QOTD

This is one of my favorite ones....

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....
Martin Luther

That's all. I like to challenge myself to live my life by these words, but sometimes I am too scared.

Mystery Solved!

So, Ella-Bella has some sort of bug that makes her feverish and clingy. Poor little squirt, I hate it when she goes days without eating. For one she really can't afford it and secondly, I just do not understand "not eating".

My throat is sore again...and I decided it has nothing to do with a bug. I am pretty sure I am allergic to orange food dye. I had problems when I was super pregnant with Ella. There were a large amount of Popsicles consumed towards the end, and I, from time to time, would get an itchy throat and swollen tongue. Soooooo, I am thinking maybe there is a connection between in those Popsicles and the Diet Sunkist I have been enjoying as of late???

Weird, huh?

Pillow Talk

Last night as Mr. Work and I were waiting for sleep to come, he asked how the MUMs meeting went today? I said most everyone had something else come up, so it was canceled. The conversation went something like this...

Him: "Really? Like what kind of things came up?"

Me: " Oh a Brownie meeting, obedience class, swim meet, you name it..."

Him: "Obedience class?"

Me: "Yeah... "

Him: "Maybe you should canal all MUMs meetings until you all graduate from the wife
obedience class."

Me: "Righhhhhhtttt". Giggles.

Him: "Oh honey, you would never pass that class."

Me: smacks him with a pillow.

Him: "A guy can dream."

He's right though, I would never pass that class.

QOTD

It may be a little early in the day to declare a winner, but this one was pretty good.

"Mama, I am gonna bring this cock corn." - Ella

For those of you that may need interruption, she was holding her new found pine cone.

QsOTD

Since, I started this place in the interest of capturing the kiddos in action...I want to start a quote of the day. I borrowed this idea, from Mindy at themommyblog.com.

I have a couple to get things started:

Ella, "I is a princess and baby is an elf."

Wyeth while running around with a magic wand, "Bippity, bappity, boo." He then proceeded to bap anything and everything with the wand. Total boy!

The Juice Battle

So, I decided around Thanksgiving time that the kiddos were consuming much, too much juice. I have always only given them watered down juice, and prefer white grape to apple for the lower sugar content, but still it seems like there were too many real food battles. It seemed to me that they were full of the empty calories from juice.
Ella has been the worst about breaking-up with her beloved "jew". Wyeth really prefers chocolate milk to juice, and Fara is new to the scene so water is fine with her.
So, really all this has been well and good. We are down to only one or two melting fits a day about how badly Ella NEEDS jew. There has been an increase in water consumption, but I think overall, we have a decrease in total fluid intake.
So.....as I was lying awake at about 3:38 am trying to comfort Fara who is suffering from our 18th illness of the season, when suddenly it occurred to me...what if the lessened fluid intake has compromised the kiddos immune system????
What do you think? I need opinions!

2009

I have been writing some for the local paper...here is my latest.

100 Pounds
That is how much weight I want to lose. No, not really, but that is what the stupid BMI charts think I should lose.
For all the talk of the obesity crisis in America, hardly anyone talks about how that feels. And even worse, the truth is, I rarely think of myself as obese until a doctor points it out to me. I'm 5'4". If you feel the need to get out the calculators to figure out how much I weigh, feel free. It‘s a number that I rather not think about.
I promised myself while I was pregnant that I wouldn't ever diet again. I was happy and my body was working diligently at growing a sweet new baby. I'd hoped that eating healthily and breast feeding, with exercise, would help to get me started on the weight loss path. And it did, for a while. Then life got in the way.
I now weigh about 20 lbs more than I did a year ago.
I have two young daughters. More than anything I want them to escape the agony poor body image brings. When my first daughter was born, I knew that I needed to change my relationship with my body. I didn’t and don't want to be yet another one of the voices that my girls are going to hear that tell her that she could be different (i.e. skinner, more toned, bigger tatas). We all have different shapes and I don’t want her to think her body sucks, and that she is ugly and fat. Because no matter what her number is on the scale, she will be an American woman and she will hate her body. I don't want her to witness me hating my body as well. If I am healthy and strong and focus on overall health, maybe we can avoid some, just a little of that pain at our house.
I have been dieting, off and on, since I was 12. And the result? I'm fatter than ever. That is so messed up!
2009 has to be the year. I want these issues to be resolved so I can have an honest relationship with my body. Not only for me, but also for the girls. I signed up for Weight Watchers the first of the year and things are going well. I am “working the program”. I have been taking the kids with me, because that is what works for us. The kids call it my “healthy meeting”. It is important to me that they think of it in those terms, and not that mommy is trying to get skinny or diet. There are so many reasons for a new healthful lifestyle.

For 2009, I will let “me and the girls” be mine.