Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Ten on Tuesday

1) Lately I've really been loving listening to Kellan singing the Pirates of the Caribbean song around the house. I'll miss that little voice when he heads to preschool.

2) We just had a garage sale on Saturday. I spent hours and hours the last few weeks sorting through our junk. Good news: We can now walk in our shed! No more boxes of outgrown toys and clothes being stored. And this morning I even noticed that I was surprised to walk in the back dungeon part of our basement and see the floor. I love getting rid of stuff. Too bad I like to shop too!

3) Jas and I just sat down with the calendar. It is looking like a busy fall. Good busy though. Uff. Makes me tired just thinking about it!

4) We have a NTMA guy staying with us this week. I should actually say a NTMA friend! Tomorrow night is dinner at our house with the students while Doug is in town.

5) I'm starting to feel like the gluten free diet has been a blessing in disguise. I feel so much better about what we are eating. It is nice to walk into the grocery store or Costco and just shop the periphery. I've been discovering new recipes and have started to enjoy cooking just a little bit more :-)

6) On that note - I have been thoroughly disgusted as I've started reading food labels. The next time you go to the grocery store, try looking at the ingredients in sour cream. It's now a dollop of Daisy for this family!

7) I'm getting an itch to redecorate something in the house. I think Kellan's room is next on my list. Jason is going on a 10 day trip in September, which means that it is play time!! Last year while he was gone I redid the basement. Just something about the hubby being gone that gets the creative juices flowing!

8) Did I mention that I'm ready for school to start?

9) Today it is back to the orthodontist for a new mouth guard. Hopefully this will help more than the last one. I've been waking up lately with my jaw locked up. Not fun.

10) Off to do some more back to school shopping with the kids today.

Hope you have a lovely Tuesday!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Ten on Tuesday

I thought I would try this format out for updating this blog, since I'm obviously pathetic at keeping it current. I figured in a list format I could just post rambling thoughts and they hardly have to be coherent, which is how I seem to be rolling these days.

1) Jason took the kids camping this weekend and it was absolutely heavenly. It is the longest amount of time I've ever been alone in my own house. It was a total of 48 hours and it was sweet bliss.

p.s. - the man is an awesome dad and my hero!

2) We took the kids back to school shopping last weekend. Thankfully Mirielle picked out something cute because I told her she had to find something from Gymboree (yes, I know it is $$, but otherwise she picks out what I think is the ugliest stuff in the store and I'm just not that into stuff that looks like something some punk 14 year old would wear or hello kitty stuff - I know I'm a snob!).

We got a new pair of shoes for Kellan, which happened to be the same size as Mirielle's shoes, so now I'm wondering if the kid is going to be as tall as his uncles. Anyways, they were super excited to get some new stuff and then SUPER MAD when I told them they had to wait to wear all their new stuff. Lesson learned - next year shop the weekend before school starts!

3) I keep having these weird baby dreams. I have a baby, someone else has a baby, I have to take care of a baby, I'm taking pictures of a baby. It's been kinda weird.

4) Going gluten free hasn't been as bad as I thought until we tried taking Mirielle off of gluten. The girl has been complaining of her stomach hurting for the last year and she seems to be doing better in the last few weeks. We're good until about lunch and that seems to be when things fall apart. She doesn't like the gf bread and all she wants it a piece of cheese and a hot dog and then she is still hungry the rest of the afternoon.

5) Speaking of which, if I hear a kid tell me "I'm huuuuungry!" one more time today I'm going to lose it!

6) I'm super ready to be in a routine, and although I'm really looking forward to Kellan having preschool this year, I'm not looking forward to the running back and forth.

7) The kids have been taking swimming lessons at the YMCA so yesterday when K was in his lesson, I decided to swim some laps. I swam for 30 minutes and I think the last 5 were the only ones that I wasn't thinking that I was going to die. The hardest part: I usually huff and puff and pant when I exercise, but you can't exactly do that when you have your face in the water. I thought my lungs were going to explode. Those 30 minutes made me mighty happy that I had spent all of those years on the swim team. I actually felt like I knew what I was doing!

8) The absolutly best part about Zumba: when an unsuspecting guy joins in the class. I especially like it when they are big and buff. I have rare seen a man that can manage that class. The guy last week stumbled around with his eyes as big as saucers and his mouth puckered up like he was sucking on a lemon. Watching him: priceless!

9) We've been reading Ramona this summer and are though 5 of the books. Jason told Mirielle that when she finishes reading (when I finish reading her) all of the book series we would take her to watch the movie. She's super excited.

10) I've been trying to come up with good ideas for getting my photog business going. Any good ideas??