food thoughts for the day

i love to eat! I'm trying to eat healthier.  But deciding what is healthy these days is hard.  What advice to take, who's rules to follow.  The best im sure we can all agree would be to read as much as we can and then make our own decisions.  Im trying that but its hard, there is conflicting information out there.  And then you have to decide if low carb is what you want (who really wants that) vegan, vegetarian, low fat.  Weight watchers...the possibilities are endless.  I do know that just reading about eating good helps me be more conscious of what i put in my mouth, that is until i get stressed out and say 'i dont care'  but i never feel good after that.
I do know its time for some changes and its easier for me to stay on track if i hold myself a little accountable and document it.  and i just love to take food pics, so food blogging i will be.
So today although i might not be on a super healthy kick i do feel i made some baby steps and am trying to plan ahead which i know is a very important part of eating right!  Keeping the junk food out of the house would be another good step but with timothy and the children, that is near impossible.  i have no self control, so usually its better not to start, who can eat just 5 m&m's. not this girl!!  And yeah last Sunday was Easter so there is a ton of it in my house.  jellybeans are one of my downfalls!
i haven't actually decided what rules or 'diet' (such a nasty word) i want to follow.  I do know i need to cut way back on the sugar intake! as all of us do at the house.  Again planning will help, we eat out way too much, which causes another problem, too much money spent!
Exercising would help but i am not ready to start that yet, being more active yes. But i've been spending more time in front of the computer lately, have to get caught up on paperwork and well i've been blogging.
cleaning the house will help with being more active...but that's slow moving too.
so starting with what i eat making small changes.
Drinking more water is always easy for me to do, i just have to remind myself to do it.  I really enjoy water.  Just as much as i enjoy coffee, which i've decided i cant do with out just yet...its my motivation for now...my sweet sugary motivation!  i just need to drink more water with my coffee.  Coffee just doesnt love me as much as i love it.  or i should say my stomach doesn't love coffee as much as my tongue does :/
i am no spring chicken and the older i get the harder it is to keep the weight off. the more stress i have doesnt help but i'm motivated to start anew :) Motivation from friends helps....so do funny little quotes like these!

 i often have this problem if i would stay busy i wouldnt be so tempted to stuff my face, or have the time!

sad but we are always looking for the easy way out! 

 i strongly agree with this.  we often put ourselves down b/c  we slipped up on our diet and then we are like well the whole day is gone mine as well give up :/ not true, get right back up on it. Slide-backs are a very important and natural part of learning anything new :)

Ha i have never had much luck with calorie counting. I did try an online site to keep track for awhile but it got old.  not sure yet what plan i will be trying but i do know alot of what is good and what is bad and where i need to cut back.

we are only standing in our own way. the only thing between myself and my goal weight which is myself and my inablilty to control what i put in my mouth! 

"its my body if i dont take responsibility for keeping it healthy, who will?" sarah chalke

NO ONE. its my job to take care of me...

i have a problem w/ that full feeling, i eat until i fill stuffed especially when im eating something that is not healthy b/c my body is still craving healthiness that i'm not giving it when i eat a corn dog...

This one is my favorite quote, it was in a book i read awhile ago and it stuck with me. for good or for bad. its a statement but its an excuse....i say i'm not ready. just gotta figure out how to get myself ready. that is the journey i'm on right now. the journey to better myself, the journey to a better sonja to the sonja i want to be..there will be bumps and hurtles along the way but for the 1 millionth time i am starting with positiveness and going to make me a better me!

so easily said...i have time. i know i do.  i have lots of excuses tho..its cold. i dont like to exercise in front of people. i dont have the space to work out here...i dont like to run.  lame excuses.  i enjoy the soreness from a good work out...i love yoga. i enjoy being active. just getting up off my ass and doing it is hard.  

i will start out small and work my way into more exercise.  My dear friend Erica said she will walk with me. I'm messaging her now to make walking date!  

Her Facebook page is excellent at encouraging when it comes to eating/exercising. i'm so glad she's doing it!

Ericas Journey to the Center of Thin

ok now all this talk of food has me hungry, i'm going to make a salad that i found on Pinterst late last night and have been thinking about all morning...i almost had salad for breakfast i was so excited about it...

Wedge Salad

yes its a salad and i know its not healthy but i cant stop thinking about it and its way healthier than i have been lately.  I've been hooked on these salads since i had one at Fridays awhile back. we will see how my version compairs....

more food blogging later....

xo

Sonja!

Cinnamon Dulce memories

Tried out a new flavor of International Cappuccino instant coffee today.  Just the smell of it instantly took me back to being a child and sitting at my great grandmothers kitchen table.  She use to make us chocolate milk and cinnamon toast, every time we visited.  It was the best cinnamon toast i've ever had.  Its a memory i'll never forget, funny the things we hold on to, the memories from our childhood that mean the most.

i love how a smell can instantly take you back to another time, another place.  Smell is most strongly linked to memory, one of our first and most basic senses.  Smell has such a strong power to vividly bring back memories, its more personal than other senses it brings back memories of people, places, and things. 

i just love it when i smell something familiar from my past even if i cant place it, it is comforting.

The smell of the Cinnamon this morning made me smile :)  It it so tasty and very comforting. i'm not sure i'll buy any other flavor from now on...well with my luck they will decide to discontinue it...lets hope not :)

"When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered· the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls· bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory" -Marcel Proust "The Remembrance of Things Past"

i checked my computer for a picture of my grandmother to add to this post and was sad to see i didnt have any on here. i had scanned in a ton of old pics from my mothers side but it must've been before i got my new computer, years ago.  And i never added them back on i guess, since they are not there :/ so i searched my house and albums and came up with several that made me smile.  I have these two pics framed and in my foyer of my grandmother Mable and  my grandfather Alberto when they were in high school. 

 Grand pa was a hottie. ha.  i just love these frames!  I should go back to TJ Max and buy more....i've been wanting to hang pics on the walls here forever....another project on the never ending to do list...












This photo below is closer to what i remember them looking like :) Although i must've been very young when it was taken.  I dont really remember my grandfather.  He had Alzheimers since i can remember and if he ever spoke to me, he called me Teresa (my mother's name) Makes me kinda sad to think i never really knew him, wish i could've






can you tell i need to dust...i tried to before i took the picture...but dusting is not my specialty :)

This a picture of Grandpa and Grandma with all of their children in 1947 so the picture says.  so that was definitly even prior to my mothers birth.  The girl to the left is my mothers mother, Marjorie, next to her is my auntie Suz, the far right is my aunt Jean, both those aunts are my great aunts... the two boys are Jim and Dave....my family history is rusty i think the older is Dave who passed away a few years ago.  I want to get back into the family history, its very interesting. I started collecting information when my mothers mom was still alive, she died several years ago, and prior she gave all the family photos she had to myself to keep for the family. I enjoy them so much. There were however so many that no one knew who they were, if they were family or friends.  I now completely understand my mothers instructions to always write on the back of photos who they are and the date b/c i might know who it is but 30 yrs from now will i or will my children in the future...of coarse we have Facebook now and you can just tag people :)  i wonder what will come of pictures with all this online scrap-booking of sorts on Facebook & web albums on Snapfish such.  reminds me i want to print out more pictures. i'm extremely behind in this....

This picture is how i remember grandma wells
This is how she was when Lily was just a little potato.
I don't recall when she passed but i know lily doesn't really remember her. Makes me kinda sad. I'm really grateful tho
that we had these pictures taken of the 5 generations of us girls...im pretty sure all first born :)  I hunted forever for this picture, i know i have several copies, and im sure at least one framed but couldnt find it!  I was almost ready to call mom and ask if she could send me a camera phone pic of her copy b/c it just must be included in this post! when i found the envelope of the extra copies in lilys incomplete baby scrapbook....did anyone ever really finish a baby scrapbook for their child.  i know i dont have hardly one for either...

I miss my grandmother often, especially during the holidays. We always spent holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas, at Grandma Wells house. I'm sure some were spent at Grandma Hustons house too but i remember the house on Delorenzi holding the most memories!  Tons of food! Suz and Will always made the turkey.  There was always a puzzle in the sun room.  Grandma always had oatmeal cookies in a glass jar. And the guys were always watching football.  I also remember the creepy bathroom door off the kitchen that had weird face-like shapes from the wood on it...I miss that house, I miss my grandmother more. I try to keep the memory alive and drive by a sometimes. Of coarse the house looks more and more different each time.  Tim and I took the kids to Bendix park which is at the end of the street where they use to live.  We flew kites, it was really too cold but i really enjoy sharing that park with my kids, i have so many great memories of family gatherings there as a kid.  Its quite magical b/c there is woods (which they are clearing out more and more) in the back, a factory on the west side of it and a row of backyards to the east....only one road to get in and you have to cross the train tracks.  I always thought it was neat that if a train was going by you were stuck there at that park. In later years i often thought how neat it would be (and a little freaky) if the train passed and you were in a different time...the past b/c i love nostalgia.

here is tyler, lily, nadja, tim and bo years ago at Bendix. looks like we flew kites that day also :) i love this idea of everyone on the slide, my mother use to take pictures like this when we'd go. i'm sure i have some old pics somewhere of us, but i'm not organized enough right now to find them....

I only have one grandparent left.  My dad's mother.  We visited her recently in Arkansas, will blog on it soon :)  I treasure the photos and memories of my grandmothers on my mom's side :)  And love that the smell of my cinnamon coffee this a.m. made me think fondly of our little tradition of cinnamon toast and chocolate milk at her kitchen table <3

today's quote:

fitting b/c my grandparents were spiritual people, although i am not.  I do however notice i have a cross necklace on in the 5 generation picture...

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future"

Alex Haley

Good morning, loves :)
Sonja

be patient

i love when i find fun little quote pictures on facebook or pinterest that remind me to be a better person.  I get so caught up in my daily life and stressed and just plane cranky that i'm not always, ok more often than not i'm quite bitchy, especially to those i love the most.  So i am greatful for little quotes that make me smile and remind me to try and be less mean b/c its not helping anything or anyone.

so many of us are good at hiding the pain, from others and maybe even for our own sakes we put on a happy face so that we dont have to think of all the tough things we are facing. Thank goodness for friends.  sometimes i dont need a friend to listen, i need to listen to other peoples troubles and so i can escape from my own for a bit.

im super guilty of this one.  I read a book forever ago called addicted to happiness. it talks about how we become comfortable w/ being unhappy and its what we know so we recreate it in our daily lives b/c its what we know.  i get it.  its easy to be down on ourselves.  if we are too nice/proud of ourselves we are considered stuck up...gotta find the balance...

very true...but actions speak louder than words.  Make sure you tell the people you love they are important to you often!  call your mother!

i battle with this one, stupid people, alot! but i just have to remind myself and sometimes my friends, that not everyone was lucky enough to have parents that gave them common sense like ours did :) so be thankful you were not raised by someone else's parents, you could be that idiot people are talking about....

we all have our battles, battles that are important to us.  they may not seem important to others, or they maybe are bigger than ours and we just dont know.  Cut your neighbor some slack :)  Smiles are contagious :) 

thats all. goodnight friends!

xo

S

the pressure of a title

i cant always think up a clever title for my rambling...maybe b/c i cant stick to one topic in my posts.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the fun emails our HR person sent out at work when i worked at Partners a million years ago.  I think they were weekly b/c daily seems like a lot...but they had fun facts and the temp for the day and quotes and pics and news about work, and it was like 10 yrs ago so i don't remember what else. I just remember they were fun. Well Becky is fun, so that helps, but it was a break from work for approved fun! kind of like our wellness program, that often fed us while taking our blood pressure....or after.. dang i miss partners. i think i'd still be working there if they didnt close down...i put in like 6 or 7 years as it was. Now im in restaurant (who decided how to spell restaurant?, i never get it right :(  ) ciaos! where did i turn wrong...ha.
so i'm playing around with the idea of a weekly email b/c i couldnt get a daily one in...i need some structure to my schedule...maybe a reason to get my butt up out of bed as mom suggested when i said "i dont know what i want",  something happy to look forward to...for me its all about the little things. maybe i could shoot for weekly though or just a short little post here and there with fun facts and pics and happinesses :) but i guess that's why im so addicted to Facebook :) its a pretty place to help organize my random thoughts :)
i'll play around with it and see what i come up with....keep ya posted!

today's quote..or is it tomorrows since its after midnight....hmmm, think on that for a second...

"the strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink" Chinese proverb.

Sonja

i cant write

i don't know how i made it through high school or that semester of college, i don't know how to write. how to write a paper, a story, even a structured letter. not to mention my grammar is crap. (oh gosh i just spelled grammar wrong) I've been out of school and office work for way too long it seems!  i'm tired of all these red lines telling me i'm wrong! other times i just don't care...i do find it really odd tho when i mess something up so wrong that even spell check has no answers for me, and so i have to keep changing it until it figures me out... :/ i don't however know why they cant figure out that when i write 'i'm' its i am and i just didn't put the dang punctuation!!
i enjoy writing and i love the idea of some day busting out a best selling novel like Stephanie Meyer, yes i love her!  cant wait for her to write something new!  Also super excited for her book the Host to be a movie this spring!  I wish i had the structure and imagination to crank out a best seller like Meyer or J.K. Rollings!  I know, I know..you can do anything you put your mind to but i'm not that motivated.  I think that i am more obsessed with the idea of overnight riches just from the ideas in my head... that's why i play the lottery.  Cant win if you don't play!
Sometimes i just think its odd, and maybe a little embarrassing that at the age of 30 i couldn't properly write an essay or story.  Sad i made it through high school without knowing....which makes me think either i had really crappy education or i do know and or did and just didn't know it or forgot :/  i did have the drama teacher senior year for English but i really should have known by then.
i don't know why i never learned. i remember even in grade school not turning stuff in b/c i didn't want to or didn't know how to do something....lazy even at a young age, hmm.
i know its not too late to learn. My brother says he learned as an adult. it seems Lincoln elementary/Jackson middle school/Riley high school education failed us both in that department, but how.  i know through the power of the Google and the fabulous world wide web i could learn someday but i'm not sure i have the desire.  i'll just keep on rambling on and on w/ my run on sentences and scattered thoughts with no point and getting the clutter out of my head and blaming public education...
i wonder who i can blame my lack of being able to express what i'm saying on....i sure cant say what i want to articulately, especially when i'm angry....well i guess that's part of what makes me, me...

hmmm the title of this blog 'i cant write' reminds me of the title of a David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty... i love him, i think it might be time to read another of his books...i only  have about 200 on my reading list right now...at least half of which are on my window sill....maybe i'll settle for David Cross' I drink for a reason, so i can get it back to my sea-star Kasia!  sounds funny!

here is a lovey pic that has nothing to do with my blog topic but made me smile today and think peaceful thoughts :) hope everyone has a pleasant day!

lots of love, xo
Sonja

things i learned from Gretchen Rubin

I like this Gretchen Rubin chick. I think i learned a thing or two from her book.  She wrote The Happiness Project It was a nice and easy read, and i learned alot about happiness. I think i'll read it again and apply some of her ideas to my own life. maybe not as she did or as much but little things that will help me understand why i dont feel "happy" or what makes me happy and how to recognize it.  Face it we all always want more, no matter what we have, for some reason its in our nature, sux!  She mentions that we are happy when working towards a goal, not really as much when we reach it...happy in change...i completely get this, happiness is the journey not the destination type stuff...
i'd like to try and write a more organized blog on her book and the ideas i found interesting. i actually used a highlighter so well highlight the things i agreed with, enjoyed or wanted to try. or even things that i just found interesting or connected with.  first of all she has young children and likes to be organized. i'm not organized, but i want to be.  She mentions in the book she wants to enjoy reading classical literature or enjoy drinking wine or something like that but only likes the idea of it. doesn't actually enjoy it...i totally go that. i have a ton of things i think i should enjoy or wish i could enjoy but why bother making myself do them if really they dont make me happy, like paying bills, ha just kidding. i actually enjoy paying bills, just not the lack of money to pay them part!  Like, i'd love to be a wine drinker but i like so few wines, and cant drink them too often, so i may have to give up my dream of being a wino!  i think you get the idea...
one thing i did apply to my daily life right away was to find a few little things that make you happy and make work more enjoyable. she mentioned she was at a friends house and they had a candle burning that was a quite enjoyable sent to Gretchen...and she decided to go get some candles and burn them in her office and the smell added a little joy to her life..she also decided to collect something b/c she didnt have a collection..and decided on birds...weird. i dont like birds, but people do and i dont have a lack of collection problem :) i think she called it little splurges :)  its been at least a month so i dont remember to much more. one thing that did stick with me that i want to apply  and have a little but its been hard is...she decided not to put off anything that takes more than a minute to do...its great advice, especially for us lazy people...and and end of the night tidy up to help with clutter....i've reminded myself of the one minute rule...but not so much the tidy before bed one...  she also said she made herself for the first month go to bed and get a set amount of sleep each night, turn off the lights and get well rested. sounds like heaven. but with my schedule i dont think this is possible :/ someday?  gretchen had a chart she had an outline of rules and goals she focused on each month for a year and researched the hell out of happiness, it was quite interesting. and since i often say and think "i wanna be happy when i grow up" i really enjoyed her outlook on the topic.
i enjoy positive books like this they keep me on track.  right now i'm reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which i'm quite enjoying but its a little less positive, and kinda sad. But i just love the way Jonathon Safron Foer writes..i am enjoying the book more than the movie. Jonathon is quirky :)
soon i plan to start a healthy eating book, i tend to stay on track more when i read about eating healthy...i read Foers EAting Animals about being vegetarian...maybe its time for something along those lines again.
Hoping everyone has a happy day!
here is a quote from Gretchens blog...i get her daily emails sometimes i like the quotes sometimes i'm like eh...but keepin the positive energy flowing is the goal :)
“We are made happy in the present moment not only by our actual delights but also by our hopes, our reminiscences. The present is enriched by the past and the future.” 
--Émilie du Châtelet, "Discourse on Happiness," Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

Hope everyone has a happy day!

Lots of love, xo

S

i want

way too often do i find myself either saying or thinking this word.  to the point that i think i might have to remind myself to be more conscious of what all this wanting is doing to me.
im a day dreamer. i dont want to change that at all...but the i want and the i wish (that i'm so fond of) are pretty much the same thing.
i think i'm spending too much time focusing on the wishes and the wants and not enough time figuring out what exactly it is i want and how to get it!
there is too much, i wish work was over, or i wish people in my house were less messy, or i want to be less stressed out....lets face it im a complainer!

well i started this awhile ago...probably about a month. its been hectic lately. even more so than usual. i dont know why i even say thing like that anymore. hectic is my life. its the norm... deal with it, right!

i'm still in the same place...unsure. i posted on fb around the same time, "i dont know what i want" and my very wise mother suggested i figure out what i get out of bed for, what makes me want to get up in the a.m.
im still working on the answer to this...but i'll let ya know along the way the things i figure out... :)

inspiration...my obsession with Pinterest

i would like to say thank you to Pinterest for helping me organize my obsession of things i want when i win the lottery.  Pinterest is like one big ongoing day dream of what i'd do, what i'd buy, where i'd go if i won the lottery.   Which i still havent given up is possible. i get extremely sad when i dont win. its almost not worth checking the numbers.
i can spend hours on pinterest...i havent in awhile. which is good, i can get lost on there...
for anyone who is living under a rock out there, in which case you might not be online reading this....anyway for anyone who doesnt know Pinterest is well its hard to explain...lets turn to Wiki for an answer...i love Wiki, but not as much as i <3 Pinterest!
Pinterest is a pinboard-style social photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections and/or 'like' photos. Pinterest's mission is to “connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting"^[3] via a global platform of inspiration and idea sharing. Pinterest allows its users to share 'pins' on both Twitter and Facebook, which allows users to share and interact with a broad community.^{[citation needed]} Founded by Ben Silbermann, of West Des Moines, Iowa,^[4] the site is currently managed by Cold Brew Labs and funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and inventors. It is one of the “fastest growing social services in the world.”^[5]
Ya so really what it is a site to organize reallly cool pictures :)  im not sure most of us actually use it to its full extent, like printing off all those receipes we 'repin' or doing those crafts that we think are so clever!  i think i've only tried out one receipe...although i plan to someday...and i actually did make a spontanious purchase, but now that i think about it, that was something i pinned to pinterest b/c i googled this quote by the quirkly Lorax

and there was a ad and a link to etsy, which i've just recently discovered, for an awesome bracelet.

and myself in much need of some retail therapy bought it, but not before i used my handy "pin it" button on my shortcut tab...anyway back to my orginal point....i dont really use pinterest to its full potential but i plan to one day when i win the lotto....like i want to go here....

 Cliffside cafe Gourdon, France

or i'd build a house and i'd want it took look like this! with this in it. and these colors, etc....

im a day dreamer for sure and Pinterst just makes it easier for me to keep track of it all...and well to 'want more', like i need help w/ that.  So thank you Pinterest for helping me waste more time more efficiently....or maybe just day dream more organized....

its not all dreamy stuff tho...well there are lots of dream pics of celebs like this one!! or this one.... ;) yum!

this is my favorite johnny pic! he's so dreamy!

but there are lots of useful crafts on pinterest that i will try out someday...a few at least

like this i could do this....i'll just schedule it in sometime....in my free time... 

and a million tasty receipes that i've tried a few of and if i could get organized enough to remember to go search pinterest when i'm looking for something then maybe i'd try some more out!

i actually tried this one...croissant rolls w/ pb and choc chips...not bad...

well since if your reading this your probably already my friend on pinterst then i'll give it a break and just go browse for more daydreams to add ::) & you can like them and add them to your daydreams. thanks for day dreaming with me ::)

over all pinterest just makes me happy and i enjoy it, so why not.

i'll leave ya with a pretty lavendar peaceful spot if you'd like to sit and chill awhile. i sure wish i could!

have a most excellent day or night!

xo

S

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we certainly are not morning people in these parts!

just about every morning, ok who am i kidding, every morning! we struggle in this house to get out of the bed!  we tend to keep late hours.  Timothy and I working sometimes till 4 am, and not working on the other days.  it makes it hard to be consistent.  i've never really made my children have a bed time, it makes for me dragging them out of their beds in the a.m. 30 minutes before its time to leave for school.
sometimes i wish i were more of a morning person, that i got up and made the children breakfast.  Lily however wont eat most mornings, and tyler just wont get up early enough to have time.  Sometimes the Tyler part is my fault sometimes his.  i know this could be greatly improved apon if we would all just go to bed at an earlier time...but i live in a world where some things are just easier said than done frankly!
its one of the constant things we struggle with that i will probably add to my never ending list of things i want to improve upon.
definitely adding this to my wish list of things i want to be when i grow up....a morning person!

Its not that some people have will power and some dont. Its some people are ready to change and some are not.

Well here I am again swaying back and forth between change and not.
Between motivated (usually caffeine induced) and complete laziness.
Some days i kid myself by saying slowly but surely things are getting done....others i remind myself that the 'to do list' will never be finished, that there will always be more to do, more things to want.  Not enough time in the day.

So here i find myself trying to come to terms with the life I am living and the things i want to change and the things i am content with.

My life is such ciaos that most days i just don't know where to start, usually with the most pressing issue, which leaves me feeling like i'm always behind and always always running late. i blame that on Timothy, the king of last minute!  Lists and notes help me if only in my head to organize some of ciaos and clutter.  Blogging is one of the ways i've always tried to organize myself.  I havent blogged in so long i've been craving it alot lately.  After spending the past two days trying to get my office and paperwork more in order i've decided it will help some to get some of the mess out of my head.

why i blog....
for me, for you, for them.

my blogging is scattered, there is no organization to it. i blog mainly for me.  to help document my life, little pieces of it.  i'm afraid i will forget things. i already do. i blog for those few friends out there that enjoy my ramblings.  And hopefully one day for my children as some sort of online scrapbook b/c i know i just am not going to get organized enough to really scrapbook, plus its expensive! this is free!!!

i want to get to a place where i do it more often...the blogging...

i have many things i've been wanting to write about...random things as always. and lots of pictures from fun events to share...

lets just start with fun things from this week :)

well honestly its been a pretty uneventful week.  i've been such a lazy bum this week. i was on vacay last week and then worked one day which wasnt really busy and then went to mom's for easter and stuffed myself...and havent done much of anything else lately....exciting isnt it!
been trying to find the motivation to make some real changes around here, to catch up on some long over due projects, mainly with work, and cleaning the house...i watch hoarders and i think, "hey my house isnt so bad" when really i need to get off my butt and scrub the bath tub! Same ol stuff here too many people living in this house and not enough people cleaning it.  Not to mention the yard work hasnt been done in forever! boy do i miss apartment living!
well since i'm having such a hard time coming up with much i think i'll move on to a new post with some pics from something we've actually done recently...pictures always help me to start rambling ::)
cheerio!