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Dieting Sucks.

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Nancy

As you may or may not know, I started dieting last November. I even joined the now-defunct Ladies of Loserville blog ‘party’ to help with the process. Knowing that I’d never make it if I set the hefty goal of “I need to lose 50 pounds” … I started out small…20 pounds was my goal.

As most diets go, this one started out great! By Christmas I had dropped about 10 pounds. And then slowly dropped another 5 … and then another 3 … and then gained, then lost, then gained. For the past month or so I’ve been wavering between 17. 9 and 19.7 pounds shed. I CANNOT hit that damn 20 pound mark.

To top it all off, I’ve gone back to my crap diet. I’m no longer counting points; although, I’m still a lot better about things than I was.

But I have NO motivation. None. Nadda. I want all that junky, carb-loaded, sugary-sweet, tasty good stuff. And I have no will power to not eat it! *sigh* (In an effort for full disclosure, I’m actually munching on potato wedges while typing this up…perhaps the motivation needed for a confession.)

I suppose I should stop moaning and just get up off my butt and get back on the diet. Anyone have any motivation to lend?

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Way Back When-esday

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Nancy

Cheryl over at Twinfatuation hosts this one. Go on over to see who else is playing – and join in too!

I got my scanner humming again 🙂

Last week’s day at the carnival with the kids reminded me of my own week of Field Days in Vermont when I was little. Man oh man – the rides! the horse shows! the livestock competitions! the tents and buildings full of home-made and home-grown things! the tractor shows (we were made to watch…) The FOOD!!

I must have been 3 or 4 here? Maybe 5? (1978-ish??) Not sure. And geez – I guess my hair WAS as red as Maggie’s.

Cathy, Mom, Nancy, Jim, Dad, Grandad

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VBS

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Nancy

Burke and Maggie are attending Vacation Bible School this week. It’s a community-wide event, so lots of different churches attend.

…which means that I keep running into people from our old church. I’m having a hard time with this because I REALLY liked the people from our former church. It was the minister we had a problem with…we just never really let people know why we left. And now that they see me trucking the kids to VBS, they pretty much KNOW we’ve left them for another church, but they don’t know why.

The really nice thing is that the ‘Tweens we knew at the church have come running up to give Burke and Maggie big hugs…and they even chat with me a bit. It’s the adults who are giving me the stink eye – or avoiding any eye contact at all. *sigh* I suppose I could march up to them and say “Hey!! How are you? I miss seeing you…” But I’m such a chicken 😛

Anyway … the kids are loving it so far. At least…if I can get them to let go of me. Maggie has NO problem. Runs right in and faces the world with open arms. Burke, not so much. Day 1 was a drop-off in a smaller room and there were lily pads for him to sit on, so that was cool – mommy could take off no problem. This morning they were all meeting in the BIG room … lots of noisy kids. Burke did NOT want mommy to go. Luckily, his group leader had stickers, so she distracted him while I slipped out.

On my way out, I bumped into one of the said ‘Tweens from above. I mentioned to her that Burke was having a hard time (while trying to glance in the room undetected by him). She said she’d go hang out with him for a bit. Awesome. 🙂

Wonder if her mom would have a problem if I asked her to babysit for us…

Filed under: me, school, twins | Tagged: awkward, bible school, church, stink eye, tweens, vbs | 6 Comments »

Baby Picture Sundays

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Nancy

Debi hosts the Baby Picture Sundays. Hop on over there to see who’s playing, and join in too!

This week’s theme is Gimme some Sugar.

We had some fun while Daddy had the camera…some rare pictures of Mommy!!

Tickle, Tickle!

More tickles

Hugs for Mommy

Kisses for Mommy

Baby Picture Sundays

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New England Weather

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Nancy

Everyone who lives in the Boston area is well aware that it’s been raining, and raining, and raining. We had a lovely Saturday over the weekend, but other than that – feels like it’s been raining for weeks.

The problem with this kind of weather for me is not that I don’t like to get soaked every time I go outside (although, that’s no picnic)…it’s that my head is like a barometer. When the air pressure changes because of a storm coming through, my head feels like it’s going to explode. I can always tell if it’s raining – or about to rain – before I even get out of bed in the morning.

Please…somebody just make the rain STOP.

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A Year of Blogging!

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Nancy

Can you believe it? It’s been a whole year since I started blogging. I’m not sure if I’m surprised that an entire year has gone by, or if I’m amazed that it’s only been a year. Crazy 🙂

Happy Blogiversary to me!

One thing to note – I’ve never missed a day. Not one. I have at least one post for every single day of the past year. Oh sure – a few were pre-posted, but not many. And back in November when I joined up with NaBloPoMo, I felt guilty that I’d already been posting one per day that for many of those days I put two up! Yep. I’m crazy.

Wonder if I can keep that up for another year…

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It’s Nice to be Asked

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Nancy

MyBlogSpark wants my help! They must know that I’m really good at giving my opinion 😉

I got to choose my favorite cover for the next cover of the upcoming Betty Crocker Cookies & Bars magazine (on sale in stores August 11th).

This is the one I chose:

Mmmm Cookies. I can’t wait until the magazine comes out. 🙂 I’ll let you know if they listened to me 😉

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Way Back When-esday

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Nancy

Cheryl over at Twinfatuation hosts this one. Go on over to see who else is playing – and join in too!

The date on the back of this one says December 25, 1980. I think may have been where my love of writing began 😉

Nancy is 6

My beloved plastic typwriter!

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Blog Farts

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Nancy

Blog Farts – noun. Def: Crappy ideas that are too short to make a real blog post, but when combined, join forces to make one unified, albeit half a$$ed, post. see also: memes, surveys.

I’m just “borrowing” the term

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Why is it that my very red strands of hair fall out or get stuck in my brush with no problem, but my gray strands hold on to my head for dear life??

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Migraine medicine makes me feel like I have to pee.

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Wanting to wear multiple pull-ups the other night, Burke told us he has 3 bums.

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Am I the only one who can’t open the box of Mac & Cheese with the “Push Here” tab???

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Maggie is such a GIRL!! She changed her dress-up dress because she couldn’t find the right dress-up shoes.

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Is it bad that my kids think playing “Swiper” is fun? Do they not know that Swiper is the BAD guy in Dora?

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The sweetest 5 words I’ve ever heard from another adult: “Your kids are so polite!”

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Maggie fell off the swing the other day. When I asked her why she was crying, she said: “Now my pretty face is broken! My smile is gone.”

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Way Back When-esday

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Nancy

Cheryl over at Twinfatuation hosts this one. Go on over to see who else is playing – and join in too!

I have no idea when this picture was taken (1976? 1977?). But one of my fondest memories of my Grandma is snapping beans with her (although, if she were still alive, she’d kill me for posting a picture of her in her rollers *grin*). The beans, of course, were from the garden. We’d fill the big green tub up and then have at it.

Snapping Beans

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