saturday was hannah's best friend's birthday party. she turnd two this past week. she loves to read and her mom is crazy creative. right now, mckenna's favorite book is go dog go. so, the kids decorated apple box "cars" to have some races in the yard with. all of the kids came dressed up as their favorite storybook character...hannah was olivia. my mom helped me make the dress, well, ok, she did almost all of the work, but i did do a little of the sewing. i made the ears. she loved it! and now...some pictures...
or maybe not. sad. blogger is experiencing some difficulties and i don't have the patience to try again and again. another day. sorry...
26 October 2007
16 October 2007
for my sister #2
so i was going through some old posts and came across the one where i talked about eating better and all that comes with that. i said that i would be keeping track of my progress here and i never had a follow up.
so here it is:
i have been walking with a friend of mine every monday, wednesday, and friday mornings. so, along with actually going to bed earlier and waking up earlier (and doing those things every day) i am spending a LOT more time being physically active. i have been trying to incorporate tuesday and thursday as walking days as well, but am not having much luck. i actually feel really good about my three-day-a-week schedule. tuesday morning, we go to church for my women's bible study and thursday morning we go to church for our pre school playgroup. so, every morning of the "week", we have something to get us up and out of the house...and away from the television. which is point two. we have been watching almost NO television. mike and i like to watch heros on monday nights. and that's about it. some evenings, which means maybe twice a week, we watch hannah montana and zack and cody on disney. don't ask. it's better content than most everything else on then. otherwise, we eat dinner a lot earlier, at a decent time, and enjoy our evenings as a family, just playing blocks or reading or coloring or whatever..it's been so nice. i feel like i am eating ...well, better. not like a health nut, but i rarely every drive-thru anymore and am trying to actually eat breakfast in the mornings. doing fruits (which was never a problem) and more veggies for snacking. and less snacking. i was just telling mike the other day that, while i'm not sure that i am actually losing weight yet, i am actually feeling a lot better. i think regulating (for the most part) my sleeping/waking, getting more physical activity in as daily as i can, watching less tv, and being more creative have combined to make a "me on the way to better me".
it's kinda nice.
so here it is:
i have been walking with a friend of mine every monday, wednesday, and friday mornings. so, along with actually going to bed earlier and waking up earlier (and doing those things every day) i am spending a LOT more time being physically active. i have been trying to incorporate tuesday and thursday as walking days as well, but am not having much luck. i actually feel really good about my three-day-a-week schedule. tuesday morning, we go to church for my women's bible study and thursday morning we go to church for our pre school playgroup. so, every morning of the "week", we have something to get us up and out of the house...and away from the television. which is point two. we have been watching almost NO television. mike and i like to watch heros on monday nights. and that's about it. some evenings, which means maybe twice a week, we watch hannah montana and zack and cody on disney. don't ask. it's better content than most everything else on then. otherwise, we eat dinner a lot earlier, at a decent time, and enjoy our evenings as a family, just playing blocks or reading or coloring or whatever..it's been so nice. i feel like i am eating ...well, better. not like a health nut, but i rarely every drive-thru anymore and am trying to actually eat breakfast in the mornings. doing fruits (which was never a problem) and more veggies for snacking. and less snacking. i was just telling mike the other day that, while i'm not sure that i am actually losing weight yet, i am actually feeling a lot better. i think regulating (for the most part) my sleeping/waking, getting more physical activity in as daily as i can, watching less tv, and being more creative have combined to make a "me on the way to better me".
it's kinda nice.
for my sister...
here it is. not so exciting. i have been sewing a lot lately, making tote bags for our church's craft fair next month and some costumes...one for hannah and one for a friend, matyce. saturday is mckenna's birthday party...storybook dress-up...come as your favourite storybook character. hannah is going to be olivia. i am making a costume for matyce, too. it's really just a fleece shirt and hat. he's going as dikkie dik, a dutch character. dikkie dik is an orange cat, who has a little hand puppet that looks exactly like him. he's pretty cute. i can't read dutch to save my life, but the book is really cute and kat says it's one of his favourites. so, yeah, that is my post i guess. i suppose the point was to put up some pictures, but i haven't loaded any new ones from the camera lately. i will definitly post some of the kids in their costumes at the party. most likely on monday...can you wait that long?
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