My kids got one of those Bath Blizzard machines for Christmas.
They have always loved the bath, but this just tops it off.
It makes big bubbles and they flow into the tub. They go crazy over all the bubbles it makes. However, there are two problems with bathtime.
First, Ella constantly wants fresh water in the tub. She has a little bucket and catches the water as it comes out of the spigot and dumps it into the tub. When the tub is full, she cries “I need more water!” I tell her to take the water from the tub and fill her bucket, but it apparently isn’t the same thing. I turn the water on for a few second to fill her bucket and tell her that it is. She dumps it. “More water?” She has actually drained the tub before to get more water. Yesterday she did that and I made them get out instead of refilling it. I need hot water too! I don’t have a tankless water heater and I’ll be damned if I’m taking a cold shower!
The second problem is that Harry is terrified of the noise that the bubble machine makes when it runs out of bubbles. It screeches a little and he screams and starts crying right away when it happens. I try to tell him it is just trying to suck water and is getting air like whistle, but he says, “but it is loud and scary!”
One day I’ll have peace and quiet while they bathe.
I have decided to move all of my weight loss blogging over to its own website. I’m finding that it is consuming space here and I would like to keep the focus of this website on parenting and stories about kids.
If you would like to continue to follow my weight loss progress, you can check it out at
Nerdy Loser
I’ve copied my posts about weight loss from here to there and you won’t hear a bit about it anymore over here.
Thanks!
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The wonderful ladies over at The Secret Is In The Sauce are offering a Keurig coffee maker to one lucky person who leaves a comment on their blog. These guys are just awesome anyway, so even if you don’t want a coffee maker you should check them out!
The Keurig pot is really cool. My sister’s boss had one and it makes everything from mochas to chai really quickly. I’m a coffee fiend (more about that in a second), so I’m all about getting one of these puppies.
Now about my love of coffee…I’ve heard people use the term “coffeeholic,” and let me just say that annoys the crap out of me. It shouldn’t be anything “holic.” People always say they are “chocoholics” to say they really like chocolate. The correct term should actually be chocolatic. The English language uses the suffix ”ic” is what tells us that people are wild about a certain thing. So if someone is an alcoholic, they really like alcohol. If someone is a coffeeholic, they really like coffeehol. See what I mean?
This was the big holiday week. Christmas Eve, Christmas, parties….
I stuck to my guns and exercised 6 days- 4 of them really hard.
I was pleasantly surprised on Tuesday night that I not only maintained, but also lost 1lb! It just goes to show the importance of exercise.
My goal for the end of the year was 15 lbs and I ended the year down 15.6!
On to the New Year and a thin me!
Remember how Harry wanted that big dinosaur Koto and was saving money for it? He changed his mind and said what he really wanted the Spike dinosaur that walks and roars.
We went to a party on Sunday and a little friend of his brought with his new Spike. Harry played with it a little bit and seemed to really like it. After a few minutes I looked over and he was standing on the couch with tears in his eyes.
“What’s the matter?” I asked.
“That guy is roaring at me and I don’t like it.”
I sat for a minute and then realized that Harry liked the dinosaur as long as he was walking away from him. As soon as the dinosaur was turned and walking toward him, he became scary.
Ella was scared of it from the start and had to leave the room.
I thought we had gotten out of saving change for Spike, but apparently that isn’t the case. Last night, Harry told me that he still wants to buy Spike. I asked him why he would spend all of his hard earned change on something that scared him.
He said, “Because when I’m six I won’t be afraid of it anymore.”
He’s got two years until that happens, so hopefully he’ll change his mind before all the money is saved.
I’ve got a very long list of things I need to be doing. Unfortunately, most of them cost money that I don’t have. On that list?
I suppose these are things that either seem very far away or things that seem to have a very small chance of being used. When it comes between buying food for the week or saving for college, bread always wins. I hope things get better this year and we can start being the responsible parents we should be.
Well, when I set out on this weight loss task, I had set a sort of lofty mental goal in my head for myself. I wanted to loose 15 lbs by the end of the holidays. It was this kind of high mark that I could say it was better than gaining 15 lbs between Halloween and New Year’s, which I usually easily would do.
I weighed in for my pre-Christmas weigh in last night and I lost 1.6lbs even with parties and fast food this week. Granted, I still counted my points. I exercised 5 times and tried to go as smart as I could- like a kid’s meal from Wendy’s instead of the super-sized meal.
That brings my total lost so far up to 14.6lbs!
My plan for this week is this- I am going to count points, but not be surprised if I go way over with parties and holiday dinners. I’m going to exercise at least 5 times this week and it has to be HARD exercise, not just a few situps. If I can balance some of the cookies (which I had for breakfast today and will be tomorrow- its tradition), with plenty of exercise I should be able to maintain that loss this week. I don’t care if I loose over the holiday, but I just want to hold that line with all my might and try not to fall off the cliff.
This is my last post till after Christmas, so have a fantastic holiday!
I got a wonderful Christmas gift yesterday.
I was uploading some photos to our family website to share with the family when I suddenly smelled a burning scent sort of like a hairdryer overloading. Then my monitor went black. I looked down and the CPU’s usual blue light was orange. I realized that something in the computer burned out. I opened her up to see what was going on and feel that the processor box is hot as heck. I let it all cool off and tried to restart. All the fans came on like normal, but nothing happened otherwise.
It turns out we most likely had a virus that causes the processor to overload and burn out.
Who makes this kind of stuff?! I wish I had a fancy Seattle injury lawyer to track down these people and make them pay for a new computer for me. We have $0 to put into a computer right now, so I am left with two options.
#1 Use my old laptop that has a broken monitor that needs a screwdriver in it to run and can’t be bumped or the monitor shut off. That can be OK because I can plug the regular monitor into it once everything is set up correctly, but the other issue is that it needs a new keypad. Half the keys don’t work so I have to constantly go back and fix what I just wrote. Since I write for a living, that makes it kind of a pain. Its impossible to tutor online with because I can’t type real time at all. It would come ou something like this when I ould writ to one of the kids, so try teling them that I know what I’m doing when I mispell everything that I type. Its not a big deal to buy a new keypad (about $15) and I know how to install it already since I’ve had to replace it 2x.
#2 Use my REALLY OLD CPU. My current one was 5 years old, but we had gotten a pretty good one so it still worked well. The old one is about 10 years old. This computer is very slow and it needs windows reinstalled on it because we had reformatted the hard drive years ago to get ready to give it away.I have to piggy back the hard drive from my current computer onto it so I can get all the pictures and video from it into a safe place. I need an external hard drive to store all that.
This stinks.
I’ve been thinking a ton about the things that I plan on doing when I am thin again. I was only thin for a short period of time in my life- after college for a 3 or 4 year span before I started having kids. I’m looking forward to next summer when I should reach my goal weight once again. Here are a few things I’m looking forward to or would like to do:
1. Buy a pair of knee high boots
2. Buy a non-maternity bathing suit
3. Go to the beach and actually wear swimwear
4. Wear shorts instead of capri pants
5. Wear cute summer dresses
6. I would love to go back to las vegas looking hot and not pregnant
7. Buy some lingerie - especially bras that don’t look like something grandma would wear
Ahh…I can’t wait to actually want to shop. I hate shopping now because nothing ever fits right. I remember when I was thin I could walk into a store and just buy something that I wanted. Now it is always a hassle. I’m probably most looking forward to being able to shop- as you can see from my list!
