Archive for December, 2008

A busy week

Vacation always seems like a good idea, but vacation and Christmas?  When you combine post-Christmas letdown with post-vacation letdown, it doubles the feeling.  I’m quite thankful that all the craziness of life and activities for the kids doesn’t start until next Monday, otherwise I may need to be committed.  We went to Traveler’s aunt and [...]

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What a weekend

This past weekend was quite full, and amazingly I didn’t feel overwhelmed about it all.  Maybe that’s because I had no work this weekend due to a massive snowstorm in Wisconsin. 
Friday I finished baking cookies.  I have never baked cookies to give away as gifts.  The kitchen is not my friend.  If I don’t have [...]

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Week of (not) Shrinking Jeans

This past week was difficult to keep eating healthy and exercising.  The exercise I accomplished, but I’m still waiting for it to start feeling like a chore and more enjoyable.  Today I will hit the treadmill, even though I slept horribly tonight and I have a long list of stuff I want to do and [...]

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My baby is 3

I can hardly believe that my littlest girl who started out like this:

now looks like this:

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One reason

One reason I miss Idaho is the exact opposite of why I missed Nevada so much.  We lived outside of Boise and compared to Northern Nevada the moutains were very sparse.  I missed them after growing up in Nevada.  Last weekend the girls and I headed back to see friends in Idaho.  Traveler had drill [...]

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Shrinking Jeans weekly update

Here’s my weekly update of my get healthier in December kick.
Since last Wednesday I have been on the treadmill twice – last Wednesday and Thursday.  I was out of town from Friday through Monday with 2 days essentially eating in the car and not very healthy foods either.  I made the yummy mistake of making [...]

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A day of pictures

I just downloaded the pictures off my camera.  I figured since we are heading for Idaho tomorrow for a long weekend, I should probably empty the camera and charge it before we leave.  I found too many cuties and wanted to share.  As all mothers know there are days where I want to string the [...]

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Shrinking Jeans

If you haven’t noticed over there on the side is a button with something about shrinking jeans.  If any of you know me IRL, you are probably thinking, that Kirsten she doesn’t need to shrink her jean size.  True, I’m not overweight, but part of the challenge of this is to get healthier.  I’ve been [...]

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