Weekend recap

We had a really nice weekend. On Friday night, my sister and I took Emerson for pizza. Of course, he wasn’t into it at all and was trying to run around the restaurant. We should have known better. He never eats pizza anyway. Next time, we’ll just go to Denny’s like we were originally going to. You live and learn, right? Anyway, on Saturday, we took the kids to The Science Center, and then over to the water steps. They had a great time. It was pretty cute, but exhausting. By the time we got home, I was ready to fall asleep. Em had no nap, so he went to bed pretty early. I was happy when he slept in until around 830am on Sunday morning. We decided to take the kids to Chuck E Cheese. We had a good time. Em ended up napping for a few hours afterwards, which was a nice mommy break for me. I let him stay up a bit later since we were off on Monday. He ended up sleeping in until 8am yesterday. Mom win! Anyway, I took Emerson and my nephew to the kid’s festival yesterday. Emerson was not having it. He wasn’t being “bad” per se, but he wasn’t listening to me at all. He wanted to do everything that had nothing to do with the festival, or activities set up for the kids. Running amuck, trying to jump into police vans, playing with gas caps on police cruisers, and trying to mess with the motor and gas that were keeping the bounce houses a float. After about a half an hour, I couldn’t take it anymore. I was drenched in sweat from chasing him and regulating. It was just too much. All of the other kids were participating and behaving. There goes mine. Being a wild man. We ended up leaving and coming back later to pick up my nephew and his friends.  We hung at my parent’s house for most of the afternoon before heading home. Em swam in his pool and played in his sandbox. He also drove me crazy. I’m not sure what is in the water these past few days, but he has been a bear for me. I hope things change before next weekend! We have plans to go to an amusement park and canoeing again. I’d prefer if my well-behaved toddler came out to play those days.  Pray for us!

This week, we’re heading to a food festival, but that’s about it. We have major plans all weekend, so I want to keep it more chill. I think lack of naps is why Emerson has been acting so crazy. The good news is the places we’re going aren’t too close, so he will probably fall asleep in the car on the way home. That’s my hope anyway.

I am on day #15 and my last week of this major trim down. I haven’t decided where to go from here. Obviously, I won’t stop after I’ve reached my three week goal. I will probably relax a bit more though and enjoy a refeed meal at least once every weekend just to feel some semblance of normalcy. To date, I’m down 11.5 inches. It’s insane! I’m so happy with my progress! I’d love to get back to a 90/10 lifestyle. That way, I don’t fall too far off from where I am. If I do, I won’t be so far off that I can’t trim down quickly after a week of detox. I feel incredible, so I don’t want to balloon back up again. It’s nice feeling comfortable in whatever I’m wearing including a bikini at the pool. It’s been raining so much that I haven’t been able to go to the waterpark, or anything in almost two weeks. It’s so annoying. Pray for better weather this upcoming weekend, or our plans are going to be completely washed out. I just checked Saturday and Sunday’s weather and it says PM scattered thunderstorms. Well, if we go to the amusement park in the morning when it opens, then we should at least have a few hours before it rains. I guess I’ll talk to my sister and see what she wants to do. It’s not cheap to go, so I don’t want to spend all of this money for it to be a wash out. There is an 80% chance of rain on Sunday and a 50% chance on Saturday.

Alright, All. Have a great day!