some pics up on Flickr..here’s a few from today:
caleb made this at school today!
It’s awesome looking, I am always amazed at how creative he is…gets it from his daddy no doubt!
The little ones and I went to the preschool christmas party this morning. it was a lot of fun!
Santa even showed up! 🙂
Still no heat!! someone came this afternoon, sometime between 4 and 5 p.m. , I was at Curves but Dean was at home w/ the boys. They think they know what is wrong, but cant get the part til morning. So….I wont be home all day tomorrow til around 3:20ish so Dean’s going to have to come home early, again…..he came home early Monday to try to fix it himself since I had to work from 4:30-9:30. today he came home at 4 to wait for the heat guy since I’d already had plans to go work out then. If we didnt have the space heaters we have we’d be really miserable. the boys and I spent the afternoon at my friends house until we went to curves. After that we all decided we’d order pizza and had dinner together with their family at their warm house instead of our chilly one! The guys then headed out to cub scouts w/ the eldest of our kids and I came home shortly after to get the little ones bathed in in bed. Since then I’ve been in the kitchen baking cookies for the preschool party tomorrow. It’s freezing in here, on the first floor and the basement. Upstairs, where the bedrooms are, we’ve got three space heaters keeping it toasty so we can sleep well!
here’s my latest weight/measurement changes(I’ve been getting weighed in every day, apparently hormonal changes can make you gain as much as 5 lbs! Â so on Friday I was way up on weight for no reason, the trainer says that is normal, so yesterday I was almost back to normal so didnt get measured, today I’m back to what I was at weight wise a month ago, but still not back to my normal pre-hormonal monthly change weight)
so…I have lost 2 more inches in my waist! wohoo! Â lost a total of an inch in my hips and get this …lost 2 inches from my thighs!!!!!! so weight is definitely wacky due to hormones, since I’ve lost a lot of inches, all in good places!
EXTREMELY BUSY….that’s what I’d say if you asked how we are!  Right now I’m sitting here w/ the boys eating their breakfast freezing our butts off. yesterday morning I realized the thermostat wasnt working. Since then we’ve had no heat, and it’s soooo cold outside. Last night we slept w/ heaters in our rooms, at least the boys did, we only had 2!  So this morning our bedroom was really cold. Dean’s going to put a call in to get someone to come fix it today….our December mortgage wont get paid til January as is…..but at least that will leave us money to get the heat fixed. one of those weeks already!! i didnt get home last night til 11:45 and by the time i got in bed it was 1 a.m.  up and out this morning for preschool, than an u/s for me.    Hoping that we can get someone to come this afternoon to look at the heat problem. I am dreading coming home to a cold house, again!    off to start the busyness that is my life lately!
This weekend last year was quite nice…warm even.  It was the weekend we packed up and moved from Balto. to Ohio.    
Last night we attended Dean’s holiday party. Last year he had to go by himself since we werent here yet.  the party was fine, the food was great, and we danced.  Zeke stayed overnight at M’s house and the older boys were with Dean’s parents overnight as well. So we went to toysrus, which is open til Midnight through the holiday shopping season then came home and crashed.  We didnt 
get up til around 9 or so to find that it was snowing heavily. We didnt get Zeke til 10ish and the older boys got home later on.  Once everyone was home they got bundled up and we all went out to enjoy the snow. by this time it had turned to rain/freezing rain, so it was slushy and messy, but the boys and the dog had a lot of fun!  right now the boys are resting, Dean’s putting a fire in the fireplace and I am going to exercise for a bit here at home.  Weather permitting, we’re on tech team all weekend for church, so we wanted the boys rested up since they say they were up til midnight and their behavior reflects lack of sleep already!
Been trying to reflect about how I feel about the one year mark of our move and I just cant do it. Â I should but I just cant put words to anything. Â Everytime I start to I get distracted or start thinking about things going on currently. so maybe the point is that I should leave the past alone, at least for now. Â Â plenty of time for memories later, right now I’m enjoying the new ones I’m making w/ the boys, hubby and friends. Â nothing quite like sitting by the fire, on a comfy sofa in gazing out past the Christmas tree in the room out at the snow covered yard…….doesnt get much better than this…(I did mention all three boys are sleeping didnt I!)
Yay me!!!! I went shopping today at Lane bryant for something nice to wear to Dean’s work holiday party tonight…and they had clearance racks of stuff marked at $6.99.  Some of the racks were just jeans. I started at a size 20, which is what I wore this time last year and even a few months back….they were too big. they werent any size 18s left so I went to the 16 thinking there was no way they’d fit. the 16’s were too big in the waist.   So I tried a 14 and it fit!!! a little snug in my belly, but not horrible. I’d rather it be the way they fit than too big like the 16s.  So I got a pair of jeans for $6.99 that are a few sizes smaller than my “old” size.  I got some shirts too and they are 14/16s. thinking I will need 12/14s soon since of course I lose all of my bust first…at least I can tell I’m losing in my thighs too..my other pants I’ve been wearing were getting baggy in the legs.  I have been wearing pants this week that I have had stored away for years since they didnt fit and they now fit too…which is awesome!!  So I hope to get pics tonight of me in my new size. I love one of the shirts I got. It was on clearance, then an add’l 50% off.  It was a great deal on such a nice shirt.
so I’m excited to say the least. I need to weigh in and get measured today since I probably wont make it to curves the rest of the weekend and the 15th is my weigh in day every month. I know weight wise I dont think much has changed but I expect I will have lost more inches.  will write more after I get back from curves.
I just one morning to sleep in…better yet one morning to wake up w/out pain.  I’ve been asking every morning for Dean to leave late or come home early….it never happens. I shouldnt waste my breath.  Mornings are the worst and lately the pain subsides as the day goes on, so if I just had a few hours to relax I’d be fine, but theres not much relaxing when it comes to two toddlers.
I had an appt w/ my gyn this week. I am scheduled for an u/s next week just to make sure nothing other than the fibroids is going on.  Basically my only option to deal w/ my current problems in that area is to have my uterus removed.  Is it worth it, well before she said it I had mentioned to Dean that I just wish that’s what they would do, they she said that was an option at my appt and I was interested. but not sure if I’m ready for early menopause!  but heck at least then the gout wouldnt baffle the doctors any more! :-)   Fun stuff. So dealing w/ a lot of questions on what to do about things, not wanting to make any decisions since that would mean getting surgery and having a 6 week recovery that involves not lifting the kiddos.  so maybe waiting til they are older is a better option for me, unless of course the u/s shows us otherwise.
big busy weekend ahead of us.  All I want to do is sleep….hoping though to go to get a nice dress to wear to Dean’s work party tonight. Not sure if I am in the mood to shop or wrangle 2 kids while I do…but not many options as todays the day of the party and the only free day I’ve had all week!
