Week of March 14th chat!!!
 

Good Morning!! Have a few "alone" minutes soo I thought I would catch up on the thread and emails!!!
Rabbit-Congrats!! U R doing soo well!!!Hope U kept the willpower at the party!! Today is #2's birthday and I am not sure about the willpower but will work on it!!! :lol: :lol:

Lauren--Sorry about the computer probs..Hope things are well!!

TxChick-WElcome again!! Rabbit is our inspiration!!!!
Jackie-Yeah on the son!! I outgrew asthma as a child and have had only one episode in 15 yrs!!
Karen--How are things??

We took pics with live rabbits yesterday and Ms Priss freaked out..She hated them and cried!!! Oh well..maybe next year!!!
Have a great day..Have to make things for the party!!
RR

Hi All,

DH hooked up his iMac, so I'm on that...do we all remember how much I love the iMac? :rolleyes: So this will be short! :lol:

Had an OK week at work, didn't have to do much work with that person this week. Was really busy because we have this huge sales meeting next week, then another one two wks. later. Was at work til 8 Fri. night. I love it though, keeps me busy.

Because of all the trouble, I have to seriously cut back on internet time there though, and of course evenings are rough...even with the PC working, so i don't get on the computer much. :( Having serious withdrawal problems!! :rofl:

Peter's on his 3rd round of antibiotics for his ears. :( Now he's on Omnicef for 5 days...that ends tomorrow night, I guess. Have to make an appt. for a recheck sometime this week.

Anyway, I've got a lot of crap to catch up on at home...have a great week all, and I'll try to check in when I can! :wave:

Lauren--We went to my reg pedi's partner and he put Kaylee on Omnicef for 14 days...That was on Feb 2nd..This is the longest we have ever been without an ear infection since birth!!! Hope he is better soon!!!
V

hello. Ds and I got home from the party last night. And I'm back now from taking him to the airport.

The party was a lot of fun. I think Grandma really enjoyed it. We celebrated mom's birthday Friday night and I think I did worse then than on Saturday. But the points are calculated and I still have some flex points left. Luckily I didn't like the icing on the cake so I didn't eat that! I ate on the run though both days and that made it tough.

TX - I think the reason I had such a good loss this week was from sticking with it. I only had a .2 loss the week before and had a good week. I also made sure this week that I did not go under my minimum daily points (did that 3 or 4 days the week before and that may have messed me up). And I focused on getting 2 servings of dairy in a day. Those are the things I did differently.

RR - hope you are all having fun at the birthday party!

Lauren - hope Peter is better and we get to hear from you more.

Rabbit
*9.3 down, 15.7 to go

Happy Sunday to all........................

Just trying to get the house cleaned. So far I have been able to get the house vacuumed and the kitchen mopped. I have the bathrooms to do next, but thought I would take a break and check in here.

Lauren: Sorry to hear about Peter being sick again. I hope he gets to feeling better soon. Pop in when you can.

RR: That's great about you outgrowing asthma and only having one attack in 15 years. I am hoping that this will be the case with DS. Hope you have fun at the B-Day party today.

Rabbit: You are doing so great with your weight loss. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!

Karen: How are you and Alex doing today??????

TX: Hope you are having a good day. I hate when DS has asthma attacks, they are no fun. I could not remember if you said or not, but has DH had asthma all his life? Forgive me if you already told us. I am having a memory lapse right now. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hello to anyone I might have missed. Need to run and finish cleaning.

Jackie

Hi guys,

Sounds like everyone is busy. I am getting a new playroom!! We are converting the basement. We have ordered carpet (berber), they are coming tomorrow to measure. I had such fun cleaning in there today. I was sneezing and coughing and blowing my nose like crazy. It will be much easier to vaccuum that room instead of sweep it. We ordered a love seat and recliner from LaZBoy. They will take 8 - 10 weeks to get here. Then we are going to move our nightly TV viewing down there. I've already emptied shelves for Alex's toys. The next thing I want to do is make curtains for the windows.

RR: Hope the party was fun today. Too funny about the rabbits. If I put DS together with rabbits (or any animal) I would never get a pic because he wouldn't be still. He would hound the poor things until they had a nervous breakdown. Maybe next year she will like the bunnies.

Lauren: So sorry Peter is still sick. Hope the ear infection clears up soon. Hope you get the computer fixed soon too. Please PM me your address. I am going to be sending out invitations soon to 'lil bits BD party. Hope you guys are available on April 24th. It's not gonna be a big thing. Peter and Alex and maybe DH's nephew will be the only kids. (I have to order the invites and stuff so it will be awhile yet :) )

TX: Hope you've had a great weekend. We all have troubles staying focused, especially me :o . We are here for you.

Jack: OK, now it's your turn. Could you come clean my house please? I spent so much time on the basement the rest of my house looks like poop!!

Rabbit: Glad the party went well. Sending you good vibes for this week.

I gotta go grocery shopping tomorrow so I'm going to load up on veggies. I've let them slide lately. I've also let DH talk me into Chinese food way too often.

Hope everyone has a lovley Monday.

hi all. It seems weird now that ds is gone again since he was here for 10 days.

I played tennis this am but had to skip the weights. I have hurt my wrist and was afraid to push it with weights. It was a little sore starting out in tennis and then it was fine. whew.

Jackie - thanks! Hope you got your cleaning done.

Karen - thanks! And enjoy the new playroom.

gotta run - the laundry is calling.

Rabbit
*9.3 down, 15.7 to go

Hi guys,

My son, the original Velcro baby, is taking his SECOND nap of the day in his crib. :cb: :cp: :dance:. I don't know what to do with myself. I'm on tenterhooks waiting for him to wake up screaming. The first one was 1 1/2 hrs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So far this one is 20 minutes. I am SO hoping this carries over into tonight. Ya'll send me crib sleeping vibes for tonight!

Lauren: I hear a snowstorm is on tap for you guys tomorrow. Be careful. I hope they are wrong.

OK, gonna go find something to do!!

Karen-isnt it funny when they give U a break and U dont have any clue what to do with it????Hope it lasted!!I woke Kaylee up at 4:30 for a bottle since I am off to work for 5am this morning and DH will be in a bind for what to do!!Hmmmmm...how hard is it???? :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:
#2 is having surgery, and they couldnt spare to let me off today soo I am working early and will be off in time for her when she hits recovery room that I can be there when she wakes up...It is tubes in the ears again for the 5th time and then we are having her dental exam, cleaning and any repair work while she is asleep today...Hmmmm..will DH get #1 off to school, not let #2 eat, get #3 to daycare in time to bring #2 to the hospital???We shall see, oh to be a bug on the wall!!hahaha
RR

Hi everyone!

Hope all of you are doing great this week! DH and I went out for Indian food last night with a friend from college who was in town. I have never tried it before and I really liked it.

Jack: DH has had asthma his whole life, but asthma and allergies seem to run in his family. I'm just so happy that he hasn't had a serious attack in so long.

RR: Thanks for the insight. Sounds like you are doing Weight Watchers. I tried it a couple of times, and I know it's a great program. Like computers, though, the program is only as great as the user. :^: For some reason, I could not stick with it.

If everyone doesn't mind me asking, are any of you on commercial weight loss plans. If so, which ones? If not, what are some tips that have worked the best for you?

Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day all! :)

Hi All!

Sorry I haven't been able to check in much. Got here early today because the other admin has to come in late, and someone had to set up breakfast for the sales mtg. Turns out the guy came 2 min. before I got here, so I was PO'd...but I still set it up.

TX, I had Indian food once, didn't really care for it, too spicy for me. I did like the pancake things, and a rice dish called Birayni...or something like that? I'm not on any particular plan right now, but DH & I were going to start Body for Life/Eating for Life. We've just been dragging our heels, because it takes some planning...not that other plans don't take planning too, but I guess we've just been slackers. :(

RR, how did #3 do in surgery? Hope everything went well. Hope DH managed to juggle them all also!! :lol:

Karen, How did Alex do? Hope his sleeping is getting better! Does he have teeth working? I can't believe he's gonna be a year next month!! :eek: We got snow...and we're still getting it!! :eek: :angry: Not sure how many inches, but probably around 4" or so.
We'll be there on the 24th! Actually, I shouldn't speak for DH, not sure if he's gonnna have to work or anything, but Peter & I will be there! :lol: Hope you'e more organized than me!! (As you can see, I'm still working on my thank you's! :( )
Lucky you, getting to turn your basement into a playroom!! I'm jealous! I lay in bed at night thinking about how if we had the whole house, we could make our now LR, into a playroom and I could do daycare! :rolleyes:

:wave: Jackie, Rabbit, everyone else!! :wave:

hello all. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

RR - how is sd #2? Did surgery go well?

TX - were you maybe talking to me (instead of RR) when you asked about WW? If so, then yes, you are correct, I do weight watchers.

not much new here.

Rabbit :)
*9.3 down, 15.7 to go

Peter felt the need to fall face first into the wooden frame of my box sprint last night. :( Of course, DH got creative about it...

http://img4.photobucket.com/albums/v...ter_Boxing.jpg

Hi all........................

Lauren: Such a cute picture!!!!!!! Hope you guys are having a good day.

TX: I never have tried any Indian food, but glad you liked it. I am not really following any type diet plans at this time. I know I probably should, but with all the stress going on in my life, it's so hard. (and it might help if I STOP buying Choc Chip cookie dough ice cream :lol: ) Sorry I am not much help with that for you. However, I like to talk & listen, so I can be your cheering & support person! :lol:

RR: How is DD#2?

Rabbit: Hope your St. Patrick's day went well. You did wear some green, didn't you. :lol:

Karen: That's great about you converting the basement to a playroom. I took yesterday off, 1st day I have add since x-mas. And boy was it nice. Speaking of chinese food, DS & I went to Hunan's for lunch yesterday, and that was nice. I have been really craving some chinese food.

Guess I better run for now, as the dishes need to get done tonite? :lol:


Have a good evening.


Jackie

Hi guys,

Wow, it seems like forever since I have been here. We ordered a new bed and I was out all day getting stuff for it. We got a king...my room is going to be all bed :). We need the space since DS sleeps with us.

We are still working on him sleeping in his crib. Monday he took two naps 1 1/2 hrs and 45 min then slept about 1 hr in the night. Yesterday he took two 30 min naps and then slept about 45 min there at night. Today zippo on the naps and our record is 10 min so far tonight. I just work on it until I start getting frustrated and then take him to my bed.

RR: I hope the surgery went well and that SD #2 is doing fine.

Lauren: Oh my, what a shiner. Hope he's ok. If we hadn't gotten such a nice income tax return we wouldn't be able to have a playroom. I can't wait to move down there. That way he can play ALL over and not be pinned up.
Now, if they would just call about when they are going to come install the carpet...

TX: I was doing WW when I lost the most wt. I just need to get my stupid butt in gear and get back with the program. I can't afford to go to meetings right now.

Jack: I've been using my dishwasher more lately. I usually do them by hand but it's quicker to load the machine and go spend time with DH.

OK. Gotta go. This has taken me so long because I've had to go resettle the baby twice. (so far the record is 15 min!!).

hello. I had weigh in today and I maintained. I seem to be on a 2 week plan. I usually have a good loss one week and minimal the next. I am moving in the right direction though!

Lauren - Cute picture of a cute boy!

Jackie - no I did not wear green yesterday. I didn't have anything green to wear to tennis and when I got home in the afternoon I didn't think about it.

Karen - your new playroom will be so cool.

Rabbit
*9.3 down, 15.7 to go

Hi guys,

Well, the new bed came. It's not as tight a fit as we thought it was going to be. It's also shorter since it's just the mattress and my other bed was a four poster. Now we have more room at the end of the bed. I can't wait to get the sheets washed and make it up. I waited to wash the sheets because I wasn't sure how deep the mattress was.

They are coming next Thursday to install the carpet. Next Friday we will move down to the playroom!! I'm so happy he is going to have room to play.

Rabbit: Yeah on the maintain. At least you are going in the right direction.

Hope everyone is having a super great day!!

Hello all!! #2 did great with her procedure..i can already see the difference with the volume of the tv not being on 27!!!I had a friend put her to sleep and he said she told them all "no" 3 times before standing up on the operating room table..She is soo funny and head strong..For the newbies, she has Down's Syndrome so she pretty much runs the show!!!
Kaylee is sick. FEver 102 last night with wheezing, runny congested nose and horrible cough..I almost brought her to the ER last night when she was breathing 52 times a minute and retracting..I got her under control with humidifier, cough med, decongestant and walking her around for 3 hrs..Saw the Pedi today and she said in addition to all that crud, she was cutting 3 back teeth..She weighed 21 lbs 12 oz down from 21lbs 15oz of 2 months ago. SHe is due her 15month shots but not today!!

Lauren-Cute pic!!
Karen-Post a pic of the playroom!!

Hope everyone else is ok..Gotta run take care of Missy!!!
RR

Good evening...........................

RR: Glad to see ya, & hear that DD#2's surgery went well! That's so cute about the putting to sleep story. Hope you have a good weekend.

Karen: Yes, please post a picture of your new playroom, if you can. I would love to see it. It sounds like it is really going to be great! Hope you enjoy sleeping in your new bed tonite.

Lauren: Hello......and how are you?

Rabbit: Great job on maintaining this week. Keep up the good work!!!!!

TX: Hello.....

As for me, I am trying to catch laundry up and clean up the house. I worked 15hrs over and above my usual schedule this week, and my house shows it. Between my job, the house, and our new house, it is gets pretty overwhelming at times. I want to get caught up at work, but it seems like it will never happen. We had to get a new server at work, long story, which will take anywhere from 2-4 weeks to get before I can even start working at home. Enough of my complaining.

I will check in over the weekend if I get some time. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Jackie

HI ALL,

Just popping in...Peter's waking up, so I'll have to run in a minute. DH took him to the Drs. to recheck his ears and they're finally clear. I told DH to have to nurse weigh and measure him...out of curiosity. Keeping in mind that DH's don't care about "exactness", he's 27 lbs. and almost 34"!! :eek: Now, that was with a onsie and sweat pants on, as opposed to the usual diaper, but that didn't add a whole pound!! I think he was just under 25 at his one year!

Gotta run...Peter's up!

hello.

Played tennis with dh this morning and kicked his ****. That was fun.

I had a bad run in with m&ms (by themselves and in cookie dough) the last couple of days. Sigh. I finally threw all remaining m&ms in the garbage last night. Things I learned. Hmm. Should not have brought them in the house - should have made ds peanut butter cookies instead. Also, should not have eaten that first one. After that I was gone.

RR - I'm so happy to hear the surgery went well for #2. :) ~ Sorry that #3 is sick!

Jackie - wow on the overtime. Hope you have time to get caught up.

Going out to dinner tonight with friends. Should be fun. Beautiful day here.

Hello to everyone I missed.

Rabbit
*9.3 down, 15.7 to go

Just thought I would check in for a minute and take a break from laundry!

Hope everyone is having a good day.

Rabbit: Good for you at beating DH @tennis. :D I love M&M's too. Matter of fact I bought a little pack last week at the grocery store and they are still in my purse.

I worked about 4 hours at the office today while DH is wiring our new house. It's amazing how much I can get done in that short of time that I can't get done all week. Not sure yet what we are doing tomorrow, we might go to Hunan's for lunch again.

I found some raw apple cider vinegar at this herb store in town and they recommed that you drink at least a tablespoon with a teaspoon of honey in 8-10oz of water per day. I have done that yesterday and today. It's good for losing weight too. It also has some other benefits such as giving you energy. I hope it does some of the things it says it will.

Hope everyone has a good rest of the weekend. Our weather has been so nice and sunny lately.

Jackie