I'm overweight - wooohoooo!!!

Strange title, eh? Who would ever be excited about that??

Well, me! I mentioned in a previous post that our wii fit has me catagorized as obese although I never saw myself as that - I mean I don't have rolls and rolls of fat! I just have nice cushions of cellulite!

So anyways I haven't been on the wii fit in quite a while because I headed back to the real gym. Dos decided he wanted to play wii tonight and I asked him if I could do something real quick before he started playing. So I weighed myself on the wii fit.......

And I'm overweight!!!! I'm no longer obesse!!!

Crazy I know - but in my mind, it is progress :)

My goal honestly is to just be healthier. My Mom is a type 1 diabetic and I have a very strong family history of type 2 diabetes. I figure that if I want to have a relatively healthy life as I grow older, I need to shed a lot of pounds to decrease my risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Then there is the heart disease that runs in the family too.

I would love to be that Mom that everyone looks at and says "I can't believe she had 3 kids!" But, let's get real - that isn't going to happen. My skin didn't just bounce back to where it was pre-babies and gravity has taken a tole on the ladies. So I will never look like I hadn't birthed 3 lil ones.

But, I can be healthy and strong enough to keep up with them!

A little mayo....

You Are Mayonnaise

You tend to be a very quiet, introverted person. You're happy to sit back and let stronger personalities shine. You value loyalty and harmony. You try to bring people together. Your taste in food leans toward simple comfort foods. You love holiday meals as well as old school favorites like mac and cheese. You get along with mustard and ketchup personalities. You have an unlikely alliance with hot sauce personalities.

What Condiment Are You?

I love mayo!!! And this is pretty right on...

Dear Children,

Thank you so much for your generous contributions to the stankiness of our van. I know that you are only trying to keep me in shape and busy by subjecting me to relentless cleanup in the house and in the vehicles - for that I am appreciative. But, in order to not embarass your little buddies you will be bringing to VBS tomorrow, I went in search of the think causing the stankiness.

I searched in compartments that were intended for storage. Oh my genius children - you used these for trash containers!!! Oh the dehydrated chicken nuggets, squished paper cups, and gum wrappers. Then behind those compartments, apparently they needed some extra support because what did I find - GUM! Yes, gum that I picked off with my nice, sharp, dig your eyeballs out fingernails. But still - that was not the stankiness.

I sprayed down any sprayable surface of the van with my handy Green Works cleaner and still there was the stank.

I start picking up trash in the front of van and what do I find, a lunch box!!! I open the lunchbox and............phew!!!! That was the stank. Hmmmm......what is this I see in here - baby carrots, a molded version of some fruit..........hmmmmmm............the only child that comes near a veggie is Tres and she isn't packing lunch yet. Ahhhhhhhhh...............

Ummmm .....it was me :) Sorry kids.

The Ten Commandments of Cell Phones

I found this on some off-shoot of Yahoo...Infoworld. It is the Ten Commandments of Cell Phones

1. Thou shalt not subject defenseless others to cell phone conversations. When people cannot escape the banality of your conversation, such as on the bus, in a cab, on a grounded airplane, or at the dinner table, you should spare them. People around you should have the option of not listening. If they don't, you shouldn't be babbling.

Can't say that I'm real guilty of this one....unless the family doesn't want to hear me talk!

2. Thou shalt not set thy ringer to play La Cucaracha every time thy phone rings. Or Beethoven's Fifth, or the Bee Gees, or any other annoying melody. Is it not enough that phones go off every other second? Now we have to listen to synthesized nonsense?

Mine ringtone is Canon by Pachbel.....very peaceful. Now my txt message alert is the Westminster bells - and it even gets on my nerves sometimes!

3. Thou shalt turn thy cell phone off during public performances. I'm not even sure this one needs to be said, but given the repeated violations of this heretofore unwritten law, I felt compelled to include it.

If I ever forget this I feel horribly guilty!!! My fav is when someone forgets to turn it off druing church and the preacher is in the middle of a sermon and you hear some hiphop ringtone playing. One time this happened and it was some old man!!!

4. Thou shalt not wear more than two wireless devices on thy belt. This hasn't become a big problem yet. But with plenty of techno-jockeys sporting pagers and phones, Batman-esque utility belts are sure to follow. Let's nip this one in the bud.

HA!

5. Thou shalt not dial while driving. In all seriousness, this madness has to stop. There are enough people in the world who have problems mastering vehicles and phones individually. Put them together and we have a serious health hazard on our hands.

Um yeah - sooooooo guilty!


6. Thou shalt not wear thy earpiece when thou art not on thy phone. This is not unlike being on the phone and carrying on another conversation with someone who is physically in your presence. No one knows if you are here or there. Very disturbing.

Oh this is a HUGE pet peeve!!! Like the bluetooth is some sort of a status signal??? Seriously people - if you are in a place where you can physically use your hands, hold the phone to your ear!!!

7. Thou shalt not speak louder on thy cell phone than thou would on any other phone. These things have incredibly sensitive microphones, and it's gotten to the point where I can tell if someone is calling me from a cell because of the way they are talking, not how it sounds. If your signal cuts out, speaking louder won't help, unless the person is actually within earshot.


hahaha I like that last sentence - that's great! I wonder if I'm guilty here.....my Dad is!


8. Thou shalt not grow too attached to thy cell phone. For obvious reasons, a dependency on constant communication is not healthy. At work, go nuts. At home, give it a rest.

Yeah, I'm kind of attached but I think I have a legimate excuse....the cell phone is our home phone! About a year ago we had our land line switched over to a cell phone in the effort to save a little $$$. The Coach, however, is addicted to texting on his. Somedays it drives me nuts and I want to throw the phone up against the wall!!!....but then we would have to buy a new one.

9. Thou shalt not attempt to impress with thy cell phone. Not only is using a cell phone no longer impressive in any way (unless it's one of those really cool new phones with the space age design), when it is used for that reason, said user can be immediately identified as a neophyte and a poseur.


Oh some people are sooooo guilty of this. Not us though!!! We have plain ol' regular size phones with only a camera and the ability to text. No email or web on these babies!!!

10. Thou shalt not slam thy cell phone down on a restaurant table just in case it rings. This is not the Old West, and you are not a gunslinger sitting down to a game of poker in the saloon. Could you please be a little less conspicuous? If it rings, you'll hear it just as well if it's in your coat pocket or clipped on your belt.

Yeah, guilty here....I have a hard time hearing in noisy places though :(

Hope you enjoyed this - I got a kick out of it!!!

Fabulous Favorite Fridays!

Hmmmm - we will see if this title sticks.

McDonald's coffee - this is what I start my day with. A large McD's coffee with 3 splenda. I've learned to drink it black since I realized how many sat fat grams I was putting in it with my 5 creamer I used to want. Just coffee from the mcd's though. No food.

Smart Start Cereal - this is my food of choice in the mornings. I like the crunch and it has a descent amount of protein and fiber in it. On my working mornings, I will just pour myself a sandwich baggy and eat dry with my McD's coffee on the way to work. Tasty!

Bath and Body Works Blushing Cherry Blossom - this is my favorite scent.....atleast right now. I'm a little fickle with my scents. Something new will come along and this one will go to the back of the cabinet. Mmmmmmm.....I'm wearing it today :) As soon as we get our jacuzzi tub all cleaned out, I am going to buy some bubble bath in this scent and enjoy a much needed soak!

What is in our jacuzzi tub - storage??? from when we had a water drainage system put in the basement. I started cleaning out the basement bathroom yesterday and the jacuzzi tub currently contains a play kitchen, a little toy bead chaser thingy, and a plastic chair that goes with a little tykes desk. Oh, and lets not forget the concrete dust that covers absolutely every surface in the stinking basement from 2 days of relentless jackhammering of concrete. It was big fun! But, it rained like the dickens last night and NO WATER IN THE BASEMENT!!!! Yeah!!!! Carpet here we come :) The Coach has major plans for the man cave.....I'm sure that will be the subject of many posts to come.

I'm at a loss already with favs....gonna have to brainstorm before next week!

Woot Woot Wednesday!!!!

So this name came to me on the way to work today. Maybe I will stick with it, maybe I won't.

Woot woot - I have lost 5 pounds - YEAH! Ya gotta start somewhere. The Wii Fit labels me as obese - although I really don't see myself that way. But obviously, 5 pounds is a drop in the bucket but I'm still excited for some progress.

How am I doing it? Well, I started in June on sparkpeople.com. I thought I would spend a month or so tracking my food and then start in with the exercise - kind of easing into it so I didn't go full throttle with diet and exercise then burn out real quick.

Boy, did tracking my food teach me things! I was consuming half of my calories for a day in one meal sometimes!!! And if it happen to be buffet Sunday at Pizza Hut, well I'd eat a day's worth in an hour! So, I have learned to make better choices and eat smaller portions. It's not easy though. I struggle everyday with the temptation to overeat, eat because I'm bored, eat because I'm sad or stressed, or eat because it just looks or sounds good. It's an everyday battle. But so far, I'm beating it!

Then just last week this time I added exercise. I will do either the treadclimber or eliptical for about 15 minutes, then some strength training on the nautilis machines - lower body one day, upper body the next. Then I will end with around 10 minutes on the stationary bike. And funny thing is I'm actually enjoying it! I like having an hour out of my day that I can spend time on myself and my health. And if you actually think about it - I am doing something for my family by trying to better my health. I would like to be around to see some grandbabies!!!

So Woot Woot!

So for tomorrow...

What should I call Wednesday's?

I like having a title for each day because if gives me some focus. I'm having a hard time coming up with a subject.......Whatever Wednesdays?, Whatcha Eating Wednesday?, What In the World Wednesdays, What's Up in the World Wednesday?.......yes I have a thing with alliteration!

Any ideas?

Try this Tuesday!

So I think that I will call Tuesday's "Try this Tuesday"!





And for my first Try This Tuesday..........here is my new favorite line of cleaning products!!!!

GREENWORKS!

I have started getting a little more aware of the products that we use at home - being safe around the kiddos. This stuff seriously works better than our old standby 409 and The Works. So far I've only used the multipurpose spray and the toliet bowl cleaner. But both have far exceeded my expectations!!!! LOVE this stuff!!!

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And speaking of cleaning things. The ol' custodial staff at this university have outdone themselves. When using the potty this morning, someone came into the stall next to me. The floor was SO shiny, that I could see the darkened reflection of the lady in the next stall preparing to do her business. Then I realized, if I can see her reflection, I bet she can see mine......and that is a little creepy.......so I looked away!!!!

Monday's Mommyhood Moment

So last night, I fed Tres and decided she really needed a bath because she was a booger mess. I started running the water in the tub then took her back to change the lovely mess that she had left in her diapy - which was a nice size mess, mind you.

We get back to the tub and I put her in and she starts playing and splashing. I get the towels out and then turn around to find her getting up from a squat and leaving a big floating present!!! YUCKKKK!!!!

So out comes Tres - out comes her toys. Tres sets happily on the floor while I start to use the removeable showerhead to attempt to rinse her generous gift down the shower drain.

Did I mention her favorite foods right now are blueberries and raisins???? Yeah, they take a trip through the 22 pound body fairly unscathed.

While I am starting to rinse the tub, Uno comes in to go potty and I hear her go "Oh, Mommy!!!! Oh, yuck!!!! Oh Tres!!!!!"

I turn around to see that my precious little baby has decided to leave me yet a third present on the floor and INSIDE the floor register!!!!! Then she is proceeding to kick her little feet in it and feel it with her grimmy little hands. Gross!!!

I thank the Lord that the register was closed!!! If it wasn't, we would have been smelling that for months!

So I pick her back up - hose her down in the already contaminated bathtub - wrap her in a towel - close the door to the unsanitary bathroom - tell the other kids not to go into the filthy place - and take her to the master bath where she actually had her bath with no more gifts for Mommy.

I think Tres was pretty much oblivious to the chaos. Since she had her tubes put in, we have to put wax in her ears anytime she is going to be in water. So she was probably just hearing "wah, wah, wah" like on Charlie Brown.

And what a little doll she was in the bath. I put her in about 2 inches of water with bubbles and she just played, played, played! I'd imagine she felt good after relieving herself so much. She got on her tummy and just kicked and kicked. Then she thought that since she was on her tummy, she needed to lay her head down - ooopppps!!! That doesn't quite work! She would pop right up and go "uh, uh, uh" for me to wipe her face off. So cute :)

But then the clean up has to happen. That involves a lot of disinfectant, using the end of tweezers to pry the floor register up, opening the register to "flush" it, and a baby gated in the computer room being watched over by her siblings.

Let me just say one thing about the clean-up process - the blueberries and raisins that remained unscathed during their journey through my precious baby.......well, they don't go down the drain!!!

And that girl can eat!

An introduction

Hello all in bloggy land!!

My name is Adelaine and I am married to The Coach. We have 3 wonderful little kiddos - Uno (8 year old girl), Dos (5 year old boy), and Tres (1 year old girl). Obviously, all of these names are anonymous. My name is not Adelaine - although it is my favorite girl name :) I would have pushed for that as a name for one of the girls but someone in our family had already used a name really close to Adelaine. Then, anyone who would name their children Spanish numbers is a little wacko. But, I'm not super creative that way so Uno, Dos, Tres it is. The Coach - well, there is actually truth in that one. My husband does coach, but that is not his main job.

What do I have to hid? Well, not much really. I am open to speak my mind on most subjects and am a "real" person. I am a Christian and am not afraid to show it. Along with that, I'm not afraid to show that just because I am a Christian, it doesn't mean that everything is always peachy keen in my life. However, a relative of mine wants to create drama about these aspects of my personality. So, here is my anonymous blog that I can fully express myself on without the blog police coming after me........and it allows me to be the conflict avoider that I am :)

We all live in a rural town and like it that way. Small town life is great for raising the kiddos. I work at a university nearby and The Coach works at the local high school. Uno & Dos go to the local elementary school and Tres goes to daycare. We are very active in our church and love our church family. Putting the schedule of The Coach and I together can be quite challenging during the school year. The house is always a mess, we have perpetual laundry, and the grass always seems to be mowed. But as I have always said, cleaning up after 3 kids is like trying to rake leaves in a windstorm!