Proud Momma Moment

So, as many of ya'll know I work, and I work A LOT!!!  I take the times that I get to spend with my kids and run with it...  I LOVE spending time with them teaching them things, playing with them, etc...  Though I don't get to have as much time as I want with them to teach them things, I will take the times I do have with them and go with it.  We really try to teach our kids the best manners and things in hopes that they treat others well.

With that said.  The other day I got a phone call from the kids school because Amelia was acting super fussy and had a slight fever.  I know it probably was from her getting her "eye" teeth in, so no big worry.  I was on my way to get the kids from school anyway.  I get to the school and I go to the room to get Amelia first this time.  As I walk past AJ's room to get to Amelia's room I look in to see what his class was doing.  They have those windows where you can see in, but not really out.  So I observed for a minute...

They are all in line to "go potty" and get their diapers/pull-ups changed.  AJ was in the middle of the line when a little girl was right behind him.  One of the little boys is not listening very well and cuts in line...   My son does not miss a beat.  He goes up to the little boy and tells him he is to get in the back of the line because girls go first.  It made me super proud to see that he gets it...

So I proceed to go get Amelia...  I go to her room where they were sitting in the seats for afternoons snack.  Because she was running a fever they had her a little separated from the others.  She sees me and looks up at her teacher who was serving the snacks.  I went in to go get her and as we were leaving:

Amelia "cookies peas (please)
Teacher "Okay Amelia here you go."
Amelia "tank you benda (Thank You Brenda)"

As I was leaving the room Amelia's teacher and the director of the school had a great conversation with me.  She tells me that we have a couple of the best well-behaved kids out of the whole school that they always say please and thank you.  They said that Adam and I do a great job and that even though AJ went through his biting stage she feels like our kids are amazing.  She said that Amelia is talking well above her age, etc.  They just went on and on about how smart they both are, and it just made me feel like a proud mom.

I always have fears of how well of a job that I am doing or not doing.  I am never too sure of how smart my kids are or not are, etc.  So though they might have been lying to me a little, or what not, I just feel proud to know that I might be doing something right!!!

Amelia 15 Month Well Check

Amelia had her 15-month well check today, a whole month late...  The appointment went OK...  She does NOT like other people much.  Everytime the nurse or doctor came in, she would LOSE IT!!  Screams and cries and it was unbelievable...  I felt so bad for the doctor and nurse, but they were so understanding about it.

The doctor said she is doing VERY WELL for her age.  She is ahead of the curve on a lot.  He was surprised with the amount of words she knew and how well she spoke.  He even called my little girl "VERY POLITE."  He gave her something and she said "please" & "thank you." 

She is also going to be quite a tall girl, just like her momma and dad...  She is measuring at 33 inches and AJ was 34inches at TWO YEARS old!!!!!  So she is almost as tall as AJ was when he was two and she is only 16 months.  She weighed in at 22.5 pounds...

I can't believe how fast time has gone.  We had to get 3 shots today and we are now done with shots until she turns 3.  YAY!!!  It breaks my heart EVERYTIME that I have to hold any of my cute babies down for shots.

Dallas Children's Aquarium

So today we did a family trip out.  Big Adam and I took BOTH kids to the Dallas Children's Aquarium at Fair Park.  It was a good day.  We rarely get to go on trips out with all four of us and it was great that we got this chance this time.  My work schedule seems to interfere and when we get days off together we usually go to a park, etc...  AJ LOVED the SEA life aquarium earlier in the week so this sounded like fun for us...  Our son definitely loves the fishes...   Here are some pictures of us at the aquarium...

Amelia smiles for the camera...  She loved sitting and watching the different fish... 

I have a fearless son...  He LOVED "petting" the stingrays...  He also tried to GRAB them...  The Sting rays liked him too. 

AJ enjoying the Octopus Exhibit thing...  I was trying to explain little facts to him about octopus'...

 This CREEPED ME OUT!!!!!!

SEA LIFE

So, with this new year I decided each week when I have a day off during the middle of the week that I wanted to have a one-on-one day with one of my kiddos.  This week was Mommy and AJ's day...  We went to SEA life Aquarium in the Grapevine Mills Mall and then over to Lego Land since we already had a yearly pass for Lego Land. 

In the middle of our day we went out to lunch together.  This was hard, because I have started weight watchers this week.  I was glad I was able to find something on the menu that I could enjoy, while he got to enjoy his favorite thing in the entire world: Ketchup and French Fries.

My little man was AMAZING!!!  We even did this trip without the stroller today...  He listened so good, held my hand, and was so sweet the entire day... 

 Here are some of my favorite pictures of the day.

 (I loved this one where he is up there looking up at the fish and wanting to touch them.)

 (sitting like a deer and headlights while I HAD to take a picture)

(an AWFUL picture of me, but I love my little man!!!!!!)

2012 Resolutions

As Adam and I rang in the new year we have started to talk about different resolutions and goals we have for the new year.  Actually, it is more like a bucket list of things we would like to do, see happen, etc for 2012.  Here are some of the things we have discussed over the past few weeks.  As we do some of these things, I hope to post about them, etc.  These are not in any particular order.

*  Find a church home.  We have lived in Texas for almost 2 years and would love to find a church home.  Some of our reservations are because the kids already go to daycare during the week, we don't want to put them in another daycare for 2 hours, etc while we are in the same building.  and my work schedule also takes a toll on this.

*  Get AJ AND Amelia potty trained.  AJ is almost there and well, Amelia is seeing what her brother is trying to accomplish, so why not just get them both done at the same time.  This is something we want done a couple months before AJ turns 3.

*  Go on a date.  For some of you that don't know Adam and I very well, we have a small secret.  We have NEVER had a babysitter.  My brother watched my kids overnight ONE time in August of this year so we could go to San Antonio for the night.  My parents came up this past April for my "twins" wedding and was willing to watch the kids overnight at our house so we could stay at the resort after the wedding to hang out with our friends, but since AJ was born almost 3 years ago, we have never gone out on a date, just the two of us besides these two times.  We don't know many people with kids, much less many people who want to drive to plano to babysit for us.  So this year my boss got me a gift card to sulivan's steak house and we are going on a date before the end of January.

*  Go to Vegas in October for my mother's 50th birthday.  I have never been to Vegas and have wanted to go for YEARS!!!!  So that is where my mother is going for her 50th birthday and that sounds like fun for us too.

*  Go on a family vacation with our friends Ben and Emma that live in Ohio.  Somewhere in like the North Carolina/South Carolina area.  It would be awesome to get our kids together.  Plus I really miss Emma a lot.  She is a great woman, and really sweet.  I loved living with her after college and I also love that our babies are close in age.  She has some of the cutest little boys I know.

*  Go to Chicago with our friends for St. Patty's day weekend.  I have already requested the weeked off at work and we are going to buy our plane tickets with our tax refund when we get it.

*  Buy or rent a house.  That means get out of this little apartment.  This apartment was supposed to be a temporary thing when we moved to Texas, but after finding out about being pregnant with Amelia when we got here, we kind of just settled until she was born, etc.  We are ready to be in a bigger place.  We are looking for a 3-4 bedroom...

*  Adam get a raise at work so I can be a stay at home momma.  That is right.  For the past 3 years we have talked about it and as the weeks have progressed this year is looking like the year that he might get a bigger raise/promotion, which means I could possible stay at home with my kiddos.  I want to raise them, teach them, and be with them.  Also this means that I could be a better momma and wife.  I would be able to spend more time with them when I want to.  I LOVE working a LOT!!!  But it takes a toll on me with being told one thing and then it never happening and so much change is happening that I am not sure where I stand at work anymore.  I would LOVE my own store, but at this point in time, it will probably not happen.

*  We have talked about having another baby.  This won't be until after both kids are potty trained and probably not until the middle/end of the year.  So the baby would not be here until AJ turns 4 next April 2013, etc.  We have said for a long time that we wanted to wait until AJ was 5 and started kindergarden, to have another baby, but Adam has decided that maybe it would be a good idea to have them before we get any older... (other reasonse are linked to that too) lol...  He still wants 4 kids total.  So paring that he gets this raise/promotion, and I get to be a stay at home mom, it looks like 2012 might bring more chaos into the mix.  AJ is a great big brother and adjusted so well with Amelia.  We have not fears of how he would adjust to another baby sometime next year in 2013...  Remember it take 9 months to cook a baby so we only won't to start thinking about trying, etc....

So Needless to say, we have quite a lot of plans for the year.  We have more than this, but these are some of the crazy and big ones I thought I would share.  As the months go on, I hope I get to BLOG about going on a date, to vegas, chicago, vacation with friends, etc.  As usual I will always BLOG about the crazy children that I have, but I am excited to see what 2012 has in store for us.  We in the English family already feel super blessed and am very thankful for that.

2011 Wrap Up

Well, I am happy to say that 2011 was a great one.  We in the English house feel so incredibly blessed.  Lots going on.  Here is a little update of things that happened with the kiddos this past year...

Adam Michael

Well, little AJ, is not so little anymore.  He is on the verge of turning three and it is crazy to think how fast the time has gone since my little man was a baby.  This year was a good year for him.  He had his ups and downs, but mostly ups.  We had a lot of issues with biting for about 3 months straight...  Now we have been in the clear for quite a while.  He has reached quite a bit of milestones as well...  He can count to 10 in Spanish and count to 20 in English.  He knows his ABC's from start to finish.  he has great memory with all of his songs that we are teaching him.  He knows most of his colors, and at times he knows them in spanish more than he knows them in English...  ooopps...  He is good with most of his shapes as well...  He is learning how to make sentences that are longer than 2-3 words and is very good with his manners.  He undersatnds "yes ma'am/sir and no ma'am/sir."

We are working on potty training, doing a better job at brushing his teeth and learning to read.  Besides those things AJ is a FANTASTIC big brother.  He adores his sister and is very willing to help with her.  He protects her and is very sweet with her.  While at school he goes to her class at least once a day to check on her.  His teachers say that this is his favorite part of the day.  He sings to her, teaches her things, and loves on her constantly.

Amelia Raquel

Amelia has had a HUGE year.  As I was looking through pictures of the year, it is crazy to think of how fast she is growing up.  This past year Amelia turned 1, learned how to crawl and walk all before her first birthday.  She is super smart as well.  She turned 15 months in December and has a vocabulary twice as big as AJ did at this age.  She speaks well, tells you what she wants, and is so super sweet.  She has learned her manners pretty well (please, thank you, yes, welcome, etc).  Words that we hear her say everyday are: momma, daddy, gigi, papa, aj, jack, puppy, poopy, potty, please, thanks, yes, no, bite, bubbles, sit, shoes, milk, water, cup, sip.  I know there are some more, but these are the basics of what we hear a lot of...  Amelia is one of the sweetest babies I have ever had contact with.  She is very big on her mommy and it makes my heart melt.  She is very high matienance at times, and has a slight temper, but usually only happens when she is tired.  She loves her daddy a ton and her brother too.  She likes to shop, especially at the COACH stores (LONG STORY), and adores her papa and gigi.  She will give kisses for days and enjoys being held.

After the middle part of the year we finally got out of the stages when she was sick all the time.  That made us feel super excited.  This next year we are going to focus on potty training as well for her, and hoping to maintain her health.  We are also going to move her out of the crib and into a big girl bed someitme in February or March.

Well, that is the recap of the kids.  It is amazing to think that these kids have grown up so much.  I am sure there is more to tell you about them.  If I had hours to brag I would.  These babies have made me super happy and I am loving it!!!

Christmas Bells Are Ringing

Okay, So I don't know if it is the grown up in me or the child in me that has gotten me all excited about Christmas this year? Normally I am not a HUGE fan of the holiday season because work just stresses me out to the M-A-X!!!! I just can't believe how much I have to work and so by the second week in November I am so frustrated and want the holidays to BE OVER!!!

This year I have been blessed with such a great attitude early on. I am so excited for the holidays this year. The cooler weather, BUT not crazy amounts of snow, the yummy foods, the beautiful decorations and every bit of the holidays are really making me EXCITED!!!! This year I am going to start my holiday shopping THIS WEEK!!! The one person I am having the hardest time deciding what to get is my hubby... Does anyone have any cute ideas? We are trying to be budget conscious so that way we can spend more money on the kids and get them more fun things. So any ideas are more than welcome.

I have started to make my lists for all of my friends, family and kiddos... This will be AJ's THIRD Christmas and Amelia's SECOND! Holy cow where have these past years gone? I am hoping this year AJ will actually "like" Santa Clause and won't throw a huge fit on me this year when we go visit him. For the kids presents this year I am thinking that we are going to start cleaning out and giving away/throwing away a bunch of toys so we can make room. I am thinking about for AJ getting him an art easle to use (with adult supervision of course) and see if there are any Barney Appearances for him to go to. For Amelia I am thinking about starting a "dress up" chest for her. I know she is still pretty young, but hopefully by this time next year we will have a house and a place that she and her brother can really play with these great gifts. Are these good ideas for gifts for the kids??

So is it too early to start putting Christmas up in my apartment say, like, tomorrow?? I am off of work and have a doctor's appointment and then nothing else planned for the day. So would it be okay to go ahead and start to decorate?

No More Gall Bladder

So I went to the doctor last week to set a date to get my gall bladder taken out. We were aiming for someone at the begining of next year. I felt like there would be no rush and I have been living in pain for years, so why not wait til the holidays are over. Well, my doctor wanted to have an ultra sound done to see where we stood and then after that he decided it needed to be done SOON!... He wanted to do it the next day, but that just was not possible for me. See, after thinking I only had one stone in my gall bladder, I actually had THREE stones... Ooops... So that is why I have been so yucky lately. So we set the date for Monday the 17th...

Adam and I show up to the surgery center at 7:30 and we start the process... Of course the doctor was running an hour late and they had a surgery run longer than expected, bla bla bla....

All I remember is the Anesthesiologist saying he was my bartender for the morning and we are now going on a ride. Then I wake up with them taking the remainder of the tubes and things off/out of me. I fell back asleep for what Adam says was only 5-10 minutes, wake up and he is there giving me ginger ale and crackers.... About 30 minutes later I was getting dressed and we are in the car to go home...

All in all the surgery was not too bad. Yesterday was probably my worst day so far. My tummy feels better when I eat, which is amazing, but I am having a hard time breathing. My throat and chest are still kind of sore from the breathing tubes and so that is frustrating. I am super tired though this week, but I still have been trying to be productive. I did 9 loads of laundry this week, scrubbed the kitchen, and was able to do the floors today too...

Tomorrow I am taking a train to my parents so that on Friday my mom and I can go to the spa... We are going to get facials and massages... WooHooo... Does that not sound like fun... Since I am still on pain meds and stuff, I did not want to drive so the train does the trick. Adam and the kids will then drive down Friday night after work and spend the rest of the weekend with me at my parents...

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

The Good: Amelia is officially spending most of her mobility time WALKING!!! She started walking before her first birthday which is faster than AJ did.
The Bad: Because she is so mobile and her brother LOVES to play with her, everytime I put the gate up he knows how to move the gate to let her out. So while I clean and put the gate up, I turn around and ooops she is right there....
The Ugly: She also is very "flexible"... She can climb underneath chairs, through stools, and sometimes she gets stuck... It is sometimes quite funny, but I feel bad when she gets stuck and I can't get there fast enough...


The Good: AJ's words have expanded quite a bit. He has even gotten some spanish words down (Numbers 1-10, boy, girl, dog). He also has gotten back to using some of his sign language that I taught him when he was a baby, and that I am teaching Amelia too.
The Bad: He also picks up on words that we say throughout the day too... Which a couple of those words include Crap, Suck, Boo Hiss....
The Ugly:


The Good: The Weather is finally Changing... I am so excited and LOVE IT!!!!!
The Bad: I have not had time to pull out the kids and my fall/winter clothes...


The Good: Adam and I have been trying very hard to eat healthier, not eat out for lunch everyday, and just stick to our grocery lists, and menus... I have lost 8 pounds and Adam has lost 15.
The Bad: It is fall and I love BAKING during this time of year and so I have been baking, but have been trying to put it off until I hit the 25 pound mark. I really want to lose 30 pounds by January... It is tough with my job and it being that time of the year...
The Ugly: I am concerned that I will plataeu and give up and go back.

The Good: I am reading a book called Redeeming Love. OMG!!! This book has been amazing and I love it so far. Once I finish the book I will do a small "book report" on my BLOG...
The Bad: I never get to sit for more than about 15 Minutes to read and so it is taking me a LOOONG time to read it....
The Ugly: I have four or five other books that are piling up for me to read and I am not sure if I am going to get to them anytime soon..

The Good: I finish AJ"s first year book a few months ago. It is super cute. I would LOVE to be a professional scrap book maker. It is amazing!!! I feel so creative and love making things that special, that hopefully one day my kids will enjoy and see how much of a blessing they are in our lives...
The Bad: I am only on page 3 of Amelia's first year book, oh and she is one already!!! HA HA!!...
The Ugly: I wanted to make a scrapbook for my parents of all of their grandchildren for Christmas and I am not sure when i am going to get the time to sit and do it...


Well, I have a TON more to chat about, but this is just edition 1 of october... I am going to try and get back to BLOGGING again!!!

English Family Update....

We had a crazy amount of ups and downs in the past couple weeks in the English home. So here we go!!!! In bullet points of course...

* Adam had was in and out of the hospital this week. Had a minor surgical procedure done for kidney stones and it has been a tough week. Between working full-time, because practically a single mom, and trying to get him to be healthy, it was a tough week. I always laugh at how much men seem to not be able to handle pain and being sick as well as women...
* AJ has been bite free at school for over two months now... Seems like just yesterday I was at my wits ends worrying if he was going to bite everyday...
* Amelia is WALKING!!! All before turning 1... I am so excited for her. It is amazing that we have almost made with through her first year. She has definitely put us through a workout this year. Here is to a second year and praying she makes things a little bit easier for us.
* I am reading a new book that a friend of mine suggested. It is called "Redeeming Love." So far it is amazing. I have been on a book kick lately and I am loving it.
* We made it entire year without getting pregant... LOL!!! Everyone in my friends and family group have made a point to make fun and jokes and have told us that we need to have another, but we are loving our lives as a family of four at the moment. We will start thinking about more babies in a few years. I honestly think we might be done...
* My oldest newphew started school this year. I remember 4.5 years ago when he was born. I can't believe how fast time has gone. He is such a wonderful boy. The sad part is that not even within his first two weeks he got suspended... LOL!!! I am not sure why, but only to him...
* I have been making attempts at cooking more and more these past couple of weeks. I have found a great website that I have been using a few recipes that are decent WW points and so I am still able to eat some yummy food and work on loosing weight.
* Speaking of loosing weight... We have stopped eating out in our house and eating more healthy foods and I have lost 3 pounds this past week. Here I go for week 2... I am hoping to lose another 3-5 pounds...

Well, i will have more to chat about later in the week. Lots going on.... Have a great week everyone!!!!

Love Dare

Since I know that Adam does not read this BLOG I figured I could talk about something that I am planning.

We have had three GREAT years of marriage so far and I want us to definitely have a lifetime of great years of marriage. Recently Adam and I have hit a small rut. We have realized that we need more just "us" time. It is very hard to do because we don't know of many people that we trust with our babies. We are just going through a weird time.

So a friend of mine that I worked with just got married and said she was going to do the love dare. She is just married, but wants to ensure their marriage starts off on the right foot. So I have decided that I am going to do the this dare with her. I am not quite sure what this will entail, so I did some google research today and this is what I have found.

This is what they say this "Love Dare" involves.

■Why Marriage? Explore the blessings and challenges of godly marriage.
■Contract or Covenant? Examine the difference between the world’s design for marriage and God’s original intention.
■Clean Fighting. Learn how to fight the fires of conflict effectively and respectfully.
■Leading Your Heart, Instead of Vice Versa. Practice choosing love when it isn’t your instinctive response

So starting next week here she and I go. I am excited because I have someone who is going to do all of this with me and we will be praying for each other each step of the way, but my biggest fear is that I will lose the follow through because of the crazy life stresses.

So here I go... Wish me luck!!!

22 Days!! WHAT???

Where did this past year go? 22 days from now our sweet little Amelia will be ONE!!! Where did this year go? She is such a precious little girl and she has been a wonderful addition and blessing to our family. I am working setting up a time with a friend of mine to take her one year pictures and also get her somewhat of a party planned. What are some cheap, fun, and cute ideas for a girl's first birthday? We just took AJ to Chuck E Cheeses with his cousins for his first birthday, but I want to do something a little more fun this time...

Babies Update

Adam Jr. (AJ)

Well, first off let me start off by saying we are MONTH free of biting at school... I could not be a happier Mom... I am so very proud of my big boy... BUT most of all I am thankful for the family and friends who supported us through this maddness... Your words of advice, support and encouragement really helped us through this. So we celebrated on Friday with AJ and I think he totally thought we were nuts... Are we?? Probably, but hey, it was worth it.

So on other notes... AJ is doing GREAT! his language skills, social interactions and attitude have all changed a lot over the past month. He has learned a HUGE amount of words and gets a lot of how to properly say sentences, etc. He understands a lot of "ownership" kinds of things. He will give something to me and say this is mommy's. Or if he has something of his sisters he will tell me it is "sissy's."

He has learned a LOT and I have a LOT of videos to start posting in the next few days. I am super proud of him. I could not be a more proud mom.

Amelia

Amelia is doing well too... she has started to explore more and it is quite funny. She has a temper like no other though. She throws a fit if you take something from her, look at her the wrong way, etc. It is HILARIOUS!!!...

Amelia has started to say one or two words, and she keeps trying to blab new words, etc. She is starting to pick up on her sign language a whole lot better now... I am trying to teach her simple words and we will go from there. Maybe that will get me to work more with AJ on his again. He and I kind of put it on the back burner, but he really needs to start working on it again. For a while there he was able to do short sentences in sign language and I am not sure that he remembers.... We shall see....

Amelia has started to try and learn to walk on her own too... She can walk holding onto furnuture and when we get on the floor to work with her on walking on her own she just wants to play and does not really want to walk.... It is very precious to see how she is... She probably has one of the best smiles I have ever seen. Her and her brother are amazing and i am very blessed to be their mother...

Well, Amelia will be one in less than 5 weeks and I am really starting to get sad. Where did this past year go? I am very excited because a really good friend of mine has agreed to do her one year pictures. We never got to do those with AJ because of being in a middle of a move, etc. But I am super excited to see what Candice with do with these pictures. She is super talented and if anyone ever wants someone to take pictures of their families she would be the perfect person...

What is going on with your kiddos? Family? Life??

Worst Aniversary Ever!

Well, let me preface this by saying it is not because of my husband...

Well, this past weeks was Adam and I's 3rd aniversary. We are very blessed to have had a wonderful three years together. Though we have had some rough times, God has really blessed me with such an awesome man. So I had to work in the morning and so did Adam. It was a rough day and I was super exhausted by the time I got home with the kiddos. I did get some pretty little flowers and that started the afternoon/night awesome.....

So we started to get dinner together and the kids settled and we realized our house was getting hotter and not cooler. We called the maint people over and we thought it was fixed. After he left it was later than I thought it was and so I decided that I was nto going to make our amazing aniversary dinner, we should just order out and I would go pick it up while he got the kids in bed. When I got back home I told him it was so freaking hot and did not get cooler... So we decided try and call the service people over again and they said to give it a little longer and it should cool down.

Needless to say it was 92 in our house the ENTIRE night. Adam and I had to take shifts to wake the kids up and make them drink a glass of water to keep them hydrated... Not to mention I had to be at work by 5:30am so I had to be up by 4am in the first place. I was EXHAUSTED!!! What a frustrating night. We called the next morning and they thought we were crazy... I am so over the apartment living.... I really wish we could get this credit up and get OUT of the apartment life....

Well I guess you can say we will never forget our third year of marriage... A night when are supposed to be cuddled up with your mate we were on separate couches and wanted nothing to do with each other.... May this next year be another year filled with love, laughter and no more babies.... Ha Ha....

Has anyone else had a horrible celebration, but not the fault of your spouse?

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

The Good: AJ has gone 9 School days (almost TWO WEEKS) without biting at school.... I am so very proud of him.

The Bad: We got in the habit that if he does nto bite at school we give him some kind of reward for having a GREAT day... I am not sure if that is teaching him the right way or not...

The Ugly: I am not sure when is a good time to stop treating him each day he has a good day at school.. Is there a rule??

The Good: My Three year anniversary is coming up in a few days...

The Bad: I am having a hard time finding a good leather present for my husband. For the third year of marriage that is supposed to be the gift... I really want to buy him a pair of cowboy boots, but can't find any for a reasonable price in his BIG FOOT size....

The Ugly: N/A

The Good: Amelia took her first steps without any furniture or help the other day.

The Bad: I did not get the camera in time and she has not done it again since...

The Ugly: Is she really already walking? WHAT???

The Good: Amelia will be one in less than 2 months.

The Bad: I really want to have a party for her, but am having a hard time trying to figure out the details. We really don't have any friends with kids that I think would want to come.

The Ugly: I just don't feel like my friends without kids would want to come either... But we are going to make it special for her...

The Good: I am starting weight watchers again on Monday. I am super excited.

The Bad: I can't believe how fat i have let myself get

The Ugly: I really want to lose at least 30 pounds by the end of the year... Is that reasonable or am I stressing myself out.

The Good: I went to lunch today with my friend Sarah. She is the friend I have had the longest in my life.

The Bad: It has taken us almost a year to even see each other and that is way too long of a time..