What the HELL!!!

I was driving down the street when I looked over and this is what I saw! Ok now what is this really supposed to mean? You hate men? You have an ex-husband? Your kids do not have a dad? and..... What kind of message is that to their kids? Ok just my observation.. What do you think?

44 words

Speedtest

BIGGEST LOSER!

Ok for all who have not already read Julies blog.... This is what happened on Thursday night at Book club. Here we are trying to enjoy a nice book club when the girls from Biggest Loser walk in. I am sitting next to Julie who has a nice perfect shot of them coming in the door. I can just see her face and knew something was happening but kinda just thought she saw another person she knew. If you know Julie she seems to run into someone she knows where ever she goes! So when I realize her facial expression is a bit different and it was truly the Betty Sue and Ali from one of my favorite shows I kinda was a little teeny bit excited. The other girls really had no idea what we were excited about because they have never even seen the show! We talked for quite some time and got lots of info on the show and how things work and what people really are like there. Alot of what was said and a few pictures are not really supposed to happen until the show is over soooo maybe I will post that later hahaha. It was a great experience and I just wound up liking them more than I had before! So vote for them when the time comes!

Back to school!

Well school started again on Monday. I have officially seen the craziest teacher at MCC. She actually answers her own questions and cracks herself up. Lots of my time wasted in her class with her tangents and stories. I sure hope she gets on the ball. I hope this semester does not make me as crazy as the last. Towards the end of the semester I was not even myself. I felt like I was pulling my hair out and could not go on much longer with the days where I never sat down until I got to bed at night. So far I have not even studied once NOT GOOD. I really need to get in the mode of school again but the little break I had was so good it is hard to realize it has ended and time to step up to the plate again.

I am a bit worried about this semester. I have very little time on my hands and have way to much on my plate to begin school. My PTA position has been OK. Has not been to bad but of course we are just beginning a fundraiser that we thought was going to be easy but turned into a LOT more than we bargained for. Then we are also in the planning stages of the Carnival we are having! This is no easy task. We had a meeting for all parents who were interested in helping and it was pathetic. I mean like 5 people other than the board. Mind you we have 600 students at Porter. Where are all of them? UMMMMM not helping us I do know that.

Not only do I have my school I have 5 kids in school, a toddler, Soccer, Dance, Gymnastics, two book clubs, SIAC (another school committee), Title 1 parent involvement, A Scout position and am a wife hmmmmmmmm. I love to give my kids the chance to get out and try new things but I sometimes wonder if they really need all of this???? Anyway thanks for listening to me rant.

My running update is.... Last Saturday I ran 40 minutes and totaled 3.9 miles. I know why not 4 but I did not measure the distance before my run. I got home feeling like I was on top of the world and got in my car to measure it and about fainted. I could not believe I actually did it! That night my ankle started to hurt me:(. I had no idea why. I had not fallen or twisted my ankle so what could be wrong? I felt like it would go away so I took a day off running and hoped it would be fine. NOT. So off to the Doc I went. It was not my normal doctor and they took an xray and told me it was not broken. DUH! I knew that but I wanted them to tell me if I injured it or not. If it is only sore who cares I will still run but if it is an injury I will rest. So I think they thought it was tendinitis. Told me to rest and take Ibuprofen and to go see my real doctor. Thursday my foot was not to much better so I thought I would go see my Doc. Well they pretty much told me the same thing. Ice, rest and Ibuprofen. So I went running last night to see how that affects it. If it was not worse than I was going to continue to run. If it made my pain worse then that was my clue to rest right? So this am I get up and my ankle is HUGE. I feel OK though. So where does that put me now? I have no clue what to do. I have signed up for a 5k run this Sunday and I have not made a decision what I should do. I really think I will run it but it won't be the best run. I really wanted this to be a great thing to accomplish but somehow doing it while not 100% takes alot of the fun out of it.

Best update so far...Running that is!

Ok I told you all I would post if I did it and today was the day! I ran 20 minutes straight no stopping!!!!!!! We have a neighbor who's son died almost 8 years ago. He was an officer and they are having a 5k run for fallen officers in January. I actually plan to try to attempt it. If there is anyone who is as slow as a runner as myself I would love some company???

Running Update.

While Alyssa was in her appointment, which takes about an hour, I decided to spend my time wisely ha ha. I actually went running this am. It was the coldest I have ever ran in and it makes it a bit harder, I think. I am so excited I have really come a long way. When I started this I could barely and I mean barely run 90 seconds. I now can actually run two 8 minute stretches and it has not been as hard as I expected to do. I am supposed to be able to run 20 minutes straight after today UMMMMMM YEAH RIGHT! If I actually can do it you will definitely see a post here. Otherwise assume I never made it. This really has been so hard for me to do and has been a great goal setting experience for me. When I started this I really could not have imagined ever being able to do this. I still have my doubts that I can do it all the way but it has made a huge difference to actually meet a goal and then set a new one and achieve that one and so on..... I will keep you posted on how far I get.

BRACES!!!

Today Alyssa got her braces on! She was so excited until this afternoon as they start to "hurt".

Well as you see here He is back in braces too. His teeth are very straight he just has a huge overbite they want to correct.

Here they are together. So cute. I love that they really do enjoy each other and this gives them one more thing in common. So for now yes, I am officially poor. We have no dental insurance that covers Orthodontics, just cavities and check ups. We usually save for these kinds of things but this year we have had a really hard year in regards to cars breaking down and things relating to owning a home. If I good just get a hold of a money tree we would be fine right???

CUTEST KIDS EVER IN BRACES!