Easy day

It was so nice just taking it easy today.  For a while there thought I was coming down with the nasty cold bug that is going around... but maybe it's going to officially pass me over again.  I have a little bit of a sore throat and the sniffles now and then, but nothing major.  But just in case, I thought it best if I stayed in my PJ's pretty much all day.  I think it really helped. :o)

And since it's Wednesday my Mum came over like she always does... (did I say how I think she is the BEST...) anyways, often times on Wednesday's I'm working, and this is the night Mike has picked to do the grocery shopping, so Mum will stay with the kids get them in their jammies and or baths as needed, but tonight since I was home,  I had cracked out a puzzle and we got busy with it.  Reanne's comment was, this would take me forever, so I tell her, that these puzzles are not meant to be done in one day, that it's relaxing and soothing.  Well at 11:20pm, we decide we've had enough, our backs and eyes are hurting, and we aren't done with it.  But I love doing puzzles, a little something I picked up from my Mum.

And who doesn't love Pooh & Tigger? Woo hoo hoo hoo, it's almost done.

Welcome 2012

Another year has come and gone... and I don't know where I put it. It must be in a safe place, because seriously it's 2012 already... goodbye to 2011... As I look back over this past year I am trying to think of what I have actually accomplished... and really I'm thinking that nothing spectacular happened this year. Now that's not to say some life altering moments didn't hit me like a brick in the head...

My kids are growing up so dang fast I can barely keep up. Reanne is 12 but going on 18 it seems, Shylynn is 9, Katera just turned 8, and Hayden is now 4 1/2. Like I said, where did the time go??? We went in and had some photos done, and they are just too cute to not put the goofy ones in... Wanted to share them with you. Hope you like them as much as we do.

So onto some other things about somethings...

One of the reasons this year was kind of rough was Mike's sister, a woman that I've known for over 20 years, a woman that was an inspiration, had a heart of gold and was more of a best friend - sister - mother to me, passed away from cancer. As if this wasn't bad enough it was on my Shylynn's birthday. So she has also felt this loss and felt a constant reminder of it, but it will forever keep Sandy close to her heart too, and for that I think it a blessing. With her passing, came our adopting her three cats to join our crazy household and our one old cat. Shortly there after our cat began having seizures and we realized she had lived her full life and it was time. Then we realized how sick one of Sandy's cats was, so we had to say goodbye to Sissy aswell. That still leaves us with Buddy & Baby... and I have a feeling they will be with us for a long time.

There are so many other things that just seemed to "happen" along the way, but now as I sit here I can't think of what or how to fill in those gaps. And I wanted to add a few photos, but I'm on a new laptop with very few photos on it... So that'll have to wait for another day.

As for my weight loss journey... I'm now struggling with the daily routine of the after... remembering to take some simple vitamins, and to get up off my bum and use my elliptical machine... and to drink my protein. I've been feeling "normal" now, with maintaining my weight loss, that those things that are so important for a RNY patient to remain healthy have slipped to the back burner. Time for me to get serious again and believe in myself enough to realize I'm worth it, and my body needs it. Seriously how much time does it take to chew some vitamins, swallow some calcium, shoot myself with b12 shot, .... and add protein powder to my coffee. what's wrong with me? lol. I can so do this.

This is the start of a new year, and as much as I hate to say I'm setting a resolution... I guess in a way I am. What do you want to see yourself accomplish this year? What do you want to look back on and be like ... "wow"... or "That was amazing"... or "what a great year I had because...".... Remember you are worth it. You are loved. So smile and feel it.