Thursday, January 2, 2014

I'm part Ninja

Alright 2014 I'm ready for ya.

Except when I woke up this morning to go ham at the gym our bedroom door didn't even make one squeak before BOTH kids were SCREAMING in their beds. 
I stood still for about 3 hours, which I considered a workout and tried to start my day when they were finally quite. 

I have never peed so quietly in my life. 

When you become a mom, you also become part ninja. 
Bet you didn't read that in those baby books!
You get lots of practice when they are infants and you tip toe out of their room when they finally fall asleep, but the real fun comes when they get a little older and you remember 

"Oh wait I'm a human too and I like to do things"

You find yourself silencing your pee and not flushing until they wake up... don't act like you don't do it, 

eating cookies in the closet and inhaling the crumbs as soon as you hear those sticky little fingers on the door knob. 

You also learn how to open doors, cabinets, toy boxes, etc with your toes since your hands are permanently full. 
If you are like me and your box spring decided it wants to try out for Tin-Man in the next rendition of The Wizard of Oz, you also get in a full yoga workout trying to wiggle your way out of bed without waking up those sweet cherubs. 

You can quote me, and even curse my name, but just when you think you have got your ninja skills down and you might be able to get out of the bedroom in time to watch The Big Bang Theory, 
or get to the gym with enough time to do an actual workout and not just weigh yourself
you will forget that you moved that baby gate, and that you put those legos/dolls/matchbox cars on the floor right next to the door because you were being ninja last night,
It will of course, make the most noise humanly possible, and your ninja license will be temporarily revoked.
To top it off when you finally get the kids back to sleep, 
your husband will come out and slam the door, flush the toilet, start a band with the pots and pans, and turn on the T.V. and those sweet little babies
will not even budge......


Monday, December 30, 2013

In 2014...

In 2014 I want to...
Let the little things go
Love on my husband more
Play on the floor more with my kids

Treat food as fuel
Run my heart out
Trust the process
Save more money
Pay off some debit
Organize our assets

Go on more dates with my husband
Have girls night
Clean out the clutter, in my house and my life. 
Finish my thesis
Disconnect more
Read more
Control less

Remember more birthdays without Facebook
Pay it forward 
Make it the best year I can.


Thanks for following along this year! Next year is going to be amazing!!




Yay For A Short Week

I did not weigh in this weekend 
I don't feel bad 
I enjoyed the holiday and we had other things to do! 

I promise I will weigh in this Saturday though!
Especially since this will be my first week eating totally Paleo
I'm excited to see how I feel after the first 10 days.
This weekend I had dreams of our Children sledding and building snowmen outside for hours then coming inside to warm hot chocolate and sitting by the fire.
Too bad New England doesn't understand how to keep the nice snow only how to turn it into sheets of ice or piles of mud. 
So instead I did some sewing 

We watched the game, and by we I mean my husband and by watched the game I mean we played while he watched 

I got my ass up early to hit the gym and did my own version of Val's hat at the gym 

I tried a new leg circuit and follow it up with week four of Couch 2 5k. 


Yikes I will not be able to move soon. 

Does anybody have any big New Years Eve plans that I can live vicariously through? 

Friday, December 27, 2013

An Alternate World that You Can Only Reach at 2 AM.

While my husband and I are a lot a like, there are subtle differences between us
He's a man
I'm a woman
He's tall
I'm short.
You know the usual.
The biggest difference, that cause the most side eye responses from me, is that he likes to fall asleep with the TV on.
I hate that shit.
Like HATE. IT.

But I'm in love so I let the mangy fool have his way. What makes it even worse it that he's one of those guys that falls asleep hugging the remote so I can't change the channel or turn off the TV.
On the rare occasion he does let me sneak the remote and turn off the TV
He wakes up three minutes later and turns it back on acting like he has no idea how it turned off.

UGH.

So I'll just learn to live with it.

If your husband or sleeping partner (or laying in bed partner?!) is anything like this, then there's no chance you have been able to escape that alternate world.

The world of Infomercials.

So I bring you

5 Infomercials where I found one hand on the phone and the other on my debit card. 

1. Shake weight.
 While I will admit this thing looks so stupid. I bet it works. Granted you look like you are practing for something other than an arm wrestling contest, that motion is not easy. I have since seen them in stores and even tried them while no one is looking. I hold my ground... if you are brave enough they probably work. Unless you are a guy, because you do that motion enough already.

2. Any Beachbody commercial ever.
Yes I want a new body
Yes I want to feel better than ever before
YES I have 30 min a day!
No I don't want to spend $180 on a workout DVD.... Thanks though.

3. Stem-Tap the Flavor
Why wouldn't this work? This is pure genius! Oh right... slamming a spray bottle top into a lime does not make it magically fill with enough juice to spray all my delicious avacados.

4. Air Curler
I love cotton candy
I love my hair
So I would love putting my hair in a cotton candy machine right?
Something tells me no...

5. Margaritaville Blender.
It's no secret I love margaritas.
I even used to work at a restaurant called Margaritas.
They had the best. The best of the best. I have never been able to reproduce them at home.
UNTIL NOW!
oh wait.... It's $280 dollars... ON SALE. Thanks but no thanks. I'll take my $5 marg.



Has anyone ever tried the Shake Weight? Or any of these other products? Do you ever get sucked into infomercials?

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Santa Hangover

I had an amazing Christmas but let me be the first to say
I am glad that shit is over. 
We got all our wrapping done Monday night and with the help of a few frosty beverages I didn't even freak out when the hubs starting using pieces of different wrapping paper. 

I also saved this for last because seriously. 
How the hell do people wrap these things. 

We had a little fun with the name tags because our kids can't read and we hand out the presents anyway. 

Everything went off with out a hitch kinda. 
I almost had a break down when we decided to stop by my MIL's house for a bit on Christmas Eve and all the kids there were watching Despicable Me 2
...the movie I put in our Christmas Eve package that I had been planning for weeks
I seriously almost cried. 
Tony assured me the kids would not care and they would be excited we were actually going to let them watch a movie twice. 
He was right..... YOU HEAR THAT BABE !
Mabel loved the whole package. 
She was so pumped she had her own coffee mug and that we all had new pajamas. 

I made Lasagna for dinner with my own homemade sauce and it came out amazing. 

I also made this over night french toast casserole for breakfast. 
Word to the wise. 
Let it cool down before you eat it. 

Our kids went to bed in record time. 
Then the hubs and I enjoyed some nice together time while watching Jerry Springer to remind us of how awesome we are. 
He was telling his stripper gf that he slept with her stripper sister. Then they had a stripping contest to see who would win him. Ah Christmas.


Christmas morning we had to wake the kids up. Btw neither one of us could sleep. I didn't fall asleep until midnight and Tony was up at 3. 
All that wrapping and stressing was totally worth it. 
Then we went over to my MIL's house again to spend the day with the whole family. 
There is a million of us so for the kids we do a gift exchange and the adults have a Yankee swap a few weeks after. 
Mabel got a Doc McStuffins costume and started calling Chip "Donnie"

Chip forced anyone and everyone to read to him. 

and I ate way too much. 

All in all it was amazing, and I can't wait til next year. 

Speaking of next year, it's right around the corner.
I want to start the new year off right so in January I will be doing 30 days Paleo.
I also declared that 2014 is the year to get our finances in order since 2015 we will probably have another expense wink wink.
I talked my husband into doing this with me

We are going to do it backward though. Starting with putting $52 each into savings and working our way down.
The end of the year is always tight on money so it will be easier to stick with it if we are only doing a few dollars.
My math crazy hubs figured out if we both do this for five years we would have $13,780 in savings!
Just by putting a little in savings every month! 

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

T minus (insert number of hours here)

It's Christmas Eve Suckas!

We have everything wrapped, booze is stocked
let the celebrating commence.

It's time for our very last This or That link up... waaa. Its been super fun, and the bunch of ladies that link up are amazing.
This or That Link Up

Since it's our last one I'm going to do a shameless plug.
If you are linking up, or have linked up in the past make sure you follow our lovely hosts.

Candra @ Camo and Lipstick
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and
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Here's This weeks questions

Holiday Style

Halloween or Thanksgiving
Def Thanksgiving, it's my favorite meal of the year and I could eat it every day all day.
Christmas or Your Birthday
My birthday is in August and growing up it was around the first week of school so it was never that awesome. Now I have two kids and my birthday is just another day so I will pick Christmas
YA HEAR THAT CHRISTMAS YOU BETTER BE BAD ASS
Visitning Relatives or Your Relatives Visiting
Seeing as how a good majority of my relatives live in the exact same town as me, this is pretty much the same. My mom lives driving distance away and I would rather visit her.
That way I don't have to clean.
Valentines Day or St.Patrick's Day
Booze or chocolate is the real question here... and I pick booze.
Are you surprised.
Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
Personally I like to shop naked or near naked and NOT get arrested so I pick Cyber Monday.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Lost and Found

I lost two pounds this week!!
Don't worry I'm sure I will also find them this week. 
Hopefully I will be able to refrain from putting all the food in my mouth. 
I also picked up a new workout DVD from that bish Jillian

This got me thinking.
She has so many great ones, and how to they compare. 
Well my gym in closed for three days so I decided that I will be doing some at home work outs and I'm going to compare three of hers. 
I'll see how many calories I burn using each and let ya know on Friday! 

I had a workout buddy at the gym this morning and we may no longer be friends after. (Hi Joni!)
I'm working today and then it's finally Xmas. 
I'm ALL DONE with my sewing so I'm ready. 

Oh wait we haven't wrapped anything. 
Womp womp. 

I'm most excited about my Xmas eve package, but I also bought the hubs tickets to a show that we've been to before, and he loved. 

GAH I'm so excited. 
It helps there is a big candy bar in the tree just waiting for me to devour it.

Also seeing as how this lovely holiday tends to put me in the poor house I'm taking part in Steph's
No Spend January.


I'll probably do pretty good cause I'm broke....


Is there something you just can't wait to give someone this year? Are you all ready for Xmas or do you still need to do shopping/wrapping??