Its FINE Friday

Boy am I glad its Friday today. One reason is my work week is over. No more daycare kids for at least a couple of days. Secondly its our eat out night and we are off to CICÍ pizza tonight. Michael and Joey are having two friends spend the night so they will accompany us and my friend Becky and her two kids will probably come as well. I've been great on my diet all week and even did DDR today.....for over 30 minutes.....but i am ready for some good eats with a POP!

Michael finished up his last subject yesterday. He completed his classsroom portion of drivers ed online yesterday. He took the final exam that he has to have a 90% on and passed it first time. Didn't even study....not sure whether to be proud ...or jealous HAHA.

But he is finally done. Sending in our transcript information to our cover school and get his diploma soon. I can't believe he is done. But I still have 3 more kids to get thru their schooling. Joey started his 9th grade year. He wants to complete his high school in 2 years. He can do it as long as he stays his course. He tends to have a few lazy days...as do we all.

I was reading a fellow Christians blog today and I love his idea that he puts a praise to God at the end of each writing.

So, not to completely copy what he does, somewhere in my blog i will put a praise to God. .....HOPE THATS OK JOHN LOL.

I am very thankful to God that even though i only have a high school education, and no Christian upbringing as a child, that God has given me the abilities as a mother(my mom died when i was 11) to teach, and train my children in the Lord. I am amazed sometimes at what God has done in my life. I never thought I could successfully teach my kids. Self esteem issue maybe? But I've done it and my kids are great. Not perfect....but two out of the four children I have are baptized believers in Christ. They are smart, well mannered, (mostly), get along great together,(except for when they don't lol), and just didn't give me any of the trouble I expected when I thought of raising children. I thank God for that because with the background that I've had, my kids shouldn't have turned out so good ...But with God ALL things are possible.

REmember that...

Weight loss update

WOHOO!
When i began my new way of eating about 2 weeks ago, I was at 154. I weighed in today at 149. That is a loss of 5 pounds. Its just changing my food habits. I eat salads and fresh fruits and vegetables and drink my carrot juice at least once a day and drink alot of water. I still have our eat out nights once a week and have a coke once every couple of days or so. I wish I had the motivation to get out and exercise a bit cause the weight will come off more if I did that but I am happy with the results.
I think i have about 4 weeks or so left before mike gets home so hopefully that means a total of 8 more pounds i can lose, for a total of 13 pounds. That is definitely a reachable goal!!!

DOing our new way of eating brings about alot of ways to teach nutrition to kids :)
I use every teachable moment that i can think of. Its just the teacher in me lol
Ciao!!!!!!!!!!!!

More sadness...

In the past week, two tragedies have occurred. One of my friends lost her mother very suddenly. She wasn't ill and I do not have all the details yet but any loss is sad.
Then another lady in my congregation at Bayside finally is at peace. She died from a long run with cancer.

Bayside is full of sadness this week.....

On a good note, Sweet Inspiration, our ladies singing group, is working VERY hard getting ready for our recording session coming up in June. Its very exciting being a part of this. I will miss this group when I move back to our roots in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
Ok, kids need me. More later :)

Weight loss and stuff

Well, i've lost a pound so far. But I haven't stuck with my diet really well. I know I am doing a ton better than I used to though. Mike is doing so good though. Running, lifting weights, eating right. I've got so many distractions here at home. I'm running my daycare, taking care of and homeschooling my own 4 kids, spring cleaning and when i get depressed, my emotions say i want FOOD. Not carrot juice either...hormones want chocolate and salt.

Anyway, i hope to lose another couple of pounds in this coming week. Need to find the time to excercise as that will help get this weight off too.
More later
Nikki

The competition is ON!!

Well, Mike and I are starting a little friendly competition.
Going to see who can lose the most weight in 6 weeks.
My starting weight wasn't something i wanted to tell anyone which was 154....BUT when i wanted to drink a cup of my International coffee this morning, its funny, it made me sick to my stomach. Just didn't want it so I am drinking my carrot juice in stead. I have to do this. Don't know what the winner will get but I know if i can lose about 10 pounds, that is winning enough for me. Then we will do it again the next 6 weeks he is gone.

Water, juice and salads and frest fruits and veggies for me.
Updates will come ...

Its Tuesday.....:( Unhappy Day

Well, my wonderful dear husband and best friend left today with his command to go underway for about 6 weeks. Because of Security i cannot say what command he is with but I hate when he goes away.

The kids and I are doing great though. Mike came home yesterday only to go back out to buy me a new washing machine. That wasn't fun but I sure do love to get new things LOL.

The juicing is going great. The real juice has so much taste to it. I wouldn't want to drink the jar or canned juice ever again.

I'm not 100% on the no meat diet. I have done good but I am not going to stress over this. We are doing alot better than we used to and thats good enough for me.
More later...