Spin Class

Coffee Time

Posted by CourtenayMomma on June 20, 2009 3 Comments

coffee

In our house coffee is not so much a favorite past time, but an important part of a complete breakfast. Most people don’t have more than one coffee maker, but like many things in our life MK and I are unable to share coffee makers. Two Computers, Two cars, Two toothbrushes(whew), Two coffee makers. This one is practical given that I’m drinking decaf for Avery’s sake. I had caffinated coffee yesterday because I couldn’t breastfeed Aves. It was like being ALIVE! I can see how someone could quit smoking and start again. I didn’t drink coffee almost at all since last September. Several of those months were due to copious amounts of pukage and an extreme dislike for food at all. I’m not saying I’m an addict, but the first step is denial right?

Day 2 of fighting Thrush with all our superpowers combined. 24 hours of letting my body recover and 32 ounces of pumped milk down the drain *tear* and we are back on track. Avery isn’t nursing as well as before, but clearly her mouth still hurts. We’ll get there. I have more determination than I had before. I’m even going to try to be one of those Mom’s who can nurse in a sling. Maybe not grocery shopping, but capable for an emergency long lineup at Save-on.

I’ve been thinking alot about healthy eating again. It’s been really hard to eat much of anything healthy for the last little while. My life is starting to calm down and I’m looking forward to eating real food again. So my goal is to consume the rest of the junk in our house and not bring any other junk home. I think it will be pretty hard since my sister started working at DQ again and cheap blizzards make me happy. I want to get going back to my GYM whenever I feel I am up to spin class again. I’m trying to get out walking whenever I can, but this weeks rain put us behind on that one.

Apparently, I’m a bit of a bad influence when it comes to junk food(so I’ve been told). So from now on, I’m going to try and be the good influence. The influence that doesn’t feel guilty giving her child 2 m&m’s, but eats the whole BIG bag herself. The influence that doesn’t put flax seed on her daughters cereal while eating cinnamon toast crunch or pizza for breakfast. The influence that doesn’t like to buy organic fresh veggies, but forgets to cook them till they are yucky.

I know dieting while nursing is a bad idea, but having a healthy diet while nursing is a GOOD idea. So that’s the new plan. I think the truck that drove through the front door of Husky was a sign to avoid going there for screamers. Maybe if they had have just stole the slushie machines this wouldn’t have been a problem!

So I think I’ll go have some All-bran buds on Yogurt and a nectarine for breakfast. Breakfast that has already passed by…haha

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Hi Mom

Posted by CourtenayMomma on July 9, 2008 5 Comments

I really need to work at kicking my own butt. I skipped my spin class today, again. I missed Monday too. I shouldn’t because I still pay if I don’t go and because I know its good for me. Summer is just so hard to keep on track with exercising and eating healthy. That and ICE CREAM. brutal I know. Why does ice cream belong in summer. or in my freezer. Mmm Cotton Candy Oreo Blizzards! Thanks Roxy! I sometimes wish I had someone like Emily has to be in charge. So even when I whine they could say “I’m sorry sweetie, that’s not good for you” “You need to eat your vegetables” Do you want an apple for dessert!?!!!YAY!” I think I’d do a lot better with that. I think I need a personal Salad Chef. I like salads, but I usually keep myself to busy to make them. I did have a leaf of my butter lettuce that I’m growing though. mmm tasty!

The big girl is still sleeping in her big girl bed. This morning , 20 minutes before my alarm would normally go off, Emily walked by our room and said “Hi Mom!” and headed for the stairs. AHH. I snatched her up and brought her back into our room for some snuggles. I was definitely not ready to get up yet. And when did she start calling me “Mom”. The name is “Mommy!”Silly little monkey!

I have Leah to thank for the ridiculous song stuck in my head today. Thank you for suggesting I let Em watch the wiggles on youtube. WHY! Cold spaghetti Cold Spaghetti!!! At least Emily loves to sing and dance right?

I’m kinda sad today because I found out that another one of the kids I went to school with passed away. His name was Jamie and we were good friends in Jr. High and fellow Percussionists in band too. He was a really nice guy. Stupid Cancer. It’s pretty hard to have people your age die. You expect that because you are young you have loads of time to worry about that kind of stuff later, but I guess that’s why the bible describes this life as “but a breath”(psalm 39). I can’t possibly know how many days and moments I have left to live, but I know that I plan on using them to the fullest. I truly want to see as many people as I can come to know Jesus before it’s too late.

Well before I spend to much of my day feeling melancholy, here’s some picks from the last week.

oh and I miss you already Coco. And Danielle, Come home soon!

Emily Loves the creek at the Park and it’s stinky mud!

Oooo Cold

Headed for the Swings!

Emily and Auntie Coco

Emily Loves her new Big Girl Bed

Cheese!

Filed Under: Blog, Emily & Avery, Emily Grace, Thoughts | Tagged: Tagged With: Park, Spin Class, summer, swimming, the wiggles, Toddler

A Week of Summer

Posted by CourtenayMomma on June 19, 2008 2 Comments

Our renos are coming along nicely, but taking much longer than I’d anticipated. I was just going to paint, but we’ve ended up doing dry walling and we are doing flooring now too. It’s going to look great when we are done, but I’m already bored of all the extra work. oh. That’s in our office at the church. I forgot to mention that. So anyways, thats why I havent been around much in the blogosphere. I’ll post some pics when we are all done the renos. Then we’ll start on our house.

I guess reason 2 for being too busy to blog was actually that my computer had a sleepover in Kamloops at future shop to get fixed up. Something odd about it needing a tattoo. haha. Who’d have thought I’d have a punk computer. Even my computer has a tatoo. Maybe it needs a piercing to go along with that.

I had a great time on the weekend with Leah, Silas, and Ikey and Juliet. And Mark and Shannon too. Leah chopped off half my hair! I don’t have any pics of it yet, which is good because my flat iron just doesn’t cut it for doing my hair. Leah is sending me one soon. Hurry Leah! But its super awesome. No one recognized me at church. So that was cool.

Today we were driving home for the 108 and Emily was about to melt down and she growled and said “I’m feeling really really bad right now. I’m sooo frust-er-ate”. Morgan and I had such a hard time not laughing at her cuteness. She showed off last night at the Russ Rosen and Graham Ord concert. She stayed up late and while the band was packing up, she said hi to Graham Ord. This is what she said to him

Em: I’m Emily. E…M…I…L…Y…

Graham: you can spell. How old are you?

Emily: abcd fghijklmno…that’s it!

Graham: wow you are smart. Can you count too.

Emily:1

Graham:2

Emily: 3 (etc. all the way to 10)

It was soo beyond perfect. I love when she shows off. It, of course is never ever when I ask her too. haha. typical. Well. I’m tired already cause I’ve actually made it to spin class this week. Three times next week! There I said it and I signed up so I’m going! I did great today. double time! Here’s some pics from last weekends day at the wild life park. It was soo much fun. Emily loved the animals and the spray park. How great is it to watch an Eagle tear apart a bunny in front of 10, 2-4 year olds. Talk about great timing for the bird exhibit. eww. oh and when we rode the train by this moose Morgan said “Emily, that’s a Moose” and she looked up at him and said “No daddy, that’s a fox”.