Spring is in the air

Spring is in the air, well maybe in my mind. Taxes have been filed, we will be finishing our living room just in time for Memphis to be crawling. We are working on our shed to bring home 25 new baby chickens just in time for the warmer temps here in Florida. I am so excited to get things done around this dump of a home. Little by little though will make me a happier woman. To calm my crazy nerves lately I have been crocheting cute little monkey hats that I see so often on these blogs, I am getting better with each hat too!!
Oh and on weight loss progress.. I weigh 124 pounds right now, and the pants I was wearing a month ago that were way to tight are now falling off my hips and butt!!! Such a wonderful thing... I owe to nursing of course.. I did maybe 2 of Jillians workouts and was so sore I couldn't manage the stairs at the college.
I do need to workout though to build up some muscles and stamina.. one of these days!

Just one of those days

Today I just had one of those days. I woke up with a good start, actually was showered, dressed and ready before 10:00 am.. for me that's good. Then boom!! Our electric was turned off! I knew we were past due , but I was hoping my hubby would get his unemployment check (he was temp. laid off during the holidays) before it was shut off, but it didn't work out like that. So I called the electric company and they stated that we needed $336 before they would turn it on. I wanted to cry. I have quit working for 5 months now and were losing our butts. Just not fair .... I don't want to leave the baby yet. I had to go up to the college today to get a book for one of the classes I am starting this week, but the college store had more students lined up then there was in front of Toys R us on Black Friday. I backed out of that slowly and knew I had just wasted my gas and time (1 hour) driving there for nothing. So I went ahead and stopped off at the hospital on my way home and submitted an application for housekeeping/night shift and pray they might give me a call. I doubt it but I said a prayer and will wait to hear from them.
So after I drove home from my uneventful trip to the city.. I arrive to the house with NO Electric. Houses with no electric or so weird. You don't hear that normal white noise of the fridge and other electronics humming in the background. I tried to make it normal by nursing the baby in the rocker and singing him a lullaby, fighting the urge to let out tears.
Oh on top of it , I find out that the lumber my husband had bought to replace our sub-floor in our house, is pressure treated and you can not put that in the house because of the chemicals. I about flipped. I did cry after hearing this because I had my hubby buy the supplies to replace the floors and now I find out he bought the wrong kind of lumber and it's not even tongue and groove.
I am still awaiting to hear the quote for the labor and think I may need a drink after that.
So to Sum it up... It was just one of those days..
I think I will go crochet a hat and say the heck with it all.

Post Pregnancy Phat-ness

I need to get going on my workouts.. I am going to be posting up my measurements soon with me in a not so pretty picture...
I don't really care about my weight, I know I will probably stay the same because I will be doing the 30 day shred with weights, so I will probably not lose weight but hopefully inches.

I heard I could lose 2 pant sizes in 30 days.. which would be good because in my stomach I am about 3 pants size's from fitting into my pre-pregnancy pants, and to be honest with you I was sort of out of shape when I got pregnant.

so here is to making a vow, that once my new work out video comes in.. I will post a flabby picture of myself with measurements and then will write everyday about my experience and 30 days from that point, I will post a before and after picture with my new stats.
At this point I am not going to adjust my eating, just yet.
good night :0)

hmmppfff

I am feeling overwhelmed with one of my classes right now. I have to write a paper and have it turned in by Sunday , plus read 3 very long chapters and prepare for my 2nd to last test. I can't give up now because my GPA is awesome, and I am so close to turning in my application for the Physical Therapy program.
I am also my own worst critic. I feel like I can't keep the house up, I don't give my kids enough attention or the right attention, I feel that most of the stress in my life is my own doing and I just want to exhale already.
You know how there is those moment's you wish you could go back and make different decisions for yourself. Well I would of finished school and got my degree before having children. Honestly I think I would of waited till 30 to have my children as well. The way I look and feel about this last one is so different than I did when I was 20 and 22. I do not regret having my kids.. I would never do that. I just wish I could of made better decisions so I could provide for them, the way I feel I should.
I sometimes have to remember that one poem to put my thoughts back in to perspective:
My home is filled with toys, has fingerprints on everything & is never quiet. My hair is usually a mess, no makeup on & I'm always tired, but there is always love & laughter here. In 20 years my children won't remember the house or my hair but they will remember the time we spent together & the love they felt.
I hope one day my kids do look back and remember me as someone that loved them and not someone whose nose was stuck in a textbook all the time.

head cold

It has been 3 months since Memphis was born. My insurance has ran out and since I quit working to stay at home with the baby I can't afford to buy my prenatals. So lucky me, has been coming down with every virus that comes across my path.
My nose has finally quit running but the sinus head ache is kicking my butt. It is 11pm, I am getting ready to log off and go to sleep for the night, but before I do I need to rinse the diapers one more time and then throw them in the dryer so I am ready to go in the morning.
I have a busy week ahead of me, from dentist appointments to college classes and I am hoping this head ache of mine gives in.