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March 31 Poem Of The DayIn planning Rileyanne's Fairy Tea - her 4th Birthday Party - I cam across this bit of sweeness....
How darling is that? Body BugSo I just discovered this site: http://www.bodybugg.com/get_bugged.php and it is pretty cool...in theory....but who has $300+ now adays to spend on this? I say, get a pedometer and a notebook and kick it old school.... UnwrittenI took one of those facebook quizes (I admite it, I am addicted to them - like the Cosmo quizes of the '80's!) ANYWAY this was listed as my personal "theme" song... I had not heard it I thought, but it turns out of course I had and I LOVE it and completely agree...now am off to start writing... Quote Talking about YouTube - Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten The Rock ObamaOMG a friend sent this link to me and if you have a few minutes it is worth the watch - no worries about anything off color jokes or bad language (my son saw it) but it sure was HILARIOUS!
March 30 Nutritional InfoOK - as you know I have lost 80 pounds - close to 85 now! Anyway, on days when I chart (even just mentally) what I eat I am closer to my target of 900-1200 cal a day. WHen I do not make a note of it, I can be off - WAY off...sometimes higher than 1200 which makes me depressed the next day (seriously) or WAY too low - once around 700 cal only - which sets me up for HUGE failure the next day...so it is important I stick to what I know. I function best at arounr 900-1200 cal a day and make sure I consume at least 80-100 oz of water. SO...when I am cooking or making up recipes which I love to do...what am I supposed to log?
I belong to a support group for my band and a friend (THANKS ROBERTA!) just posted this, which I will be placing on my favorite page log....thought I would share:
http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php
It allows you to put all of your ingredients for a recipe in and it gives you a nutritional label, just like on packaged products. If you register with the site, it allows you to save your recipes, enter your food and exercise for the day, etc. Happy charting! March 29 Takin’ STock
Then he started growing
Now, I weigh 85 pounds less, we are playing, learning growing and changing every day. I am just taking stock of how VERY lucky I am and how happy I am that we are all so healthy. I love my family – pretty amazing, huh?
Yep I am one lucky broad…hurry home soon, hubby…your family is waiting for you!
Yuck Mouth Part DeuxAfter the conversation with Patrick, I showed him this commercial frm when I was a little girl - he was unimpressed. I remember every time it came on I would brush my teeth feverishly because I thought that little guy was SO gross...Patrick seemed to think he was cute! Ah the differences between the sexes never ceases to amaze me....to a little boy becoming this gross little fella might actually be cool...I had not thought of that, alas. Quote Talking about YouTube - "Yuck Mouth" commercial ABC PSA Yuck MouthPatrick woke up this morning and said it hurts when he bites down with his back teeth. I hope he did not inherit his father's teeth! Anyway, as I was doing something else later, apparently my telling him we would need to go see the dentist stuck because he came up and had the following conversation with me that makes me laugh:
"Mommy, do I have to see the Dr so he can see if I have a hole in my tooth?"
"Yes, baby"
"Cant you just look and put glue in it or something?"
"No, baby, the Dr will tell us what is wrong and fix it right - you will have your teeth a LONG time, we want to make sure it is done right"
"oh...Have you ever had a hole in your tooth?"
"Yes, I have."
Pause pause pause "Does it suck?"
March 28 Already Working!We are starting something new in the Pierson house. This morning we got up early, before the sun (not at all hard to do in Seattle these days but earlier than even I like - 6 am!) and started on the day. We have been tossing around the idea of "Pierson Bucks" it is a house currancy - the kids earn a buck for a chore completed or a nice job done or whatever. COnversely, they loose a buck when they are rude (to each other or us), refuse to finish a job, etc. What do the bucks work for do you ask? Well, the "free TV ride" is over for one thing. We usually greet the day with a half hour show, maybe watch another half hour show in the afternoon and again at night. I did the math that is 1.5 hours in front of the TV without blinking an eye. Sure, it makes doing the dishes easier when they are "busy" but it is not my proudest discovery. SO here is the deal - 1 buck buys a 1/2 hour show, 2 bucks AND a job buys a movie and you can save your bucks all week to be allowed to go to the store and buy an actual $5 item. Saving bucks also starts MORE currency into the market, save your bucks for a week and you get to make a whole new page of bucks to start into your "market".
SO, after a hard morning of complaining I decided it was time to get this bus rolling. Patrick and Riley makde their first set of bucks (Patrick's has a giant P on it and Riley's has a giant R on it) and they worked at coloring it, cutting them out and starting the "game"....Patrick is cleaning his room, RIley is picking up her toys, I am walking the dog and wondering WHY I did not start this earlier?!?!?!? March 27 Can You Hear Me Now?!?!?!?Today at the pediatrician office ER with RIley after she decided to stick paper in her ear canal I had HAD it. I started saying "riley.." and once I got her attention I mouthed but did not speak, "Can you hear me now?" over and over till she finally said, "Mommy I cant hear you!" and I replied, "Yeah, you wanna know why?" at that moment the Dr said, "I can see you two need some privacy..." and stepped into the hall before he laughed so hard tears came to his eyes. RIley looked at me and said "Are you laughing at me?" and I mouthed but did not say "Yes" and I heard him roar again in the hallway.... Charles DemuthI am teaching the children today about this piece:
It is a post industrial view of 1920-1930's era United States...Charles started a movement called Precisionism and was the first to incorporate geometric shapes to his art. I am excited about this piece, why I am not so sure, but I LOVE how exciting it is! How sharp and colorful even though there is very little color. It pops for me. I hand created a poster for every child. It will be a lesson in patience for me, and in listening for them. We will color it the same and yet we will see how even though every poster was identical and we followed directions, no two pieces will be the same. Fantastic! I am also incpororating music (Rhapsody In Blue) and the colors will swim about the classroom as we watch the video for Rhapsody In Blue from the DVD Fantasia - I think the kids will LOVE it! Plus we will discuss how the piece is LOUD (not soft) and the difference, what he was trying to say (cant wait to hear the responses on that one) and how the piece makes us feel....
I miss teaching, can you tell??? March 25 A Month Ago
Our last bit of fun was at the National Zoo….where we got VERY close to the Pandas!
And there were also some VERY funny Ground Hogs…
Yes…we had a blast of a trip seeing family and hockey practices and games and the zoo and the Smithsonian and hiking the falls….WHEW! Sorry it took so long to post these….
March 24 Grumble Pie CakeSo - I think I have a root cause for some of my grumbling and depression and headaches and just ovrall "Glass is half empty" feelings. THERE IS NO SUN! We had a few licks and promises last week, which were lovely, but let me wanting MORE. This time of year I am done with being patient. I am over the "Oh look it is seasonal - it is winter - kinda gloomy, get some warm liquids (coffee, tea, cocoa) and snuggle up!" yeah that gets a tad old. I grew up in So. Cal - now, too much sun is not good for me either, so I must be hard to please...but too little and I start this crazy rollercoaster of depression/anxiety/low self esteem that is BRUTAL. SO, while at the store a very good friend did not recognize me and it was not the wight loss. I just look down, I am sure of it. I had BIG plans to go swimming this morning or walking and you know what? I just dont WANT to. I have zero motivcation for it. I want to go home, do MORE laundry more than I want to play in a pool. That was my first "Oh shit, girl you are in trouble!" Thefirst should have been my voluntary 3 hour nap this weekend. SO I was talking with the pharmacist who asked if I take Vitamin D. I do, in those calcium chew things. Apparently there is not enough in those for this part of the world, and I am to be taking 2,000 mg of it a day and see if that helps. Culd take a week or more but it should help. I find it fascinating that here, in the land of green and trees and zero sunlight reularly we have a higher incident rating of MS than elsewhere - but taking Vitamin D helps prevent that and since we dont get lot naturally we supplement with vitamins. I mean, duh, but time to get crackin' and take it seriously. SO lucky for me it was buy one get one free so I now have enough Vitamn D for a few months, unless I get my hubby on it too and I really should.
Cut to standing in line, I mentioned to a friend that I was hopeful we would see her kids more this SUmmer but worried that my son was just a little too young to be fun for her older kids. That is wen I found out at a party a while back, while I was having "adult time" in the kitchen (code for drinking a glass of wine and talking about something other than Laurie Berkner or the Muppets) my son was playing and shot her son with a NERF bullet and his eye was hurt badly enough to needan eye doctor! WTF?!?!? I feel HORRIBLE. Of course I had no idea. I do no allow anything that shoots in my house. Not one thing. So when Patrick gets around something that does, admittedly he goes a little trigger happy....pun intended....and he is just turned 6 so his impulse control is LOW. Apparently the boys asked him to stop and he did not. I can so totally see that happening...but here I thought he was just too young for them, not that he was a terror. Ohdear. I better get this Vitamin D thing under control AND supervise my kiddo more. I am not sure how I will deal with this...it requires some thought. The main thing is we all need to communicate more...we parents I mean...this happened MONTHS ago he will likely not remember it wel, but I cant let him not understand why these friends are short with him...he needs to know they are upset with him for a reason. And I am not sure how to do that at the moment...so, I will ponder it while I do some tae boxing...because I obviously have something to work through and this was just icing on my grumble pie cake.
Days can be this way....sometimes you are the windshield sometimes you are the bug...sometimes you are the bug scrapped offthe windshield only to be run over by a hot rod going 75 in a school zone...
March 23 I-T-Patrick is starting to really read. Not just a few words either, sounding out things phonetically and moving on. He is doing great!
SO as a joke after he proudly exclaimed, "Mama I know how to spell s-e-e...ess, ee, ee"
So me, being a smart ass Mom said, "OK Patrick are you smart?"
yes he replies,
"OK spell it" says I...
Mommy that is easy I-T says my boy....smartee pants Tata's NanoTata’s Nano to hit India’s streets in JulySnub-nosed vehicles will be priced starting at about $2,000
Bang! Clash! Whoosh! Zing!The week is begining in that desperate way - LAUNDRY! HOUSEWORK! SCHOOL! DISHES! I dont know what it is about the weekend, but everyone in my house just leaves crap everywhere and I of course am left cleaning on Monday and wondering why I bother as in a week it will be a pit again (less probably)....Grrrrrrrr SO if you stop by and the music is blaring and there is a scent of pine and bleach, unless you feel the need to pick up a broom and help, keep walking....While I would love to see you, I am in the mood to wield power wrecklessly and WILL recruit you....be forewarned March 21 About Last NightOne thing is for sure....the more I loose weight the more I become a cheap date! We went to my son's school auction last night and my art piece garnered $350 which is lower than many pieces I have made, but the others were all for hoity toity private schools and this was a public school auction so I think it did well. They were kind enough to give me a vegetarian plate and it was a fun night! I got all gussied up (thanks to my size L - no longer a 3 or 4XL) and generally felt like the belle of the ball. Still only a few glasses of wine did me in. I did NOT need to go to our tablemate's bar afterwards, but I found myself there anyway and after a Margarita they asked me on stage where I sang Mustang Sally with the house band! My husband says it is like we are dating again. You know, back when I was a tad smaller than I was most of our marriage (I am smaller now than he has ever known me to be though) and my self esteem has moments of complete unabashed audacity. I will soon be 40 years old, but last night I felt 20....this morning though I feel a little closer to 40 but unabashed....what a blast being out and about in my new not-quite-pocket rocket body....a whole new/old me....I hid behind all that fat for WAY too long and now wonder what I was so afraid of....I wish someone had taken a picture March 20 First StepTonight is the school auction for Patrick's school and I have contributed an art piece from his class. I am excited and have high hopes that it sells well as several people have already started bidding on it! Still, as I get ready for tonight I have butterflies for MANY reasons.
Not so much for the piece, I mean dont get me wrong I hope it does well. Already I cannot bid on it it costs too high and I contributed the supplies so I have, in a sense, already contributed a few hundred dollars to the school (yay)....no no no no...tonight my kids are doing seperate things! That is a HUGE first! Riley will be going to my friend Jenny's house to play with her darling boys Tyler and Mason and Patrick is....gulp...going to his first EVER sleep over! YIKES! All night! We will pick RIley up at around 10 pm but Patrick is gone the whole night! When did they get so big???? When asked if he was sure it was ok he said, "Aw Mom, I will be fine, I am just worried about you and Daddy....will it be very boring here without me?" Aw.....
My sweet baby boy. My darling sweet pea girlie-bob....have fun. You have never spent a single night apart since Riley was born! EVER. This is the first step towards independence and I can assure you while I stand behind you and cheer you on (I even have you both all packed already!) I am tearing up and proud and sad all at the same time. This Mommyhood stuff is hard, y'all...seriously.... March 19 No SurprisesNo lengthy text, just an I Love You to my hubby. Every now and then you get those moments, where someone just "gets" you so completely. They see you, warts and all, and still help you smile and open up. My husband is like that. On a cloudy day he can be my sun, on a hot day my shade and you know what? Sometimes when I can no longer see whatever I should be seeing when I look in the mirror, he helps remind me who I am. I am the luckiest girl in the world for his love and patience and friendship. He is my beautiful, brilliant bold light in the darkness and my comfort in the cold. I just wanted to say that because no one says all that enough. Thank you for being my best friend, Harry - "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be!" Which must be pretty "frakking" good because we have already had some beautiful and amazing times....Hurry home and I hope you kicked ass on the ice tonight! Go Harry! Summer PlansHere are the Summer Camp plans for Camp Pierson this year. If you are local and wish to join us I will give you times and directions....Summer On!!! With the economy in the tank, the local camps raising their rates and trying to get spending under control, my summer is FREE (mostly) and FUN! I am treating the summer like I am on vacation....when I first moved here I was clueless on how to get to the QFC and then we had the babies and I could not do much more than go to the QFC....now I can REALLY see where I live....so we are off!
Pierson Summer Plan 2009 Date//Activity (destination, directions & Times) June 2009 Discovery Park Waterfall Park ! Enchanted Village Wild Waves July 2009 Franklin Falls
Lake Sammamish State Park & Beach North Kirkland Park Children’s Park Mercer Island Pratt Wading Pool Twin Falls Hike NW Trek
Anthony’s Beach Café Remlinger Farms Wolf Haven Intl.
Carkeek Park Maydenbaur Park, Bellevue August 2009
St. Edwards State Park Farrell McWhitter Park Hike International Fountain Seattle Center CAMP OUT OVERNIGFHT SNOREFEST 2009// Pierson House - families and tents pot luck event! Lincoln Park
Jetty Island Ferry and Beach & Forest Park Snoqualmie Falls Hike & Water Play Camlann Medieval Faire //Cougar Mountain Regional Wildlife Park |
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