Bellaryna's Journey

hickgurltx said:
Hi ya beautiful Bell. ;)

Wow OooO Wow! 3 hrs.

That's fantastic!

Awwww... Turning the big 5 huh? :grouphug:

I hope the party goes well!!
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Hey Stac!
It sure is nice to have you back. I just missed ya so dang much! Once or twice I thought you was back because I saw your name next to the BL thread. Then I would be like "Duh!" LOL She started it so that is why her name is next to it.
Then of course I would be disappointed. :(
But not anymore!!!! Yeah!!!
I have gotten much better with the exercise. Unfortuanately the weather around here has taken its toll on my motivation and willpower to get to it everyday. Even today I don't "feel" motivated.
It is funny that when my dd turned 5 I was so excited for her. 'Cuz it meant she was growing up. With ds I don't want him to grow up as he is the last one. And I am not ready to not be needed so much. Even though he is the sweetest thing in that he apologizes to me all the time 'cuz "he can't help that he is growing up". But he does promise to love me forever and that he will never leave. At least until he goes to college! LOL
 
My weight was up today. :(
It doesn't surprise me. Unlike last week where I had a few days ahead of the weigh-in day running low I had none of those this week.
It has been a bit stressful around here for me this week and I am sure that my "gain" has something to do with it. I am hoping that the gain is just water and not a true gain.
Like I said the stress was pretty high.
Between my dd having a pretty rough week here at home as well as school, dh and I also revamped the budget. :ack2:
Which is funny to say as we never had a budget before! LOL Hence the need for one. How we made it this long with out one I don't know. :confused:
But of course there was lots of things that had to come out :)angelsad2: soul cleansing admittances on my part :angelsad2:) that made for a stressful few days. Especially when you go to the mailbox and there is a "stress" just sitting there waiting to be opened up.
But with this new system, and for the record we are doing this together as a team, it will be all corrected by summer. In the mean time that means that every penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar has a place to go. Except we will each have a small amount ($10) to do as we wish every week. Until summer that is. Once everything is back on track that amount should go up. And I can always save mine up to do what I want it.
So the budget was the major stress of my week. :eek:
Add into that my baby boy turning 5 and I was a hormonal wreck this week. :smilielol5:
I am happy that he is growing up. And he will be such a good man when he gets there if he holds to the current trend. But I am not ready to admit that I am having no more and that he is it.
He is no longer a baby even though I want to love him that way.
The book by Robert Munsch called I'll Love you Forever puts my feelings to paper beautifully.
In fact I have taken the main part of that book and turned it into a song that I sing to my kids everynight before they go to bed.
I know I am a sap.
But I would have it no other way.
I don't forsee any stresses for next week so hopefully will show a lose on the scale. :smash:

I took Saturday as a vacation day to take Sweetiepea aka Sweatpea, out for her birthday. Unfortunately another good friend of mine, her mate of 12 years passed away on Tuesday. The funeral is tomorrow. The day I wanted to celebrate with Sweetiepea. We will still celebrate but not to the degree that I had planned.
At least I am blessed enough that I will be able to attend the funeral with my friend. At this time she needs all the support that she can get.
I hope that everyone is enjoying their Fridays and that your weekends go well.
 
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Love you Forever by Robert Munsch

I referenced this book in my last post and is one of my all time favorites to read to my kids. If your prone to crying get your kleenexs out now. :Angel_anim:
Enjoy


Love You Forever

by Robert Munsch

A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she held him, she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves. He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet. Sometimes his mother would say, "this kid is driving me CRAZY!"

But at night time, when that two-year-old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed; and if he was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

The little boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was nine years old. And he never wanted to come in for dinner, he never wanted to take a bath, and when grandma visited he always said bad words. Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo!

But at night time, when he was asleep, the mother quietly opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep, she picked up that nine-year-old boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

The boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends and he wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music. Sometimes the mother felt like she was in a zoo!

But at night time, when that teenager was asleep, the mother opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep she picked up that great big boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

That teenager grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man. He left home and got a house across town. But sometimes on dark nights the mother got into her car and drove across town. If all the lights in her son's house were out, she opened his bedroom window, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of his bed. If that great big man was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

Well, that mother, she got older. She got older and older and older. One day she called up her son and said, "You'd better come see me because I'm very old and sick." So her son came to see her. When he came in the door she tried to sing the song. She sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always...

But she couldn't finish because she was too old and sick. The son went to his mother. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And he sang this song:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my Mommy you'll be.

When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs. Then he went into the room where his very new baby daughter was sleeping. He picked her up in his arms and very slowly rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while he rocked her he sang:

I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

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Hey Bell-

Can't have a loss every week, right? Life would be too boring:smilielol5:. Seriously, you have some idea as to why, and even when we try our best, the scale often dosnt reflect our efforts. In either case, don't dwell on it- just keep on a truckin!

 
yarmiah said:
Hey Bell-

Can't have a loss every week, right? Life would be too boring:smilielol5:. Seriously, you have some idea as to why, and even when we try our best, the scale often dosnt reflect our efforts. In either case, don't dwell on it- just keep on a truckin!
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:nopity: Why not!!! *In my best whiny voice, jumping up and down!!!* LOL
Ya at least I can figure it out pretty much but I really wanted to do well this week. Especially since I was pushing it pretty hard at the gym. Heck I even walked there one day. That added in about an hour and 20 minutes of exercise.
Oh well.
I am sure too that having a b-day celebration the night before weigh-in didn't help! LOL :smilielol5:
There's always next week.
That is if my team doesn't get eliminated! YIKES :ack2:
 
Hey Bell!

I can't believe you typed out that whole book! That took a lot of effort. I've read it many times.

I think you would also like a book called, I love you the Purplest. It's about kids and they ask their mom who she loves the best. My SIL got it for us/the boys one year.

See you tomorrow!
 
Hey GF! Thanks for the day out. It really was a beautiful day and to have such a beautiful friend as you reminds me how blessed I am.

Hopefully we won't have gained 10,000,000 pounds by tomorrow. :D

Oh and thanks for the purse, it's lovely! :p
 
SweatPea said:
Hey GF! Thanks for the day out. It really was a beautiful day and to have such a beautiful friend as you reminds me how blessed I am.

Hopefully we won't have gained 10,000,000 pounds by tomorrow. :D

Oh and thanks for the purse, it's lovely! :p
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Awww Shucks! :blush5:
I just wanted you to have a GREAT DAY!
And just remember I got 1/2 ownership of that purse so take care of it! LOL
:smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:
And you know I think your the bestest friend ever!
"We're like peas and carrots!"
 
Bellaryna said:
Awww Shucks! :blush5:
I just wanted you to have a GREAT DAY!
And just remember I got 1/2 ownership of that purse so take care of it! LOL
:smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:
And you know I think your the bestest friend ever!
"We're like peas and carrots!"
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I was thinking more like ice cream and cake...LOL!
 
I love having days off from work! Ye-Haw!!!
Of course part of this day off was not a happy thing. I attended a funeral to help support a friend who lost her boyfriend of 12 years. It was a quite sudden thing for her and as her and Charlie never got married I was worried that she would be left out of the whole proceedings. Well she wasn't left out completely but she wasn't given the due that she should have. I guess since they weren't married the family didn't feel she really had a place.
After I got back home from that I went outside and played T-Ball with my youngest who got a T-Ball set for his B-day. Everyone in the family was outside doing something. Dh was washing the car, oldest ds was skateboarding, dd was riding her bike up and down the street and of course youngest and myself were playing ball. Finally SPRING is HERE!!!
Sweetiepea showed up shortly after and we headed off for her b-day celebration. I took her to this really good Chocolate place. Now don't get it into your mind that this is just your ordinary run of the mill store. This place makes the best, and I mean the BEST, chocolate. In fact they were commisioned to make the chocolate coins that Donald Trump had showcased in one of his buildings for The Apprentice. We had sundaes. Yummy Chocolate Sundaes!!!
Then we went and walked all around the local outdoor mall. Logging in 45 minutes of walk time. We did more window shopping than anything else. After that we went to have Mexican. It was by far the best Mexican that I have ever had.
It was a really nice time. And she is my bestest friend and definately deserved to have the best celebration!
 
Oh that does seem like a most excellent way to spend a Birthday, and probably the same places me and my girlfriends would go. I'm a Mexican food lover!! OH YEAH! And you really can eat good there if you try, so I'm sure you did well. I'll have to run by her diary and wish her a HAPPY B-DAY. The weather here today was gorgeous too, I enjoyed leaving my sliding glass door and windows open all afternoon, it just makes things so much better! I think your a wonderful mom for spending time outdoors with the kids and having fun! I miss those days myself, as I spent a TON of time outside with my little guys, it is something I'll never forget!! Well, I hope you have a great rest of your weekend!! Enjoy the sunshine!
Hugs
Kim
 
Hi Dawn

Dont stress about the weight gain. It is probably mainly sodium and I am sure that things will be fine weightwise after a few days of exercising and eating wisely. An absence of birthday parties always helps.

I am pleased that you had a great time out with Sweatpea and it is great that you both have such good friends nearby for celebrating things like birthdays.

I am sure that your other friend appreciated your support for the funeral too. It is sad that sometimes people think a relationship does not count if there is no ring on the finger. It is the caring that matters more than the piece of paper.

Neither birthdays or funerals are well known for being conducive for weightloss so dont worry if your weight does not go down for a day or two. We have right until Friday before it makes a difference to the challenge - although I know that you want to see some drop sooner for personal reasons (we all want to see an immediate drop!)

That is a lovely childrens story that you posted - I got tears in my eyes (but everyone knows that I am a big softie...).

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Glad you guys had a good time!

It's nice to have a day off . . a real day off as oppossed to a day off of work that turns into a day OF work at home! Glad you made the most of yours!

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Thanks Kim, Margaret, Brandy and Yarmiah for stopping by!!!!
This has been a pretty good "work" weekend. I actually got out of work tonight at 10:30pm!!!!
That rarely if ever happens. Especially now that I am doing a new job at work that requires me to be one of the last people there.
When I weighed myself this morning I was not shocked to see 193 staring back at my face.
With all the celebrating that Sweetiepea and I did I expected it to be up a bit. I think that most of it is most likely due to the sodium in the Mexican food. That and all the chips I ate!!!!
I could have chosen to eat better but figured that it is a rare thing to just eat and enjoy. So that is what I did.
I know that the numbers will come back down so I am not stressing about them at all.
As an added bonus to my budget and my exercise plan, next week that is, I am going to be picking up some hours at work on Friday.
I am going to go in about 4 1/2 hours early and orderfill.
That is the job that I use to do before. The one that was so physically demanding that I basically wore myself out doing it for 2 years.
I figure since I will be doing a physically active job that I haven't done in about a year I can count it towards my exercise.
And let me tell you it will be every bit physical. Some of those boxes can weigh up to 60 pounds. Most of the ones I would be lifting won't be that much but everything is timed so you have to hustle around pretty fast. I am planning on wearing my heart rate moniter just to see how much of a work out I get.
This should be a decent week here at home as far as how busy I will be. I don't have any of the preschool swims anymore they were all finished up last Thursday. So I only have to swim on Monday and Wednesday.
Dh and I are planning to get the garage all sorted out on Tuesday. It has gotten pretty bad over the winter. There is barely room now for the car!!! LOL
It happens like that every year. We just end up throwing everything into the garage 'cuz we are too lazy to put it all away proper when it is so cold out.
Thursday we are going to try and do our fishing trip that got cancelled last week. The weather just wouldn't cooperate. It was rainy and cold. And to top it off the river was running so high and fast that it would have been to dangerous.
Well that is pretty much what has been going on and what will be going on around here.
I hope that everyone had a GREAT weekend and also has a great start to their week.
 
Well the weather here this morning was absolutely GORGEOUS!!!
Unfortuanately the walk that I wanted to take to get to the YMCA did not happen as I had too much on my plate again! LOL
Needed to be to the Y by 8:45 for the 3rd grade swim and then needed to wait until T-Dawg got done with his class. And shortly after all that I had to grocery shop. So to conserve time I needed to take the car.
I am hoping to find some time still today to enjoy this beautiful weather that we are having.
Especially as it is suppose to rain tomorrow. Or at least there is a chance of it.
Weighed-in this morning at 191.4lbs. That is down about 2 pounds from yesterday. I hope that it will just keep coming right off so that by the time Thur/Fri weigh-in rolls around I will be able to show a loss from the week prior.
I have my PowerCore class tonight. I am really looking forward to that. My back has been feeling a bit touchy lately. I think it is due to NOT being in class. Since I am not stretching like I was before I think it is just tight. So hopefully it will be feeling better after class.
Well I need to go pick up my kids from school and then run them to the doctor's office. So I guess I better get going.
Hope everyone is having a fabulous Monday.
 
Hey! Send some of that weather THIS way! It's so chilly, wet and dreary here in MD.

I was having trouble with my back a while ago, and I too think it was lack of stretching. I'm sure once you get that under control, your back will start feeling better!
 
I hope you get to go fishing on Thursday still. I hope the weather won't be that bad. And good weight loss!!! The pounds are melting away for ya!
 
2 lbs - Super Great! :hurray:

Way ta go hon. :grouphug:

Thanks for checking in on me.
Thursday/Friday was just horrible..lol

Have A Great Tuesday. :waving:
 
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