Random Thoughts

Oh I got 7 whole hours of sleep last night, YES!  It felt so good.  With all the problems we have had with my 13 month old NOT sleeping  decided to take him out of their room, so he would not keep his sis awake and put him in the dining room in the play pen.

This way he can be noisy and will not wake up Raeanne and I won’t wake up to every little peep and he won’t here me get up to go to the bathroom at night.  He needs to get back into the habit of self soothing at night and this should do it.  It should only take a few days and than we can put him back in his crib with Rae.

Our house is so small that the play pen takes up a lot of room, there is a pic so you can see how cramped it is but that is OK as long as it works.

I weeded today and I am so sore so you know I burned some good calories today.  I dislike these prickly weeds a ton.  Here are the dumb things

Trying real hard today to not let my 14 sleepless nights cloud my journey to my positive thinking.  I need to really read my grateful list out loud many times today and gear all my thinking towards the good!

My son is keeping me up at night and I have been better then before as I am not letting myself get so upset that I can’t see straight but I am starting to feel a bit down.  Instead of letting myself go to that dark sleepless space I am going to do everything times 10! 

My life is just starting to head in the right direction and I am not going back!  I love my family and even though my son is keeping me up I would not trade him for the world.  Now off to my happy place!

Wow it has been one long couple of weeks and it is mine and my husbands fault.

When we moved into this new rental over the summer the two kids have to share a room upstairs next to ours as we cannot feel OK with anyone  being in the downstairs room.  My daughter is 4 and my son is 1 so that just won’t happen for a few years.

We were so worried that any little peep or cry from our son would wake up our 4 year old that we would go in for everyone and give him his pacifier, move him to the center of the bed, or stroke his head.  It even go to the point over the last couple weeks that we were bringing him in our bed about 4-5 in the morning.  We did not give our daughter enough credit as she can sleep through it.

Last night I had enough, I am so so tired!  I left him in his room crying for an hour at a time and my daughter just snored away.  I stayed awake because I was waiting for her to wake up. I ended up staying up from 4am til 8 and at 6:30 I gave  in and brought him into bed with me.

He would not be doing this if we would have just left well enough alone and left him to sleep and make his few noises because they were few and now they are plenty!

My new plan is to set up his play pen as it is a very large one and put it somewhere else on the top floor.  We are going to have to let him be mad for a couple nights but this only took 2-3 nights before to break him of the habit of us coming in to sooth him.  Hopefully by the end of the weekend he will be back in his crib and we can all get some sleep!

Anyone else having trouble with this my advice is, they will be OK and can move themselves if they need to.  He is over a year, he will be OK and can find his own pacifier.  It is hard to hear them cry and I won’t sleep for a couple of nights but at least I will get this habit broke again!

All measurements in inches

8-19-10                        10-6-10                    Loss or Gain
Bust: 42                         42                            0
Under bust: 36 ¾           36 ¾                        0
Waist: 42 ½                   41 ½                        1 -long time for this inch!
Hips: 45                         45                            0
C-section scar
(measuring around body
where scar is located):43 43                           0
Thigh (1): 25 ¼               25                           ¼

Arm: 12 ½                     12                            ½

My total inches lost = 1.75 inches.

I have not done measurements in about 45 days but I was the same measurements when I started the plank position every day and this was only EIGHT days ago so this loss is really in 8 days and not 45 from my last measurements.
The PLANK is helping with my stomach, thighs and arms and this makes total sense as this works about every muscle in your body. I am going to keep doing this.

I am up to 150 seconds of holding this at one time. It hurts by then but I need it to hurt for awhile so I know it is working. I go up at a few seconds every day; even if I feel like I want to drop I keep going until I am over at least 2-3 seconds over from the day before. It will only get easier and the longer I can do it the more calories I burn.

CARDIO-still not forgetting this! I sometimes jog for 20 minutes in front of the TV and hold my 5 lb dumbbells, but yesterday I put up Halloween decorations for 2 hours, the day before I mopped the floor (without a mop) and I counted those as cardio and I could feel it later so I know it was working.

My son is 13 months old and I am officially throwing away ALL bottles, as soon as I am done writing this post.

he would not hole his bottle at all and it was getting harder and harder because he wanted to be mobile and drink and he would cry if I didn’t hold it….whew! 

he was pretty stubborn with the sippy cup as well and I finally forced him to pick it up and drink out of the cup.  The sippy cups all have handles so he does gab them well he just did not want to hold it up with his head back.  I resisted for half a day, he got mad, and literally a half day later, he was/is drinking out of them.

I guess I could have made him hold his bottle quicker but you know it is hard to let go of some things.  I loved feeding my kids bottles.  I got to cuddle with them.

Once he started drinking out of a sippy cup i did not even give him a bottle option, even at night.  he has not had a bottle in 3 days and he will not have another one. 

Now time to free up the cupboard space!

Staying up too late lately and I know its too late because I am feeling hungry before bed.  This is a problem because I don’t want to be eating at 11 or 12 at night so why is my butt not going to bed earlier?  This is a hard one since my husband is a night owl and lately it seems to be the only time we get alone with each other.

I did eat a few nights and I have not for the past 3 nights now.  I guess if I am going to be stubborn and stay up too late then I need to lay down hungry!  Don’t want to undo my whole day of eating right, right?

This is a hard one!

Wow this weekend has been AWESOME!  I posted a few days ago about spending money to receive money and this come to play, in my favor, twice this weekend.

My 4 year old had grown out of her toddler bed and we really needed a new bigger bed for her.  We have not done this in the past, as you know we are poor, but I thought I would put my law of attraction to the test.  Here is how the weekend went.

Friday:  Decided that no matter what we were buying a bed this weekend/
Friday night:  Sold a heater we have had on craigslist for about a month for $40
Found a daybed on craigslist Saturday for $30.
Listed my daughters toddler bed Saturday as well.
Bought the daybed Sunday
Bought a new comforter set with pad for $50
Sunday evening sold the toddler bed for $40

What I spent = $80
What I received = $80

i am not making this up, it is the EXACT amount, so cool!  And my daughter has an awesome new bed and we broke even. 

Do I believe more and more that what I am doing is the right think, you bet!  Love this LOA and will keep doing it!

When we had my daughter I forgot NOTHING and now we have my 1 year old son and I feel like I am such a bad om sometimes.

For my daughter birthday I have presents and cards bought weeks in advance.  My poor gets the shopping the day before and i just bought his car, to keep in his book, yesterday.  Let me remind you that he is 13 months now.  I totally forgot his card, rude eh?  And I bought it a month after his party, signed it, and filed it.

I feel horrible that I am so scatter brained, is this normal?  I guess I better not forget his card etc when he is old enough to remember or I will be in trouble!

OK so if anyone has a hard time getting motivated to work out may I suggest watching the biggest loser on TV or they have episodes on the Internet.

I cannot sit and watch that show I feel too guilty!  I have been up moving around, cleaning closets, sweeping the floor, clearing tables etc. while I listen/watch the show.  It gets me pumped up to get off my butt!

I did this with the summer episodes of Losing it with Jillian too, big motivator!