New school new beginning

This year, just as we have in previous years, we put our names in the bucket for the arts infused magnet school.  We thought surely with 3 kids we would stand a better chance of getting a slot.  Not only that we had a kindergartener. 

We waited till lottery day

And no dice.

So we were OK with the decision and geared up for another year at the bigs school and starting E at the primary school.

I should be clear.  They have received a great education at the schools they have attended.  They are smart, have friends, get great grades and love going back every day so they are doing something right.

A weeks before school started I got a call.  Your child has been selected for a lottery spot this am.  Which child?  A.  My super bright aspie.  ACK.  The one who I knew would excell, but might be the most reluctant to switch schools.

So we loaded up the car and went to check the school out.  He was mesmerized....ceramics...steel drums...news crew...  So I let him make the decision.

He chose to go.  Yay!  But this then meant I would have 3 kids in 3 different schools, and A's new school doesn't run busses...so I would have to drop off/pick them up every day.

Then the Friday before school started at 4pm we got a call that E got in too.  She was apprehensive because she had already met her teacher and some of her classmates, but in the end she too decided to go to the new school.

So last week was their first week.  And they have had a great week.  I didn't get a slot, but she did get into the gifted class and she is really excited about that.

I am excited and hopeful for the new school year, fingers crossed the year goes by without a hitch!

One

Today was the first day of the year.  Last night the kids stayed up til midnight and rang in the new year by playing wii and having a great time.

Today the reality of staying up so late was unbearable and the kids were in bed asleep by 6:30.

I guess it's good though.  The second half of school starts back on Monday and it takes a few days for the kids to get back on track.

Hubs works tomorrow so me and the kids will probably work on laundry and maybe watch movie or two. 

I need to make out our meal plan for the next 2 weeks.  We have some things coming up so we need to budget tightly the next few paychecks.  

One of our goals for the year is to pay down on debt we owe.   In fact it's of high priority.  It will be nice to be free of it all buy it will take a lot of hard work.

End of the road 2014

I really neglected the blog this last year.  Not one single post in 2014.   I thought about it more times than I can count but I never felt I had a while lot to say or that what I did have to say I really didn't want a while lot of people to read.   I decided to start it back up.   I guess to be more of documentation for me than foe the readers at large.  

2014 brought several surprises and disappointments.  I had my first nephew born.  I found out we were expecting #4.  Subsequently we found out we had lost #4.  Eve started her last year of preschool. Andrew was diagnosed with ASD/ADHD.  Isabel made her school chorus. Mike works just as much....sometimes more.  We went to arkansas.  To disneyworld. And camping for spring break (it was super cold).

We laughed a lot. Loved a lot. Lost a lot.  Cried a lot.

We are thankful for what we have.   But are not too content in where we are to give up on things that may seem out of reach.

Moving on

So it's been a while since I have blogged.  But I am back.  I have decided to move all the fitness/weight loss stuff onto another blog and use this one for rants, brags, and reviews....and for just about anything else I see fit.  This is a busy week for us - Holidays, parties, early release days, dr appts, dentist appts.....for some reason trying to cram it all in one week.  Yeah what was I thinking!.

I have added a little banner to the right of the page because I became an influenster recently.  I have several reviews to do because I got my first box which was the MamaVoxBox.  However I have been chosen to get the Violetvoxbox so I am excited to see what I get in it next! So stay tuned!

Day 3 and 4

Everything seems to be going great.  Interestingly the craving aren't too bad this time around.  I haven't been had a cup of coffee yet - mostly because it has been spring break and the kids and I have slept till after 9am most of the time.   Next week when the kids are back in school I plan to kick up some dust on the treadmill, but this week proved too difficult because every time I tried I got thwarted by someone needing me for some sort of "emergency" or another.  Tonight (if the kids have their rooms clean) we promised them we'd do s'mores and hot dogs on the fire. I kinda doubt this is going to go down - mainly because of the stateof their room last night as they went to bed, but if it does I will allow myself one s'more :)

DAY 2 - welcome back spinach

Spinach - I protested eating it for years - now I love it, especially cheesy spinach.  Today was good, I woke up late so I just had a light snack for breakfast.  Followed by a turkey wrap for lunch (low carb tortillas) and then a bun-less hamburger patty with cheesy spinach for dinner.

So this was day 3 of the kids spring break.  Yesterday we loaded up their bikes and took them to the park/walking track and walked/biked once around.  Today we took the kids to play their first game of putt putt golf then for ice cream.  Tomorrow we were supposed to go to the Aquarium, but since the weather is supposed to be rainy, so we may make it a day of movies and stay curled up on the couch.

Day one of Round 2

I came so close to making my goal last month - but failed.  I took it out on my Easter feast and ate creamy mac and cheese, potatoes, and cheesecake.  Today I started round 2 up 6lbs from where I ended round 1.  So I am starting back on the Atkins Induction today.  Another girl in our group lost quite a bit on the low glycemic diet, so I am debating on after my 2 week induction to go into the low GI diet.  I need to first read a bit more, so I plan to buy a book here in the next day or two to see if it is right for me.  I know from my guide to PCOS that both the low GI and Atkins diet are both recommended for PCOS so I might switch - but who knows!