Long time gone…..well not really a few days maybe. it’s been a busy week, sick baby, sick hubby, sick mommy, job interviews, driving people to and fro work, sleeping, cleaning, laundry, cooking, all the good stuff stay at home moms get to do. Applied to joann’s craft store so I can work evenings and weekends. Should hear from them after she shows my info to the district manager but she made me feel like it was just a technicality. So now we wait. Dean got a call from his uncle who said his company has an opening, he’s going to get more info on it tomorrow, hoping and praying that this is the long awaited answer to our prayers that Dean gets a good job w/ great benefits. If this doesnt work out I will have to work and even if it does work out I will probably still have to work a few months to get us back out of living on no money after paying our bills. I dont mind as long as I only have to work part time, since we cant afford to pay a sitter and me work, it’ll be much easier if I can work evenings and weekends. wont get much time w/ the hubby but most of our time now is spent w/ me doing my thing and him sitting on the puter helping someone out w/ something.
I’m finally noticing that I losing weight on this Atkins diet, unfortunately for me I always lose weight in the wrong places, lets just say my shirts are a little loser now but not around my waist so much!! I hate that. I want to lose in my belly and thighs not my breasts. I’ve always lost weight that way, losing there first. It sucks. But it’s weight loss none the less and makes me feel better about not getting to enjoy pasta anymore. So far I’ve lost 10 lbs which is great cause I do have a hard time losing weight dieting usually, and it’s only been 2 1/2 weeks! If the rain ever stops around here I might be able to get some more walking into my days which will help me lose even more weight. the diets not too bad except I get cravings like crazy. Dean said he doesnt really but me I love my food. I’ve gotten used to salads again, I used to hate salads. but when I had gestational diabetes they were my saving grace. So now I try to eat a salad before anything else in my meal to fill me up. So lately for lunch I’m just eating salad and chicken or salad and some other meat, mostly chicken though, or egg salad!! Mmmm! i love egg salad.
my little boy is growing up way too quickly. He’s talking in 3-4 word sentences which makes knowing what he wants a lot easier. but since he’s been sick he’s been very whiny, and he has discovered he can stand on a dining room chair and reach to move the latch off the fridge door, to climb onto the kitchen counter to get himself some snackage, to climb to reach the microwave, or light switch, or phone, or whatever it is he feels like getting in trouble over next!! he’s quite a smart little guy too smart for his own good, he always has to be into something or trying to figure things out. I know this is how kids learn but how do moms learn to put up w/ it and to teach them some things just arent safe or for him to discover yet??? He’s finally taken to using the big boy potty, at least for going pee, he still uses his diapers for making big stinky messes for me to clean up, but for now I’ll settle w/ at least getting him to pee on the pot. Everyone keeps telling me he’s too young but I know he’s not. he goes several times a day and this week is telling me potty before he goes so we can get to the bathroom before he gets a wet diaper. That is soooo nice!! Today i think he warned me before pooping but I was a bad mommy and didnt have time to let him go on the potty, which I regretted when I had to change him!! So he’s slowly becoming a big boy, and it scares me to death. lately if he doesnt want to get in the car w/ us or to go for a walk we’ll walk away and say bye bye and he just waves and goes on doing his thing. most kids would cry and run after their parents, not him. He’s too trusting. Today he wouldnt get in the car to leave so I got in started it and told him bye bye, expecting him to come and get in, didnt work, he waved bye bye to me. So I started moving the car out of the drive way and he still just said bye bye and went on playing on the deck. I couldnt believe it. Guess he is just too independent for us. It scares me though because he will start walking down our street away from the house by himself and will keep going w/ out a thought about being alone. He sure keeps me on my toes!!
That’s great about your weight loss! I started the Atkins diet on Monday — just to lose a few lbs fast, so we’ll see on this upcoming Monday (when I weigh) how much I’ve lost. I hope it works — I’m sick of meat already!
But, then, I had forgot about egg salad until you mentioned it! Yummy!