The weekly lunch

Seems to be a weekly feature on here but until I hear a big giant STOP from you guys, I'll keep doing it.
Frozen pizza cooked this morning and packaged hot. The best grapes we have ever had - Costco. Microwave popcorn - Costco - great for munching. LeClerc peanut free cookies - Costco. Yogurt - Source - blueberry pomegranate - Fresh Co. Chocolate jello - my baby boys favorite - Costco.

Is there a theme running here? We seem to spend a lot of our grocery budget at Costco. Pudding lasts about a month, grapes a week, popcorn a month, LeClerc cookies 2 months. Yogurt is a weekly buy and the pizzas are only bought when I can get them on sale.

So there you go - more info on our lunch habits than you ever wanted to know!

Flashback Monday

June 15, 2007. My has time flown. The boys look so young here. Sterling with his hippie hair (which I couldn't pay $1000 for him to grow back), and Kaedo with his blondie blondiness. Who would have known that he would have hair to his shoulders now. The longest in the family.

There are so few things that children can control. Their parents are telling them what to do, when to do it, how to do it. Craig and I have always been of the philosophy that their hair is their own. Long, short, pink of green, it's fine with us.

What Luck!

The end of February and still no real winter. We just need to get through the next month then it should be smooth sailing. We thought we were in for it on Friday but alas, the bad weather passed us by once again. We have a little snow but not enough to worry about. Our lawns are still green and the buds are coming out on my neighbors tree.
I've been laid up with a cold over the weekend. Yuck. Yesterday I felt miserable and after bringing Kaedo back from soccer I immediately went to bed and stayed there until 5pm. I got up and spent some time with the fam then headed back to bed. Today I am feeling a little better - which is a good thing as I have yoga tomorrow. I am a little overwhelmed with all the therapy I am taking part in but it is what my doctors and insurance co. feel is best.
Hope you had a great weekend and the weather was manageable wherever you are.

1212 and week 22

Today is my 1212th post. Yikes! Maybe I better stop talking!
Here is week 22. The weather is great if not a little chilly right now. No snow as of yet. I have been advised by the boys that there is supposed to be a big snowstorm here tomorrow and at school they have already cancelled Hot Lunch program, extra curricular and they have been warned to warn their parents that busing may be cancelled as well. I hope it's a whole lot of melodrama for nothing. I for one am going out even if there is a blizzard as I have a new doctor to see and don't want to miss my appointment.
Lets all hope that it blows right past us and we can continue to enjoy Spring as we have all Winter!

Hot Yoga

All I can say is Holy Shit. Yesterday I took my first Hot Yoga class and while I struggled in some places and was more of a pretzel stick then a twisted variety, I enjoyed myself. 100F is warm and it gets warmer. As someone who doesn't sweat generally, I didn't have to contend with that as some of my counterparts did but I was hot - and I don't mean that in a good way. There is something very demoralizing about a room full of mirrors when you have 100lbs on every other person in the room and their downward dog doesn't look like there are other things facing downward. Last but not least, the lack of clock in the room had me forgetting to breathe and wishing for some type of super power or sundial that would tell me what the damn time was. "Apparently" you are just supposed to enjoy the moment and not worry about the time. I did not get that memo.

I finished up on a high note, happy that I had accomplished that and was feeling good and ready to go again tomorrow. The people were kind and the facility beautiful and I really thought it was a good use of my time. Then I woke up. I swear to you I am not lying - even my boobs hurt. I know I am meant to be working my core but have my boobs dropped so much they are considered part of that general area? Yikes! What will tomorrow bring?

Family day

Hello All -
What a weekend we have had. Hope yours was good too. Yesterday Sterling, N and I headed to Joyride for a day of BMXing (them, not me). They had a wonderful time and were tired and smelly on the ride home. Craig spent the day going to the gym and hanging out at home and Kaedo spent the better part of the day at home and then was invited to the mall with his friend J. Little did we know at the time that the parents were just dropping them off and that they weren't being supervised at the mall. Took me some time to decide if I approved. After talking it over with Craig we decided we were doing things like that at 12.5 years old, so we took a deep breath and were thankful he had his cell phone with him.

You'd think after all the time that Sterling and N spent together they would be sick of each other but they weren't so I took Sterling home to get showered and changed and returned him to Ns house for an evening of computers, gaming and pigging out.

Kaedo was invited to Js house for supper after the mall so Craig and I took to the streets and spent some time together. Didn't do much. We went to the library and then to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is one of those stores where I can poke around killing time for an hour and never feel the need to spend money. After looking through bargain bins, housewares and books, we got out of there for $1.08 (a tube of toothpaste).

Craig was kind enough to do pick up duty so I got to change into my pjs early. We spent the rest of the night hanging out. This morning Craig was up bright and early for football (yay!) and the boys and I hung out. The three of them were supposed to head to the gym this afternoon for a "bring your family-it's family day" event. At 11:30am Sterling got a better offer and is now at a Generals game watching from the second row. He has been texting me and is loving every minute. Craig and Kaedo have headed to the gym and I just finished watching a chick flick that no one else would watch with me.

Tomorrow it is back to school and work and I am taking a Hot Yoga class as part of my therapy. If I die I won't be posting here any longer. ha. Wish me luck!

Out of the mouths of babes

On Tuesday evening just as we were heading to bed, Kaedo presented us with a Valentine's Card. A beautifully cut heart with a heartfelt greeting. It went like this:

Happy Valentine's Day!
I wanted to get you something but didn't get around to it!
Luv Kaeden