Good Morning girls!!!

Noelle, YEAH on finding the pants. Too bad you had to buy stupid items for nothing. I know with 3 kids I wouldnt be able to spend money on a pair of pants that I know they would never wear again. I am glad you found some cheap ones that will do the trick. I hope you have a great weekend.

Cherie, {{{HUGS}}}} I hope you and your ex can work something out so you can have some time off. My sis has a loser for an ex who has NEVER once taken her kid for the night(and he doesnt even have an excuse other than the fact that he is a lush). Lucky for her my parents take her kid every other weekend for her while she works. (she is on rotating weekends at the hospital) Keep your chin up, I am sure you two can work something out.

Julie, Hi girl. Do you have any great crockpot recipes for me? I like Cal have been trying to do crockpot meals to save time since our workday is neverending. I know you always have such great ideas.

Cal, What recipes are you slowcooking? Up til now I have always had the time to cook big dinners but now I am so busy that we end up eating junkfood. I hate it.
I bet you are happy that school is getting closer to being out for the year. We are closed on Sunday at the bakery which means that I get from 2:00 on Saturdays until noon on Sundays off. I still have to work on Saturday AND Sunday but at least it is a small break. I am not sure I will even get that this summer because in a tourist town we need to grab the money while it is hear.

There is a big company that owns 400,000 acres of land up there that is going to develop it and put in house lots and huge luxery resorts so if anyone is looking for a vacation home there will be pleny available in a few years. I am excited to see what changes it brings. Alot of the townspeople dont like it but jeepers we are so far in the woods that anything that will attract more people here year round and summerwise cant really hurt. As long as the crime stays away though because we have a low crimerate. I would hate to see the crime of big cities hit us.

Well, I should find something to do around the house until I have to go cook. Talk to ya later.

oh yeah, I have bought my Lloyds BBQ meat and veggies and watermelon and bananas for this week so keep your fingers crossed for me because I really have no choice, I have to lose this weight now.

Good Afternoon,

Angie great job buying some healthy food for the week. I am for you. You know about those crockpot recipes, I remember when I was working full time 40-60 hours a week I would use my crockpot alot. I would just simply add like a pork or beef roast liption onion soup water cut up onions and carrots and potatoes. You can prepare the veggies the night before!! I also would fry hamburger the night before and make a huge pot of chili in the morning or a beef taco casserole(ground beef, tomato soup or tomato sauce, taco mix, onions, water, and topped that mixture,when you get home on fritos, cheese, salsa, guac. and sour cream or make burritos out of the mixture?) mix a can of chicken broth and cream of chicken add s&p and chicken. I say anything you can make you can make it in the crockpot and enjoy!! I know there are great recipes on the web. Btw I would love one of those vacation homes for the summer....

Noelle you poor thing....white pants for a boy?? I would say rent a pair from a tuxedo shop if nothing else . I have honestly never seen any white pants for boys. First of all they would have them dirty in a minute, that is probally why they don't make them. I get mine dressed and boom grease dirt or whatever. My dd gets dirty in her pink or light colors. LOL. Part of life I guess. I feel guilty when I spend money on myself. Isn't that funny I would rather buy for the kids than me. I would not have spent the 45 on the pants either. I hope you are having a beautiful day. I wish we were laying out on the beach with a tropical drink and ....

Cal I wanted to say hi to you too , I hope you get a position closer to home. Being a teacher must be a hard job. I will keep my fingers crossed that the school you want calls you. Good luck. I can't believe it is that hot there right now. Wow, we are below average for temps. It is only forty-nine degrees here . I want to just sit in the sun for twenty minutes, it always boosts my moods. Well gotta run everyone.

Hello to everybody. Today is major splurge day. Bacon and cheese omlettes for breakfasts and Lasanga and garlic bread tonight. Way to many carbs. I got some excercise in though today. And cleaned the house some more. You know I think cleaning is a great work-out? I wonder how many calories it burns? Check back tonight.

Confession time....ate two huge pieces of lasanga and four pieces of garlic bread. Yuck. I am not going to have to worry about vampires!! I could use some chocolate.

Good Night Girls

Hope you all had a nice weekend. Talk with you tomorrow

Good Morning Girls, just pulling us off of page 2. Check back later

Good Morning everyone. I've been a little busy this morning.. seems that is was just last week I was running payroll.. and now it's time again to prepare it.

I had a great weekend. Thanks everyone for listening to me rant on Friday evening. I need to call Steven and find out more about this change in his schedule. It just puts a wrench in some very important plans that I had for May.

Saturday I dropped the girls off at their dad's and met Alan at his house.... while we were waiting for the Fed Ex guy to show up, we finished putting up his track lights. Afterwards we took off with our list to the different stores we needed go to. Had lunch at PF Changs and came home and started preparing for his party. It was a nice one, but I didn't know anyone there. Next morning, I slept in, and we finally got up and went and spent the afternoon at the Oklahoma City Arts Festival. It was a beautiful day for it. We stopped by the Wal-Mart (I found the Denise Austin Fit for Kid's DVD for Hannah) and got stuff for dinner and came home and relaxed for an hour or so before we started on dinner. His family, dad, stepmom, brother and brother's girlfriend came over and we had made homemade spaghetti and meatballs, salad, garlic bread wine and for dessert, chocolate lava cakes with cool whip.. YUM. We watched Meet the Fockers.. funny, but not as good as the first. Needless to say, I didn't have any time to exercise, and I didn't really watch my calories... but I had a GREAT TIME. This morning, I didn't want to come to work.. I needed one more Sunday.

Cal, it's great to hear from you.. good luck in getting the other position closer to home!

Noelle.. I can't believe they wanted you to go buy white pants... But I am sure he will look adorable!

Julie... YUM on your food yesterday!

Hey Angie! You can do it girl.. you got the food ordered.. things will work out!

OK.. well, I need to get back to work. I am back on track today, after taking three days off of exercise, and two days off of my diet. I'll be back later after I get some work done!

Cherie

Cherie, sounds like you had a really nice weekend. Lots of parties and good food. So you italian too?? I ate way to much and paid for it by feeling ick. But I am with you, not so good eating this weekend, but I am so ready to get back on track this week. I didn't know Denise made tapes for kids. She has two girls I think. I bet she will and enjoy it and you can join in . Didn't do to much this weekend. Checked WalMart's food section to see if they had that dannon yogurt with fiber but mainly just their brands. Have to get it at the grocery store. Got into it a couple of times with dh, but I won't get into that, to boring for you guys and a long story, you know unsettled things?? The weather was cold and windy and it is suppose to rain alot this week and be chilly. Oh well, I sure hope May is nice. Well I might go warm up a cup of tea to warm up. I am freezing. LOL.

Good morning girls...just a really quick one before I start getting ready for work. I saw this funny plaque in a catalog:

"I love you more today than yesterday. Yesterday you really pissed me off."

Cherie, I watched Meet the Fockers last night too, stayed up til 11 pm

Be back later. HAVE A GREAT MONDAY. Go get 'em!

Noelle, Love it!!!! You may have to hang one of those up in your office. Talk to you later. Have a great one.

Just checking in after lunch. I am drinking like crazy today. I still taste garlic from last night. I bet no one would want a kiss from me . Well dd is laying on the couch and wants a book read to her and think she might take a nap. WOOHOO....now if ds would take one. It will be interesting next year when he is in school full time and they make him lay down. Noelle, does Michael have do that? Or Cherie do your girls take "rest time" at school?? Just curious....

Julie... no, neither of my girls takes naps anymore.... That doesn't mean that every now and then, I won't put them both down and say it's nap time.. usually I can get them both to sleep and I can get one myself. That was another part of our strict schedule that I had.. Lunch then naps right after, and it aways seemed to work. They don't have naps or rest time at school either. Meg is in half day classes (other half is day care) and Hannah is full day. They just get recess. There are times when I pick them up, the teacher tell me that Megan seemed really tired.. (those are the days she probably should have taken a nap) and so she was cranky or acting up... Oh well. :-)

Well, I am back on track, need to go fill up my big cup for the third time today. I'm ready to get home and do my pilates and my treadmill work. I actually MISSED it this weekend! I'm making progress.

Alan took some pictures of me at the Arts Fest, and man.. that is more incentive to workout... an outfit that I thought looked halfway decent on me looked like crap. I have these huge thunder thighs.. from sturdy German stock... ick!!! Now I know exactly where I need to lose the weight.. (well I need to lose it all over, but my hips, belly and thigh area needs it the most). So.. needless to say, it wasn't hard for me to get back into the program today.

OK.. back to work....

Cherie, thanks for responding. Next year in my ds's kindergaten they have "rest time". He is so active, but he will get use to it. I try now after lunch to read books or say no rough housing. Doesn't always work. I had the same thing happen to me, I was looking at pictures from Easter and thought the sweater I had on looked nice but I looked kind of pudgy in the pictures. Even though I am close to my goal I need to firm up. You know the last pics you posted from Alan's party I thought you looked great. Just like Noelle said a woman should have curves. I lost my chest after having two kids, blah. Such is life!!