Jillian - that was awesome of your DH! Not many men recognize when their wives just need them and to be loved a little more.
Amy - enjoy your last day with your family. A new adventure starts tomorrow!
Lori - it is best to split your protein up throughout the day. I have the same thing with blood sugar problems and fruit if I don't have a balance. I find the fruit that affects it the least is cantaloupe. I usually nibble on that and apple slices in the morning and then again in the afternoon after my salad.
Julie - thank you for the suggestion. I forgot about Fit TV. I think I've seen it while flipping through channels and quickly moved on. I hate seeing skinny people exercise.
Kristin - I hope you get to enjoy that new car topless again soon!
Well I finished my 2nd TO yesteday. Sclae is still the same. I'm telling myself that I'm building muscle by the extra uphill walking. I hope I start seeing losses soon.
This morning I actually convinced my Mini-Me to get up early to go to Starbuck's for a treat. We haven't done that in a LONG time. It worked, she was up and ready by 7:30. I tricked her. After Starbucks we walked to the grocery store to pick up a few things and then walked back home with the groceries. It was a good little early morning exercise even though she didn't think so
Yay for Friday! I've gotta get my salad together and packed for lunch then off to work.
Jillian....how very sweet of DH. Are you sure he is real? lol. How is Baby X doing today? I think the two week marker is a time for some fussiness, but it usually fades as quick as it appears. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you all
JerseyAmy.....I too had to leave my family to be with my DH. Totally worth it. It is so nice to have my family come stay with us and vice versa. It is difficult to be away sometimes, but DH and I have a standing agreement that if something goes wrong, or really right, with my family, I will be there. Whatever is going on, within reason, we will figure out a way to get me there.
Sorry for the rant......I was just comletely blown away by this news and wondered if anyone else had ever heard of this or realized it?
ok, really weird, my entire rant disappeared after I copied and pasted it to word in case that happened......but the rest of the post is there......weird. Well, here goes the ranting :
So I have an issue.........I got my Social Security statement thingie yesterday.........and I was reading it, and according to our lovely government, I qualify for SS when I am old enough, but because I chose to be a SAHM, sacrifice a lot of material items, and a bit of sanity, and I have not worked since 2002, I no longer qualify for disability benefits should something awful happen to me. WTF???? I have worked since I was 15 years old, paid into SS, but since I decided to raise my own children instead of paying a ton in daycare for someone else to do it for me (no offense to you working mom's.....I have a lot of kids, the daycare bill would be quite outrageous), I no longer count. How can this be? We have chosen family values over stuff......we don't get any assistance from the government. We aren't asking for handouts, we make a fine living......but that is just it.......WE make a fine living. DH's job is very demanding......he works long hours a lot of days, and travels. There is no way I could schedule working into all of that uncertainty. I am livid. If something happened to me, he would be SCREWED. I just may have to write a little awareness piece and send it into my local paper. I guess I would have to do more research, but it seems awfully wrong, in these United States, that if we pay our taxes, we wouldn't be due the same assistance programs of everyone else just because we are a successful one income family.
I am the world's biggest women's libber stay at home mom. This is my choice, not my fate or my series of unfortunate events. Not to mention that DH makes as much as, if not more, than many two income families........and this would not be possible without the support of his stay at home wife. Sure, he woud still be qualified to do his job, but he woudn't have the time to invest in it. WTF????? I am power pissed. So what do I do, take out dsability inurance on my self via a private insurance company? Can you do that?
I am really an economic specialist......my job, besides the obvious ones, is saving money........by cutting our kids' hair at home, by cooking healthy nutritious meals at home, by walking places instead of driving, by clipping coupons, by shopping sales, by tutoring my own children, by growing fruits and vegetables in my garden. My time allows me to save money of things like this. And I LOVE my job. Noone can do it like I can. I am sickened today by this nonsense.......and what is funny, is I most likely will never need disability benefits.........but someone just like me might....and they will get screwed. It sucks when you try to be an honest, community based, considerate, loving member of society and then realize things like this.
Ok, I am trying to be done. It is hard for me when I feel so passionately about something. I better take some time while I am still angry to write this correctly. I just might HAVE to become employed, just to raise awareness and get my message out there. Those tricky ba$tards.........they are making me change my own mind.......lol.
Well I'm not American so I don't know that much about social security benefits, but I assume it's similiar to our Canada Pension benefits. Like here I would assume you qualify for disability benefits should you become disabled and unable to work. I would assume since you technically do not work, I say technically because I assume with that many kids you're likely working the equivalent of 2-3 full time jobs lol, then they assume you don't need disability benefits if you were to become disabled because technically ur not losing any money by not being able to work.
They probably don't factor in the fact that were u disabled, u may have to hire someone to do the work you do or your husband would lose income due to the responsibilities at home.
I think i can understand the rationale in it, but it kinda sucks! Can you get disability insurance through your husband's work? Sometimes you can get good spousal rates
just wanted to pop in and say that baby X is doing well...but this morning i noticed that her right eye was matted shut and kinda goopy/watery..took her to the dr this afternoon and she has pink eye! WTF? how does a 2wk old get fricken pink eye? it sucks. so now we have to put this ointment in her eye 3x's a day. and it's so hard to get it in there..we have to pry her little eye open. it sucks and doesn't work so well.
my poor little girl.
Jillian.......I hve a home remedy that you can include in her antibiotic treatment. I treat my kids for eye infections without antibiotics now. If you put some baby wash on a clean, wet, warm washcloth, and just gently and slowly wipe her eyes (the unifected one first), well, wait, let me clarify.......a very small amount of tear free baby wash, rinsed a bit and even distributed on the washcloth....wouldn't want to cause a baby pain. I usually just leave it on their eye (closed of course) for a second or two and then gently wipe to the outside. You can do this everytime her eye gunks up, and it will help clear the infection much quicker than with the antibiotic alone. I have cured many eye infections this way.
Also, when baby Maria was born, she had a bit of eye trouble. It is not uncommon for baby's to get clogged tear ducts when they are new. We home remedied baby Mia's eyes, and they got better quick. Also, it was something that only bothered her in the first couple of weeks.
I hope your poor little baby feels better soon. I think it is often harder on us moms than it is on our babies
XOXO
Nicole, I see your point. I'm sure everyone would gladly give you benefits if it did not mean that someone who actually did pay in would get less. Plus how in heck do they determine how much to pay a SAHM?. I know you can buy insurance policies like that, as I've had insurance agents pitch them to me before. I did the SAHM mom thing for a few years, so I recall how that felt. Then I went back to work, and experienced the stay at home mom's being rather dismissive of the working moms.... like they don't care about their kids.... I don't think I could have managed to work with 5 kids... Of course they eventually grow up and you move on with your life.. You'll likely qualify again for disability without working a great deal...
Thank you to everyone. I did do takeoff and i started a rapid results plan. I stuck to the plan like glue and I drank 64 plus oz of water a day. I have been exercising a l lot lately and I am sure that has made a difference. i really needed a big loss to keep me going and that was it. my goal this week is to make sure i keep it off.
it sucks. so now we have to put this ointment in her eye 3x's a day. and it's so hard to get it in there..we have to pry her little eye open. it sucks and doesn't work so well. 
