Good morning all!

I actually got in bed at a decent hour last night so I feel really good this morning. Now I hope I can just get myself together and get some housework done. Dinner tonight will be potato crusted fish (all free pts on the Core Plan!) I'm having mixed feelings about this new plan. I really like the concept behind it and being able to eat more without worrying, but I'm not sure how to create recipes from the list or how to interpret existing recipes. But I'm learning, this is only day two! I got hungry before bed last night and had some more cantelope which was wonderful because it was all free foods. And it hit the spot. TOM still hasn't arrived for me yet, I guess it will be late again this month like last month. O-well... I just wish the pms symptoms would go away. I'm not moody just swollen and tired.

Michelle, I have loved the sims since they came out. I just stopped playing once my computer got too slow to handle each expansion pack. But I'm not sure about getting a burned copy... I thought most of those games came with blocks on them that make it impossible to burn? And what about the serial number you have to have to install it? I mean, don't get me wrong, I would love a burned copy if they work just fine! The ones I don't have are House Party (never bought it and now I can't find it to buy it) Making Magic and Superstar (and the online one but I don't know much about it) and what is this Sims 2 I keep seeing everywhere? Is it another expansion pack or a whole new game?? So yes, I would love for you to copy them for me if it's possible and I can pay for shipping and what not if you like. Just let me know! Thank you so much for offering!

Deana, I hope your oldest finds a job soon. Is is hard for a 15 yo to get a job there? Most places won't hire you here unless you are 16 or over.

Geri, I promise to get some exercise in today!! Check up on me though after nap time to make sure I did it, ok? OK, I think I missed why you are working again. When did that start? How long will you being doing it and what project are you working on?


Mel, what are you up to today?

QOTD-- almost forgot. Hmm... trade places with someone... I would love to trade places with my former self for one day (my pre-kids, maybe even pre-married self) just for one day or one hour and remember what it felt like to only have to look out for me and take care of me (not to mention be thin again) but then I'm sure after that hour or day I'd want to be mommy and wife again! LOL. I love my life.

Penny, what are you going to be doing today?

Jaymi, I hope today is a much better one for you. Has TOM hit yet? Hopefully he will come and go so you can feel normal again.


So Crystal, how have you been enjoying having the house to yourself since dh is gone? Has it been hard or been fine? It went by fast huh?

Well, I need to get off here and start on this house. Anyone want to do a flylady challenge today?? Let me know, I'll have my yahoo messenger on. TTYL!

Spryng, yes it has gone by fast to me. I haven't minded being by myself. In fact, I would probably have a stronger marriage if dh worked out of town, but he can't handle it. I am ready for him to be back. I think we'll be all lovey dovey for the weekend since we haven't seen each other. But that will end I'm sure.

Michelle, I've always wanted to move to Montana. For some reason, but then again it's a little too close to OREGAN!!! Don't want to be that close.

I have a few minutes to discuss my question. I want to move. I am NOT a spontaneous person in any aspect of my life, but this one. I would pack our stuff and head out anywhere tomorrow. I would go without having a place to live or without having a job, I don't know if it's my faith or what. I've lived here in Poetry, Texas since I was 5 years old. I actually live about 5 minutes or less from where I grew up. There is nothing here. I've had no life experiences to speak of. I would want to move some where that my kids could experience things. Like near a beach or where there's lots of snow and ski resorts. Just something so they have that from their childhood. Dh isn't like me when it comes to this. I know we won't go anywhere, but I would so much love to do it. But I don't know where I would go. Dh has a dream of filming documentaries or biographies or movies or all kinds of stuff and I think moving close to, but not actually there, to California or New York just to be close enough for him to maybe have a chance to get his foot in the door. I would do this in a heartbeat but I'm sure we'll build and be here for ever. Oh well, I'll be happy with that.

Okay, gotta print off some worksheets for school. TTYL

Hey girls I'm feeling better today. I was really sick yesterday and didn't do anything! It's hard when you have certain schedules and then you get sick and have to stop everything. Luckily my mom, sister and dh helped me out a lot so all I did was lay on the couch or in my bed all day. I think it helped me get better quicker. Anyway........

I don't have an answer for QOTD, I think I would just rather be myself but have the body I did when I was 17!! LOL

Spryng I love the Sims!! I wish my computer could handle them, actually I'm glad it won't cause I would get nothing done!! Kind of like now that I've joined 3fc! LOL Just kidding. Anyway I'm glad you are having fun with them, are you still getting your exercise in?

Crystal, Montana is not THAT close to Oregon. It's like 12+ hours away. I have lived here my whole life and have never even gone to Montana. I don't think you would have anything to worry about. Where in Oregon does your dh's dad live?

Mel sorry you were so tired yesterday. Did you get some sleep last night?

Penny, how is it having Hunter in school? Is he your only one in school so far? How is your church class? How many days a week is it? I feel like I haven't talked to you forever!!

Michelle spending money huh? Geez! I wish I had some extra dough to do some stuff with. I have to be patient though and know that when I am done with school I will be making money myself and we can afford to do the things we want to do. We need to get our cars' windows tinted too. We just got it in June and the baby gets sunburned if I don't have the little screen up, but I can't see through it so it's kind of dangerous. Anyway I have to work today too, 12-6. Kind of a bummer but we need the money so oh well! Hope you are having a good day too, we need to chat soon.

Geri, have fun at work!!

Ok need to get off this thing and get Bayley and myself some breakfast and try to clean a little before I go to work. TTYL!!

Spryng sims2 is a whole new game its going to be awesome I think!! you can go from birth to death its supposed to be pretty realisitic. I also have sims for the playstation and I'm pretty sure I can burn you a copy of house party, superstar, and makin magic and I'll send them to you with the serial numbers shhhh Also you might want to check out Thesimsresource.com and oh there is another one but I can't think of it anyway, the users there make custom "skins" so they make the furniture look better etc...you can also download new heads for your sims I have a britney spears sim lol
Oh yeah and the sims online you have to pay 10 bucks a month to play but you get to interact with hundreds of other people playing their sims in the game as well. I had a blast when I played.

Jill yeah I've been crankin out the dough like crazy lol and then xmas is right around the corner as well!! How you doin girl?

Crystal did you guys get the go ahead to start building?

Michelle

Good morning (almost afternoon)

Jill, glad you're feeling better today. How's the weather in OregAn? (Sorry, couldn't resist!!)

Michelle...don't encourage Spryng with the sims...she needs to get her exercise in. JK of course!! Glad you liked the card..it had me rolling in the aisle!

Spryng..I'll check in with you later Hope you get some cleaning done. I did vac this morning...my bathroom was all hair. My hair is so thick and is always all over the place. That's one reason I keep it short...takes less haircolor to keep it not grey .

Penny, you sound so very motivated again. You can do this!

QOTD... #1 I love WI because of the season changes, BUT would move to FL if I could bring all my friends with me (my family could stay here..lol). I love the fact that the sun shines so much...not too worried about hurricanes, because we get tornado's here. You just never know. #2 I too would love to go back to my single self...just for 1 day... just as a reminder of how lucky I have become in the last 5 years ! The stress of daily life can dampen that thought sometimes!

My job is to type up a listing of what is in each of the hundred or so storage boxes at my gf office. Nothing too taxing but it never takes that long for 6 hours to pass by here . Don't know how long it will take me to finish. After that I will look for a permanent part time job. Hopefully I won't find anything good until after the holidays .

OK, that's about it for me today. Did my 3 mile walk this morning. It's going to rain here today again too so we'll probably hang down here this afternoon. Made some homemade salsa and then a smoothie for me and the kids with mixed berry yogurt, a little milk, some frozen strawberries and blueberries. I have to remember to do that at night when I'm craving some ice cream! It was sooooo good and refreshing. The kids thought they were getting a big treat. Have a great day ladies. i'm sure I'll be back later!
Hi to everyone else out there!!

Michelle, the bank needs a couple more forms, which I can get and then we can close possibly by next Friday. But with dh's company having these problems, I'm not sure what we're gonna do.

Jill, dh's dad lives in Milwakee, OR. That's all I know. He's a loser and my dh despises him. We never talk. He knows we had Andrew but he's never seen him and the girls he's only seen a time or two. He doesn't know we're expecting this one. How close are you to there?

TTYL

Crystal we are about 4 hours away from Milwaukie, they are far north and I am southern Oregon (close to Cali). So, not too close at all.

Geri LOL! OregON, how many times to I have to tell you!!

Ok need to go, TTYL!!

Ok girlies here are some of our family photos from the other day.




Unfortunately the better pics are back at the photolab getting copies made stupid place decided to start watermarking their proofs so we can't scan them anymore so if you notice the wierd pic quality that it why I also cropped them to take out the photographers tag on the photos. But there they are and me in my chubby face lol ughhhhh

Geri when did you get a Job? Are you liking it? How are the boys? I miss ya girl!!

Jill what are you up to today?

Crystal cool can't wait to hear about your closing!!

Michelle great pics!! They look great! We need to get ours done. I was waiting to lose some weight and until Bayley was old enough to purposely photogenic! LOL Anyway I want to get them done around her 1st b-day which will be in a few weeks! I can't believe it! I need to get the details worked out and the invitations done this week but being sick yesterday has thrown my whole week off. Anyway I am not doing much today till I go to work at 12. I think I will only work for a few hours and then come home so I don't over do it and relapse. I don't want to get sick again! I haven't eaten anything today cause I am afraid I will get sick again (plus I lost 2 pounds yesterday and am loving it!) I know I need to eat though so I guess I will get off this thing and get me something to eat. What are you doing today? TTYL

Good afternoon all!

Well, I did get some cleaning done. So it's getting better around here, lol. I just have to re-pick up the living room and the house will look fine. I had oatmeal with splenda for breakfast (hit the spot!) I ate it at 11 am so it was kinda lunch too, I just had two hard boiled eggs for a snack and haven't used one pt yet! So thrilled about that! I won't use any at dinner either.

Jill, you should get pictures done now, not when you lose weight. Just because some day you'll look back and regret not having pics made! And you can also have them for before and after photos you know? Try to eat something light today and see how your stomach responds ok?

Michelle, you have a beautiful family!! Thanx for posting those pics! I did some research on the Sims 2 and you are right, it looks amazing! I'll definitely be buying that one when it's released, which I think is next month. I do have the sims on my gamecube but it isn't as fun because I love to download lots and lots of objects for the game and you can't do that with the gamecube. Oh and I bought a subscription to The Sims Resource yesterday and I've already downloaded over 1000 things! Yikes! Now I can't wait to furnish some new houses and all the cool clothes there is! LOL. And I would appreciate those copies if you don't mind. Let me know what I owe you ok? Dh is wanting bowflex, we just have no room, so let us know how you like it ok?

ok, better get off here before Geri comes and turns my computer off, lol. I'll be exercising, TTYL!

Geri, I will exercise as soon as I'm done with this post! I promise! LOL. That smoothie sounds great!

May I join you??
I was a member of this BB quite a long time ago...I think its been over 3 years now. I was on the low carb back then, but have decided that isn't the way I'm going this time around.
My name is Stacey, I am a 36 year old mother of 3. My oldest is my dd who is 13 years then my ds who is 7 and my youngest ds is almost 11 months. I have exactly 6 years 4 months between them all, keeps me on my toes!! lol! We moved to Houston, TX about 3 years ago, before that we lived in Nova Scotia for 3 1/2 years and before that, California. We're hoping to stay put for a bit longer this time.
As for weight issues...I have many LOL!! I never had a weight problem when I was younger, so haven't ever really learned to deal with one. About a year before my 1st son was born I stopped working and began eating. The change to SAHM was a hard one for me and I became pretty depressed I think. I put on the first 50lbs in the first 3 years of being home. Now I'm up a good 70 (at least thats my goal to lose).
I am starting WW tomorrow. Dh has asked me to join with him (how could I say no??) so we're off for our first meeting tonight (unless he gets stuck at a meeting, then I'll go alone tomorrow morning).
I'm really looking forward to getting to know you all and giving and receiving support that I know I'll need!!
Thanks for listening..
Stacey

Welcome Epictetus, is that your name? How is it pronounced? Yes, please join us. I'm Crystal, a 27 yo sahm of 3 almost 4. Alisa is 5 almost 6 and I homeschool her in 1st grade. Ally is 3 years and Andrew is almost 21 months. I'm due Feb 1st. I'm 17 weeks along. I live in Texas. I'm in Terrell, about 45 miles East of Dallas.
So glad you joined again. Hope to learn more about you.

Girls, I found this site, www.findyourspot.com and took their quiz. It was fun. I answered the questions and it narrowed me down to the top 24 spots for me to live. It gave all kinds of info for each of those top spots. Believe it or not, Texas wasn't on there at all. In fact, Colorado was the most Southern state. I'm very easy to please and I was neutral on so many answers so it threw me from Maine, to Washington, to New York, to Alsaka, I mean all kinds of places. And the cheapest plase would be Hancock-Houghton, Michegan (sp?), but it gets an avg. of 110" of snow.
It was really interesting to see where it put me. Y'all should give it a try just for the fun of it.
I've got 4 places in New York, 5 in Montana, 2 in Washington, Alaska, Michegan, New Hampshire, and 1 in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Maine, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Interesting huh?

TTYL

Whoops..no that is actually a quote by an old Greek Philosopher. I need to change my sig! Didn't realize it would pick it up from 3 years ago!!

Welcome Stacey...

This is where to be!

I have to apologize to Crystal because I was laughing at your "pregnancy brain" re Stacey's signature....after reading her last post I realized that she changed it! Thought you were just being "pregnant" know what I mean?

Spryng...did you exercise????? Hmmmm????

Michelle...just temping for a friend of mine. Only going to work 2 days a week til the project is done. Started yesterday. Your pics are beautiful...and so are you . We do need to chat one of these nights!

Defrosted the big freezer this afternoon and found a whole chicken I had forgotten about and some ground round...so I'm making a pot of chicken soup and taco meat. Tacos will be my dinner on the 1 pt tortillas. The chicken soup is just heating up the kitchen and creating more humidity . Oh well...it's a comfort food and Dh is a big soup eater. That was it for me today.

I'll be back on later to see how you're all doing.

Jill, are you having any kind of theme? We did Pooh for Will's 1st but I just bought solid color plates/napkins/streamers/balloons to match the cake. Poor Tony, for his 1st he got to share Will's 3rd (they're only 16 days apart) so he got Buzz Lightyear...but he didn't mind . Have fun with the planning! When is it again?

Have a good evening and I'll try to check back later.

Geri I had to laugh too about Crystals pregnacy brain! LOL Sorry Crystal, it was just too funny! Anyway I'm doing ladybugs for Bayleys theme. Her room is decorated in ladybugs and I thought it would be cool to finish off her first year in ladybugs. I will just do solid color plates and such but not sure what else to do yet. I need to get on it!!

Welcome Stacey! It's great to have you! Glad you are back, there are some great women in here so I know you will enjoy it!

Spryng I still haven't eaten anything today but I just opened a light n fit smoothie and it's going down ok so I think I'll make it LOL! I'm making some Italian chicken thing in my crockpot right now and it smells good! We'll be doing pictures really soon I think so don't worry! I'm glad I did wait though cause I have slimmed down a lot since she was born, almost down to what I was when I got pregnant, can't say I was slim then either though!! Hope you are having a good day.

Well my sister is coming over so I need to pick up a few things before she gets here. TTYL!!