It just little ole me again, lol.

Just got done with dinner. It was delicious! And because of that I couldn't stop at one serving... or two... but I did stop after 3!! (did I tell you it was 17 pts per serving!!! AHHH!) it just tasted so good!! LOL. I should feel terrible I know, lol. But for some reason I don't, lol. I know I have all week to work it off.

Cheri, do you get along with your in-laws? Sounds like you have been doing great OP! Good job!

Penny, lol.. yes now I remember the oobies, lol. Haven't seen it in quite a while though.

Deanna, so nice to get a background on you! Sounds like you have a great attitude about life!

Kristin, thanks for the channel info! does it come on every night? is this the pre stuff or the actual olympics now?

Julie, never taken a fiber sup. I eat so much fiber every day I don't need it. Hope your stomach settles down.

OK, gotta jet.. TTYL!

Good evening! Wow- things are usually slower on the weekends LOL! Anyway, I've had a great day today. Liam's been in an excellent mood and he even let me shop at the mall for 2 hours! Amazin, I know. And I ended up getting him very soft, leather booties with no structure. I thought I'd have him wear them 1/2 the day while around here and the other 1/2 of the time go barefoot and see what happens with his callous. If it doesn't improve, I'll then ask the doctor.

Spryng- thanks for the advice. As you can see, I'm going with a "compromise" decision What's your favorite thing about the new computer?

Crystal - everyone's CD choices are so ecclectic!

Melissa- I'm so sorry about your scare. I know how hard it can be to get those "what-if" scenarios out of your head. Just take comfort in the fact that you saw him and now you're making a decision about it. One time, Liam fell and hit his head. He was okay, thankfully, but I kept reliving the moment he fell, and everything I should have/could have/would have done differently . . .

Hi, Deana! Nice to meet you . . . have you decided yet what kind of diet/plan you want to use? Just curious. I look forward to getting to know you better!

Penny- hola! The next book club is the first Wednesday in September. We're reading Midnight Champagne (not that I've even bought it yet!) by A. Manette Ansay. It sounds good, but for some reason I have no desire to read it. I know I have to at least try . . . Where is Di - she hasn't posted in a long time??? Anyway, glad you're having fun with the boys today!

Jill- How is the weather out there? I told you I lived in Seattle for 3 years, right? I couldn't take the lack of sunshine - I mean, I moved there from Florida ! Isn't it strange how cravings we get in pregnancy never go away - I still crave Snickers, red meat, and have become super picky about chicken . . . all since pregnancy!

Geri- Sounds like Tony is a one to watch But I do think boys are more likely to be that way. Liam's always up to something.

Well, gals, I've been off plan again. I'd liek to start over next week, but if DH gets home, we're thinking of taking a road trip. But maybe for that I can eat well all day and give myself "free" evenings, just to sort of stay on track. I dunno! TTYL . . .

Just popping in. Made it back from Walmart and groceries. Too funny, in Walmart,oldest bought his own stuff he wanted (body spray, deoderant, body wash, and a 30' tape measure for hubby, and something else). Anyway, we go to check out, he bought 5 items, I bought 10 and only spent 20 cents more than he did...

Grocery store was a complete different story... Starting buying things for me to eat on my diet......spent much more than I intended but got things like salad mix, dressing (looked to make sure it didn't have too much sugar), cucumbers, green grapes, black olives, canned salmon, frozen shrimp for the salads, and for supper a huge salmon filet and I have corn-on-the-cob in the fridge....will prollly fix a pasta too for them but I'm gonna be good.....also got some Diet Sierra Mist for me. I'm not much on drinking water (ours doesn't taste really good) and can't afford to buy bottled all the time. Have to watch budget around here, too many bills and only one income.

Penny: TY, I've always hated my name cuz kids used to tease me in school, but it's not as bad now.

Spryng: I'm like an open book, if you want to know something just ask....and it's easier to talk on here cuz I can be more free with what I say and dont' have to worry about rumors like in a small town (about 4800 ppl).

Loveliam: Thank you, look forward to getting to know all of you as well. Not really following any plan, just watching carbs, sugars, caffiene, salts and starting walking on Monday after I go to Dr. office to weigh. Want to be sure of where I started.
DH has a really good check coming next week and said perhaps we could get me something. decided I'm going to ask for a nice digital scale, then try to set it with Dr. office scale so I'll be acurate.

Ok, gonna go start the grill so I can get supper going soon. Won't be back til later this evening.
Have a good evening all.

I also want to find out how to keep the info at the bottom of posts like HW/CW/GW etc.

Later

Hi there gals. Just got done with dinner. Dh and Alisa are gone for a bit, so I won't clean the kitchen until their done. I'm glad to hear every one else's dinner wasn't the best choices. Mine was chicken fried steak, which I cook in a healthier way, homemade mashed potatoes, gravy, fried okra, and mac and cheese. Now I don't eat much mac and cheese, I usually make potatoes and gravy with non fat milk, but I didn't have any. But one serving filled me to the brim.

I like the idea of one new thread per day. Starting a new one at three pages, seems to make more people confused than just one per day I think. So far everyone has said they like the idea so let's just ask if anyone doesn't like the idea.

Well, I so enjoyed staying home today and as far as I can tell I will tomorrow too. I might need to go get bread, milk and a very few items like that. We'll see however. My mom's kitchen is totally done, except the curtains will hopefully will be here by Thursday or so. I'll try to take a picture of it. I would so love to show you all. You know after I was feeling the way I was feeling yesterday, i thought about redoing my bathroom just to make me feel better. I thought about painting, new shower curtain and a new mirror maybe a few accessories as well. I really shouldn't in hopes that we won't be here that much longer, but I think it would make me feel so good. If I spend 50 bucks or less, I think it'll be worth it. I was just thinking out loud again.
I'll talk to you all later.

Cheri,
Hope you have a wonderful time next weekend with the inlaws in! That is great Sorry tom showed up But you should have a great loss next week, right?

Spryng,
I am glad you enjoyed the supper! You know you gotta post the recipe now!

Deana,
That is so funny that your son bought his own stuff... Does he get an allowance or does he do work? I love my digital scale. Glad you got some good food for you! It is horrible that you can buy a bag of cookies for cheap but any good for you food is expensive

Leigh,
Sorry you are off plan What kind of trip are you thinking about? in the state?

Jill,
Target eh? I just love me sum Target.....lol Hope you have a good nap

Still never cooked.... thinking about picking up salads but the night is still young

Have a nice night!

PS I am getting Withdrawals from Michelle! YOU MUST POST !!!!!!!

Crystal,
Sorry I missed your post!

I can't wait to see a pic of mom's kitchen! That is great!

It sounds like you had a delicious supper
Hope you have a great night!

Good evening everyone
Welcome, Deana. I am Ricci,(pronounced Ricky) sahm of two boys. I hope you enjoy it here.
I am surprised the thread is hoppin today. I have been busy getting Eric ready for school to start. Went to wal mart today and bought him a pair of shorts for school, not realizing they were the ones with a snap button. Eric can't quite work the snaps yet, so I had to go back and get him a pair that button, but now I have to take those back because they are too little. Thank goodness I only live 2 miles from wal mart. Everyone has been busy today I see. I need to clean. I was going to go to church in the morning, but I will go tomorrow evening instead. Are we chatting tonight? Just let me know. Have a good evening.

Ricci,
Hi Does the Walmart there have the Dickies school pants?.... Guess I should have asked.... Does he wear uniforms there? I put some of the Dickies shorts on layaway so they looked pretty durable.... Hunter will use the rest of his from last year... they are elastic but the new ones I bought are the hook thingy. I will have to make sure he can work it

I am up for chatting... Anyone else???

Hey everyone just got back from visiting with friends and decided to have leftovers instead of making a big dinner so I will do what I had planned for tonight tomorrow and forgo the hot dog mac and cheese thing I had for tomorrow. Anyway I went to Target and got some birthdays out of the way and got my car washed and vacuumed. So I guess I got a little bit done today. I am up for the one thread per day thing too. I think it would be cool. We could even title it Stay at Home Moms #??? then whatever the day is so people would know it was from Wed. etc. Just a thought. So I am definitly up for some chat and I wish Michelle was on here too! I miss her. So I guess I'll go hang out in the MSN chatroom and see who shows up! Don't leave me haning LOL

Hi all,

Not getting anyone ready for school here . All this talk about Walmart and Target makes me want to go shopping though! Our Target will be done fall 2005 (hopefully) so it will be nice and close. I hate the other ones that are in Milwaukee...the suburbs are so much nicer .

Crystal...yes, pics of Mom's kitchen would be wonderful! I think you should do your bathroom. Even if you're going to move, the nicer it looks, the better for selling. When do you find out about building again?

Hi Cheri...glad you could pop in. It's impossible to keep up with this thread!

Deana...I still want to say "De-anna"...my dh's name is Dean so you'd think this was easy! Your drama friends sound like my sister... always something going on in her life. BTW, I'm 40 yo and have 2 boys... been married for 4 yrs now. Dated alot of losers in the past so glad I met Dh! Your signature can be set in the "user cp" section up top.

Penny...I miss Michelle too! She should just stop painting and say hello. I mean..she just can't live without us right?? Hope Andrew is done falling now! Boys will be boys hey?

Leigh..sorry to hear your not op again...but at least you had a couple of good days! I was looking for your dh today but didn't see him. Unbelievable devastation. Makes me sad too and I never lived there! Told my Dh that you would be in FL and we may meet. He thought that was cool . 2 hours of shopping in the mall? I'm sooooo jealous! Remember that when considering having a 2nd .

Jill...bored? Come on over....my guys will keep you hoppin'!! I wish I were bored sometimes. They were just getting on my nerves today ... still love 'em though

Mel...still waiting for the picture so you can get lots of ideas!! Hope all is well with you tonight.

Spryng... what was dinner again? Please post the recipe. If it's 17 pts per serving...it must be wonderful!!

The bday party was fine. Dh worked late so we didn't get there til almost time for dinner...which was fine...I didn't have time to munch on the appetizers. Of course Will didn't want to leave...there's always that drama .

Looks like most everyone's having cooler than normal temps lately. I actually wore jeans while I was up north Thursday... I'm not ready for cooler weather yet! My garden still has growing to do .

Hi to all else out there. Hope you're all having a good night. I think I'll pop over to the chat to see if anyone's there. If not, then I'm heading up stairs to read. TTYL!

chatty girls arn't ya'll?
Welcome Deana.You've found the right place to have support.Everyone here is very friendly and gives good advice.Hope you enjoy it here.I'm a SAHM of 4.
Tring to lose the last 15 pounds from having kids.Although i've not been tring to hard lately.

Have'nt been home today ,we went to NC to visit family.I cleaned my moms gutters and she bought me a dresser for my son.I thought that was a fair trade.lol My b-day is coming up and she painted me 2 beautiful jars.She's a great artist.She paints portraits and everything.I did'nt get any kind of those genes.I do good just to write my name correctly.lol We went and seen my SIL to.My son wanted to see her son but her son was off playing golf with my brother.Anyhow were home now and it's 11pm and my last 2 kids are in the bath.They got to get in the bed soon.The're going to be hating life when I wake them up for church in the morning.Well i'll do better on posting this week.Sounds like every one is doing ok.I did'nt read all the post but I did' scan over them.I'll post again tomorrow evening/.

Chubba: TY, think I got signature set. So glad to hear you snagged a good one too.....good men are hard to find. I think I got the last good one around here.

Penny: son babysat for sil on Wed, Thur, Fri and goes back for Mon and Tues. She paid him $100 and then my mom gave him $20 for his birthday. Of which $60 has to go into savings for working on his car. Her sitter canceled on her and they had been having trouble with her for a while anyway. But like I told him, if he buys it, it's his, doesn't have to share. As far as food for me....it's hard to buy just for me while feeding a family of 6 on about 300 a month....I buy on sale most of the time.

Ricci: TY, nice to meet you too and I'm sure I will like it here.

Angel Marie: TY, nice to meet you too.

Well.....going to play a couple games then think I'll read for a while. Bought the first 4 Harry Potter books at a book fair at school last year, then ordered the last one from Amazon. Oldest didn't want anything to do with them til he saw my nose stuck, then he asked if he could read them, I said of course....he has read them all twice and the last one 3 times.....has been after me to start the last one forever, and I finally did last night. Been too busy to read.

Night all, take care, see you in the a.m.

Hey ladies! Today was a super long day, we got the girls room painted and its so cute and we got the living room half done. That Paper Illusions is awesome my living room is just sooo nice looking well the part with the new paper up anyway I took a half and half pic of the living room and I forgot to take a pic of the girls room but I'll post an after pic. Tomorrow is taylors birtday party and I'm soo excited but dreading it as well lol I'm gonna be runnin my butt off!!

Zhauns vasectomy went very well! He said it hurts worse to have an in grown toenail pulled out than to have the vas. done! He even declined painkillers and he said he watched the whole procedure no big deal at all Hes up and moving and feeling pretty good

Spryng congrats on your new puter!! I'm happy for you!!

Ummmm QOTD: NOFX, Goldfinger, Pixies, Jewel, The Juliana Theory, Tricky, Get up kids, Promise ring, ok ok I could go on and on with music but I'll sum it up I have everything from classical, country, metal, rock, ballads, punk, emo....you name it I've got it Anyway obviously I'm delirious and I'm going crosseyed you all have a great night and a better day.
Love to all
Michelle

Morning Ladies!!!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend!! Dh is working today so I hope to get some cleaning done and finish the laundry. We'll see how much the kids let me get done!! We went to a birthday party yesterday at a bowling alley and the kids had a great time. Then stopped at subway for dinner. Its been months since I've had it, but I got a roastbeef sub for only 5 pts. My WI was this morning and I lost 2lbs. Dh bought cinnabons yesterday and I told him if I lost 2 lbs I would have one. He bought me a blueberry one and it was sooo yummy!! Friday night we took the kids to the store so DD could spend her birthday money. She was so sweet, she bought toys and movies for her and her brother!! Very nice of her. While I was helping DD pick out movies DH was looking at the new releases and grabbed "13 going on 30" without me even mentioning it! He even watched it with me later that night! I'm planning on some steaks on the grill with baked potatoes and corn on the cob for dinner.

QOTD- I also listen to a wide variety of music. In my car's cd player right now are Nora Jones' 2 cd, fleetwood mac, 2 barney cds and 1 sesame street cd. But I also own sting, alicia keyes, dido, Dave Matthews Band(one of my favorites), Beyonce, John Mayer, Annie Lennox, Janet Jackson, Eminem, Sean Paul, Madonna, The cure, Shania Twain, Faith Hill!! The list goes on!!!

Deana- Welcome!! I'm Lori, Married to DH for 4 years and mom to Reina , almost 3, and Devin, 19 months.

Mel- OMG- Good thing you were there in the same room!!! What a scare!!

Spryng- Sounds delicious and worth the 17pts (x3-LOL!!) Its the actual olympics now!! DH and I stayed up late last night watching and he's actually considering us going there and catching a few events. They still have so many tickets for sale. I'm going to our travel agent tomorrow for flight info.