November Third

These pictures are from this morning as Hubby and I walked through the park after dropping off son3 at school…

We’re watching Lost in Space… Made lasagna for dinner…

Hubby and I finished cleaning up from Halloween today… I did over five loads of laundry and still have a lot more to go… I vacuumed a bit and swept the front porch… Put away all the laundry from last week… Put up the Thanksgiving decorations… watered the houseplants… made all the slideshows from the Halloween pictures… watched Emergency…

And did homework with son3… I have discovered that the homework is definitely what is making me grumpy… because I am fine all day even at work until son3 gets home and has homework… I know he has to do it but I am so over homework… my whole day has to end because he has to do homework… I’m being silly, rude and selfish… we need a new homework routine… He had two pages of math, both sides, took an hour and a half to finish it with interruptions and him taking a bathroom break… then he had to write sentences for his spelling words, that took forty minutes with me helping him… he had to color a cutout figure to go with his report that is due Friday… we went over the handout for the report he has to write for Friday, but we have not started writing it yet… he is supposed to read every night and take AR reading tests on the books but he hasn’t taken a test on the book we read last week yet so we haven’t read any new books yet… now he is off to take a shower and get ready for quiet time before bed at 9pm…

Got a call from son2’s school nurse today… he was in a fight sort of… at the beginning of lunch one of his friends was being punched by a guy who was upset about something that had happened on the bus a week ago… friends pulled the friend being punched back out of the line of fire… person doing the punching backed up just as son2 was coming around to see what was going on…. he turned as son2 said what is going on and proceeded to punch son2 in the face several times before running off… all ended up in the office/nurse’s office with the school police officer asking questions and filing a report… son2 and friend are not in trouble but person doing the punching is probably suspended… son2’s friend had several cuts inside in his mouth and very swollen lips… son2 has a swollen nose and cut lip… both were in the restroom spilling lots of blood… lots of texting and facebooking going on since he’s been home… hubby had to pick him up as they had to be released to a parent… son2 saw the person doing the punching leaving with his father yelling at him in the parking lot… son2 said he is definitely going to school tomorrow as he is making biscuits in Home Economics…

Criminal Minds comes on tonight but going to tape it so hubby and I can watch some Kolchak… Back to work tomorrow…

Today I ate: hot chocolate… vitamins, water… breakfast~yogurt over cheerios… tortilla chips… lunch~slice of pizza, cola… tortilla chips, beans, salsa… dinner~lasagna, garlic bread, squash, zucchini, cola…

Pedometer: over 5000 steps…

Happy Journaling…

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November Third

The rose pictures are from my yard Halloween weekend… It’s going to be 85 degrees today…

Yesterday I was grumpy, tired, whiney… It was everything but nothing… I could make a list of all the things bothering me but only cause I was making a list, not that they were on my mind… I think it was just all the stress of the visit which we passed with a 100%… But now we have another visit next Tuesday just for shoes which I still have lots to get ready… And Halloween is kinda like Christmas, all the excitement of getting ready for it and then poof it’s over… Which speaking of Christmas,  I had forgotten that we start playing half Christmas/half regular music on November first at work, so when I got to work on Sunday straight from Halloween night of fun, I was hit with Christmas music that I wasn’t mentally prepared for… Not to mention that I haven’t had Chuck for two months now, which I’m fine if he never comes again, but I’m sure that messes up the emotions a bit…

So now we are three days into November already… and I haven’t got a schedule going with all my November plans… well, son3 is going to be at 9pm now and brushing his teeth better for the last two days as that was one of the things on my list… now just need to get him to read everyday… and I am blogging again, that was another on my list…

I’m mad at myself for gaining weight in October and falling back to some bad eating habits… so I think I was mad about that yesterday as I was being grumpy and eating tortilla chips instead of getting back to my better eating habits in November… of course it’s not a switch I can just turn off so must allow myself a few days to adjust out the bad habits one at a time… I’m just too good at beating myself up…

Today I have a day off from work but lots and lots to do around the house… putting away Halloween; tons of laundry from Halloween and our regular laundry; Thanksgiving decorations; wash kitchen floor; put away all the laundry that I washed last week that is still in the baskets; update November calendar; clean up the computer files; make a slideshow of all the Halloween pictures; check on facebook; make dinner; homework with son3; and make a list of all the rest of the things that need doing….

Hubby already got all the outside Halloween decorations put away including taking down the fence he built temporarily…. and he applied at about ten places yesterday for a job…

Son1 is settling into a schedule of going to two jobs and now trying to find a balance of getting his other stuff done too… girlfriend is complaining she doesn’t get to see him but when he offered to quit his part time job she said no… he is also working on getting his jeep smogged which didn’t quite pass so he and hubby have to adjust the timing on Friday…

Son2 has been quite grumpy lately too or just being a teenager… he is getting a 106% in his Geometry class this year that he got a D in last year… has a much better teacher this time around… he has also been reading the first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy just for fun… and plans on reading the other two next…

Son3 has been too happy and bouncing with too much energy… of course until it’s homework time and then he’s hungry and his stomach hurts and he needs help and he’s thirsty and he’s tired and he’s distracted… he’s already made his Christmas list which I’ve tried to explain to him that Christmas will be different this year with hubby not working but of course he says Santa will bring him stuff… and I explain to him that Moms and Dads have to help Santa now a days so Santa can’t bring him everything he wants…  next week is just a three day week with four day weekend for Veteran’s Day and then they get the whole week out of school for Thanksgiving… I am looking forward to a break from homework…

Time to get dressed and get son3 up for school… Son1 and son2 already left over an hour ago… hubby is up but I sent him away as I still had twenty minutes left of my quiet time as he was up too early… Hoping to have another post tonight and a Halloween slide show post too…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… fried egg sandwich, tortilla chips… dinner~two ham sandwiches on roll, Top Ramen chicken soup, water…

Pedometer: over 10000 steps…

Happy Journaling…

Halloween Cookies

Son2 made sugar cookies in Home Economics class, so I told him to make some for us too…

Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix…

Makes Three Dozen…

Prep time: 7 minutes

Bake time: 9 minutes

Took son2 three hours to make one and a half dozen…

Son3 helped decorate…

They were yummy…

Happy Journaling…

November First

 

Son3’s Jack O’ Lantern… Halloween was great!

We were all off Sunday… Hubby made pancakes for breakfast, the boys carved son3’s pumpkin, and we set up the yard for the trick or treaters… Son1 was home too and girlfriend came over… Hubby helped her carve a Hello Kitty pumpkin and son1 carved a Jeep pumpkin… I have lots of pictures to share in a slide show…

Son3 was a ghoul/crypt keeper but took off the mask to give out candy, got bored with that, took off the whole costume and ended up at his friend’s house next door… So I gave out the candy/pencils/toys… We only had probably about 100 trick or treaters if that… I still have lots of pencils left, a few toys and some how more candy than we started with as we bought two bags in case we ran out… Save it for next year… Although next year Halloween will be on a Monday, we will have to see how that works out with everyone at work and school for setting up the yard… There were still large groups of trick or treaters for a Sunday night but only from 6:30-8pm… Not many houses had their lights on though even on our street… 

Our yard got many compliments… and some remembered the werewolf from last year that son2 was dressed as, they were poking it to see if it was going to move… many were taking pictures of him, plus the whole yard this year and pictures with son2 as the scarecrow… Everyone said thank you as I handed out the treats… One girl said thanks for scaring her mom… another little girl of about 3 wouldn’t say trick or treat or thank you, her dad said she was shy… so I just waved good bye to her and when she got to the end of the driveway I heard her say to her dad, I don’t like this… too funny, not her being scared of son2 but that she got over her shyness to leave an opinion…

The star of the show: son2… No one believed he was real until he got down off the post, lol… but then they were just as amazed as he got back on the post to see that he still didn’t look real… I’m thinking he can be the scarecrow again next year as not everyone got to see him this year… So he can do an encore performance…

Today was back to school and work for everyone… but not quite… I was up and off to work, son2 was up but saying he didn’t feel well… son1 didn’t get up and later threw up… son3 went off to school… hubby was home cleaning up Halloween… son2 missed school and son1 called out of his full time job but went to his part time job… he’s home now, feeling better and hungry… son3 had a substitute so even his teacher was off today… I was supposed to be on vacation until Thursday… VIP visit tomorrow… Today was not a fun day at work with everyone getting ready for the visit…

First day of November starting my goals… son3 didn’t have too much homework since he had a substitute… started preparing the Halloween pictures… we watched Hogan’s Heroes… took apart all the Halloween figures… lots of laundry to wash now before packing it away… read a book with son3… now hubby and I are watching  Criminal Minds and getting the boys settled in for the night… we are all tired from all the excitement of yesterday… well except for son3 who is never tired…

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Halloween cookie… 3 pcs. of candy… tortilla chips and salsa… dinner~turkey burger, sausage hot dog, veggies, water… root beer float…

Not a very good start to my first day but actually less than what I have been munching on lately…

pedometer~14230 steps…

Happy Journaling…

Halloween Eve…

Hubby and I are watching Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp… We watched Pumpkinhead 2 yesterday… with still Trick or Treat and both Jeepers Creepers to watch… Along with hubby’s job hunting, my going to work, the boys going to school, and Halloween planning, the month has flown… I had planned a week off before Halloween that quickly went to a four day weekend to a three day weekend with a VIP visit on Tuesday… So here it is finally Halloween day tomorrow… We can’t wait to set up the yard for the arrival of the trick or treaters… The last two years Halloween was on a Friday and Saturday… so wondering if we will still have a full night of trick or treaters with school the following morning…

We had lots of rain last night but now the skies are clear and no rain for Halloween… with cool temps this year too…

Today son1 was off to work at his part time job… He’s working two jobs now, about 62 hours a week… He was supposed to get the Jeep smogged but didn’t check the hours of the shop being open on weekends, so will have to squeeze it in sometime during the week unless he found a different shop open…

Son2 made Halloween sugar cookies in home economics this week, so I had him make some for us today… He and son3 decorated cats, ghosts and pumpkins… In the morning they will carve Jack O Laterns…

I have been busy the last couple of weeks with work, doing homework with son3, making dinner, doing laundry, playing on facebook, walking with hubby, and eating…

My new eating habits went out the window in October… causing me to gain five pounds… However I had originally lost 33 pounds and I now am back down a pound and a half… So I am treating October as the month that my body got used to being at a 30 pound weight loss and how much I can get away with at keeping it that way… With work and walking son3 to school and back I have been keeping myself active and moving…

So come November First I have big plans for the month… Of getting back to my better eating habits of eating as one person, no snacking and seconds with a goal of losing around seven pounds to get to my goal of a 35 pound weight loss; cleaning the house; getting son3 into better school habits of sleeping, doing homework quicker and reading every day; and helping hubby to find a JOB…

But for now it is Halloween Eve, time for enjoying all things Halloween…

and turkey burgers… we are having turkey burgers and french fries for dinner while we watch Smallville from last night…

Happy Journaling…

October Thirtieth…

October has been a busy month here with all the getting ready for Halloween… The past couple of years we have finally talked the boys out of going trick or treating and staying home to decorate the yard to scare the trick or treaters…

I however have not been sharing all the preparations here in this blog… I have been sharing in our Motivation Station blog… so please click on the following links to see all our Halloween goings on…

http://tmschallenges.blogspot.com/2010/10/thursdays-with-linda-halloween-is.html

http://tmschallenges.blogspot.com/2010/10/thursdays-with-linda-halloween.html

http://tmschallenges.blogspot.com/2010/10/thursdays-with-linda-halloween-is_21.html

http://tmschallenges.blogspot.com/2010/10/thursdays-with-linda-halloween_28.html

Happy Journaling…

October…………

Sharing some pictures of me from when hubby and I went to the zoo… and when we took the boys to Hillcrest Farm to the pumpkin patch…

And since I started this entry over a week ago with intentions every day of  finishing it, but only having time to update what I ate for the day, I’m thinking I’ve gotten into a rut… So I am posting this entry so I can move on and actually write an entry…

Saturday I ate: vitamins, greet tea tablet, juice, banana… breakfast~scrambled eggs, hash browns, sausage, English muffin, juice… tortilla chips and salsa, cola… dinner~turkey burger, curly fries, baked beans, potato salad, fried rice with ham, water… root beer float… chocolate covered peanuts…

Sunday I ate: vitamins, juice… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… sausage dog, tortilla chips… dinner~tortilla chips, beans, fried rice with ham, chicken strips, orange soda…

Monday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water, banana… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips and beans… dinner~egg, ham, English muffin sandwich, chicken strip, baked beans, lemon lime soda…

Tuesday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… BBQ chips, tortilla chips and beans… dinner~tortilla chips, beans, chicken enchilada, corn, lemon lime soda… chocolate covered raisins…

Wednesday I ate: breakfast~yogurt over cheerios, hot chocolate… lunch~ham and tomato sandwich, cola… tortilla chips and salsa… vitamins, green tea tablet, water… dinner~split pea soup, PBJ, two rolls, water… chocolate covered raisins…

Thursday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chicken strip, tortilla chips… dinner~split pea soup, corn, macaroni and cheese with ham, lemon lime soda bread and butter… jelly beans…

Friday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… potato chips… chocolate covered raisins… tortilla chips… orange soda… dinner~spaghetti, macaroni and cheese with ham…

Saturday I ate: vitamins, juice… breakfast~scrambled eggs, spam, hash browns, biscuits, hot chocolate… popcorn, water… cola… dinner~spaghetti, lasagna, macaroni and cheese with ham, garlic bread, orange soda… chocolate covered raisins…

Sunday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water, banana… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… cream soda… dinner~spaghetti, lasagna, zucchini, squash, corn, macaroni and cheese with ham, garlic bread, water…

Monday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips, juice… dinner~spaghetti, lasagna, macaroni and cheese with ham, zucchini, squash, corn, lemon lime soda…

Tuesday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… scrambled egg, ham, cheese sandwich, orange soda… dinner~chicken, rice, peas, carrots, water…

Happy Journaling…