July 22

Ahh I complain about the winter and now complaining about the heat. I honestly do not know what I like least. Guess I will embrace the heat and summer. Find ways to stay cool!
Our first camping trip as a family will take place this weekend. Lots of planning and crazy amounts of duffle bags! Thankfully we are going to a place with pools!

Finally feeling like summer vacation is here. The 4th weekend was spectacular. Fun, nice weather, friends and family! Now the quiet... finding time to think, reflect, enjoy. A beach day today.... sunshine... nice!

June 30

So, I rejoined WW online. It has been 2 days and I have logged in all my food choices... HONESTLY! No movement in the scale yet I feel thinner. This is my focus for the summer! 30 pounds down. Make good food choices, record my food, record my weightloss, move more and live a healthy life.
Off to RI today. Beautiful weather on the horizon! Love it!

Ahhh... Summer vacation

A hectic last month of school. Tackling one event after another. Exhausting! As I think back over the last 26 days... in hind-sight I feel satisfaction over events well done. Yet did I really feel that in the moment? I have trouble living in the moment I am discovering. I get anxious, I feel overwhelmed, but do I stop and to take the moment to "get it"?

I need to focus on this. This maybe my ah ha... I am like this with my eating. I eat, but do I enjoy? Today I ate blueberries with my pancakes... and enjoyed. I enjoyed my hamburger... and those sweet tomatoes. I enjoyed that ice cold juicey watermelon.


While usually my planning out what/where we are going to eat brings greater enjoyment than the actual act of eating. Yet I shovel the food... probably thinking about what will the next meal bring.

My focus this summer... living in the moment. Enjoying each day. Planning healthy meals and enjoying them. Finding time for walks, yoga, and being on the go. But not hectic! And not making the day a blur! And not making bad food choices. Focusing on health, movement and happiness.

Welcome summer of 2011!

Coffee brought in... ahh! Kids playing quietly... ahh!
Weekend with my husband. :)

April 15

TGIF! So happy about that! Glad that my boys will be home tonight. After a sleepover with Auntie... I missed them and all the noise! (LOL) Such a big EMPTY house without them. Plenty of things on my agenda... cooking and prepping for more cooking. :) Sharpening my saw!Lorie's big bash tomorrow. Will be a great time! Socializing... :) Hoping that we get in a couple of nice walks with the kids over the weekend. Exercising. :) Sleeping in on Sunday. Resting :) Weekends are the best! Next to vacations of course! NEXT Friday!!!

April 12

Simple things making me happy! Finally was able to spend my Birthday gift certificate to Pandora. I bought 2 boys and 1 Queen Bee. (This is the meaning to my name Deborah) Also a reflection of my place in my home... 1 girl all boys. Even the new pet Guinea pig is a boy! Picked up a few new shorts for Joseph. His were getting rediculously tight and short. I will sort through his clothes this week. Andrew is begging for bigger stuff. I was shocked to see how his little shorts also were too small. His desire for ne clothes comes really from seeing the big kids wear baggy gym shorts! So cleaning out drawers is a must this week. Picked up Lorie's charm for her bracelet. And a card and a gift bag.... all set! PHEW! It is going to be crazy here as the big birthday party approaches! Got my new pedometer. Seems to be working much better. Though I have it tucked in my bra... yes , my bra. I read that this is where some people attach it. I'll give it a whirl! I have spring fever. Looking forward to another vacation in 2 weeks. Hanging out with my boys sounds like a nice plan!

April 2

April Fools

A snowday... and that ain't no April Fools. Got lots done today. Pampered my feet... Finished up Birthday Shopping...

March 31

Pending snow day... why would that make me happy? Well, 2 birthday parties this weekend for one. A list a mile long of things I want to get done. A birthday boy who got sent home sick today and probably needs to be home tomorrow too. A LONG week... and a Thursday n ight with absolutely no motivation... ugg!~ So I will put my pj's on inside out sleep with a spoon under my pillow... and anoy other crazy thing to get my day off. One should know... a day off isn't really a day off with 2 little boys! I must be CRAZY!

March 30

Dinner with the girlfriends. :) Pride in seeing a great display of student work. Ahh... is it Friday yet?

March 29

I don't know if this was the best day... but trying to find the good... here goes! Sunshine. Seeing a Golden Hawk on a hunt in the field behind the school. Finally getting my classroom in order! Projects up and out! Looks good! Easy homework tonight... Seeing old friends at International Night! Early to bed tonight!

The day after...

I am stuck in birthday mode! Slept late...went out to breakfast.... grocery shopping tried to bring me back to reality... making a turkey dinner for the family... still trying to bring me back to the real world... loads of lists starting in my head... I'm holding firm... enjoying every minute of my birthday weekend!!! Flowers, cake and ice cream tonight...maybe a lil nap? Ha!

Happy Birthday to Me

What a nice day...
Breakfast in bed... actually two times. Joseph delivered waffles and syrup... then Ken made me an omelet. Dunkin Donuts coffee delivered to bed. Read some magazines.... showered then went out shopping. Got a nice deal on a pair of chairs for outside. Love a bargain. Then went out to bet a bed quilt for my room with my birthday cash. Actually came home with 2... one for the guest room. Put those new sets on. Watched some guilty pleasure tv... Sister wives and Survivor Honestly I have no idea what that fascination is on either show. Almost had a nap...
Showered and now getting ready to go to dinner with dear friends.
Perfect day!

March 25

Ahhh... a weekend!
Lobster roll for lunch, Pizza for super, a cold glass of wine, NICE way to start off my birthday weekend!

Thrilled to have my birthday on a weekend this year!
Happy to have had a few RSVP's for Joseph's party next Sat.
It makes him so happy to hear YES!

LOVE LIFE!
What would make this life better... winning that lottery this weekend!
Imagine what we could do?

March 24,

Ahh... I have been following a few people's blogs and really missing my own writing. Did those words actually come out of my mouth? I think I miss my focusing on the good things in my/our life. You know those things that I have the time to appreciate on weekends and vacations... It is all to easy to get sucked into the complaining and worrying and more complaining and focusing on the all the whining which generally leads to me raising my voice... otherwise called yelling!
So where I might be tempted to relive my frustrations of the day and there were plenty, I won't. I will search my mind for the little things that made me smile...

Ahh that half hour of "NOTHING" between dropping off the kids at CCD...quietness. A hot cup of coffee... Today we just filled up the gas tank and sat in a parking lot... ahh peace.

I also am looking forward to Ken picking up dinner and sitting just the two of us and eating. Appreciating the fact that I didn't have to cook dinner.

Love that Joseph seemed to have mastered his spelling list with little struggle this week.

I know that most days it will be a struggle to sift through the loudness to find those moments of appreciation... but that is what makes me happy... so I going to make the time to do this.

March 16

I know we just had vacation. I know we enjoyed sunshine, flipflops, shorts no jackets and loads of fun... but having only been home short of 2 weeks... I am beat! Sick kids are bringing us down with worry and constant whinning.

We/ I have started to get out and walk. Not miles and miles... but out there and enjoying. I'll see if I can keep this up! Hope to!

One month into the new year... where am I? Have I started exercising...no. Have I focused on eating better? Not really. Are we out of debt? Far from it. Sigh....
February bring a new chance to start. Hoping that a large tax return will ease financial pinches. Hoping that the rental property will start erasing money worries. Looking forward to a get away trip to Florida. Have a desire to organize, clean and be proud of this home.