today

Today the kids and I are getting out for a walk again. Going for a walk, even a short one, has greatly improved the mood and sleeping of K. She is much better now in the evenings. Today is a double walk day. We are going out during the day today and this evening for a short walk with daddy. Daddy said he is getting a gut on him so he needs to get out and exercise. He showed me his belly last night and he is starting to put on some weight.

My garage is flooding. The melting snow is running under the garage door and refreezing at night. OH joy. I have started parking in the driveway because the ice is about 2 inches thick in spots and I am afraid it will either freeze the garage door shut along with my car in the garage, or freeze my tires to the garage floor. We are not forecasted to get any accumulating snow for at least a week. Maybe by then I can get the garage cleaned out. I went through yesterday and checked out what we had in there to make sure nothing would get ruined if it got wet.

ouch!

a little chilly out but we went for a walk anyway. The baby had layers on. 2 pairs of pants (1 leggings and 1 pair of jeans), 2 shirts (1 long sleeve t-shirt and 1 sweatshirt) and then her winter coat. K had on some layers too. Granted it was 38* when we went out but there was a slight breeze. We just needed to get out, all of us. We only walked 1 mile today because I am feeling the muscles today. I am so out of shape. UGH!

FINALLY

The weather was warm enough that I could take the kids outside. We still have much snow on the ground but it was warm enough to be outside. We walked almost 3 miles today. It was wonderful to get outside. Tommorrow is supposed to be even warmer sooooo bring on the sunshine!!

clean house

We have had decent weather the last couple of days. We still have a TON of snow but it has been warmer and the snow is melting, plus we haven't had a storm in almost 1 1/2 weeks!! I have been in the mood for spring cleaning today. The deep cleaning that makes my house feel like spring is here. I have washed down all the appliances, cleaned the bathroom completely, shampooed the couch and chairs and scrubbed down all the surfaces. I love the way my house feels and smells after a deep clean. My next project is to clean the inside of the windows. They are full of little kid smudges.

The baby is in a much better mood so that makes it much easier to get stuff done.

It is so cold out

BRRRRRR!! It was so cold last night that I brought the baby to bed with me. We have frost on the inside of some of the windows of our house. I dropped a deposit in the night drop at my bank and my fingers froze to the metal handle and they weren't even wet. YEAH now that is C O L D!!!

last night and this weekend

Starting today our high temperatures for the next week or so is only going to be in the single digits. AYE! so cold. I can say for certain that me and the kids will be staying home. If I do get out in the afternoon, it will be when hubby is home so I can leave the kids here. The only thing nice about temperatures that low is that it rarely snows here when it is so cold.

Last night was a bit difficult in mi casa. The baby went to sleep fine as did the older kid. I should have known they had conspired against me. You see, my shoulder has been hurting so I decided to take 1/2 of a prescription pain killer before bed, 1/2 because the full one sometimes leaves me feeling worse in the morning than if I had never taken the pill. 1/2 is enough to numb the pain yet leave me coherent and able to function fully. I fell asleep almost immediately last night. At 1 am the older child woke up scared. She had a nightmare of some sort. I am still not sure what, she has no recollection this morning of screaming and scaring the daylights out of her mom, who was in the midst of a very peaceful, drug induced, relaxed sleep. So of course I had to go to the bathroom and check on the baby since I was already awake. I finally fell back asleep about 1:30. At 5:30 the baby woke me up. She was happy and just a cooing away in her crib. Daddy was awake but daddy is no help in the morning because he is slow as it is getting ready for work, the last thing he needs is to feed the baby. He gets out the door just in time every morning. So the baby gets fed and starts playing. Just as the baby starts to fall asleep, I curl up on the couch, hoping to catch a quick hour or so nap before the older child wakes up. No such luck this morning, K woke up 1 hour earlier than normal. So K is wide awake, the baby is sleeping and momma feels like lying on the couch and not moving for the whole day. Definitely not taking any painkillers until nap time. Today is going to be a nap day for momma as well as the kids.

I don't need to exercise today

Can you guess what the above picture is? For those that do not live in a snowy climate you may never have to use or even see the above item. It is a roof rake. They are around 20 feet in length, lightweight, flimsy and difficult to maneuver but highly effective at removing snow from your roof. They also really work the arms and shoulders as you are throwing the thing on the roof and pulling it off basicaly.

so between that and the shoveling I have gotten one heck of a work out today.

a down day and a new favorite snack

I don't know why, I am just having a down day. It helped some to get out of the house for a bit and it helped even more to find out that we are FINALLY getting the money that we are owed from the previous employer. Hubby and I previously worked for the same employer and it is a long drawn out tale that I won't get into but suffice it to say, I was forced in Medical Leave during my pregnancy and subsequently fired. Shortly after my termination, they started to go after my hubby for stupid crap, so he found a new job. They "forgot" to file some paperwork that we needed so we have been waiting since November for this money. It is a nice sum of money. Enough so that we do not have to worry about vehicle payments anymore.

My new favorite snack is Quakes rice cakes, I found them in the cereal section at my local grocery store. I tried the chocolate ones this time. They are good. 60 calories 10 fat calories in 7 mini rice cakes. I am not a big fan of rice cakes but these are good.

It is snowing pretty heavily outside. I am glad Hubby is home from work. It started just as he got off work. Our "ice"way is going to be incredibly slick tommorrow. Our driveway has a layer of ice over the gravel because of the recent thaw and refreeze. Not even ice melt salt will not completely get rid of it.

When I have a day like this, I like to step on the scale and see that I am below 250. That is a big achievement and it brightens me up a bit.

I NEED to start working out again

I have not gained or lost any weight since my weigh in Friday. I need to start working out again. After cartoons are over, I am going to work out. Lord knows if I switch to my exercise video during Dora, K will have a fit. I know this week is going to be hard, my mom makes to die for fudge. It is so hard to eat just one piece.

Hubby had to work 5 hours today. That kind of sucked but we had no plans to go anywhere so that is ok. The girls and I are going to hang out at home. I need to clean up the toy room (again).

My brother came over to snowblow our driveway. We probably got close to a foot of snow on top of what we already had. This reminds me of winters when I was a child. We would get snowed in for days because we lived in a valley. The snow would drift 5-6 feet and we had to wait until the county brought a grader out to clean us out. I think that is part of the reason why I stock up when I hear about snow storms coming, even though we live in town. I buy extra milk, soda and any of the necessities. We have never lost power in town but it could happen so I make sure I have a jug of water in the fridge as well. I can still use our stove because it is propane. It won't light automatically but we have a candle lighter just for that purpose. Call me crazy (my hubby does) but I like being prepared, especially having small children.

Last winter our furnace went out on the coldest day of the season. Hubby was happy that I had extra blankets. It was 55 degrees in our house and it was below 50 by the time the furnace guy got it fixed. It went out sometime around 5 am so we did not have too many hours of no furnace. about 5, but it was COLD. K was just over a year old. He cuddled her on the couch while I used the stove for a little bit of heat.

Awesome Night

O slept in her crib all night. ALL NIGHT FROM 9 PM UNTIL 5 AM. She only woke up at 5 because I came downstairs to check on her and to go to the bathroom and while stumbling around in the dark, I tripped and crashed the baby gate. She actually slept better downstairs last night than she does sleeping with me. If this continues I will feel like a whole new woman.

We got snow last night and it looks like a lot of it from my windows. I have not ventured out yet to shovel the sidewalk and driveway. I should but I am going to wait until hubby wakes up.

We decided last night that we are having our Christmas today. Since we can't go anywhere, it will be nice for K to have some new toys to play with. It will occupy her today and tommorrow. She gets quite antsy by the 3rd day of being in the house. Tommorrow will be day #3. So when hubby wakes up, we are opening our presents. He stayed up late playing Xbox online with his buddies so it may be an afternoon Christmas

Christmas is postponed

Due to the inclement weather that is headed our way my Grandpa decided to postpone Christmas at his house until next weekend. I am pretty happy about that. I wanted to go, but only to see Grandpa really. So we will be heading North next Sunday for Christmas. That makes this weekend a bit more relaxing, at least in this household.

no traveling

We are under a winter storm watch. We are supposed to get 3-6 inches of snow Saturday night into Sunday Morning. We are supposed to drive almost 2 hours North on Sunday morning for Christmas with my Mom's side of the family but it is starting to look as though we will not be going. I am not taking the babies out if we get that much snow. Especially not that far. It sucks. I really want to see my grandfather.