Wonderful Monday!!

Today was a great start to the week! 

My baby boy is getting so big, he actually handed me his passifier when we pulled into the daycare and I didn't even have to ask him! I can't believe this time 2 years ago I was just about to go to the dr for the first time  and just started to tell people I was pregnant and now he is walking, talking, throwing fits, and soooo big!!! 

I started my weight loss progress today! I am not calling it a diet because I am not dieting... I am making a vow to go to the gym at least 4 times a week and hopefully 5... I am also going to start trying to make healthier meals for dinner, this will get easier in the next few weeks as the boyfriend leaves for football and it's just me and Jayden and well let's face it, he doesn't really get a say in what we have for dinner!!!  haha!! I also got some laundry done all before work today! 

Tomorrow I have to go into work at 8 instead of 12, I am okay with it because I want the hours to make up for the day I missed last week when I stayed home with Jayden, but I am a little nervous because it's preschool age kids and while they are all sweet, I am "not:" their normal teacher so they don't exactly listen to me that well!!! 

I am also looking forward to this weekend, I think I am going to take a road trip to Arkansas to see my best friend.  I am super excited because unless I am with her or my sister I don't really hang out with anyone and it's been since my sister left after Christmas that I have hung out with anyone other than my mom! 

I hope everyone else had a good Monday and has a great weekend!!!

All over the place!!!

Wow this week has gone by fast! I can't believe it's already Thursday!

Sooo my apartment is down the street from an Elementary school and every time I pass it I look at that school with eyes of hopes and dreams! I am so ready to get my own classroom and be getting a full time job! I am every ready to be absolutely exhausted at night because I got up super early and worked all day! I would much rather being tired at night from doing something all day than being tired at night for no reason!!!

Lately I have been thinking about a lot of things in my life and I have figured out a lot of things that I want to make different but just don't know where to start!!! I always have all these plans but never get around to doing them or if I do start them they never get finished before I loose motivation! I need so much motivation but just don't see the point sometimes!!!

I need help, I need a friend, I need motivation!!!!

Oh and sorry this post is so all over the place!!!!

Change of plans!!!

So I had every intention to do the full on juice fast for the 15 days! I got up yesterday morning and made my first juice (the Green Juice).  It was awful... not the awful that made me gag the first sip I took but the awful that I had to stand at the kitchen sink and hold my nose as I took huge gulps in hopes of it all going down and staying down! I did end up getting it down and keeping it down.

After that juice I had to take Jayden to the Dr.  to find out that he had strep and wasn't able to go to day care for 48 hours because he was contagious!!! So I had to miss work yesterday... this did allow me to take a great nap with him which we haven't done in A LONG time... but this caused me to miss my lunch time juice!!! 

By dinner time I felt like complete poop! I mean I literally was in the bathroom and felt like I would die! I had the worst headache and all I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and go to sleep! It was at that point that I decided I am not sure this juice fasting is for me! I need something that will help me but that's not it! I feel bad because I just had to have that juicer which my parents bought for me but I am hoping that now I can just make juices for Jayden!! :) 

I still have hopes to try something to loose some of this weight I just don't know what, anyone have any ideas out there feel free to let me know!!!! I just need someone here to motivate me to go to the gym everyday! Eating won't be that challenging because soon it will just be Jayden and me since Vod will be going to Iowa for football I will be able to eat what I need to so that we are gonna be healthy!!! 

I just can't seem to get myself together lately!!! And I have been having some super strange thoughts/dreams with a lot of stuff from the past in them!!! I looked into dream interpretations, dreaming about the past means that there are similar things happening orrrrr that things from the past are unresolved and being missed!!! I could agree with both of these analysis'!!!! 

I just don't know what to do to get my head back on straight and my life back in order, but something has to give and ASAP!!!!!

Tomorrow's the day!!!

Great weekend and tomorrow is the day!!!! 

Despite my mom (the person I am always with on the weekends) being out of town this weekend for a funneral, I had a great weekend! I didn't do a lot of what I had planned do to other plans coming up but oh well!!! There is always another day!!! 

I planned to do a lot of cleaning and hanging out in my pj's buttttt I ended up not doing so much of that!! :)

Instead I went to the casino with my aunt to play BINGO all day on Saturday... we didn't win but we had fun and more of a chance to win if we were there playing than if we were sitting at home! Then today Jayden and I went to IHOP for breakfast with my dad. After breakfast we went to every store we could think of that might sell juicers so that I could find one I liked and that would be my birthday present! Low and behold I got one...  

It's a Breville and I am so excited to get to use it in the morning! After getting my juicer, along with some pretty sweet cups (these my dad liked to call "$100 cups" because they are Tervis cups that if you know anything about them are pretty pricey, $14.99 each but sooooo worth it) I went to probably my new favorite grocery store, Sprouts!!! I have never been in there but they have every type of fruit and veggie you could ever want or think of... except of coarse one that I went to get and that is sooooo very common, cucumbers!!! I had to get organic, which is fine just more pricey!!! I had a list though and went in, got what I needed, checked out and was out of the parking lot in less than an hour, with a baby in tow!!! I was pretty proud of myself, not to mention look at everything I got!!!! 

All that fruit and veggies for $39.89. I was sooo surprised!!! It's awesome!!! 

After all of that I got to just sit at home with my little man and try to make him feel better!!! I am super excited to get started with my juice fast tomorrow! I am setting my mind to the 60 days but I am definately going to do the 15 days!!! I am not sure what recipe I am going to try first but I am going to document all the progress... :) Wish me luck... it's gonna be a rough week with all the "withdraws" and dealing with 5 babies at work and 1 at home!!

Gonna try to get a little more information before I go to bed and try to get a good nights sleep before I begin this new chapter of a healthier, happier, and hopefully lighter life!!!

Wanted: MOTIVATION

So yesterday was my 24th birthday... felt like another day! I went to work and had a family dinner that was about it! Oh and I paid bills!!! :) that's always a blast!!!

But this post is a cry for help!!! I need help getting motivated to do anything at all but mostly to start getting healthy! I need to find ways to get motivated to workout using the membership at a local gym that I already pay for every month! I need motivation to start finding the time to cook more healthy dinners on a regular basis, this is for me and my baby boy, I want him to be eating healthy not always going through the drive thru for fast food.  I need motivation to relax! And I really need motivation to be productive with my free time! 

I am only 24 and feel like I am 70! My mom stays up later than I do and the worst part is I don't even go into work until noon everyday so I go to bed at 10 pm wake up to get Jayden ready and take him to daycare (I didn't want to break his routine) at 8 and then come back home and do nothing until I go into work at 12!! This is just crazy to do nothing for 4 free hours!!!!

Please any suggestions on how you all get and stay motivated I would love!!! Please please please!!!!

Oh I also need to get motivated on figuring out what I want to get my master's degree in so I can start that process before it is too late to start this summer!!! 

Man I am really in some need of help!!!

Oh the wonders of being baby-free...

This weekend was great... my little man went to his other grandparents house in Oklahoma on Thursday so I was baby free from Thursday morning until about 9:15 tonight... Don't get me wrong I missed the little man but it was sure nice to be able to get some things done without having someone trying to help but really just being in the way! 

I actually got to feel like a 24 year old this weekend again because I didn't have to worry about being a mommy! Everyone needs this luxury once in a while!!! 

On my list of things I have now completed:

I organized my bathroom

I organized my pantry

I organized my laundry room

I recruited my mom to organize my teaching supplies (since I don't have a classroom yet I have a large amount of teaching goodies that I have started to collect and they are just over flowing!!!) 

Pictures of these things to come but I have had to wait for my battery to charge, although since it was dead and I got impatient I didn't get to take before pictures of all the spaces I organized so you'll just have to enjoy the after effects!!!

All of these things were on my list of things I wanted to do so it was a very productive weekend... plus I got all but one load of laundry finished, I swept and mopped my kitchen floor, I did a little shopping, I got a mani/pedi with my mom, I saw a movie, I went to bingo, and I went grocery shopping!!! 

Overall I would say I had a much needed and well taken advantage of baby free weekend!! It sure was nice to hold him until he fell asleep tonight though!!!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend and has a very good week that hopefully flies by!!!!

Today's the day... Operation Organization!!!!

Today I have started my organizing challenge to myself!!! I have finally sat down and decided what I wanted to organize in my apartment, which of coarse as I get going I am sure this list will grow!!!  I am limited on funds and productive work time on these projects so I am hoping to start with the first task this weekend and see how far I can make it through my list.

Oh yea, you probably wanna see my list... Welp, here goes, caution is advised it's rather long!!!!

Pantry
Laundry Room
Under the bathroom sink
Kitchen cabinets
Dressers
Crafting supplies
Teaching supplies (these are things I have started collecting for my future classroom!)
Dest drawers
Night stand drawers
Jayden's closet
Jayden's toys
Closet
Front coat closet
Bills
Coupons
Home management binder

As I said this is a long list that will probably continue to grow because I am ready to get my life organized.  However, this list will not be completed in any particular order and I hope to have it done in at least 20 weeks.  That's 16 areas to organize in 20 weeks (for now anyway)!!! I am fairly positive I can complete this challenge I am presenting myself with!!!

Wish me luck!!! I will be posting before and after pictures as I complete areas of total organization! (I am super excited to get started)

Another weekend gone....

Well, another weekend has come and gone and all too quickly! 

I had a pretty lazy weekend which was nice at the time but now that I look back I think of everything I should have or could have been doing!!! Oh well!

What I did do was go to a storage unit that my aunt and uncle bought in an auction and got this really cool old dresser that has no drawers that I am going to redo and turn into a shelving unit thanks to this pinterest post....

I also did get my Christmas decor put away finally and my apartment cleaned somewhat.  Somewhat because I got bored with cleaning and didn't finish everything I had set out to accomplish.  I was also very sore from the power yoga session I decided to do Friday morning at the gym.  I loved it but man it was a beast of a class!!! 

Today I mostly did nothing but hang out at my parents house and watch the marathon of the tv show Dance Moms on Lifetime, man oh man I truly hope I never have a girl that gets into things like that and I end up like those moms! 

Now it's off to bed so that I can wake up and start my week off!!! Looking forward to Tuesday, PAYDAY!!!!

No Resolutions...

Hello all!!! It's been a while since I have blogged... I have been consumed with family time and holiday spirit.  

I am struggling to get motivated for somethings this year already... I have yet to take down my Christmas decor because I refuse to let it all get jumbled and messy, I am looking for the best way to organize and store it all! 

This year I have decided not to make resolutions because usually (sad to say) I don't follow through with them... but I thought I would make a list of things I want to try to do... 

So here is my list:

Work out 5 days a week

Read more 

Get SUPER organized

Potty train Jayden

Get rid of the passy

Get Jayden into a big boy bed

Find a teaching job

Find my first rent HOUSE (done with apartment life)

Blog at least 2 times a week

Work on myself

Find a new and great church family to become a part of

That's all now but I'm sure as the year goes there will be things crossed off and added to "the list".

It's a good start to the new year and I hope all of you have a great one too!! :)