Daily Conversations

Most of my daily conversation is with my 1 year old::


Madison, don't touch that.
Madison, don't eat that.
Madison, don't eat that you just got it out of the garbage.
Madison, get out of the garbage.
No honey, I don't want to lick your hands, they were just in the garbage.
What are you eating?
Where did you get that?
No honey, you're not done.
That's right, no no no no no.
Honey, please get your face out of the cat's butt.
Madison, the kitty is sleeping. I'm sure she would appreciate it if you would remove your face from her ribs.

Underneath the Willow Branches

Decided to write something last night. I made a New Year's resolution to write at least once a week. I'm trying hard to keep up with it, but it's not going very well. This is only the 2nd thing I have written since making that resolution. I have such writer's block, it doesn't come naturally to me anymore for some reason. But anyway, here is what I started and hopefully one day I can finish it.

The willow's branches danced in the early evening breeze, offering a welcome relief from the searing heat as Becka and John plopped on the ground, backs against the trunk.
“We should have grabbed some good before we left; I'm famished.” John said, trying to catch his breath.
“Not like we had time you know.” Becka replied sarcastically. “We're lucky we had time to grab the rings!”

Becka reached into the pocket of her black denim jean shorts and pulled out a wrinkled manilla envelope. She turned it upside down, spilling two platinum bands into her blackened, sweaty palm. Her parents wedding rings. She picked one up and held it up into the sunlight:

'Til death do us part.
Little did her parents know how true the engraved quote would be for them. Her eyes starting burning and her throat tightened. She quickly wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and stood up, shoving the rings back into her pocket.
“Let's go John. We have to find somewhere to crash before it gets dark.”

I've Returned

Oh hey, I have a blog. I forgot!
Maybe now I will have some time to actually write in this blog.

Chomping and Screaming, Screaming and Chomping.

Well, it has finally happened. Baby girl has her first tooth! A little, tiny (sharp) pearly white has decided to make it's appearance and break through her gums in the course of the night last night. She is so fascinated by this little gadget that has suddenly appeared in her mouth, running her tongue over it and moving her lip over it. It's quite entertaining to watch. Now it's a waiting game to see how she fairs with sticking her hands in her mouth and clamping down on them. Now that she's got one, I hope she gets some more soon! She's only got how many more teeth to go? (Seriously, I have no idea how many teeth are in a child's mouth. I missed that part of Biology.)
Baby girl has also (much to my dismay) learned to shriek and scream. She loves to yell at people, about everything and anything. She finds it to be funny when you shriek back. Such an easily entertained child!

Making Changes

I am still wanting to lose this weight. But I think I wanted to lose it all at once. That is not me.
I am changing the way I eat, AKA, I am not eating just because I am bored or eating complete crap all day. I am walking at least 30 minutes a day. This, this is what is going to help me lose weight and get my energy back up to be able to keep up after my daughter.
I still want to track and log what I eat and my calorie intake, as well as my exercise. However, I am not going to be extremely strict with my calorie intake. Counting calories is just not my style, and to be honest, it's a pain in the tukkus!!
But, I know just walking and getting rid of the 8 cans of soda a day and crap-snacking all the time will be good and will do the job.

Motivation to Lose.

I've decided that it is time to lose all this weight that I have gained. Not only do I still own all the pregnancy weight that I gained, but I also now own 10 pounds of what I like to call "lazy weight".
Bascially, I've done pretty much as little physical activity as I can and have been eating junk and crap and more junk as much as  I possibly can.
I have joined myfitnesspal to track what I am eating and how much excercise I am getting.
My goal is to be back to my pre-baby weight by the time my darling princess turns 1. Hopefully I can stick with it this time!

I Am an Awful Blogger

So you would think that because I am on Blogger every day reading other people's blogs, that I would remember to update my own.

Obviously not.

So, I think I am going to try and update this thing at least once a week. I think trying to update it every day was just too much because there wasn't enough going on for me to do that.

So, let's go with this once a week thing and see what happens!