Hiatus

Well, I obviously have had some issues arise when it came time to go back to teaching, while trying to balance my life, well enough to keep up with a blog too! I don't feel completely out of balance, so I guess maybe the blog got pushed out of the way!

Today I downloaded the blogger app, which also means Jason may start to question me (we share one iTunes account), but I'll determine when that happens to tell the truth or not. Hehe, depends on his mood, and unlike 50-Shades, he probably won't get much in return for my blogging...

I'm not real sure where to begin since I last left off, so I'm just going to do a re-start and summarize life since I last wrote...
Returned to school, getting two kids ready in the morning is way easier than I thought it would be. The whole school thing has been much harder, my priorities have changed, I got much less sleep doing way more work later at night. Needless to say my turn around time to return papers is no longer 24 hours! I'm still not real sure how I am going to successfully teach two new courses next year, but we'll cross that bridge in a few weeks when I'm no longer enjoying my lala land. Summer school came and went, it was too much work, but only 4-weeks! Went to Texas for FBLA, was a nice 4-day trip but took the biggest preMadonna pain in my ass student there could possibly be, so that put a little damper on things.
Now I sit, July 25, and I have no motivation this morning. The last 3-weeks, at home, with the boys, have been great! I have been lucky to take them places and enjoy them so much! To spare some time, we have gone to the zoo three times, to Wausau, to the park, Maxwell Street Day, and a few play dates.

I've had to tell Zander to keep his shoes out of his mouth on numerous occasions, and need to finish up now as we head outside in the 95-degree heat, whoo hoo!!

My 32nd Lap Around the Sun



Landry

Ahhhhh Birthdays, I used to love them and as I get older, they seem like just another day. However, with the evoluation of Facebook, they also give you the chance to feel really popular and special. Last Monday was my special day, and I felt super special to be home and spending it with my boys. I took them to the park so I could watch them enjoy themselves (well, actually Landry, at 6-weeks old had no clue where he was, but we'll pretend he had fun!). Zander is a hoot when he is having fun, and he wanted me to do everything with him, so for my birthday, I played on the swings, went down slides, even stuck my hands in the sand box for a bit. It was wonderful, I felt so young and happy, not 32! When I was a kid, I thought 32 was old, but shoot, I don't feel old, I was also blessed with a baby face, so I still get questioned about my age, so I have to believe I don't look tooooooo old.





Zander

However, my weight has gotten the best of me with un-healthy eating while I enjoyed creating my two little boys, etc.... It is time for me to now get back into my old self so that I can continue to play and have fun with these two, so that means it's time to lose weight. I haven't had a whole lot of motivation to do this before, but I am kind of sick of being un-happy with myself in that area. I feel happy and controlled in most of my life, but not this one. When I got married at 25, I was glowing. I feel like I am glowing now in my happiness, but not anymore in my looks. To take it one step further, my Dad just gave me the diabetes "heads-up" about two weeks ago. Just great....since he has become over-weight (sorry Dad), he now has it, his Dad had it....yada yada. Not fun, so now there are health reasons that I need to get into better shape....oh and did I mention I am going to be raising two little boys that need to learn how to eat healthy?!! I was a bit shocked when my Dad shared with me that he just learned what a carb was. I want my family to know how to eat healthy, and I hope that I can help them learn how to do this by my example.

So for this year, this time that I spend on my 32nd lap around the sun, I am going to get healthy and lose weight so I can continue swinging and sliding through the remainder of this wonderful life!

checking out the "darkside"

It's amazing how we go through all of these so called stages of our lives. Well, I am sure, this is one of my "stages" too, but the real stage I am talking about is the one that we will be adventuring on this evening...we are going to look at a freaking mini-van. Yep, that's right, we will be checking out the gosh-awful, soccer-mom official, family decal on back window, absurdity.....called a mini-f-ing-van. I am a bit disappointed in myself for being excited to go look at it, but I can't freaking wait to get one? Have you seen my old garage that is a bit too narrow for my french fry eating behind to try and lift two boys in and out of car seats while having the "bomber" doors of our Honda Element swung open? Doesn't work very well for me, but a remote-control van door sure as heck would. Well, having kids and I guess, just wanting to leave the house, would make me officially excited to go look at a mini-van.

The reason for this great timing for our mini-van shopping you ask, I mean, why wouldn't anyone want to WAIT until their newborn is 5-weeks old to shop for a used car? Oh because, Carol the Corolla, circa 1999, has failed her emissions test, what an absolute "B" she is. But, the lover in me says she has given us so much over the last 9-years that I must be grateful at what she has made it through, at a very low cost! So, we will go and "tremble"or maybe it's trot into the dealership tonight to look at our first mini-van, but let me tell you it's sweeeet...heated seats, my one wish may be coming true (those of us with large behinds like to keep them warm in the good ol Wisco winter) among other mini-van amenities.

There is so much stigma when it comes to getting a mini-van, but I often ask myself, why do I even care? Cause, I am not always 100% sure why, but I guess it is because it officially makes us older, it is something that some of our friends rip on, and finally my friend Carrie put it like this to me...."When I finally do get out of my house on a date with my husband, I just do not feel sexy showing up in my mini-van, even if I am rocking my heels." The great news for me is that I rarely wear heals!!

And so we start the process to crossing over to the "dark side" of the driving world! :)


Update on 4.27.2012 - We got a mini-van, that night!! I am loving it, it is perfect, minus the fact that it is quite large and I feel like "that mom" it is amazing! It has everything I ever wanted in a vehicle, at an affordable price! Super happy and excited to go places as our new family of four!! :)