The dreaded painting is on hold right now. I have other things that need to be taken care of first. DD@ is going camping for a week so I'll finish painting it when she's gone.
It just seems neverending. Agh. I know it will get done and it will look nice. I just need to do it.
Lol.... it seems that everyone I know is paining lately. What's up with that?

Pizza all the time... I can live with that. I love pizza.
I usually make plain cheeze and plain pepperoni for the kids. For DH and myself, I make is veggie. I have green peppers, onions, mushrooms, green olives, hot peppers and cheese. Those are the basics and sometimes I add more.... depending what's around. Oh... sauce, of course.

You Pizza sounds yummy.. Do you buy prepared pizza dough?

I try to put the same things on my pizza. Sometimes I put on fresh tomatoes and mozzarella.
Enjoy your pizza.

Still working on losing the weight I gained for my B.D> dinner LOL. Yesterday i ate dinner and did not measure the serving size.. so i gained back a few tenths of a lb. that will teach me to be lazy and possibly over hungry.

How are you doing with your weight?

The pizza was yummy... i make my own dough. It's fairly easy to make and it's become second nature to me.
I also love mozzarella but I'm not quite a big fan of the fresh tomatoes.... I never was.... actually, I don't like fresh tomatoes period!!

I hope you lose that pesky weight soon... it can be annoying.

My weight is pretty much the same right now. I'm not really doing too much with it. I'm busy helping kids pack up for camp etc. There's also a bday party to attend to and a bridal shower... on the same day and two hours apart (drive). My kids have to be packed and ready by then. So much to do and not enough time.

You are so busy. I hope you get to enjoy the bridal shower and the Bday party. Lots to do :).
It's good that you are able to maintain your weight with all that is going on. I would be so stressed out LOL
How old are your daughter's
Keep up the good work you are doing with eating. I bet once things calm down and you tweak it a little bit you'll start losing again. :).

I too make my own pizza dough. it seems like a lot of flour the recipe i use. it's like 3 cups a mix of white and whole wheat flour. i've been using just the white flour. haven't gotten any whole wheat lately, keep forgetting LOL I substitute yeast for the baking soda/baking powder, don't add any salt.

You sound like you enjoy making pizza. It's great to have home made especially when you have recipe that you find second nature.
the weight did come off so thankful. Now to stay on track. been having problems with getting my exercise in 6 days a week this week so far I've done M, & T only :(. Non wed thur. Unless you count grocery shopping for 3 hours with loading the bags, loading the car, bringing them into the house and putting them away :)...

Have a great weekend...

Ahhhhh!!!!!!
Where has the time gone????
It's Wednesday and I feel like it's Monday! Maybe because I just got back from all these celebrations that seemed to continue into the week. DH and myself were 'free' and decided to visit some relatives out of town and made it a two day event visiting even more relatives! It was fun. I kinda felt like a single person again.... single without kids. lol

I just got home and was checking in on emails, etc. hmmmm..... Now i have to do some serious clean up. The kids rooms look like a tornado went through them. They were so busy packing that nothing really got ut away or straightened up. This was days ago and now I'm dealing with the aftermath.. because i was too busy visiting people!!!!!
First things first, I should deal with the kitchen and all the food that's been sitting in the fridge not being eaten! And all my strawberries and blueberries.... agh..... I'll have to see if I can still salvage anything out them . Yikes.

I also use yeast in my dough. How many pizzas do you end up making with that amount of flour??
I like the mix of the whole wheat and the white flour... I do the same thing.
And you got that right... I love making pizza. It's so therapeutic and, not to mention, tasty! lol

I think you are doing awesome with your exercise. Keep it up. I'm soooo envious of you. You make the time to exercise or go for a walk.... I am waiting for the time that t hings settle down so that I can do the same. Will that ever happen?
I certainly hope that grocery shopping and carrying and lifting of all those bags, and the walking, does count as exercise! That's what I do..... that is my exercise...

I've done enough stallling... I need to get busy and get some work done.

Sounds like you had a mini vacation. Now home to the real world LOL.
It depends. I don't always use all the dough that day. I think 3 pizzas maybe more. depends on if I make it large for two or single. How many do you get out of the dough?

Yes, your walking and carrying groceries are exercise. dont' forget the vacuuming and carrying the laundry, :).
Do you have a pedometer? this helps me know what i'm doing. when i first started my goal was to get to 5,000 steps. i kept increasing that until I got to 10,000 steps. they(whoever they are) say that 10,000 steps a day is good for you .. You might be interested in a book I started to read "the Step diet book" I think that's the tittle. it talks about losing weight by cutting your portion of what you are eating now(that's for people who have never cut food down and just starting out) also, how just doing steps threw out the day can help you lose weight. So, what ever walking around you do is helpful. as long as you are not sitting on the couch too long you are doing great .. sounds like you are very busy and don't get much chance to sit around.

I'm doing ok. Not exercising 6 days a week .. been eating ok. but seem to be maintaining. Been very exhausted.. i take my walk then seem to fall asleep when ever i sit down after the walk :(.

what are your children packing for?

I hope you have a great weekend.

Agh... I was only home for two days and left for an extended weekend to the states. Actually it was a long weekend here in Canada! I got home for ONE day and then went off to a cottage for an overnight. I spent the entire next day at the beach and doing some shopping in a quaint little village... I got home in the late afternoon. So..... here I am at home finally!
I plant to get a lot of things done that need to be done before my kids come back. Everything is still left the same as they left it.... yikes. I'm catching up on laundry and keeping the kitchen clean. All the other stuff has to get done today.

I just found out that I have to go to the states to pick up my kids tomorrow evening. It's a three hour drive for me to get there. That will be six hours in the car... oh well, The point is that I don't have time to get the house in order before they come back. ANd here i thought that I would get everything done and then get into stuff I always want to do but have no time for. Yeah right. I thought it would be easy without the kids underfoot but things happen in a split second around here. lol

The kids will have been gone for just under two weeks and I've accomplished nothing in the house... I did, however, have a lot of fun visiting family and having little mini vacations.

Now back to the real world.
My kids had gone to the states (east side) with their grandparents. They went to my BIL's house and from there the whole lot flew to Cali for a three day wedding with only one day for sightseeing. They are back on this side of the time zone and are going to make their way back towards home tomorrow.

You had a nice time while everyone was away. I hope your trip to pick them up was easy ride. How are the kids doing now that they're home? When does school start?

We always make plans to get things done .. then something always comes up and we don't get to it .
It's been a very eventful and busy couple of weeks for you. Now to relax LOL.

How is your eating going with all this commotion? Are you doing ok with it?

I've been struggling to figure out how to work my eating plan. something that will take some time i think. so trying not to get frustrated.

Yes, I did have a nice time while they were away. It was nice to just go by the fly and stay a little extra or leave and get home to do a few chores... only to leave again and start a new adventure. I think it's a wonderful thing to be able to do with DH... it was a nice change of pace and I believe it brought us closer.

The drive was crazy... we left for the states by 7pm (by the time we got the phone call we had to do a few things before we could actually leave), got there by 10ish and ate something... left around 11;30ish and got home by 3;45am!!!! There was an hour wait at the border!!!!!! Why were all these people travelling at 1am????
Anyways.... I was exhausted as I was the one to do the last leg of the journey. I had to go and attend a meeting with DD#2 the next day and also attend a baby shower. I was t.i.r.e.d. It was so hard to wake up two of my kids so that they could get to their appointments, etc. Thankfully, it's all done... there are no more committments.

School starts on the day after Labour Day.... Sept 2 this year. WE need to get ready as we may have plans for the long weekend and I don't want them scrambling for the first day!

But.... in the mean time, we are going to be attending a wedding this coming weekend and also another party which DH is arranging... that's four parties in three days!!!! YIkes... The wedding is a three day affair.
I've got to get the clothes ready for all of us and we need to pack as the festivities are a two hour drive from us. Crazy... here we go again.

Weight???? Quite honestly i don't now how my weight is doing. I know I went up but I t ink I've only gone up around four pounds... pretty good considering. I don't have any time to deal with my food intake... I seem to be eating anything and not caring about getting in all the food groups. Looks like I'll have to wait until school has started and routine falls back into place around here before I can honestly deal with my weight.

Crazy.

Glad you are having a good time. It's a shame you are so tired. that will change in a while. Yes, getting ready for school is so important. What grades are your daughter's in?" Daughter finishes summer session next week has 10 days off then starts again. College is different
don't worry about your eating. that will come in time. As long as you feel ok and aren't gaining tons of weight you are basically maintaining. that's a good thing... that means all the time you've spent in the past eating properly has helped.

I'm doing ok. nothing much going on here. I'm trying to get back into walking. Eating better. same old same old

Still having a good time and things are not settling down. I'm off to a three day wedding celebration and, just for the fun and excitement of it, there is another party being thrown in. So four parties in three days! YIkes. Talk about my food intake taking a dive. I've gone up in weight but hopefully not too much. I have a feeling that the weight will go up by this weekend.

Talk to you soon.... I have to go and start getting my clothes and matching jewelry all picked out and ready to go.... not to mention my regular clothes for the day time.
This is never going to end. I feel like I've let the summer slip away. At least I got to go and see a beach for two days... that always connects me and grounds me. It is so peaceful and sublime sitting at the beach.

Have fun at your parties I'm sure you will choose your food wisely. I hear you about letting the summer slip away. I feel the same way. I didn't get the the beach this year :(. Once things settle down you will do better with the eating plan. It's so exciting that you have 4 parties in 3 days.. Oh my all the clothes you have to wear.. Are you staying at a hotel or is it nearby and you can just go and have fun? Enjoy. Catch you when you get back

I don't know what I'm doing but I'm basically maintaining right now. Daughter just finished summer class. Now she's preparing to start her fall session in about 1 week . Busy busy. she's still hasn't picked a 4 year college to transfer too. So, a bit stressful.

I'm back....
It's kinda crazy around here. You'd think that we had the parties at our house... there's so much to put away and deal with. WE actually hosted one of the parties but it was out of town and we had to get everything ready beforehand and then put it all away. It's been so busy.

And then.... now we decided to attend another wedding over the labour day weekend. Agh. Here we go again. This wedding is in the states so it's a long 7hr drive away. But i've never been there and am getting excited about it. It would love to take in a museum if I can.

So now I'm going to finish cleaning up my house of all the rest of the clutter and then start packing for the wedding. I have to get this done asap because we are leaving early Friday morning and I'm getting two large families come over on Thursday and everyone will be sleeping in my house for the road trip the next day!
I also have to cook!!!

Oh yeah... something happened to my dishwasher.

Oh yeah... I gained serious weight. I weighed in at 158.0 lbs this morning. My goal is 140.0 lbs. Ouch. But I was no where near there and now I'm definitely no where near there.

How are you doing with everything?? Weight wise or other wise??
Has your daughter picked her college yet? It is very stressful to figure out your future...
Sometimes there is no choice as a student has to pick what is available to them by proximity. Unfortunately not all students can afford to go to college out of town or province/state. It's such a stressful time for them... it brings me back to my days...

I went up slightly and weighed myself the other night before bed... I don't usually weigh at that time but I was curious what the scale showed. 161.0lbs. Yup. I've gone over the hill I don't want to go over. Time to stop this....
Thankfully, I weighed in at 158.0lbs this morning.
There's another wedding approaching and I can't possibly eat properly... lunch will be fast food as we'll be sight-seeing etc. Dinner will be at the halls and i'll try to make the best choices.... I have to. Or else I'll just deal with everything when the kids are back in school.

WOW you 've had a lot going on lately .. seems it's still going on. School starts for the kids after labor day weekend? I'm sorry to hear that you gained more weight than you thought. Yes, you will make good choices at the wedding. Now, when the children go back to school you can get back on track. Look back at the parties and the things you did..
Did you do better than you used to in these situations? Is there anything you can see that you can improve upon the next time you have an outing?
Let me know how much fun you had over the weekend.

All is well here. I've been on track but my weight has been weird.. up/down/up/down... right now it seems I've lost a bit of weight. I wish I weighed as little as you. I have a very long way to go. I'm 174.8 lb. I probably need to get to 125 lbs.. however, I read a long time ago people over 40 or 50 (that's how long ago i read it i can't remember the age group lol_)can weigh in the 145 lbs around there. So right now I'm shooting for that.
I'm working on
Getting below 170lbs
eating more veggies
getting exercise in
remembering my water
seeing what combination of food affect my weight
last I've been trying to eat less than 2,000 cal. . not always working out. LOL