Enygirl- i wish you luck with the job search... i know it isn't easyc. my neighbor is having problems too right now. i am going to get them a gift card for wal-mart to try to help out. thanx for the advice about DD. I love that girl so much it hurts. i try so hard to be patient with her. i do well most of the time. i have a tendency to be loud person... that doesn't mean yelling, but it just sounds loud sometimes. we have a great relationship and i am actually the one that she listens too the most. i have tried so much with her... i know that hitting is not the answer and i rarely spank her. she is 3 (just turned 3 in january) and i may have spanked her no more than 10 times. and that seems even worse after writing it down. i try time out, corner time, no tv, no toys etc, nothing phases her. she is riciduously smart and i have read that kids like that do not respond well to discipline or punishment. she is very strong-willed and if she wants to do something she does. the thing that gets her the most is if i don't talk to her... if i tell her something that she doesn't want to hear she tells me to stop talking, if i do, she can't stand it for longer than 5-10 minutes. sometimes that is the only way i get thru to her. My mom is a single mom and i know how hard that is. i am truly a lucky girl, now it depends on what day you catch me on, if i say that or not. HAHA! but i do know it. we are all having a hard time with DD being mean lately, i hope it is just a phase. o... btw. i gained 38 pounds while pregnant, i went from 180 to 218. i wasn't mad because i had weighed 238 at one point. so here i am now, not much less then when i was pregnant. i wish i wouldn't have gained all that weight. it is just so hard. my marathon-running, stick figure doctor told me i should only gain ten pounds... i was so mad... now i wish i would have listened.. grrr.... hormones... grrr.... maybe you could drink ensure or something to help with the not eating part. i used to drink them. they do not taste bad. i am sorry about the meds too, i know what a difference they can make! ask your doc if s/he can recommend a natural supplement that might help or maybe check out a health food store.
Purplefirefly- i am sorry about the binge. i guess i never looked at is as a sickness... i should have, but since i never threw up, i didn't think anything of it. it is strange tho, how we, well at least i, can know we shouldn't do yet do it anyway. i can sit there eating and think of all the calories etc, but just keep on eating it. i actually love the feeling of having my mouth full of food. especially chips and dip. grr i shouldn't think about that... anyway... thanx so much for the advice! she just turned 3, as i mentioned above. all of our family lives 3hours away. my close friend, who we use to spend a lot of time with, just started working. i babysit a little boy and i can swap time with his mom, but DD is allergic to cats and they have two. my husband doesn't pick up on me needing some time. i need to just be more open/demanding of it. he complains that he doesn't have time either.. HAHAHA!!!! I did get some time the other night while he was off to use my No!no! "kinda" in peace so that was nice, and i got a shower. I say "kinda" because there is always drama. (i do not know why Dh can not keep her entertained enough that she doesn't need me) DD had a fit because i made her leave the bathroom when she pulled on my power cord. i let a lot go without getting upset, but i don't mess around with stuff like that. she cried etc that she wanted me, but i still finished. it made me feel like a bad mom. i hate hearing her cry for me. and i think, it is better for me to be with her than to not have hair on my body. then i think.. can i really not have an hour to myself. it is so hard... but, we had a great time today! we have the "blue room" an extra bedroom that always needs cleaned and it almost is! yay!!! anyway he table and chair and easel are in there along with her art supplies. i have some of mine there too. we can sometimes manage to work together in there an i can actually accomplish something. i do pastel portraits and now FINALLY getting to scrapbook. she is really excited about the scrapbooking. i think she may make on too! i think that it may get better, once it is all cleaned. i will still have to stop what i am doing to help her and play too, and on moat days that is ok with me. i love the idea of quiet time. she did that on her own today! she i finally getting the hang of her leapster2 and she can play with it for quite awhile. the games on it are awesome! i am definitely going to encourage quiet time more often. it would be so much nicer if she had someone to play with. i had hoped to have a sibling for her by now
i am going to be nosey here.. what do you know about the working from home thing that isn't a scam? web design was actually part of my major in college.
mayness- hope things work out for your husband!!! kudos to you for making it work out so far.
it was nice to hang out with my husband for 2 nights. i had a lot to catch up on here tho. we watched a movie called "America: Freedon to Fascism" it was really interesting. it is a documentary on how we do not really have to pay taxes. there is no law saying that we have too etc. i highly recommend watching it, it is on-line too. altho it made me mad!
i wish is wasn't so cold here! it is about 0 right now. i want so badly to go for a walk, but really, i am not taking DD out when it is in the 30's. i really want my elliptical back to the way it was
i absolutely love it. i could easily spend and hr a day on it if i were given the opportunity. it seems as tho 40 mins is pushing it with DD.
so i think i have done 2 of 4 tags. i really just felt like crap today. i gained 3 pounds so that didn't help either. my head has hurt since the time i woke up. i did not exercise today at all. but i did get a lot of cleaning done and i played a lot with DD too. I am so excited about starting to scrapbook. i have had the supplies, but never made the time. i had my table cleared off, but it is covered again, but with pics and paper that i will work on tomorrow. DD tried to convince me to do the 30DS tonight, but it was after 8 so i said no... that i way too late for us. so i promised we could do it tomorrow morning. that kids LOVES it. i was shocked when she said no earlier when i had asked her.
i hope i remember to weigh myself and measure in the morning. i always forget to measure and i am doing another challenge where i need to post it....
hope you all have a great day! good luck with the weigh-ins!