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Happpy Fridayyyyy!!!!

Safeway has a company-wide program going right now called Live Healthy America. We formed teams and set weight loss and activity goals within those teams, and have been working since early May to reach our goals. I started the program weighing in at 132lbs, which is the highest I've ever been not pregnant! My goal was to reach 125lbs by the time the program ends at the end of August.

I am sooo excited to report.... today I weigh in at 121LBS!!!!! yayyyy I'm so happy!! I hope I can keep it off! I've been eating alot better, and have been taking my kids on tons of walks...and it's really paying off. I feel great too! I really hope I stick to it. :)

My new favorite meal....Special K cereal with chocolate in it! MMMMMM Love. ha

What's your favorite healthy BUT delicious food??

Happy Friday everyone!
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I hate comcast...

But they are the cheapest cable around. Do I swallow my pride and un-cancel my order???

I do miss The Secret Life and Hannah Montana. Ughhh.

Happy Thursday, almost FRIDAYYYY!!!!!!! :):)

Refreshed!

Yesterday after work, it was Maddie and I on our own. Makenna was with her dad again. So I decided to take Maddie on a little walk. She rode in the stroller because she was super tired and grumpy and didn't really feel like going for a walk. But I couldn't be cooped up in that apartment, so off we went.

We ended up walking for about an hour and a half, down all the main streets in Tracy. I couldn't stop! It felt so good to keep going. We walked by our old house, we walked by friends houses...we just kept going. I had alot of time to think on that walk, and boy did I need that. I thought about everything that's going on in my life, and instead of being sad, for the first time in a long time, I was simply thankful. I felt so lucky to be able to walk that far, to have my daughter with me, to have another babygirl that I'll get to spend time with tonight, to have a tiny but safe little apartment to come home to, to have a second (well maybe third lol) chance. It feels good.

We got home and ate dinner, I gave Mad a bath and put her to bed watching the Jonas Brothers :) And I put in a movie I had rented called Rachel Getting Married. I had never heard of it, but it looked kind of appealing to me in the Redbox rental at work, so I decided to give it a try.

I fell asleep within the first 5 or 10 minutes lol, but I woke up to a scene where Kim, the troubled sister, was at a rehab meeting, and she was repeating that familiar prayer, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Oh how that hit my heart! I turned off the movie, said a little prayer, and went to bed happy!

I feel good that I am getting another chance at happiness. That I am ok. That my girls and I are making it through this, and that hopefully we will only be happier in the future. There will be tough times ahead, but oh will there be good amazing wonderful times as well!!! :)

I feel so refreshed :)

Funtastic Fridayyy

First order of business... Can someone teach me how to follow people on here!? LOL I'm blogger challenged. Thanks!

Happy Friday!!!

I'm adjusting to my "new" life I guess I could say. Last night I didn't have my girls, they had daddy time. I also have no cable yet...AND my kenna monster destroyed my laptop! So I couldn't bear the thought of staying home! I went to Target and shopped for the 3 birthdays we are going to this weekend... and then I picked up Taco Bell and ate dinner with one of my bestestes in her break room at work! We talked about some fun summer plans and it made me so excited!

It's so weird to have freedom sometimes now. I dont know what to do with myself! But it's kind of refreshing. I'm so sad when I don't have my girls with me, but all I can do is make the best of it.

So, in a couple weeks I'm going to Sacramento for the weekend! That should be fun. And in October a trip to Vegas!! I'm excited. :)

I'm so blessed. I have amazing friends who will not allow me to stay down! I love them. And my sister and I can make each other laugh no matter whats going on. My daughters can be monsters but gosh I love them so much it hurts sometimes! I really am so very lucky, and I am so blessed to be able to see that again.

Happy Friday!!! Let me in on some Bloggin Wisdom pllllease!!!! :)


"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6

New Day, Fresh Start!

Gooood morning!

Happy almost Friday! wooohooo!! How amazing is this weather?! Normally we'd be frying and crying, but today we can talk a walk in the perfect weather without even melting!! (After I'm off work and in the outside world of course!)

I'm trying to get used to my new apartment, and it's getting easier with each day. My biggest complaint... noisey neighbors above me!!! Ugh! I wake up to squeaky footsteps and closing doors all night long!

My favorite thing so far... the pool...and since the apartment is smaller than I'm used to, its easier to keep clean..and also my new and unexpected favorite... Yesterday Makenna and I took a walk to the on site laundry to wash some clothes, and it was not even half as bad as I thought it would be! Makenna loved the "adventure" of getting there, she pushed her little doll in the stroller, and even helped me pick up any stray laundry that fell ont he way.

I was able to wash two loads at a time instead of one, so i got it done so much faster!

I was so scared about not having my own washer and dryer here...but after my first laundry room experience, I think I'll be just fine! :)

Good things to come!

But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear ; do not be frightened."
1 Peter 3:14