MIA

It's been an off couple of weeks.. few weeks.. when was the last time I even posted??

I don't know and I don't want to take the time to check because if I do I'll probably get distracted and this post will be delayed even further. So to recap since the last time [whenever that may be] I posted: wow. I don't know. Let's see... I had planned on doing a garage sale last weekend but that didn't happen. I have all of the baby clothes priced and ready to go, I just didn't have same gusto for the garage sale that I usually do. Instead we packed up the kids and went to the annual art festival. Paco was kind of disappointed I think. It isn't huge and you have to be pocketing about $400 to buy anything so it was more or less a nice jaunt in some hot fresh air.

I was having some frustrations on the weight loss front as I gained .7 pounds 2 weeks in a row. The annoying thing is that I could 'feel' the extra pound and a half. I don't know if I was just more bloated or who knows what but it was just making me mad. I decided to switch it up a bit and do Paco's workout routine and skip the gym. Every night I did the routine here at home and then a couple of nights went for a run/walk to my moms place afterwards. I will point out that the run was not bad, but not great. The start to my moms has a fairly decent incline/gradual hill so that was a lot different than I am used to. I ran most of the way there but not all of it. I also think I was going a lot faster than my usual pace which I know is a factor. So really I am okay with my first outside run. The second 'run' I did was half and half because I had Bailey with me and she is definitely not used to running. I didn't want the poor thing to keel over! I guess switching it up was enough to do something because I weighed myself Sunday and was down 1.1 pounds. So I am just .2 away from where I had gotten to and this week seems to be going well and am sitting at an even 183lbs and I am feeling better in general. I have made the decision to put the gym account on hold. I can pay $5 per month for up to 3 months to hold it. The bummer is that wont start til July 1. So I will have July-September to workout at home and outside and then decide if I want to start up again at the gym in October. I think getting outside will be good for me, I just have to be diligent!

Last week Edison had a NICU follow up exam. He did pretty well! They said his gross motor skills are obviously up to par since he was climbing all over everything and moving constantly. His social skills are good and his find motor skills are pretty perfect too. The only thing lacking (that we already knew anyway) is his speech. He is going to have another assessment with the OT also to try and resolve his 'chipmunking' food when eating and to work with a different cup. They said that while he is there the OT might make suggestions for speech and see about starting or when to start something for that. We went upstairs to visit some of the nurses and had a great time with that. We miss those folks!

We have been busy with Lilly and her dance recital preparation too. There are so many little details to go over and consider. They send out a bunch of different emails with everything so I have to go back and review each one to piece it all together. I tell ya... I am even more determined to keep her in just one form of dance after this (ballet OR tap OR lyrical) etc unless you have to be enrolled in one to do another like some require. It has been fairly easy going and okay to understand but there is just SO much to coordinate. She is looking forward to her recital though and it will be just so cute so I cant wait! After that she will still have dance this summer. I thought it best not to interrupt the routine so she doesn't get her schedule off. I'm too poor otherwise to have her in much of anything else so we'll just try to find lots of activities around the house.

I got registered for the company craft fair for this year which is pretty exciting. Even though I pretty much broke even and then came out a little ahead last year I went ahead and got two tables this year. I plan to have one with treats like fudge and the other with my sewn stuff which I will elaborate on and have some kids and baby items. Pretty juvenile things, but not everyone can sew even a straight line so hopefully someone will think they are cute and a good deal and buy stuff! That is another reason I decided to take time from the gym. I just feel too guilty if I am paying for a service and not using it so this way I am not paying much and I can stay home and sew if need be. Of course, the need will certainly be. I have got to get sewing!!!

Let's see. Next week Paco has the WHOLE WEEK OFF! I am really excited. It's not like we have any plans at all which is even more depressing because it will be our 7 year wedding anniversary on Monday, but just to have him around will be nice. I feel like we haven't gotten to see each other or even talk at all. Between my going to the gym and his working and going to bed earlier to get up and work out we just are always missing each other. I'm trying to see if my mom will take the kids on Saturday night just to have a little time off. The only thing is my mom was thinking of going to visit my grandma. I think she should so I am torn. My grandma isn't doing that great right now and we are kind of in one of those situations where 'every time we can spend with her we should and is best'. It  makes me nervous and sad and scared all at the same time. Both of my grandparents on my dads side have passed and my great grandmother on my moms side but other than that (and my two dogs from growing up) I haven't really experienced a lot of family loss. Those three are pretty much it. I am not ready to say goodbye to my grandma, even though she is 92 and has had an amazing life, so she needs to kick it in gear and get some energy and motivation to stick around. Any prayers are obviously appreciated!

This is a forever long post so I'm sorry for that. Last thing and then I will make a separate post. It goes along with this part so.. yeah. Anyway My friend, sorority sister, and fellow preemie momma Panda has awesomely invited me to take part in a '60 days of awesome' challenge! I am SO pumped for this and think it will really help me to reach some goals I have slacked on. As she states it is "Just 60 days of being awesome. Awesome can mean a day of clean eating in the face of temptation, or working out, or a long bike ride, or a solid run, or a needed day off. It is really about recognizing all the awesome things that we do every day to work towards a healthy lifestyle." This is why I will have another post, I will throw the things from the week that relate to that and add up the points there. I totally have not added any point values to anything I have done yet so we will come up with that on the fly. I might come up with some goals for it too otherwise I know my awesome things will be pretty pathetic compared to the amazingly awesome things the others can do!


Okay, if I have actually kept you reading this long congrats to you, I'm impressed! Hopefully I will make the time here to post more consistently like I kind of was before!