Is age really just a number?

My big girl!

My dearest Karsyn Emiko Marie...You are 4!!! I get a little choked up thinking about you being such a big girl. You are my sweet cuddler. You are my firecracker. You are my mini me and I love that about you. You have your daddy's temper personality but your mama's looks. lol I can't believe you will be going to school this year. I can remember when I thought I had food poisoning but really it was your sweet being growing inside of me. I was scared surprised that we were having you. I cannot really remember life before you, maybe because it wasn't as interesting:) I feel happy that we are always in NY for birthday and that you get to share that day with this part of your family but sad that you don't get to share it with daddy. I know I am a few weeks late getting this post up. I interviewed you just like your sister to see what some of your favorite things were, this is how it went.

1. How old are you? 4

2. What is your favorite color? Purple

3. What is your favorite food? Ham

4. Who are you best friends? Brennan, Corbin, Ava, Tara, Ethan, Bryce, and Kaitlyn

5. What is your favorite book? Dinosaurs

6. Are you excited about starting school this year? Yes

7. What do like to do for fun? playground

8. What is your favorite movie? Dinosaurs

9. What is your favorite TV show? Fresh Beats

10. What is your favorite drink? water

11. What is your favorite animal? Elephant

12. What is your favorite snack? pizza

13. What do you like to sleep with at night? Lulee loopsy (la la Loopsy)

14.what is your favorite holiday? Christmas

15.What do you want to be when you grow up? bigger lol

Clothes

Kitty magnets

a new movie

1st Care Bear

1st Care Bear

We had a combination party at GG and Papa's house. Since you and Madi have the same birthday and Kaitee never gets to be here for her birthday so we did it all together. It turned out just great minus the rainbow cake!! lol It fell apart on mommy and we ended up having pizza and cake balls. Mommy was pretty upset but you don't like cake anyway and you LOVE pizza so it worked in your favor. You got a lot of moo-la and presents. Best of all you got a lot of love from everyone. Here's to another wonderful year of growing.

Happy Birthday to my sweet Kaitlyn

Happy Birthday to my sweet girl.  You gave my life more meaning the second you were born.  I never knew that I could be so important to someone until you.  I love you from the deepest part of me.  You are my baby, my first born.  No matter how many birthdays pass, you will always be my baby.  I know you have other ideas about staying small forever, you are already so grown beyond your age.  You are so confident and mature.  You learn everything so quickly.  I couldn’t be prouder of the young lady you are turning into.  I love love love you!! Kaiteebug.  I love how you still call me, mommy and I hope you ALWAYS call me that, even when you are a mommy yourself.  I really hope that we stop sucking the thumb this year.  You keep saying “ I will when I am 5.”  LOL   I got an idea of interviewing you each year and this how it went.

1. How old are you this year?  5

2. What is your favorite color? Rainbow 

3. Who are your best friends? Shania, Natalie, and Cortlan and Chase

3. What is your favorite movie?  Arrietty and the Mermaid Tale

4. What is your favorite TV show?  Nick Jr.

5. What is your favorite song? Someone like You

6. What do you like to do for fun?  Playing and playing outside

7.  What is your favorite thing about school?  Playing on the monkey bars

8.  What is your favorite book?  Princess books

9. Where do like to go for vacation?  Disney land

10. What do want to be when you grow up? Famous!! LOL  (I didn’t make this up)  I asked her what she meant and she said you know like when you go on stage!! 

11. What favorite outfit?  Rainbow dress

12. What is your favorite animal?  Giraffe.  If I was a giraffe I could see the whole world

13. What is your favorite cereal?  Cinnamon Toast Crunch

14. What is your favorite drink? Chocolate shake

15. What is your favorite holiday?  My birthday.  ha ha!! Easter

16. What do you like to sleep with at night?  Girl, monkey, Queen Mary, baby Jesus, and Joseph.  (when you started this it was so cute, I never want to forget)  and my sister.  awwww….

17.  What do you want for dinner on your birthday? corn dogs

18. What is your favorite snack? Fruit strips

19.  What is your favorite lunch? Peanut butter and Jelly

We had a small party on our house for just us like we do every year!!

Another year in the making!

Soooo It’s already February!! Where has the time gone this year! 

Here a few pics from Kaitlyn’s class signing Christmas carols at the mall.  She was so cute.The kids and I spent the new year with some wonderful friends.  The girls are in full swing practicing their dance for recital.  I saw the costume and I cannot wait to share the pics!!! They are so stinkin’ cute!!  We have survived a house full of the stomach bug and now I am battling a cold.  Hopefully we will recover soon and be out in this beautiful weather!!  (well aside from the last few days) This weather has been amazing.  I am loving the after school walks with the girls and the bike rides on the weekends.  I love that the girls are big enough now to do those things together.   Kaitlyn cannot wait for her birthday.  We took a tour of the Kindergarten classes at All Saints, she was able to meet both teachers.  She also attended her first Mass with her class.  She was so excited.  Karsyn cannot wait until she can go to school with Kaitlyn.  I love that they are growing to enjoy each others company and it melts my heart to see them kiss goodbye in the morning and express their affection for one another.  I hope they continue to grow as friends.  I have signed up for a 5K in April and I am trying to get ready for that, slow but steady wins the race??? RIGHT???  I have the slow part covered lol! I’ll get the steady down as soon as I can kick the sickness. 

Trying to redeem myself

Ok so I notice that once again this blog was on the back burner...ugh!! I hope I am not kidding myself when it comes to this task. I am going to attempt to update on my little munchkins. Kaitlyn started school!!! I cannot believe she is old enough for this. She loves it!! I knew she would, she is such her mama's girl!


We celebrated our Sweet Jack's birthday!! So fun at Little Gym

We went to the pumpkin patch AND we celebrated Halloween with our dearest friends, The Morris Family.
Kaitlyn: Gypsy, Karsyn: Jesse (Toy Story), Jackson: Dinosaur





It was a wonderful eventful few months especially October. Can't wait to see what the holidays bring!

Update

I have posted on 2 of my 3 goals so far. I have waited on the last one because that is the trickiest one for me. Balance...I have tried to keep up with everything so far this school year and for a few weeks I did great. I set a schedule of my housework instead of doing it all on the weekend, I would get right to work on all things school that came through my email. I have worked on my plan time instead of visiting. I have also worked on my lunch break but now that we are 5 weeks into school, Dance has started, a week of testing is over, etc. I am back to cleaning on the weekends actually cleaning and working ALL day Sunday---the day of rest. Not for the weary I guess. I need to get back into my weekly routine and get things under control. I know I did feel less stressed that first few weeks of school when I was spreading out the work and not just letting it go until the weekend. Any tips from my readers (there are some readers, right??) to help me stay on track?

You want me to eat that?

Wow! I try and get on here to post and then LIFE happens. I am going to reveal some things in this blog that I am not really all that comfortable talking about but if I want to accept it and change it then I have to put it out there. My second goal on my list was about getting healthy. I had a very in-depth discussion with a friend of mine that lost about 210 lbs in a course of a year!! I know A-MA-ZING right!! well I don't need to get that drastic but I do need to get serious. Over the course of the 13 years I have lived in a town that prides themselves on anything that is FRIED, I have gained (no judgements here people) 70 lbs!! yes I know it is a lot. I always said about the people on tv that are like 500 lbs, "don't they know when they have put on 100 lbs. Why let it to be so much." Well after weighing myself the other day, I thought, you know to a normal sized person it would seem like you would notice but I WAS a normal sized person and I didn't notice the first 30 lbs hardly at all. My pants were tighter but I still wore the same size. Now that I am about 3 sizes bigger than when I moved here, I realize I really need to make some changes and not pretend like everything is fine when in fact this is the first time since a teenager that my weight has bothered me and I have been self conscious about it. So back to my plan. Like I stated before, my friend "K" told me to do a basal metabolic rate test.Here is the link (hopefully) http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Then I could decide how I was going to eat my calories through out the day. He suggested doing a protein bar combo because it was less calories but kept you full longer. I have been doing this for two weeks now. I eat protein bar breakfast and lunch. Sometimes I have a mini protein bar in between if I am really hungry. I have to say I was skeptical at first, I thought I was going to be craving all kinds of goodies that the PTA usually brings but thankfully I have have be satisfied through out the day. Also I haven't got "bored" with it and I don't think about food ALL day long like I did before. I love it. I have lost 2.5 lbs doing this. For dinner mind you I pretty much have what I want but I do try and keep it healthy. I haven't been able to squeeze gym time into my schedule yet with all of the open house/ back to school night stuff that has been going on but I will get it in there. Hopefully this will help shed the pounds even faster. Wish me luck!!

getting organized?

hello peeps. It has been waaaaay longer than I had anticipated to get to this post. I have been super busy these last few weeks. We drove cross country, my mom was here for a few weeks helping me get my classroom in order. I have been and actually still am working on the finishing touches on said classroom. As I mentioned before I am a bit OCD. Seriously people this is not just an expression for me... Ok so back to my goals. Goal number one is to get organized. I stated that I hate worrying about home while at work and visa versa. One of the time management times I am trying is to schedule my household like a job. This may be a no brainer for the SAHM that have been doing this for years, I praise you for staying so organized. I always said I don't think I could be a SAHM for the simple fact that I am a procrastinator. BIG TIME. (is it possible to be OCD and a procrastinator, hmmm) If I was home every day I would be like oh I could do that tomorrow and tomorrow would turn into next week or month. OK OK back the matter at hand. I wrote down all of my chores I do around the house and split them into certain nights of the week. I have a few nights that I have the kids dance classes so I left those as the chore for that night. I have tried it this week and there were a few nights I tried to talk myself into just doing extra duty another night of the week but forced my rear off the couch. I have to say that I am very happy with how it is going so far. I do want to work in my gym schedule in there and they may but the "chore" days may have to be condensed a little. I am positive that this is going to work for me. I am hoping that this works tenfold for me as in I am so busy I don't think about eating as much which in turn will help with another goal of mine (to be discussed at a later date). I am learning how to use the apps on my phone to keep me going and keep me on track. Wish me luck:)