10 Things About Me

Today, I'm going to talk about 10 things you may, or may not know about me! Exciting right? Remember on myspace when you would always fill out those questionnaires? I loved those things! Those would make excellent blog posts! I like to read about everyone's favorites, pet peeves, that kinda thing.

Some of you may already know some of these things, depending on how long you've been reading:

1. I'm obsessed with Duck Dynasty and watch a re-run pretty much everyday.

2. I work from home, and can sometimes go up to 5 days without leaving the house, and it usually takes me till about day 4 to realize it!

3. I could drink McDonalds unsweet tea, every second of the day, but recently had to give up caffeine! AHHHH

4. I absolutely hate to put laundry away, and will walk around the baskets until it's time to do more laundry!

5. I don't post my blog on Facebook, or Twitter because I don't want my friends that I see on a daily basis to know about my blog.

6. I am one of the grammar police! I can't stand misspellings, or when the wrong form of a word is used. Ex: There, Their, They're....or To, Too, Two. Makes me crazy!! I know, I know....no one is perfect and I know there are many mistakes in my lil ole blog....so I shouldn't judge! Now please excuse the many ecards about grammar. They are just funny to me. I had to cut it down to just 3, I could go on all day! Yes, this is VERY important to me! I stopped reading a certain blog, because the spelling stressed me out so much. I'm very much aware that this is pathetic! :)

7. I have a minor in English, and was told by one of my professors to stop writing how I talk. Who knew 7years later I would enter the blog world and writing how I talk would be the cool thing to do!

8. I'm an only child.

9. My hubs is 8 1/2 years older than me.

10. I worry about everything. I worry if there isn't anything to worry about.

There you have it......I'm sure you'll sleep better tonight knowing more about me ! :) I'm planning on doing a home tour sometime this week. We'll see. I've been researching blog topics.....I am in a rut and booooored. What do you wanna read about?

Busy Weekend!

This weekend was one of the best I've had in a long time! We had 3 birthday parties in 2 days! 1 was at Chuck E. Cheese. Wow, those people do not get paid enough!! That place was nuts! But, we had a good time! Cole is scared to death of Chuck E. He calls him "the rat". He was nervous before we even went that "the rat" was going to come near him. But, we made it through with no melt downs, and only a few Chuck E. sightings. Drew was less than impressed with Chuck E. Cheese!

 

With three birthday parties in one weekend, comes a lot of bad food! 2 out of 3 parties served pizza. I did pretty well, 1 piece at each party. I had 1 piece of cake between 3 parties, so I'm pretty excited about that! However, I did chow on some taco dip at the last party. That stuff was freaking amazing! Ya win some, ya lose some I guess. 

 The weather here in Ohio has been less than impressive, until this weekend.....it was beautiful!!! It was nice out saturday, but sunday was great!!! Almost 70 degrees!! Love it!!! I want it to stay!!!! I got to go to the grocery store alone on sunday morning....you better believe I had my sunroof open at 9 am.....hey, I saw sun that's all I needed!!

I FINALLY got my hair highlighted this weekend. My hubs does it for me! SSSSSHHHH!!! That stuff takes FOREVER, especially with 2 little kids in the house.......but we got it done!! Here is the awkward selfie documenting!

 

I was busy trying to show the hair, and totally didn't think about how my weird facial expression was also going to be in the pic, lol. 

We had a great weekend, with my hubs being home with us, and great weather! I wish every weekend could be this good!!! This coming saturday is Drew's bday party! I still have a lot to do, ahhh! Gotta get a serious dent made in the kids goodie bags this week! Have a great Monday!!

Finish The Sentence Link-Up

Today, I'm linking up with Holly! For "Finish the sentence.."
 

1. People always tell me.... to stop worrying and relax! I'm a worrier...I can't help it!

2. In the movie based on my life...Viewers would fall asleep watching. Unless you find a mom of 2 boys who is asleep by 9:30 pm exciting :)

 

3. Typically, I end up regretting... Being so passive. I need to grow a pair sometimes.

4. I always ask to leave off the....onions!! yuck!

5. Kim and Kanye really... Drive me nuts! Yet, I watch when I can. Not a huge fan....but I can't stop, lol

6. My Parents always reminded me...Not to judge people. That I'm no better than anyone else.

7. Every single day I.....want a nap. Hey, a girl can dream right?

8. This one time in College....I kinda dated a guy, that ended up playing for the other team. I hope I wasnt the deciding factor!div>

9. My grossest habit is...I can't stand boogers in Drew's nose, and I will pick at them till I get them out. I know, I know, disgusting

10. My latest white lie was... Telling Cole if he didn't take his medicine, that he was going to have to go to the hospital. I know....not the best parenting move....but the kid refuses to do everything these days it seems like! Gotta do what I gotta do!

11. I know all the words to...Every Britney Spears song ever written. I can't say I'm proud of this but it's true!

12. When I grow up...I want to write children's books. I've written a few but never send them anywhere for anyone of importance to read

13. Sexy time is...When my hubs showers before bed, or actually makes the bed. I know something is up when one or both of these things happen. (I don't know why he makes the bed, lol he's weird)

15. I think it's hilarious...When Cole yells "Oh the humanity" and falls on the floor.

NSV, Blog Crushes, and a New Look!

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It's Thursday so that means "Non-Scale Victories"! These can be anything in your life, right? This week mine have to do with my health. I've mentioned multiple times that I am extremely anemic. We've known this since I was pregnant with Cole 5 years ago. I may have been anemic before then.....we just didn't find out until I was pregnant. I've been put on iron supplements multiple times. I take them for a few days......and then stop because they cramp my stomach so bad. Well after 2 pregnancies.....and my baby turning 1 in a few days....I'm still anemic and have been put on iron pills AGAIN. This time I don't have a choice but to take them.

So Non-Scale Victory #1:
I have started taking 1/2 an iron pill every other day. I know to some that sounds like nothing.....but to me? That is huge. I'll eventually build up to 1 pill every other day....but I know I just can't handle them daily. So baby steps for now. It's not a lot....but it's something!

Non-Scale Victory #2: 
I've been eating more iron enriched foods....which basically means, healthier foods! Spinach has a lot of iron...so I've started adding spinach to my salads.....eating more fruit......more lean meats.....very little carbs. This is probably why I saw an 8 pound weight loss in 1 week! HOLLA!!

That completes my Non-Scale Victories for this week............for me they are big ones!

I couldn't resist this link up! My first blogger crush would have to be Holly. She's my blog mentor! haha. When had 3 followers, she was one of them. Helped me figure out what I'm doing on here....and comments on everything when no one else was. Love her for that. For making me not feel all alone in this blog world! :)

Next on my blogger crush list Kimmy. I'm fairly new with Kimmy's blog.....actually found her on keek first! She is DEFINITELY my number one keek crush! haha. Makes me laugh out loud on a daily basis! Now if I could just get her to start watching Duck Dynasty, her life would be complete! haha.

Next up is  Marcy she cracks me up with her grap
hics on her blog each day! The barbie ones are my favorite! And she just lost 100 pounds. Freaking amazing!!!!

Last but certainly not least, Erin. She shares my love of country music, is super-mom, and she goes to the Grammy's! How could you not like to read about that???

 These are only 4 of my faves.....there are more! I could really go on all day....but I won't. You're welcome!


In other news....did you notice my new blog design?!?! Thank you Hubby Jack I feel like one of the cool kids now!! :)

And I just had to add this ecard in today, because it seriously made me laugh out loud! There are times when I feel like this is so true!!!

That's all I have for today! I'll be checking out all of you ladies linking up for the NSV today!!! Have a great day!

Weigh-In Wednesday!

Today is my best Weigh-In Wednesday yet! I went to the Dr. last tuesday, and from their scale then to my scale this morning....I'm down 8 pounds! HOLLA!!!!!!!!!!!! Granted when I'm weighed at the Dr. I'm weighed in clothes, shoes, jewelry and at home I'm....well, not. lol You get my drift! But hey, I'll take it!

My goal last week was to lose 10 more pounds by Drew's birthday party on the 16. I didn't think I was going to be able to do it.......but now I have only 2 more pounds to go and a week and half to do it! So unless I do something stupid and gain weight....I feel confident that I may be able to reach my goal, and maybe more! That would be fantastic if it were more than 10 pounds! But, I'll be happy with 10 for 2 reasons. 1. Because it's 10 freaking pounds and 2. Because I actually met a goal.

My workouts are still slacking, but my eating is much better. I haven't been eating all healthy however. I eat what I want....I just eat a ton less of it. Everything in moderation right? Since I'm extremely anemic...I've had to go back on iron pills. I've started them a few times before and always stop taking them because they hurt my stomach so bad. But, this time I don't have a choice.....I HAVE to take them. So I'm starting off slow. I take a half of a pill every other night. So far, I'm doing ok on them....but I have been feeling a little nauseous every now and then. Iron is not fun. But hopefully with the changes in my diet, and the iron supplement...things will start to turn around. I found out that tea depletes iron. Up until a week ago when I found this out....I was drinking at least 32 oz of unsweet tea a day! I loooove iced tea. No sugar, no sweetener, just iced tea. Now I can only have it in moderation. I've actually cut out all caffeine all together....for iron reasons. It hasn't been horrible, actually a little easier than I expected. As long as I know I can have it once in a while as a "treat" then I'm good. It's amazing what you can do, when you don't really have a choice anymore! haha. I definitely feel better.....with cutting out most of the "crap food". My Dr. told me....this is a lifestyle change, and he's correct. Lots of changes, but so far so good!

This made me laugh....because it really is the truth. It just takes some of us longer than others to figure that out! I'm super excited about my 8 pounds......ready for another 8!  Happy Hump Day!!

New Followers!

I've noticed over the past week, I've gotten about 5 new followers! Yay!   Welcome!  After 7 months of blogging, I still really don't know what I'm doing on here! So, thank you for following along as I try to figure it out! :)

I thought since I have some new followers that this may be a good time to ask, what you want to read about? Any posts, that you'd like me to do? Anything you wanna know? I know I'm a pretty exciting person...haha riiiiiight.

I'm pretty open about things. Obviously, or I wouldn't have a blog! You basically open yourself up to the world when you start a blog. So if you have any questions, or want to know anything....just ask! Hopefully that will give me some new topics to write about! Recently, I asked my Mom if she would like to read my blog. Her response was " I listen to you talk everyday, why would I want to read it too?" Ok.....umm nevermind? She obviously doesn't get it! :)

 

My desktop has a virus, still! AHHH. So I've been using my older than dirt laptop for a couple weeks. It's slow, it's missing the key on the letter L, and it likes to delete full paragraphs after I've typed them! I'm close to a nervous breakdown before I actually get to publish my post each morning! Getting my desktop fixed soon! Which brings me to my next point.....I do read all of your blogs each day, I promise. But my trusty old laptop, likes to make that little comment box on some of your blogs disappear! That makes it so I can't comment! AHHH. Some of you it likes, some of you it doesn't! Sorry!! I am reading....honestly! I always feel like to be a good "blog friend" you must comment! And if someone comments, on your blog and you don't comment on theirs....that is just rude! I don't know if that's really how it is.....but I always feel guilty if I receive a comment, and I don't comment back! I may have issues. I am a polite blogger, what can I say?

Weigh-In Wednesday tomorrow.....I'm hoping for good things!! Have a great Tuesday!

Party Planning

Most of you already know that my little Drew will be turning 1 on St. Patrick's Day! His first birthday party theme is of course, St. Patrick's Day! We are in full party planning mode around here! Everything is mostly done, and planned.....we just have to put it all together on party day! We only have an hour to decorate so that's stressing me just a tad!

 

His invitations turned out so cute! I ordered them from Zazzle. They were a little more expensive than I would have liked, but they are worth it! 

Had his shirt made on Etsy. It was the first time I had ever ordered from Etsy. I know, I know, I must live under a rock! But, I am very happy with the shirt! I was a little nervous because I guess the way you do things on Etsy, is just put your description in the "note to seller" box?!?! I need specific instructions people. Like Line 1: Name, lol. So that part threw me off a bit !

He will hate me for this someday. I plan on him wearing the hat and the bow tie at the party.....but he won't keep the hat on for anything!

These are the centerpieces for the tables. My mom made them....not a very good pic so it's hard to see what's in them. Hats, gold coins, beads, that kinda stuff. This week I have to get the kids goodie bags done, and get Drew's first birthday pictures taken! With him being sick the WHOLE month of feb, I'm a little behind on that!

In honor of Drew turning 1 in a few weeks, he finally gets to see what we see in the car!

Yes, I'm aware that it is recommended these days that you keep babies rear facing in the car until age 2. Let me tell ya what.....that is near impossible! His legs were already hitting the back of the seat, and he won't be 1 for 2 weeks! So that's not happening. Say what you will.....this is safer for him! He can stretch his legs! And now he gets to watch movies with big brother!! :)

Hope you all had a great weekend!! I got new end tables, coffee table, and a sofa table!!! Hollla. Home tour coming some time this week....as soon as my house is clean! haha!!!