Induction Day 2

I am on day 2 of Induction.  I have had a headache most of the day....I haven't craved too many carbs....but I know it's coming.  I stayed at 20 carbs yesterday, 19 today.  2 days down, 5 to go.  I didn't exercise today, I instead was in crafty mode.  Iz and Eve no longer have curtains because they keep pulling them down, so I saw a cute idea on pinterest and I have worked most of the day on that....I will share photos once it is finished.  Eve and I also worked on hair bows. Unfortunately I can't find my clips, so we made part of the bows, now I have to go back and add clips to it once I make a run to AC Moore.

Induction

So a friend and I are going to try Atkins for a while - Today starts 14 days of hell - known as "Induction."  The name alone is bad enough.  I mean couldn't they have called it Heaven....or Vacation....or Retirement...anything but Induction.  So yesterday I kinda did carb overload to prep for 14 days with only 280 - 350 carbs total (I have one sheet that says 20 carbs a day - another that says 25).  What can I eat?  Meat, cheese, meat, low carb veggies, oh and meat.  For breakfast I had my cup of coffee with 1 tsp of sugar (instead my normal 3) and 2 eggs, cheddar cheese, and a handful of bacon.  Yeah I said it...Bacon.  If there is one good thing (ok two good things) it's the fact I can eat 2...3...4...5...heck I can eat all the bacon I want because I can. Which reminds me I need to get more bacon.  The bacon we have is maple bacon - which has carbs, so I need to get regular bacon.  I have went through this before - years ago.  Even bought the testing strips to monitor ketosis.  so I know about day 4-10 I will be in a fog...a carb hungry, mind boggling fog.  but it will clear and I will live.  :)

Word of the day....procrastination

pro·cras·ti·na·tion

 [proh-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn, pruh‐] refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time.

So I am in my last semester of school, 2 weeks in and already my favorite word has snuck back  into my vocabulary... PROCRASTINATION.

Here I sit, 5 hours and 10 minutes till my assignment is due and I instead decide to write a blog.  A blog I have neglected for the last few months, but suddenly I NEED to update.

And now here I sit - updating the blog instead of doing homework. Thinking of all the fun things I could do or say on here....like update everyone on the trips we have taken, or the holidays, or a million other things that are going on.

But now, I really will close this blog because I cannot procrastinate any longer :)

Until Next Time!

3 more sleeps...

Remember the Disney commercial where the kids can't sleep - then the adults can't sleep all because they are going to Disney World the next day...

Well this is us....except it is still 3 sleeps till Disneyland.  

Unfortunately I have a to do list that is about a mile long.  It also seems like as soon as I cross one item off the list I add 2 more to the bottom.

Thankfully the kids are packed, and hubby is packed, so it's just me and all the other non-clothing crap.

We have all our reservations made for meals.  Some of those we are trying...

Rainforest cafe

Storytellers breakfast

Goofy's dinner

Ariel's Grotto

Surf's up breakfast

Minnie's breakfast

Carthay Circle

Steakhouse 55

Cafe Orleans

Naples

Oh and at some point DH must have In-N-Out.  We have decided to take some snacks with us...pop tarts, granola bars, cold fish, animal crackers, fruit pouches, etc.  just to save one some snacks for the kids.

I am really going to try and update this blog as our trip progresses so that way I won't have to try and do it after (yeah I still don't have our trip from Feb up and going - lol)

Well, it's time to get to sleep so I will only have 2 sleeps left!

It all starts with a wish....

Have you ever wished you could win a free vacation?

Well, I won a trip to Disneyland.  Well ACTUALLY I won a trip to my choice...Disney World or Disneyland.  Cool eh?

Upon talking to some people they were amazed that I wouldn't choose WDW.  Well the truth is uhm I won the trip in January, and we already had a 8 night trip planned in Feb....so we decided to mix it up a bit.

One thing you much know - everyone thinks a free vacation is awesome, so let me assure you it is TOTALLY awesome (SQUEE)  there are a few drawbacks....

• If you are a larger family you must pay for them out of pocket (555 for one ticket for DH to fly as our 5th...and thankfully our 5th was Eve and she is 2 so parks, room, food at buffets....well she still gets for free)
• Other expenses...ie kennel for our dogs, money to vaccinate said dogs because their kennel cough vaccine runs out 2 weeks before our trip, money to extend our trip by a few days (figured why not since we are already there), parking at the airport.
• Taxes on the trip....hopefully it isn't that bad....hopefully...lol (I will update you)

So we have everything - our travel vouchers for the bus to take us from the airport to Disneyland and back, dogs have their boarding reservations, pins for trading have been bought, stroller tires are aired up (still on the fence as to take it or not).  But we are no where ready to actually go yet....

I have a small packing list...well 4 pages so far 

• one for meds (which I had to buy pill versions of for the flight - I figure we would use it anyway at some point either her or there so I might as well get some just in case) 
• one for stuff in the carry on
• one for clothes
• one of things I still need to buy

On top of all of this I am knee deep in my semester of grad school and I have homework due tonight, so that's it from me tonight - see ya tomorrow :)

Rainy day #2

It is the second day of summer vacation for the kids, and it is the second rainy day.  If it continues in this fashion it will surely be a long summer :|

We visited the county library yesterday.  The kids got their very own library cards and checked out their first books and a DVD each.

They also signed up for the summer reading program.  If they read 5 books they get a door hanger, 10 books and they get a book bag, and with 15 books they get a medal, a certificate and a t-shirt.   They also want to sign up for the reading program on base - so it looks like we will head there on Friday and sign up for it.  I LOVE that I have kids that want to read all the time!

Burned

So in order to make my life less relaxed we signed the 3 kids up for swimming lessons.  Thankfully the older two are in the same class, but the little one is of course not.  She gets to go spend some baby/daddy time and do a toddler/parent class.

I looked at the schedule beforehand and was excited that the older 2 would have lessons at 10:30 and then she would follow at 11, but no, her classes instead are at 9am.

So since I had heard that there was usually a line to sign up we decided instead of showing up at noon to instead go at 11 and buy our family pass and swim until sign ups started.

We get there at 11:20 and of course there already is a long line.  Thankfully the kids behaved and played in the shade till we got signed up. Then we went and swam.

I am usually very preventative of sunburns.  The kids had on SPF shirts, I slathered them with sunscreen before we left, and I slathered myself too.  Unfortunately I missed a good portion of my back and I forgot to have hubs help me.  My face arms and chest (well except a quarter size blotch that I missed) are fine - however my back is quite lobster-ish....I am hoping it quickly turns and doesn't last long because iti s hard for me to reach it and neither of my kids are very good at spreading aloe yet.  I am thinking I might be able to thin it down with some water and use one of my spray bottles to spray it on.

Either way, I am very excited about this summer and the pool.  We have a small backyard pool to use everyday, but since it is just barely 2 feet deep it is hard to swim much in it.  We never used the base pool back in NC.  It was a 20 minute drive to base and we just never got around to doing it.

Now it is just around the corner (well 2-3 miles away)

I have so much planned for this summer and I can't wait to share it with the kids (and you!)