We finally got snow!!!

This as been the snowiest winter Arkansas has ever had and we hadn't gotten any of it until one day last week.  We really only got about an inch of it.



I love watching the snow fall.  It is so beautiful.  There is just something peaceful about it also!

The boys absolutely loved the snow!  They were so excited to get out and play in it!

Levi found some arms for the snowman.



Micah rolling a ball for part of the snowman!  He loved doing this



When I went in there was only one snowman.



When I can back out there was a snow family.



They even asked daddy to make a baby one, because they want to have another baby.

Not sure that that one is going to happen.

I think the snow was gone by noon.  Maybe next time we will get more next time! =)

The number is getting smaller!

I am so excited!  This week I loss three pounds.   I weight every day, but I am only concentrating on the weekly loss.  Your weight varies from day to day.


This weekend,  I didn't do very good.  We went out to eat Friday and had pizza.  Then Sunday we had a chicken stripe dinner.  When I am eating these foods,  I am not eating as much as I use to.  Portions are a key also.  I weigh and measure everything I eat.


I really do try to not eat sugar and processed bread.  Natures Own makes a sugar free bread.  It is good, but it takes a little to get use to.  We also eat natural jelly, made by Smuckers.  It also doesn't have sugar.  We eat all natural peanut butter.  A good little snack it to get a white or brown rice , jelly and peanut butter smeared on the rice cake.  It helps if you are having a sweet craving.


I saw this on The Biggest Loser,  They were talking about chewing come will help with cravings also.  I was curious so I started trying it.  It really does help!  I thought that was a great tip!


Oh yea, I am also 37 pounds away from my goal of 50 pounds.  I love seeing that number getting smaller and smaller.


I am also planning on taking a picture ever month or so that I can see the difference.  I just haven't don't it yet.  I am always the one taking pictures.  I rarely have one taken of me.

wishful shopping

These rugs would look beautiful in my living room.  They are way out of my price range right now or even in the next couple of years.  If found them all at Target.  It is one of my favorite places to shop.

Rugs are just really expensive and I am not in a place in my life where that it worth spending that much money one something that I know is going to end up stained.  Life with two little boys is never dull.  I just don't want to stress out about them playing on it then getting made because they messed it up.  I will one day find a rug for my living room until then...I will continue to window shop. 

Ordinary Moments

Most days, I don't feel like I have anything blog worthy to write.  My days are filled with fixing breakfast lunch and dinner, separating fights, laundry, giving baths, cuddles in the morning while watching TV, coloring, reading books, tickling.  Some days I get drug down in the moments of very day life.

I am been in a bit of a mommy funk lately.  I haven't been enjoying these moments of the ordinary life.  I feel bad for these moments because there are people who long for these moments.  They want a baby or babies with every fiber of there being.  There are mommies who just want there ordinary moments because their kids are sick. Here I am with two most of precious gifts and they are perfectly healthy.

I don’t know why I get this way some times.  I don’t even know if is normal.  We stay home most of the time.  Except for on Thursday we go the grocery store, Wednesday night we go to church, and then on Sunday go to morning and night services at church.  Some times our family is the only people we see through the week. 

I am a on the go type of person.  We could not be at home most at the time and I would be okay with that.  I love to go visit people, fellowship, and just have fun.  My husband says “You should have married a jet setter or a rich man.”  Ha!

We use to live in Little Rock and we were gone all the time.  We went and ate out and went to see family.  We went to church and we went to a very busy church too. 

Now we live in Amity and it is a much slow life here, very country life style.  I love it here.  I truly do I love the people.  I am just not use to the slowness of it.  This is my life now!  It is all that I have.  I have to use it for God's glory.  I don't think that am doing that right now.  

I want my kids to know that I love them.  I want them to look back at  their childhood and have more good memories than bad.  For them to say "Mom and Dad made the best of what they had."  Life doesn't have to be busy with things.  I am going to back the best of these ordinary moments.

Just have to have some quiet time

Micah got really quiet and usually that is a bad sign. So I quietlly got up to see what he was into and this is what I found




He was playing with is toys in his bed with his mattress pushed off as far as he could get it! Ithought it was rather cute.

I asked him "what he was doing?" and he said " playing baby and sister."

Some times you just have to have some quiet play time by yourself .


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two more pounds down

Well,  I have loss another two pounds.  I am not 40 pounds away from my first goal.  I think I have said this before that I am taking this fifty at time.  I don't really want to post how much I wight but I am about seven pound from a mile stone that I am aiming at.  I haven't seen this milestone since Micah was born.


I loss a lot of weight right before I had Micah.  I loss any where between 20-30 pounds.  I don't remember exactly how much.  We were on a weight loss program called Prism.  We where doing it with our church in Greers Ferry while we where youth pastors.   It is beautiful place to live.


I am basically trying to do the same thing as the Prism weight loss program, but not paying the money.   You count your calories and eat NO sugar, if you eat sugar is in it has to be the fifth ingredient.  You also can't what white process flour.  So you eat whole wheat and whole grain bread and cereal.  For me I will be eating 1300-1500 calories and day.  If you weight under 250 pounds you eat 1100-1500 calories.  Men and 100-1500 calories also.  I don't know as much for them.


So here is to starting a new week.  I am hoping to do better.


My weight gain didn't happen over night and it is not going to come off over night.

one pound loss

This week I have loss one pound this week total.  I my weight this week has gone up and down.  I think some of it my have to do with the stress that has been going on this week.  I am not sure. I haven't eaten bad.  I think to that maybe my body may be in a little shock from all the weight loss last week.  I don't know.  I am going to keep on and I will get there.

One of the key thinking is Drinking a lot of water.  I drink any where between 4 to 5  20-oz bottle of water a day.  I know that you are suppose to drink 64-oz of water a day.  (i think it may just be liquid)  I am staying a way from caffeinated drinks all together.  I am not having any sugar drinks either.  So I am pretty much only drinking water.

I also wasn't able to work out two days because of my dad being in the hospital.  I was up there with him and my step-mom the whole time.  I think that may have hurt too.

So I am 42 pounds away from my goal.  I am hoping that this week will be a better week.  This week is Steve's birthday so I am going to have a big temptation with his cake.  It is an Ice Cream Cake from Dairy Queen.  It is SOOO good!