First, I've looked at pinterest a bit this week. Our new babysitter does a craft *every day* with the kids! Yes, it's unbelievable to me. To me, crafts are reserved for special days ;) Colouring will have to suffice the rest of the time. That said, I thought I might want to follow her lead, and she said she gets all her ideas off of pinterest. So, I went over to the site and allowed myself to be sucked in to the vortex ... We decided to try this pin today, and it was a huge success. (That's good - if it had flopped that would have deflated my enthusiasm to do any more crafts in the near future.) Here's the kids working on their trees.
The kids had a great time and it was fairly simple to clean up. And, I found a new place to hang their artwork. I don't like having it on the fridge (must be my years of following Flylady).
I had my consult this morning and it went well. He was pleased with the weight loss, obviously, and he said as long as I'm feeling any sort of twinge in my hip I shouldn't exercise. I guess that gets me off the hook for tonight! We talked about my sugar cookie binge and discussed ways I could have avoided it.
I've taken a few food pictures lately and I'll post them soon. Suffice it to say today's lunch was *huge*!
Today, due to some reading I've been doing, I made a decision to really think about my answer when the kids ask me something. My go-to answer is 'no' or 'later,' when many times what they're asking could be easily accommodated right now. Of course there has to be a balance, but today went much more smoothly than usual when I kept that in mind.
One other thing in my head is a sentence from 'Made to Crave.' I'm not sure I have it exactly word-for-word, but Lysa writes something to the effect of: "What I eat, I crave." Of course, that makes sense when we thing about it. After I had cookies one night it's all I could think about the next afternoon. However, I haven't really applied that to my drinks. I've been trying to cut back (unsuccessfully) on the Diet Coke. I can easily do just 1 one day, and the next day drink no water and have 3 cans of pop. I think I'm going to use that mantra, changing it slightly to 'What I drink, I crave.' This will mean a hard core quit in the beginning, but I don't imagine I'll have the same withdrawal since the amount I've been consuming has been so variable. I'll mitigate the symptoms with green tea (no worries about craving that ;) ), and make sure to get my water in. To strengthen my resolve, I have no Diet Coke in the house right now. And I am definitely not getting three kids out of bed to go get some. That's just crazy talk ;)
I'm going to chat with a friend tonight. My goal during that conversation - clean out my fridge! It's in desperate need of a cleaning.
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