I am feeling uninspired this last few days. I think it is from spending so much time taking care of my sister and her little ones. The good news is she is doing so much better. Better enough, in fact, to go to a movie yesterday! I didn’t think I could handle another day hanging around and the kids needed an outing too.
We met at the cinemas and unloaded the kids, waited in line for treats, got the boys off to the potty and settled in our seats. We chose to go see “Over the Hedge” again. I say again because “J” and I saw most of it in Regina, but “J2” had not. By the time the trailers were finished so was “J”. He didn’t want to stay anymore, and even being an Ex-Cineplex employee, I have to agree (just like I did when I worked there) that 25 minutes of trailers on a kids movie is a little ridiculous. I scooped up “J” onto my lap and there he sat for the entire movie. With about 10 minutes left the boys were getting edgy, so I pulled out my bag of tricks with suckers and fruit snacks and that brought us to the end. I enjoyed seeing the whole thing and it is really quite cute.
So for some excitement today we are heading out on a road trip ;). My Mom is off today so she can fill in with my Sister. “J” and I are heading up to Silver Creek Mom’s place for a little playtime with others. “J” can’t wait, but he thinks we are going on a hay ride again, maybe he will be happy looking at some cows? Either way it should be a fantastic day and hey… the sun is shining!!!
Not this time, but it was close!
Apparently “J” & “J2” need to chill out while playing. Today, I was at my Sister’s again this morning. I spent all of last week helping her out when she threw her back out, and as it was not completely better as of today, I headed over.
The “J’s” were having lots of fun playing, laughing, running around. Then, they started pulling the blankets out and that is when the trouble happened. “J2” started twirling and before we could stop him he slammed his forehead into the toy chest. Oh the blood!
After applying pressure, ice and checking it out, we decided that he did not need stitches, but it was a pretty deep hole. I am becoming very fast at pulling out emergency kits and getting ice and towels ready. All the while the screaming wouldn’t stop. “J” and Baby “A” sat quietly in their chairs knowing full well that something wasn’t right. On one hand I feel badly that “J” has escaped the injuries and on the other hand I am thankful. We may need to stop giving them sugar when they are together.
This morning went awesome. What more should I say?
Well my trainer, who looked so famailiar, is actually the cousin of a girl I used to work with back in my restaurant days. Kidding, no, I kid you not. Did the similarities end there? Nope not even close. She has a daughter, one month younger than “J”. She conceived through ivf. She has just finished going through more treatments with no success. Does this all sound familiar? Can you believe she is like my twin, but in better shape and with brown hair?
I actually cried when she asked me if this was what I was looking for. I said, I should have called you last year when I first saw your car.
So here is the deal. She came in and asked me a gazillion questions about my health and fitness. She did suggest having some post treatment bloodwork done to make sure that my hormones didn’t get way out of whack with all the drugs I did this past year. She gave me a sample menu to check out and follow. And it is a menu made up of pretty much things I have already in the house and eat normally, just a few changes and additions and I will be on the program.
Then we went for the workout test. She ran me through a sample of excercises to see where I was at and what she needed to set up for me. And truthfully, she thinks I am actually in pretty good shape! Just a little extra toning combined with a little less food and hopefully all will be well. All of the excercises she recommends actually don’t even use the majority of equipment we have. Just a few weights, the stationary bike and my stability ball. Her plan is to create a program that can be done anywhere, anytime. In the half hour we worked she definately had me sweating though and I can tell you I only did one set of everything. The sweat will definately be flowing when I really get going.
She was so awesome, I am looking forward to our meeting next week already. I may have to pay her to stop by once a month to check on my progress so I can stay motivated. Oh yes, and “J” was thrilled to pieces to be excercising and has been begging me for about an hour to go for a walk. Does he not know I am exhausted from this morning and our walks for the last four days? Not to mention the rain.
**Oh and Nancy, no you can not have my candy, I need to keep my motivation for reward going 🙂
