Friday, July 31, 2009

The scoop. No not ice cream, dang it.

1. Yours truly, is successfully eating my way to a healthier me... I've lost around 7 lbs, in about 3 1/2 weeks, of carefully controlling what and how much I'm eating. So I guess you could say I'm using this exercise:

Place two hands on the table and push.

2. Hallie taught herself to ride a two-wheeler. No Joke. Neither Josh and I had anything to do with it. Colson helped a little, I think. One day, I looked out the window and she was riding up and down the drive way.

3. Laila is still not talking, for some reason I'm still not worried about her. But she continues to sign, and is now putting 2 to 3 signs together for sentences.

4. Scrapbooking is glorious. I've had so much fun getting my stuff out.

5. We're painting Hallie's room this weekend, My Idea: Semi-Gloss Stripes. Shoot me now.

6. I bought a bushel of peaches, I want to freeze them. However, I think my family can eat a bushel in a week. I told my sister, I am now in the category of shopping in Bulk for EVERYTHING. The amount of food we go through is alarming.

7. This is the first month of paying our mortgage on the new house, AND the old house. Life is good. Seriously.

8. I got a job. A temp for Anthropologie's store opening - 30 hours, and a one time discount coupon. So basically I'm working to spend. Does that make sense?? :)

9. This loaf was meant for a neighbor, note to self: don't leave the cooling bread too close to the counter's edge.



Cheers!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, assuming you don't have a dog or cat, who was the bread culprit?!?!

Sounds like you guys are doing well!

Unknown said...

Good job on the weight loss! Rock it girl!

Lucy said...

Maren,

It was Laila of course!:)

Lucy

becca said...

love the page, love the bread, love the 7lbs lost, love the two mortgages, love you sis!

Monique said...

Awesome! I love the bread culprit pic. ;) Keep it up!

Sonia said...

Did you just use the word GLORIOUS?!?! Reminds me of someone, hmmm.....see you Wednesday!!!!

Monique said...

Oh, and I like the Ice Cream connection. hee hee.

Anonymous said...

I feel you on the shopping in bulk for everything. I'm seeing my future in little glimpses everytime my boys go through a loaf of bread in two days or an entire 5 lb block of cheese in a week. With a third boy on the way, I have a feeling the words, "Mom, What's there to eat?" will be echoing through the halls in a few short years.

Gwenda said...

I was to sell a cake at one of Dale's Bluegrass events and Kaden got into that!

The older they get, the more they eat, and if they're bored the more they ask for food whether hungry or not!