Thursday, September 30, 2010

"Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!" ~Jillian Michaels

That quote is what I plan to live by for the next 30 days (and beyond if I don't die! lol) Tomorrow I start the 30 day shred with Jillian Michaels! I'm excited but scared at the same time...I don't want to fail! I've been saying for months now I'll start tomorrow or next month is defiantly it I don't know why I've put it off til now, no more excuses I WILL LOSE WEIGHT! I'm finally sick of feeling run down and in pain because of the extra weight I am carrying around...No I don't know how much I currently weigh (I don't have a scale but going to get one) but I will say I'm in a size 18 jeans and they are beginning to get uncomfortable. I am ashamed that I let myself get this big again yes I said again! At my biggest point was a size 22 and 250ish pounds (I'm 5ft tall so thats almost 150 too much I should weigh around 100-120lbs max) and I managed to shed 100lbs in a year but since having Isaiah I have put about 50-75lbs of it back on....I hate to admit it but I'm bigger now than when I was 9months pregnant! This is not only something I want to do but I have to, I am so unhappy with myself I can't stand it...I have no energy to do anything any more all  I want to do is sleep and its the weight its stressing my body out and I'm literally  exhausted from it. I'm not looking for anything dramatic I just want to feel human again and have the energy to chase my little boy around with out feeling exhausted in 10mins! 
well I hate only being able to do short blogs but then again I have a 1yr old who has turned into a monster this last week and I can hear him getting into things so I must say good-bye! I'll try to blog from my phone tomorrow after my workout to let everyone know I'm still alive! 
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Monday, September 27, 2010

hello my name is Jamie and I have a cloth diaper addiction!

I have officially turned into a cloth diaper junkie! I want them all!!! we ordered some Happy Heinys  Thursday and we received them on Saturday!  I was so excited to try them out! And we love them!!!! The inside is soooo soft! Like butta! Blowing all my fluff allowance on those 3 diapers was soooo worth it! lol I get more fluff allowance this Friday and its way more than I was given last week so I'm excited to get a few more diapers! I'm taking suggestions! we have used Fuzzi bunz, Tiny Tush fitted, Bum Genius, and Tweedle bugs. Im thinking more fitted diapers cause I love how they fit Isaiah and they (well some) cost less than the pockets or AIOs so I can get more for my money I really want a Nifty Nappy fitted in the ogga booga print!but eeks $24 is a bit much for a fitted....but its really really cute and he could match his cousin Bethy! 
shh don't tell anyone but I secretly want another baby just so I can buy more cloth! :o well thats not the only reason but like I said I have an addiction! 
Now do you think I could convince Michael to put up a Clothes line for me?hmmmm....Oh I'm also crocheting Isaiah a pair wool soaker pants (I'll take a pic and post it when I'm done with it).
I'm actually quite surprised that Michael is on board with this whole cloth diapering thing! and and he actually is changing them! :o he even did a poopie and cleaned out the diaper even though I told him he could leave it for me! He wants to get a sprayer so he can help out more too! wow! 
So anyway I guess its official I'm a "crunchy momma" I co-slept (well hes still in our bed half the time) a baby wore and now we cloth. I always resisted the cloth but now I love it! Don't know what I was ever thinking! well I see my post is all over the place now my mind is kinda foggy the last few days and I've been super ancy latly and I dont know why so I'll end on that  note...



Thursday, September 23, 2010

Angels

So my what to expect ladies did it to me again...they made me cry! Not in a bad way but in a good...a few of them thought wouldn't it be awesome if there was a way for all of us to finally meet? Well there is only one women on earth that could do that...the all powerful Oprah! *insert angelic type music* So we all decided to write to Oprah about our "angel" heres my letter to her:


My angel is not a single person but a group of Mothers better know as my April 2008 What to Expect Mommas! I could not choose just one of these women to call my angel because they are all my angels..my best friends! These women supported my throughout my pregnancy with my son and the (almost) 2years since then. we share everything, the highs the lows the joys and sorrows we even share things normal people wouldn't even share with anyone else! These women are my sisters and I don't know where I'd be without then! Funny thing is I've never met a single one of them! I have never "met" a more amazing group of women before and probably never will! 


Of course there's such a thing as angels. Only sometimes they don't have wings... and we call them mothers. -Unknown



Thursday, September 16, 2010

Ridding the world of ignorance one idiot at a time!

Yesterday (Wednesday) I took Isaiah to have lunch with Daddy then we went and hung out at the mall til he got off....we were originally going to check out the Lego store but it was lame...so we walked around and found a fantastic indoor playground! Isaiah had so much fun and I was having a blast too until it was  time to find a bathroom to change a diaper...As many of you may already know we made the switch to cloth diapers about 3 or so months ago. Well lately I've been brave enough to go out clothing and decided yesterday we would go all cloth all day no matter what! So here we are in the bathroom cleaning up a poopie and some ignorant lady chimes in "thats disgusting!" I ignored her and continued cleaning Isaiah up and as I placed the dirty diaper in the wet bag she said "I can't believe your just going to put that in there how disgusting!" at first I was just going to ignore her and keep my mouth shut because she was just ignorant and didn't know what she was talking about, but she kept going on and on. Finally I had enough! I asked her was so soooo disgusting about changing my son's diaper? " you're going to carry a poopie diapers around with you! you should use these(a disposable) and just throw it away thats what you're suppose to do with it... you're going to smell...your house must stink!"   I then got on my soap box (tried super hard to remember all the things Jennifer had told me about disposables)... actually no you're not SUPPOSE TO THROW POOP IN THE TRASH!!! it belongs in the toilet so that it can be treated properly so it doesn't contaminate our drinking water! Are you aware of how long it takes a diaper to break down in a landfill? It is guessed it will take around 200-500 years for a diaper to decompose but you and I will never know because we will be dead and gone before even 1of them is gone! No I do not smell nor does my house! I have this bag (shoved it in her face to prove I don't stink) it keeps the moisture and smell in and I have a cotton ball with lavender oil on it in-case some smell may seep out! And at home I have a container with a lid and  a liner with oil and baking soda and i was every other day! By this time I think she was baffled and didn't know what to say.... I then admitted to her that I hadn't always used cloth diapers and that I still on occasion used a disposable because cloth diapering is hard even on good days *sings, its not easy being green*. Its a decision that I and Michael made for our family and its not always right for everyone but please keep your mouth shut if you don't know what you're talking about. I asked her to cure her ignorance (or stupidity depends on how you look at it) and google cloth diapering so that next time when she sees a mother changing her child's CLOTH DIAPER she will be well informed and could maybe say thank you to her for not contribution to the 18+ billion disposables thrown away every year! I've added a link so that you too can inform yourself about cloth! *steps off soap box* http://www.realdiaperassociation.org/diaperfacts.php

Saturday, September 11, 2010

ok here we go!

ok here we go just getting started and its already time to go be super mommy....Isaiah had to start screaming as soon as I finally picked a blog name!