Working Out

So me and a friend joined Imagine Fitness on January 12. Guess what, over a month of working out and I have not lost one pound! I decided about 2 weeks ago that I need to measure myself so I can see the changes that way, but I haven't seen changes yet. This is probably because I had to miss almost a week of going to the gym because of bad weather, etc. The gym is starting Zumba classes tonight, I want to go soooo bad! Since my husband is always gone, I have to be here with the kids and can't go to a night class. I did buy the Zumba DVD set about a year ago, so I am going to do them at night with my 3 days a week work out at the gym. Maybe then I will see some sort of results for all my hard work!

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I have no title for this because it's going to start on one subject and end on another. Last week I went to parent teacher conferences for Jacob and Lucas. Lucas is doing surprisingly well. He is ready to read, and they are going to begin teaching him this week! I was amazed that they told me this. Sometimes, most of the time, I wonder if he understands anything that comes out of my mouth, and they have him ready to read? He also knew most of the other things he was questioned about.
Jacob's report was also perfect academically. The only thing his teacher has a 'problem' with is Jacob's shyness I guess. I can't remember exactly what she said, but basically she said since the beginning of the year he has come out of his shell, but isn't where she thinks he should be.
This brings me to the rant! I am saying this because I know someone else who got a talk about their child being shy. What is it with these teachers? What happened to the days when they wanted the kids to sit there and be quiet, now they want them talking non-stop? I am saying right now there is nothing wrong with a child that does not want to talk all the time, or is shy. I personally know the other child whose parents were basically told the same thing, and there is nothing wrong with that kid either! I went to this school, back when it was Kindergarten all the way up to sixth grade, and probably only spoke 10 words the entire time I was there. I am not saying that I am perfect, but I do not believe that I am not as normal as the person in the class that was the most outgoing. Let me say something else, I also do not want my children to be shy, I hope that they are outgoing, but I am not going to push it on them. They will be who they are.
These 'talks' made me feel like I should take an 8 year old to a psychiatrist to be evaluated. Like there is something terribly wrong with him. I know there isn't, but sometimes as a parent, you get questioned about what you are or are not doing. As a mother, I constantly question every choice I make concerning my children. When someone else says something, especially a teacher who is with your child more than you are, you question your choices. You may question them for a minute, a day, or a month, but you do it. So, I let this woman do this to me. I have since decided that there is nothing wrong with him or the way I am dealing with his self-confidence issues.
I just hate that I let this woman do this to me. I can semi-understand where they are coming from, but REALLY? Do they not have any thing else to do? Are there not more pressing issues at that place then a few kids that are shy? Maybe I'm just over reacting, but I do not think I am. I do not need someone questioning me. If I was doing drugs, or Jake was showing up at school without shoes or something, question my parenting abilities, but to question me because I have a shy child is ridiculous. What do you all think?

Craziness!!!

OK, so I haven't blogged in months, sorry! I have been super busy. I had a job (yes, outside the house) for about a minute, LOL! I could not stand those people, so I quit. But, it's fine because Jason is buying another truck and I am going to be his load broker. (whoo hoo!) I will get to do everything he can't do in a truck away from home, plus do everything else I already do-laundry, chauffeur, maid, cook, etc. and also full-time student. If I can make it to October 10, I will be sooooo happy! As long as I do not take any breaks, that will be my last day of class, YIPEE!
From the experience of going to school when I am almost 30, I know already one area I will not be like my own parents, and Jason like his. Neither set of parents stressed to us how important it was to go to college, but not only that, they did not stress how we needed to go directly after high school. Jason went not long after we got married, while I was pregnant with Jake. That was hard enough. Now I take this on with 3 kids, one a baby. What was I thinking? I ask that sometimes, but I know exactly what I was thinking, and what I am doing, and I am glad I am doing it.
Since my last post, some very important things have happened. My little Nick-a-poo turned 2. I know, I can't believe he's that old either. My biggest little baby Jacob turned 8. All I can say is time flies. It seems like yesterday that he was walking around in a diaper! Lucas turns 5 soon, and that one seems the oddest to me. I don't know what it is about Lucas turning 5 that turns my stomach, it just doesn't seem like he should be that old, and half way to kindergarten.
We had a wonderful Christmas. The kids really liked their gifts this year. We have been outside a lot over this break because they got Razor Rip Riders for Christmas. As soon as I get some pics of them riding them I'll post them, it is hilarious. The day after Christmas, the kids spent their Christmas money on Band Hero. It has become an obsession for us. We have played it everyday since we got it. This past Friday, we had to go buy another Guitar Hero game because we beat Band Hero, we've beaten that one also!
I will go, as soon as I get my pics in the computer, I'll upload some...

Kathy

Lucas' 1st Razorback Game!

Saturday we took Jacob and Lucas to see the Razorbacks play. It was an awesome game by the way, the Razorbacks scored in the first few seconds! Jacob has been before, but Lucas hadn't. We had a plan for the whole day, a week before the game. We were going to leave super early so we did not get into too much traffic. Since we would have time to kill, we were going to take the kids to the zoo for awhile and maybe the McDonald's across the street from the stadium. That was a good plan, except into the week, the news started talking about rain for Saturday. We didn't know what to do then. We didn't know if we should even try to bring the kids at all. I was not going to leave because they were getting wet! In the end, we decided to take them. We had to take Nicolas to my mother in laws that morning, of course, on the entire way, it was pouring! Jason and I left all the kids with her and ran to 5 different stores to find ponchos. Everyone was sold out! Finally found some, and picked the kids up. I realize that I have left my camera at home, so we have to go back to get it. It was fine, we had time. We finally get to the ramp on the freeway where traffic is stopped. We get close to the zoo and I have Jason let me and the boys out so we can go to the zoo while he parks the car. We get in the zoo at 3, and they close at 4:30. The kids had me running so they could see everything before we had to go. I pull out my camera and guess what? NO MEMORY CARD! I was only able to take 3 pictures, and now have no idea how to get them off the camera! We are finally walking up to go in the stadium. Everyone that knows Lucas, knows that he takes his time to look at everything. He was walking so slow. Everyone that came up behind us was just going around with no problems. Then some lady that looked she was from some ghetto, had to mouth off when she passed us. I mouthed back. She came at me, but just stared at me for a minute, and then says, "I was not trying to be rude, you did not have to be that way." I just stared back waiting for her to say something else, but she walked off. I seen that lady a few times after that, she would just stare at me. I don't know what the deal was. It was 5, the game started at 6, and we were right by the gate that she was going in, she was not going to miss anything. I was mad about that for awhile. On our way in, we bought the kids a hog nose and a little pom pom. Thank goodness that the people sitting in front of us and behind us were very nice. I cannot tell you how many times they got whacked in the head by Lucas swinging his pom pom! He was hilarious the entire game. The band was sitting in the section next to us, Lucas thought that was wonderful. Every time they played, he had to stand up and dance. After the game, the kids got to hang over the side and high five the players. Lucas did it, but was more worried about the band. After the last player came through, he took off to the band and yelled at them "You did wonderful. I really like you!" Of course some girls were eating that up! Even though there were a few mishaps at the start of our day, it was a great day to hang out with most of my boys. Even though I did not get a picture of Lucas' face when he went in there, I do not think I could ever forget the look! He asked me the other day, if I could take him to another Razorback game on Tuesday? I told him I would as soon as they started playing on Tuesdays!


Kathy

This is driving me crazy!

I do not know where to even begin! I am so frustrated with school right now. I am sick of taking classes that do not pertain to anything. This time I am in Religions of the World and Environmental Science. First E.S. I know that people pollute everything, we really can't do anything about it while we're all sitting on our computers using up energy, right? I think that it is ridiculous to learn how to conserve energy when we are using a ton of energy just to read the stupid information they are giving us. I do not care for that class, and it is showing in my grade, oops! I have an A, but it's a 94%. If I paid some sort of attention, I would have a better grade. Now for R.W. I thought, before I started the class, that it would be interesting. Boy was I wrong! I have learned a lot, but I do not know why I need to know any of this. Sunday I had to write a paper comparing the lives of Jesus and Muhammad(founder of Islam). That was very difficult. I do not believe anything that has to do with Islam, the more I have learned about it, the more it sounds completely made up! I have had a lot of trouble trying to keep an open mind and not injecting my own beliefs into class. I believe I am done, I can not take it anymore. I am going to tell everyone that Islam is made up! For my final project in that class, I had to interview someone of a different religion than my own and write a paper comparing the two. I choose the friars at the monastery. They are Catholic, which is Christian, and that was as far as I was willing to go! While I was at the monastery, I met the nicest young man, Brother Daniel. He was fairly new to the monastery. He was answering my questions, and it seemed like he was so old, because he knew so much. He was talking about when he was in high school like it was so long ago, then later he said his age, and I am sure he saw a crazy look on my face! He was only 21! He took me on a tour of the monastery, and then we walked to the cemetery way in the back. I did not see any of the other friars. I did not know, but there are only 5 of them there right now. There used to be more, but Brother Daniel told me that a couple of them have gotten too old to care for themselves, so they are in nursing homes. Anyway, if any good has come out of this class, it was getting to meet Brother Daniel. It is something that I will always remember.
If anyone wants to know anything about Brother Daniel and my interview, I will be glad to tell you. Til next time...

Kathy

Goal

I have a new work out goal to work towards. It may sound stupid to some, but it's enough to get me going. My mother-in-law and her twin sister turn 50 on September 28. My father-in-law will turn 50 on November 30th. In honor of this big birthday, they want to have a big birthday party to celebrate. I think my aunt-in-law's daughter is doing a family cookout on September 26, but that night we are going to do an adult only party, and I think it's going to be at the V.F.W! I would like to look better than the 50 year olds there! In early August, I bought E.A. Sports Active work out game for Wii. I started it that day, and within 3 days, I had lost 4 lbs. I got a cold that turned into bronchitis, I think. I tried to work out, but I couldn't breathe. So I haven't been back to working out yet...I will be starting back today/tonight. The game has a 30 day challenge that's supposed to whip you into shape fast, and it was kicking my butt! I had just got to where my legs weren't so sore after a workout before I quit, so I will have to go back through that, ugh. I am not going to be a brave soul that posts how much I weigh, or any measurements on here. I will update on the amount of weight lost though. I am not going to stop working out on September 26, I would like to look awesome for a 30 year old when I turn 30 in January! I may have 3 kids, but no one said I have to look like I do! LOL!

Kathy

Mom Gripe!

Isn't the sporadic screaming of a child enough to deal with when they're getting molars? Did the uncontrollable poop have to be added in? Last week I had to take two vomit covered kids into the store. This week I have been pooped on twice! Nicolas got me Tuesday while I was out trying to get some business taken care of. I knew he had pooped, but I did not know that it had run out of his diaper and down his leg. I picked him up and there was poop on both of my legs. I had no diaper wipes with me, of course! Nicolas and I had to ride home from North Little Rock covered in poop! He got me again today. I picked him up and went to pat his butt, I got a little more than expected. My hand was covered in poop. This time we were home, so it wasn't that bad.
Just wondering why they can't just have one thing wrong at a time. The screaming is very annoying, but poop is just gross, especially when it is all over me. Last week with the stomach virus, it had to come out both ends, why? One or the other I can deal with, but my patience is getting tested when I have to clean puke and poop at the same time. I think that guy that does that show Dirty Jobs should come by my house on one of those days. I think it would take that show to another level!