Summer Lovin', Had Me a Blast

I have to say that I am loving the warm weather and spending time with Dolly.  She is at the age when we can spend time together outside and play a lot more than I could with Mister (who was a spring baby ... he was too little and had to keep him covered up most of the time).  She is growing so fast, with such personality.  Yesterday we visited my parents' house and my mom produced a pink princess dress with a tutu.  She looked so cute in it!  I love dressing her up.  The trip to my parents' house was good - with the exception that there was way too much food and was way over my points allowance for the day.  Thank goodness for Flex Points!  Down 19.8 lbs so far and I think this week will be my 10% goal reached.  Trying to figure out what I will do to celebrate that!  Maybe a WW electronic scale? DH gave me some lovely baby jewelry from citrus silver this week (www.citrussilver.com) - onyx beads with the tang piece (all of our names engraved).  I love it.  For no reason he said, just for being a good mom.  : )  

Home is Where the Heart Is

Home is where the heart is ... this I keep telling myself is the truth.  We did not get the house. There were four bids.  We came in second. I don't know yet by how much but it is painful.  I look at the house every day that I go outside. It is just down the road.  My husband says it is just material things. Yes, true.  But  a house is where you build a home for your children .. I saw them sleeping in their beds and playing the back yard.  I'm a bit disheartened about the whole process. This is the third house we have lost but the one I wanted the most.  Chin up.

Store-brand Diapers = Leaks

Okay, so I caved and bought some store-brand diapers at a big-box store (not naming any names) that were on sale. I figured it out to be 20 cents a diaper.  I thought, maybe I'd give them a try?? I heard that a brand name diaper company made them (from other moms).  This was my first time (second kid) ever trying store-brand diapers. I guess you get what you pay for. Leak after leak.  These diapers have got to go.  I'm thinking of donating them to the food bank?? Not sure where else to send them. 

Update on the house: Today is bidding day. I'm so nervous!!  I put a bottle of champagne in the fridge to chill.  I'm hoping and praying that it works out.  I'm also hoping that my ohma is watching over me and will make things right. I trust her judgment. She sent me my daughter, DD - this I am sure of.  So I will know that what happens is meant to be today.  If not this house, then maybe the next.

I'm afraid to step on the scale this Saturday.  But I'll save that for another post.

Worry, worry

We are bidding on a house this week.  I cannot seem to stop worrying about it. Worry if we get it, worry if we don't get it.  Are we moving forward? Are we stretching ourselves to thin? We currently rent the house we live in and love it. We have grown attached to our neighbours, put roots down and soon Mister will be starting kindergarten and we'd like to keep him in the nearby school.  So a house came up for sale on our street this week.  A little out of our price range but manageable. So we will bid. I'm hoping that the stars align for us. It is a fixer-upper and needs a lot of work.  Only immediate thing would be the wiring and the rest would have to wait. 

In the meantime, I seem to be eating everything in the house!!  Let me say that Weight Watchers has been going fantastic. I am down nineteen pounds in 13 weeks.  Not too shabby! But my strategy for coping with stress tends to be eating.  So today I thought I would step up my workout routine and add some running. I did 15 minutes of running on the treadmill and another 25 of walking.  We'll see how this stress busting strategy works. 

Dolly is starting to get teeth.  She is growing so fast and looks so much like Mister that I can't believe it.  I am the luckiest woman alive to have these two little critters and my loving husband.  I count my blessings.