Memory Walk...

Because I always slack on the weekend, and just do a round up post at some point between Sunday night and Monday morning, here we go.

I  have almost no clue what I did on Friday night.

Saturday morning we did the Memory Walk in Evansville.  We do the Memory Walk, because my mom is specialized in Alzheimer’s and dementia care. And when I worked in the nursing home, I worked on the dementia unit.  And the whole disease is absolutely devastating.   Not to mention Maria Shriver has anew initiative about it.  The funniest part was watching Cat dance in the walk to the drummers.  She’d just start to drop it low.  It was hilarious, and of course we left the cameras in the van.. Cause we’re smart like that.

After hitting up Bob Evans and the mall, we came home, and putzed around.  I’m not a hundred percent sure what all we did. But I know some pumpkins got decorated and I made Ree’s Cinnamon Roll dough.

Sunday I made the mini monkey bread cupcake thingers, and they were delish.  And after church I made chili , using Lawry’s spice package, and it was delish.

I made some delish cornbread to go with it.  It was GREAT.  Just mix a can of whole kernel corn, and some cheese with 2 boxes of Jiffy Corn Muffin mix.  And it’s awesome.  Just try it, just once and let me know what you think, and how thankful you are. Because it’s AMAZING, and you will be thankful.

And on a whole different note.  One of my best friends is getting married. Oh and I’m in her line up. Oh and it’s in May, not the end of may either. The freaking beginning of May. The freaking 7th of May. And who still looks like an oompa loompa? Oh that’d be me.  So I’ve got to up my game for the next few months.

What does that mean, you ask? That means instead of doing Zumba once or twice a week starting Monday I will be doing Zumba Monday, Tuesday, some Wednesdays, Thursday and Saturday.   Will I be sore? Heck yes! Will I want to cry and want to give up? Of course! Buuuut I’m going to have to push through that, because I refuse to be the huge girl in green beside the bride.

Oh and on SparkPeople I start a new challenge on November 1st.  It’s the last loser standing, basically after you sign up, you send a picture of your scale to the moderator. And weekly you send a new picture, to keep from cheating, to the moderator.  And as long as you lose weight, you’re in for the next week.  Until, TADA, the last loser is standing.  I’m so juiced about this I can’t wait.

Oh I’ve also decided about dealing with my emotional eating monster I’ve got have one day where I just kinda let myself go.  And usually when I do that I won’t give in for the rest of the week, and don’t end up going too crazy on my cheat days. So for the next two months I’m doing that, and hopefully-cross your fingers- I’ll be able to give up the habit.

And now I’m going to go to bed, so I can get up in the morning.

A Little Wallowing and Complaining Can Carry Me a While…

Okay, so truth time. I was planning on writing about the fact that today is National More Herbs Less Salt Day but I love salt, and I don't have too much to say concerning it…. So other things on my mind… CAT
She's two going on twenty and that makes her something else. She's such a smart little girl everyday she amuses and amazes me with some new phrase or mimicking motion. And her amount of concern for your well being is always surprising.
And because she is always surprising me with her ability to pick up on the little things I thought a LeapFrog Tag Junior would be a GREAT birthday present for her. And some of the features are really nice, like the vocal personalizing of her name. And she likes to turn it on and turn it off and turn it on. However when it comes to actually using the Tag Junior she will not put it to the page to read. She prefers to have the book read to her by someone. As soon as I come in the door from work she meets me at the door with one of her books. She grabs my hand and leads me to the couch. I bought the reading program so that I would be able to do things around the house or spend a little time with her brother while she occupies herself. As well as for when we are traveling to and from Michigan, Florida and Kentucky in the van. She enjoys the books; however it's really frustrating to have spent the extra money on the books and the LeapFrog system for her not to show any real interest in using it independently.
Since my sister is now watching the kids at home I've been trying to see if I could set up some kind of a learning system and schedule for them during the day. And I do realize that it is a little over controlling of me to want to set up a schedule for them. But, dang it, these are the formative years. And I wanna make sure that she and they can get the most from these times.
I wish that I could stay home and do it myself, but it's just not something that I can do. So for now I will keep on trucking as I am, and hope that eventually CAT & BB will be able to have a mostly stay at home mom.