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I follow several blogs, not only through my feed here on Blogger but also some that are not on Blogger; when I find one I like I just add it to my favorites under the folder Blogs. I do find it a bit ironic that I love to read other peoples blogs but yet can't keep up with my own. In my defense I am no where near as crafty and creative as the bloggers I follow and my writing skills pale in comparison to them as well.
I think I may be a bit addicted as I have noticed that I'm starting my conversations more and more with the phrase, " I read this on a blog I follow..."
At least they give me something to talk about.
Last night after the girls went to bed I was checking my blogs and when I went to Delightful Order I saw she had a link up for the day. I usually don't pay them much attention but I started reading the tittles of some of the post and next thing I know I'm reading other blogs and getting some awesome ideas for organization, meal planning and other things.
I found a funny blog post about Mom Jeans that I just had to share on Facebook and decided after reading that post I had to follow her blog. I added a few more to my favorites list as well.
Reading some of those blogs did make me wish I could write as well as they did or even had something worth writing about, I mean really, I know how boring my life is and I know that some of those mom bloggers would say the same but they are also crafty creative moms and I am so not that mom.
At least I can get ideas from the crafty women out there in the blog world, and hopefully get inspired!
We finally have our tree decorated; we have had it for two days but its smaller then we normally get and didn't fit well in the tree stand so I had to wait for Rob to fix it. Yesterday after the girls came home from school we decorated the tree and I have been enjoying the twinkling lights this morning.
I have finished all my shopping, I think. I need to take an inventory of all that I bought for the girls and see if there is any last minute stocking stuffer's that I need but I think we are good. Oh, I do need to wrap Rob's gift to me and my gift to him; yeah we already know what we got each other but we thought we should at least have one gift to open on Christmas day.
Now, its just wait for the time that we can load up the truck and head out to Rob's family and prepare to have a great Christmas. And I may see if Rob and I can go out to the movies or dinner for our anniversary while we are there. Better work some extra shifts so I can have the money!
Well, we managed to get moved in and settled over the holiday weekend and no one was hurt in the process and only one thing was broken by the movers. Pictures have been hung on the wall and with the exception of some towel bars, shelf and computer desk to put together oh and maybe some rearranging as its not easy to downsize a 3 bedroom house into a 2 bedroom apartment.
I hope that in a month or two we will be able to see exactly how much our savings will be and my hope is that by the end of 2012 I will have at at least 2 credit cards paid in full and at least half of another one. We have spent a bit more money for the move then I had originally planned; Rob wanted curtains and we needed a few just things we needed to make a small space work such as shelf's, towel bars etc....
As we only moved across the street from our old place nothing really has changed other then we do miss our wonderful neighbors and they miss us! The girls are adjusting fine but then I knew they would.
This Friday is the free childcare at church and we are dropping off the girls and going to have dinner, maybe a movie depending on when Rob gets off and then head over to a couple's house from our Sunday school class for coffee and desert; I'm looking forward to it.
School is pretty much over for me except for the two finals that I have to do and have emailed to my teacher by December 5th. I plan on trying to finish this week, good thing I have started on them!
I know I haven't been around in a while, life has really gotten busy and crazy and stressful, but I wanted to give a quick update.
Rob's work is still stressful and hard and satan really is attack us both hard through Rob's job; seems like every time we turn around something is coming up that we have to really pray over and try not to stress over. We both can't wait to be done with recruiting and get back to the military life we had before. I would so much rather he be deployed then to go through the crap we are dealing with but at the same time if we weren't in TX I wouldn't be going to school for my dream job and I know that through all of these trials we are really growing in our faith and as a couple.
One day we will look back at this time and thank God for it all; I don't know when we will be able to do that but I know that we will and I have always said that if he gets promoted that alone will make it all worth it.
Next news........
We are moving!
Earlier this month we were in Dallas and got to see Dave Ramsey live! He is funny and such an inspirational person. I have been a fan of his for years and have been trying to follow his plan but just can't seem to every get past the first Baby Step. Having Rob see him and hear him speak really motivated him to work hard at getting our debt paid off and the best way for us to free up money was to move to a cheaper place, so we are downsizing quite a bit from a 3 bedroom duplex to a 2 bedroom apartment!
The money we save will make this worth it even though I will miss the bigger house and the backyard and being right next door to some awesome neighbors. But these apartments are right across the street from where we live now so we can still visit them !
The girls are excited, an apartment is very different to them so they think its cool; they already share a room so that's not an issue and they are actually getting a bigger bathroom out of it. I have to have my work computer in mine and Robs room but that's no big deal. Basically we are trying to do what Dave Ramsey says, live like no one else so later you can live like no one else. That is our goal in this move and we are pretty excited about it and what we hope to accomplish in the next year or so that we are here.
I love nice, relaxing weekends where we don't have anything we have to do and we can be as lazy as we want! Rob did have to go into work both Saturday and Sunday for about and hour or two but that's it.
Saturday we went to the gun range and a co-worker of Rob's joined us, we all had a good time!
Later that evening Rob grilled some ribs and we ate dinner as a family, which due to Rob's job we only get to do on the weekends. After the girls went to bed Rob and I watched several episodes of Burn Notice .
Today we went to church, had a nice lunch ( ribs again!). I tried to study for a test I have tomorrow but it was making me sleepy so Rob and I took a nap then for dinner we had steaks with our wonderful neighbors.
We are truly blessed!
This week is week 3 for me on the C25K program and I am finding running for 3 minutes hard! I use the C25K app on my phone and it will chime when it is time for me to either run or walk.
I keep straining my ears for that chime while I'm running those 3 minutes thinking that it has got to be time to stop NOW!!!
I know that my biggest problem is my breathing; I start out fine breathing nice and slow, in and out but by the time I get to about the 2 min mark ( if not sooner) I'm practiacally gasping for breath and can hardly make it to 3 mins.
I have been doing my research though and found that I should be doing belly breathing; I read this and this about how to do it and have been trying to incorporate it into my running but its not natrual for me and will take some practice. I plan on working on my breathing for a week or so and then jumping back into the C25K program. I know that I will not be able to finish this program if I don't learn to breath properly while I'm running.
Other then that I am enjoying the running and plan on keeping up with it even after I finish the C25K; I have noticed that on the days I run I am starving by the time my lunch break comes around! And I have lost some weight since I started running too. So, yep this running while hard at times has been a good thing and I'm glad I started it!
I am happy to say that I have been able to workout again after that nasty cold/no voice thing I had last week. I actually started back up with my routine last Sunday which is normally my off day but I missed Saturday due to a really bad headache that I woke up with. I get headaches like that if I get too much sleep and I slept till 7am that day and I'm normally up at 5am so yeah to much sleep = headache which is why I set my alarm Sunday for 6am and since it was so early I decided to get back into my workout routine that day.
I started back up with my running on Monday; I was about to do Week 2 Day 3 of the C25K plan when I got sick so I decided to start Week 2 all over again and I am glad I did, for some reason I am finding it harder this week then I did the first time I did it. I think a lot of it is my breathing which I'm trying to figure out how to do/control as I run.
I took this morning off from exercise and slept in a little but plan on working out after I get off work; when I am not running I alternate between my Chalene Extreme videos and Physique 57. I have been loving the Chalene Extreme and seeing my arms getting stronger!
Any plans for the Labor Day weekend coming up? My hubby has to work pretty much that whole time and I may have to do some work too, not sure yet but I do hope to relax at some point and maybe hit the lake one last time!
