normal walk this would take around 35-40 minutes. So YAY! I need to get back to my stretching and strength training at home though. And I really need to look into dusting off my work out videos *sigh*

Olivia gave me a fat/bruised lip this afternoon. She got all excited about the picture of me and Isaac on Lee's nightstand that we gave it to her to look at. Well that was apparently *too* exciting and she started swinging it around and my mouth got in the way. Thankfully doesn't hurt, just annoying and looking bad.

Principal Day

So while being grounded for stealing, Brianna stole again. This time the bottle of strawberry syrup. So she was told she wouldn't get the peaches for dessert she was told she could have if she behaved. Ensuing fit.... Since our kitchen sink is broken Lee had to do the dishes in the tub and was drying them on a towel. We started to tidy them while Brianna grumbled at the world while sitting in the tub fully dressed. Brianna decided to finally be nice and handed Lee a bowl. Then the world ended in Brianna's mind because he didn't say thank you. *sigh*

Conversation on the porch about her behaviour led to her deciding she didn't have to steal, just ask.... gee really?!

Meeting with the principal is today. Gonna tell him about what's going on a home and that while her behaviour is good at school, I've issued her a strike against her Zig Zag Zoo trip.

On another note my weight is still a no-go for change :(

Still no to the goal

Weigh in this morning.... no change *sigh* Which means it hasn't changed in a week. I was even 500 calories short yesterday! So peeved with myself. I was even commenting yesterday how the shorts I bough a couple mths ago are now falling off. I should do my measurements and see if inches are falling off and it's just that the scale hates me.

Brianna's stealing has hit an all time high. She stole a family sized chocolate bar from her school fund raiser at 5am and hid it under her pillow to eat. I swear she's grounded for life. I can't wait til Thursday so she can have her hearing test. If she passes it great, I know it has nothing to do with her hearing. If she fails, great, we can fix a problem and hope it solves some others.

A Trip Back to the Farm

Took the girls to visit the farm and Grandma Hart. Grandma Hart was thrilled with her copy of Olivia's 9 mth pic. Went out to "visit" the cows. Olivia was enthralled. She just stared the entire time. Brianna of course made friends. A brown cow and calf were on her list today. The calf kept trying to lick off her arm and the cow played shy.

I had a moment of relief for the poor cows as each one had the milkers put on. Some of the udders were HUGE! Course, I'm pretty glad my pumping output isn't 22+ *kilos* of milk per session!

Stopped at Lee's parents house again. As usual his mother pretended Brianna and I weren't there. Brianna as usual went to play in the corner with Dylan's toys and talked to me since she's otherwise ignored. Thankfully it was getting close to Olivia's bedtime so we didn't have to stay long. Olivia fell asleep on the way home but I was able to nurse her back down.

I did manage to salvage my diet from Godiva death but having just soup and toast for supper. I know Lee wants to have popcorn and watch a movie tonight though. *sigh* Here comes more salt! I'll try to behave myself.....

Day 1

So I hear that blogging is a great way to keep track of goals and actually get things done. So I figure great! I have no willpower for dieting, I love to brag about my kids and complain about life. So welcome to My Kids. My Diet. My Life.

As I start this blog I just finished eating Godiva Chocolates... so great for the diet.... speaking of lack of willpower....