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I am excited! I am starting my new job tomorrow. After being off work for eight years to raise my kids, I am going back to work. It is a part-time job at the junior high. I will be an aide there. I will be helping in the language arts area and of course doing lunch duty (ugh). I'll be working with the kids that aren't reading at the level they should be. I love that I will be working while my kids are in school and done when they are done, off on the same holiday breaks as they are, etc. I am a bit sad, as I mentioned on my facebook page, because my youngest starts kindergarten tomorrow. These milestones are coming and going so quickly. :o( Where does time go???? Tanner looks like such a big boy now it's crazy! Where is my BABY???? :o)
Tallulah asked me to make some cookies for her to bring to her teacher on the first day. Brown-nosing already... I LOVE IT! :o) I am making the "award winning" chocolate chip cookies with pudding and toasted walnuts in them. I HATE chocolate chip cookies with walnuts but the person that gave me the recipe said to roast the walnuts first and it makes a world of difference. I don't like to screw with a recipe the first time I try it so I went ahead and made them like she instructed and THEY ARE AWESOME! So these will go to her teacher and Tanner's teacher in a little bag tomorrow. :o)
On another note, tomorrow starts a new chapter for me. Along with the new job I am also starting to take care of ME again. This last year has been a year of stress and very difficult choices. Along with all that, I really let myself go. I stoped working out, stopped eating well, and stopped getting enough sleep. Seriously, I would go for weeks at a time getting 5 or so hours a sleep at night. I'd drag myself around all day (too tired to work out, too tired to prepare healthy meals) then start the cycle all over again the next night. So starting tomorrow I am giving up diet pop. I am going back to drinking fucktons of water all day. I swear my hair, skin and nails look like shit now and I KNOW it's because I drink gallons of diet coke and some days absolutely NO water. My insides are probably pickled by now. I am going back to MEAL PLANNING. My kids and I deserve nutritious and well thought out meals- not just what I throw together because "Oh shit it's 5:00 what can I throw together in 10 minutes?!?" Also starting up a workout routine. I MISS THAT SO MUCH!!!! I miss the way I feel after a killer workout. I remember being in the basement for hours because I was having such a good burn and Reid would have to come down and make me stop. :o) And don't even get me started on how fat I got this year. Oh my gosh I am so ashamed of how I look right now. I look awful. I feel awful. I owe it to myself to take care of me.
So... be looking out for updates on my progress!!!!
Alright, time to get these kids in the bath. Tomorrow is the big day!!!!!
Tallulah asked me to make some cookies for her to bring to her teacher on the first day. Brown-nosing already... I LOVE IT! :o) I am making the "award winning" chocolate chip cookies with pudding and toasted walnuts in them. I HATE chocolate chip cookies with walnuts but the person that gave me the recipe said to roast the walnuts first and it makes a world of difference. I don't like to screw with a recipe the first time I try it so I went ahead and made them like she instructed and THEY ARE AWESOME! So these will go to her teacher and Tanner's teacher in a little bag tomorrow. :o)
On another note, tomorrow starts a new chapter for me. Along with the new job I am also starting to take care of ME again. This last year has been a year of stress and very difficult choices. Along with all that, I really let myself go. I stoped working out, stopped eating well, and stopped getting enough sleep. Seriously, I would go for weeks at a time getting 5 or so hours a sleep at night. I'd drag myself around all day (too tired to work out, too tired to prepare healthy meals) then start the cycle all over again the next night. So starting tomorrow I am giving up diet pop. I am going back to drinking fucktons of water all day. I swear my hair, skin and nails look like shit now and I KNOW it's because I drink gallons of diet coke and some days absolutely NO water. My insides are probably pickled by now. I am going back to MEAL PLANNING. My kids and I deserve nutritious and well thought out meals- not just what I throw together because "Oh shit it's 5:00 what can I throw together in 10 minutes?!?" Also starting up a workout routine. I MISS THAT SO MUCH!!!! I miss the way I feel after a killer workout. I remember being in the basement for hours because I was having such a good burn and Reid would have to come down and make me stop. :o) And don't even get me started on how fat I got this year. Oh my gosh I am so ashamed of how I look right now. I look awful. I feel awful. I owe it to myself to take care of me.
So... be looking out for updates on my progress!!!!
Alright, time to get these kids in the bath. Tomorrow is the big day!!!!!