What better day to do some labor? Or, not labor so much as fun exercise. I’m kicking the week off right with a Jazzercise class at 8 a.m. on Labor Day, then following up with a week of daily exercise.
I’m getting in the groove (forcing myself into it!) and hoping to have a week of […]

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I didn’t make my goal of staying under $100, but I came very close. I shaved $25 off our typical weekly grocery budget and it wasn’t too hard. Shaving another $25 would be tough, but I’m still going to continue giving it a try.
Here’s what I did right:
–I stuck to my meal plan for the […]

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I’ve been tossing around a breakfast idea in my head for a few days and decided to try it out on the kids. It’s certainly not an original recipe ( I can hardly cook, let alone create a recipe) but it’s an amalgam of several recipes I’ve seen this month. I’d cite the recipes as […]

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I took the kids to family night at Chickfila last night because we had a coupon, and kids ate free, got a free Veggie Tales poster and signed up for free videos. ( It was super cheap and I paid with change, so it fit right into my new budget. So there. )
While we were […]

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Don’t make anymore cookies. No more. Be honest. They aren’t for the kids, they are for you! And by the way, get off your butt and go to the Y.
(I’m working out tomorrow. Who’s with me? Time to get moving!)

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I sat down and worked on our family budget today and made a serious cut in our grocery budget. Serious cut. I usually budget approximately $150 a week for our family, and we end up with a lot of waste. We go out to eat too often and don’t use our leftovers well by making […]

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I made it through my oral surgery with little trouble, thanks to laughing gas and an IV of sleepy meds. Now, it’s soft foods for a few days until I’m back to normal. Already this morning I feel like a new person. I’m hoping by Sunday I’ll be totally back to normal, minus one baby […]

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It doesn’t take much to throw me off my weightloss/working out train. This week it was a tooth ache. Next week, it will be something equally dumb like the first day of school.
But I don’t feel like being Debbie Downer today so I’m going to rally and try to remember some of my week’s successes. […]

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I have a giant toothache and can’t have the problem solved until Thursday. And in my sick, twisted mind I thought “Hey, at least I’ll probably lose some weight because I can’t chew!”
Nope, I can still eat mashed potatoes, and the husband makes the best mashed potatoes with butter, salt and cheese. No insta-weight loss […]

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Check out this slideshow of Olympians. It takes note of their different builds and how each one is particularly suited for his or her event. Katherine remarked on the female weight lifter, “She’s so strong I bet she could lift a whole piano!”
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