{Wrong BandWagon.....}

Morning Weight: 141
Today's Activites:  Cleaned Down Stairs Bathroom, Picked Up Coat Closet & Started Re-Organizing It, Continuing Fixing Table for Scrap Area, Dishes, Cleaned Kitchen, Cleaned Entry, Continued Laundry...


Okay....well I have offcially been on America's "Holiday/Christmas" BandWagon....& I am am officially saying that I am now SICK of it!!!  As I was stuffing my mouth with yet again another cookie while I was getting ready to finally take a shower....I realized that I wasn't even hungry......I had started to emotinally eat again, and not even a little bit....A LOT.  This is not a good thing for me.  When I get into a rut with emotinally eating, and when I'm doing it without even noticing it.....not such a fun thing to get out of it.  And I haven't been working out for months now either.....which means I'm basically starting over from square one!  UGH!  I hate this spot!  But I've got to do it!  I don't want to be where I was last year!  Not only did I get rid of my fat clothes, so I don't even have clothes to wear if I start gaining all this weight back, but I'm fianlly starting to work on my self hate.....which isn't nearly as easy for me to do while I'm so over weight!  UGH UGH UGH
I hate the winter months!  And with everything that has been going on at home......this winter has been even harder than in the past....I'm sure living in Washington this year which I'm just not used to to be honest isn't helping either.  Not that I don't like living here, it's just that I'm not used to it anymore.....I really did love the mellow winters of North Carolina. 

Hubby started working the day shift again this week, so we're adjusting to that.  We think that will be a good thing, it's just adjusting to it all.  I am now stuck at home during the day with no vehicle....which really is the biggest negative to it all.  Most of it is pretty positive.....he'll be home on the weekends and he'll be able to go to all of his appointments without a problem now.  :-D
So I've been getting up in the mornings with him to make him breakfast & spend a little time with him before he leaves for work.  And of course there's not enough time to go back to bed (lol) before the boys need to get up to get ready for school.  So I'm adjusting to the schedule with him.  I'm hoping to be able to have the energy here soon to put that time to use.  I've been getting some household things done so far.....thankfully the boys haven't adjusted to school quite yet so I don't have them up yet.  lol  But I'm not adjusted yet to getting up so early so I'm not ready to be working out that early yet either lol We'll see.....I'd like to be doing that soon though.....cuz I'm WAY too tired from getting up so early to do it at nap time too!  And I'm stuck at UGH again!

That's all I have for now!
Luvs! <3

{PinUpMama Monique's 2010s Healthly Goals}

My ABSOLUTE #1 Goal for RIGHT NOW.....is that I need to get my punk self back into gear and get working out and paying attention to what I eat again!!!

I'm still working on my Goal list that I had periviously....

#4 is to reach my pre-pregnancy weight of 135
#5 is "healthy" BMI weight of 125

#6 is to go to Miss Indigo Blue's Academy of Burlesque
This is a new one for me.  The reason I would like to do this is because I have dealt with self hate for a very long time.  Not only hate of my body, which I reall think this will help with....but SELF HATE.  A lot of people deal with this....most hide it behind thinking they just need to lose weight and they think they will be 'happy'.....but I know this the hard why, at least for me....mine is self hate.....I won't go into too much detail in this post....maybe another time.....
So overall, I am hoping that this school will show me that I can love myself for who I am....body and all.

I'm going to be really thinking of some other goals to try and get me more motivated.....I really want to start the 30Day Shred again....I can tell that my muscle isn't as tone as it was a few months ago.....I can't believe it's BEEN a few months already!!! 
Luvs! <3

{"Resolutions" for 2010}

I've never really been big on resolutions for New Years.....but I do like fresh starts...lol....so here's some ideas that I would like to put into my life....and what a better way to start the calendat year huh?
So here goes......


Family/Spiritual

1. Family Binder
2. I Would Like to be More Involved in My Neice/Nephews Lives (even if this is a birthday card...I need to start somewhere-if I would like others' to be in our children's lives I need to do the same)
3. Re-do the Boys' Chore Charts & Their 'Consequences/Rewards'
4. Family Prayer & Scripture Reading in the Evenings
5. FHE More Regularly
6. Continue Going to Church More Often as a Family (now with Tommy working days will be a lot easier to accomplish)

HouseHold/Home Decor

1. Paint a Butt Load of Furniture in My House (most of this will be put on hold until we get into our new house)
2. We will be doing a lot of things to be getting ready to move out of our rental.....

Personal/Craft

1. Make Birthday Cards For Family Members
2. Learn To Sew
3. Learn How To Do Tatting (I want to make snowflakes)
4. Start Making Ukrainian Easter Eggs
5. Start a Christmas Gift List-Preferably Crafts & GET STARTED!!!
6. Re-Do Our Family Board

Organizational

1. Make Family Binder
2. UpDate My Family Address Binder (add pictures?)
3. Make Important Dates Pages to Include in My Adress Binder (which includes gathering birthdays & anniversaries to put into the pages lol)
4. Downsizing & Organizing My House (I will be going into more detail as I do this...)
5. Get My Meal Planning Under Control
6. Get My 'Chore Schedule' Settled

Financial

1. Pay Off BIG Bills (we have our details of this written down because there's a lot of it)
2. Buy A House
3. Start Saving More
   

Most of these as I complete them will prolly be posted on my craft blog....since that's where I post most of my crafty homey & prolly even organizational things.....& this is I write about my weight loss and my more personal stuff...& I like it that way....that's why I started the other one.  :-D

I know that these are posted a little late....but with the kiddos home from school my house and brain have been on the fritz lol Hoping to get things a little back on track here soon!
Luvs! <3

{New Years Eve 2009}

Normally we all don't do much for New Years Eve.....this year really wasn't too much different...lol...we just got to do it all together!  :-D  Besides when we were kiddos our selves I think this was the first New Years that My Seester and I have spent together as adults.

We hung out and ate some chips and dip....watch the guys play with the HDMI cables on the tv & ps3 *rolls eyes* lol watched a couple movies, ate some pizza.....and basically just enjoyed each other's company.  :-D

CAN'T FORGET THE KISSES AT MIDNIGHT!!!

Jon & Jeanette

Tommy & Monique

*PS-Yes I do know it's kinda weird how the pics look very similar!!  LOL  :-P

Luvs! <3

{Sisters on Mt. Rainier}

Here's us with our Hubbies; up in the mountain! 

We took the kiddos with our Mom up to Mt. Rainer to play in the snow.  We all had a very cold BLAST playing in the snow and watching the kiddos play in the snow.  lol

It was great getting out all together for some family time.

Luvs! <3

{Christmas Church Program}

Okay!  So I'm KINDA freeking out a 'LITTLE' bit here!!!
UMMMM YAH......so I'm playing my flute in the Christmas program at church today......and to be honest.....I have put practicing on the back burner of everything (also to be honest this is very typical of me with my flute playing).......so now here I am the morning of the program.....and I'm getting ready to practice with the online version so that I can get one more practice in.  I don't have too much problem with the music it's self......it's playing with the choir.....I've never played with a choir before, and I've never had to follow a choir director before.....I've always followed a bass player or a band director.....BIG DIFFERENCE! 
So now I'm off to get this done!!!  :-D

Wish me LUCK!!!  :-D
Luvs! <3

{Nap time??}

Morning Weight: 136 (Yes, I was just as suprised as you are!!!)

Today's Activities: 

• Brought the kids to the Primary Activity at the church- Breakfast with Santa (who was not actually there & I got in trouble for that!  lol)
• Ran to Wal-Mart to get a lightbulb for the liscense plate because The Mr has a POV inspection
• More Christmas crafts that I'm still trying to get done
• Making Coconut BonBons & more EggNog Truffles
• Practice flute part for the church Christmas program

Well, yes I would say that it is just a little bit busy around here!  lol  Sometimes this can be considered good....and sometimes not so good.  I can do 'okay' until right around dinner time, and then I kinda crack.  Sometimes I can get a little bit more done.....but not usually too much......which really sucks because the kids are usually under my feet all day and this is the time that I can usually be most productive if only I wasn't so stressed.....I would really love to be able to work out how to be able to do this!  Some how.....some day....I WILL figure it out!!  lol

So I was thinking the other day......one more day that I was just TOO TIRED to get up early AGAIN......not only did I NOT get up.....that also means that was one more day that I didn't work out!  UGH!  I'm still not GAINING.....thankfully!!!  BUT....I can see where my muscle isn't as tone already.....and I'm really not liking that!!!  So that's a real kicker!  Well, I remembered something......and this is something that was a really big deal when I started doing the 30Day Shred......shhhh.....I started doing it during Little Mr's nap time!!!!  I mean seriously!!!  DUH!  OF COURSE I DID!!!!!  When else do I have time to do something like workout?!?!?!   Or have any type of energy to do it?  I certainly don't have the energy to wake up early......or to do it in the evening.....besides I don't like to get all 'hyped' up before I go to bed either.  And then I started getting more energy.....and I had DR appts and I had to get up earlier to workout before my appt because I wouldn't have time during naptime to do it.....and so then my habit of getting up early & workout began.......and I ended up loving it!   And OH HOW I MISS IT!!!!!
So.....sooon.....I'm going to try thinking about working out while Little Mr is taking his nap......and see how much it appeals to me......I'm hoping that I'll be able to kick my be-hind into it's gear here really soon.  I may have been pleasently suprized when I stepped onto that scale this morning, but that doesn't changed that I'd like some more muscles!!!  :-D

*With everything going on with/for Christmas it's hard to have the energy to workout or to make good food choices.......and to stay away from all the goodies that I'm making for the kiddos and to give away.  :-D

Luvs! <3