Plan it, do it!

So I have been saying for the lasy last 3 months that I was going to run the half marathon in Fargo in May 2012.  Yep, I paid the money and registered today to do it.  Now on to training....  LOL!
I just took my measurements and they are BAD.  Like almost the same as 2 months after I had Dylan bad.  Guess I had one too many Christmas cookies and need to get running!!

So, 21 week to train and 13.1 miles to run... that day!  20x15 miles a week minimum = 300 miles to run training between now and then.  I will track it and keep track.  I am betting I run closer to 400 miles by May.  I better keep it up and I can run a good 800 miles in 2012! 

So...  I better set my alarm, fill the ice in my cup, set out my clothes and make it a plan to get on the horse!  I have a lot of miles to run!!

Kneophla Soup

Today has been a cleaning frenzy after the hurried Christmas tree take down last night.  I dusted the living room last night.  Vacuumed the living room including moving the furniture and vacuumed IN the furniture.  ::Shutters.::  I swept the entry way and the dining room/kitchen.  I cleaned the bathroom.  I washed, dried and folded 3 loads of laundry.

All of this while a freezing rain advisory is going on outside that caused me to meet the pavement while getting the mail.

Well, tonight in the spirit of cold rainy days, I made a ND favorite, Kneophla soup.  This recipe comes from my husband's uncle and we tweaked it a little through the years to accomidate our tastes.  I have learned that there are tons of variations of this soup, so I thought I would share mine.

Kneophla Soup

Kneophla
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
a dash of salt
1 cup of flour
mix well and add more flour if sticky.  Should be able to handle it without the dough sticking to your hands.
Take the dough and roll it between your hands to create "worms" about 1/2 - 1" thick.  Usually each "worm" is about 6" long.  Lay on a plate while rolling the remaining dough.

For the soup part you will need the following ingredients:
1/2 pint of heavy cream.
1/2 pint of half and half
1-2 chicken breasts, cooked and diced.
chicken bullion to taste
2-3 potatoes peeled and cubed.

Peel and cube the potatoes and add to a pot of water and boil until soft.  While potatoes are in the pot, using kitchen scissors, cut the kneophla's into bit size peices directly into the pot.  Boil until the potatoes are soft and the kneophla's are floating.  Drain and place back in the pot.  Add cream & half & half and stir.  Add chicken and chicken bullion to taste.  Cook until warm throughout.  Enjoy!

(This dish also freezes well.)

Another day, another try!

So the last two days have not been great eating/drinking wise.  I ran 2 miles on Thursday, 4 miles Friday and did the 30 day shred and 20 minutes on the eliptical yesterday.

So on Friday my major slip up is that I had a cappicino at the football game.  In the great 40 degree ND wonder, anything to keep me warm.  I should have opted for real coffee instead of the sugary substitute.

Yesterday I took my girls to McDonalds to redeem 2 free fry coupons we won at the Monopoly days.  Snack at McD - complete with a milkshake for all of us to share.  Then we made cookies and took them to my SIL's where my hubby went to cut up his deer.

I guess I can work out with the best of 'em.  Life is about making memories with your kids....  so I am finding it hard to get that balance.  If I have free coupons for a snack my kids will think is awesome, a once in a great moon type of thing, why not?!  If making cookies for Daddy to celebrate his big kill as a master hunter, why not?

I do know one thing that would make life easier.  To never stop doing Jillian.  My body hurts too much when I start again!!  I hate what Jillian does to me, but I honestly love how toned my body is when I am doing it.

My hate of laundry

I hate laundry.

I hate having piles of dirty stinky clothes piling up in my house.

Because of this, I am doing laundry every other day or every 3rd day at the most.

I suck at folding laundry and putting it away though.

I honestly blame this mostly on my toddler.

Forgive me baby.

I fold our laundry on our bed. 
I have rows along the bed for each person,
Wade's goes on his dresser behind me.

I make rows for Dylan, Taylor, Alex and me in that order. 

The hang up clothes for Wade and I go at the end near the clothes basket. 
The girls go on our pillows.

Most times when I try to fold laundry without Wade home,
Dylan is in our room.

Most toddlers I assume follow Mom where ever they go...
 mine have always done this!

So, Dylan is getting into my jewelry or playing with my bottles of lotion.

Today is a laundry day.  I have to catch up!

I am doing more laundry, so laundry HAS to be folded and put away as I only have 2 laundry baskets.

I also just decluttered our bedroom and having 2 full baskets of clothes to be folded in there is a serious distracter.

As I was folding clothes, I found one of Taylor's most loved shirts. 

It is coral colored so it looks great with her red hair.

It feels like satin and makes her feel good.

I bought it at a rummage sale in perfect condition which makes me feel good.

Well, Taylor's sticker from storytime was still on her shirt.

The dryer acts like glue perma-sticking those on!
I am a Mom.  I will get it off!
I used to say pre-kids that a Mom had to be a genious at laundry.

Well, I am not prefect and always learning, so I'll try my best!

Another cruel fact of my world and laundry is that my husband works shift work.  4 on, 4 off and rotates days and nights.  When he works nights, I cannot do laundry until he wakes at 3-4 pm.  That gives me 4 hours maybe 5 to do laundry before the kids go to bed.  I am blessed that our laundry is main floor, but it is in a small closet just across the hall from the girls room and right next to our room.  We all know that laundry is not quiet either!  So....  when you take in Wade's work schedule AND the fact that the girls have dance class on Tuesday and Thursday night, church school on Wednesdays....  that really takes those 3 nights out of the week to do laundry.  So, if you are at my house on a Friday when Wade is working nights, expect it to be laundry night.

Ahh...  time to switch the washer/dryer!

Day off struggles...

Well, my eating is not an A++ today.  I am okay with that.  If I can go 6 weeks with minimal exercise and eat whatever I want and not gain, I don't think one day will kill me.

Alex is off of school today and wanted biscuits for breakfast.  I ate 2.5 biscuits and some peaches for breakfast.  We made quasadillas for lunch, which was 1 tortilla with onions, reduced fat cheese and black beans... so not too bad. I plan to get a workout this afternoon and have round steak with onions and cream of mushroom soup in the crockpot to have over mashed potatoes for dinner.  Smells delish!

I am betting tomorrow which is Wade's deer hunting day will also be a struggle because it seems so natural to bake something with the kids!  Maybe we can share them with the neighbors?

1 month to do it!

This morning, 3 days after the Halloween sugar haul, I have had enough.  I took all the chocolate and froze it, downstairs to save it for a rainy day.

Today marks 1 month until Wade and I take a weekend get away to go watch a football game.  Sadly, I am still the weight I have been since we returned from our Oregon vacation in July.

This morning the scale showed 175.2  YUCK!  I would sure like to look at that scale in a month and see it say 165....  not sure if that is possible, but I am going to try!  First small change is to drink at least 64 ounces of water everyday!!  Second is to make time to work out, everyday!!!

A first!!

So, this is a milestone in our house. 
Alex lost her first tooth tonight!

Last night Wade suggested she tie her mildly wiggly tooth to the door knob and close the door.  She was all excited to try it.  We did, but her tooth did not come out.  It kind of hung there and she was tickled to move it easily.  Well, this afternoon she suggested we try it again.  She wanted her little sister to "gently" close the door.  Well, her tooth must have now been ready and it slid out like butter.  Shockingly to me though, there was about as much of the root of the tooth out as there was the tooth above the gum line. 
She was so happy about having it out that she never complained about it hurting.
She did make sure to rinse her mouth out to not swollow the blood since last night it made her puke.

So....  the first of many at our house.

10/23/11 - the date my first baby lost a tooth!