Here you go, my Sweet Violets! Another new home for our daily musings....

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."

- Cicero

Hey chickies~

didn't do too bad today.

B= kashi go lean, skim milk, banana

L= 300 cal of garlic chix pasta thingy

S= pretzles, i know i know

D= salad w/ homemade dressing (got great olive oil when I was in Italy w/ Balsamic vin.) and a 1/4 c. cheddar, and 1.4 c. croutons w/ 2 tomatoes. yummy!

Trying to do better. You know I start each day great...then down hill. Actually, I haven't tried in a long time. Working out Tues and prob. wed and fri (hope).

have a great night!

Good Monday Morn, Girlies~~

A regular day on tap here today... work, etc. On-time start to school today, finally! Man those storms kicked our collective butts!

Last night while watching the O's (US/Can hockey game) I started knitting a slouchy cabled beret for DD... those double-point needles really flummox me! But I kept at it and finally got in the groove of them. It's like re-learning how to hold them AND knit at the same time each time!

Looks like all the Vi's are doing our best! Yay us! (We all want to look good for the big doings in May!!)

Everyone make it a great day!

Good morning, Violets..

Yea Band.. Yea Lent...I'm down another pound this morning. The no sugar, lo carbs and exercise are paying off... who knew??

Even my horoscope was interesting this morning. " This is a new stage, and there is much you have given up in order to get where you are. It was worth it. Willingness to sacrifice is a strength of yours. And you have many other places to go." My big challenge will be this weekend. We are going to Great Wolf Lodge Thursday and Friday with all the grandkids and eating healthy will be a challenge, but I know I'll get some pool exercise in. Then on Saturday we are celebrating Grady's 1st birthday a few days early. There will be cake, but Kris already knows I am not eating sweets and another friend of hers gave up sweets for Lent also so she said there will be lots of cake left over!

Michelle.. how is your MIL and Mo?? Keeping them in my prayers. Everytime I complain about Kaylie, our cat,sleeping on me I think of Mo and how sleeping on me isn't really such a big deal.

PamELa, Haydee, Jane, Laura and Heather.. have a good week at work.

We are getting snow here and schools downstate are all closed since they got pounded with up to a foot of snow. We are getting just a couple of inches. It's coming down pretty steady now.

I'm off to fix some breakfast and then head to my hospital shift.

Everyone make it a good one!!

100 calorie snacks are helping me... late at night is my worst, I want to snack and snack.. so I save up 400 calories for late night snacking, and I only have 100 calorie snacks.

Yo Crunch has these new 100 calorie yogurt packs.. it's a vanilla or cheesecake yogurt, with crunchy candy bits you pour inside. Oh my.. it's 70 calories lighter than my normal yogurt and tastes better. Cheesecake one...mmmmmmmm. Says it's sweetened with Truvia, I guess I'm a fan of truvia now.

Did I tell you guys I was looking into daycare for 2-3x a week? The place I checked first, was wonderful, but I couldn't afford it. Called La Petit which is about .5 miles from work, and they said they have discounted rates for companies in the area-I can afford it, but I don't know anything about them, so we're doing a tour tomorrow. They are a nationwide daycare 'chain', anyone else have experience with them or have any thoughts on them???

My sister Erika was at La Petit academy for years when she was little. Staff was always wonderful and she loved it there. I think she went from like 4-9 years old. But it would depend so much on the staff...

Why are you doing day-care? I'm planning on following your plan when I have my first and I need to know what to expect!

Ugly dreadry day here... Cold cold cold. And it's supposed to get colder! I'm so ready for sunshine!

YAY on the piehole reports everyone! Everyone is doing great! I'll have to try those yogurts Laura, I see them in the store.

I need to do better on portion control. If something is so good I try to get EVERYTHING down my gullet... Not good...

Why the day care..... well, we were going to wait till #2, but he's at an age he wants to play and do a lot all day, which I don't have time for, so it's a battle all day long of trying to work and keep him happy.. and he's old enough to socialize now. Learnin' as I go, though he'd be ok here at work for 2 years, but it looks like 1 year is the limit for keeping him happy. He hates his pen, so I have to put him behind my desk and watch him like a hawk. He wants to crawl all over, and this isn't the place to do it!!

Oh I see. That's a good point. I thought I would be ok until the age of 2 too! We will see what happens!

Yeah, once they're mobile, life gets interesting real fast! Wait 'til he can walk AND talk! :sad:

This is my lunchtime check-in. I've been such a good girl today and have been work work working like a fiend. + doing laundry. I even went on a 15ish minute walk outside! :frown: Do not faint! I walked as far up the hill as I could, 'til the sidewalk got blocked by snow, then came back. It felt so good... nice & brisk! And I saw 3 white-tailed deer bounding through the snowy woods... I love it when I see them. If I'd stayed cooped up, I would've missed them!

Off to make my mid-day pro/greek yog/fruit smoothie... then back to work!

Good morning!!

Not much to say, it is cold here, but not super cold like it has been in the past.

Has Mo pooped? Has the snow melted some?????????? I hope it doesn't melt all at once and then cause problems with flooding!!!!!

Yesterday I really wanted to eat bad food. I didn't, but really wanted to.

I am very content right now with things, and don't want to go back to that place I was a few weeks ago!!!

All you guys are GREAT!!!!!

Laura,

before you committ, make sure you "pop in" unexpectedly as well as your tour. Even if it is later that day or the next day...do it before you pay. I taught preschool (not daycare) for 5 years. You want an unexpected visit to see what goes on when they don't think anyone comes by. Are kids crying and not being tended to? Does the facility smell clean? What is the child/teacher ratio? Ask if the teachers have ECE (early childhood education) credits? These are things you will want to know before you sign up and pay money. The teachers don't HAVE to have ECE credits, but you want to know if they do, and that these are not just mommies who need a job.

Keep us posted.

Oh, thanks for asking about Mo & MIL (I'm not sure that's the right order, lol, but...)...

Mo is oh-kay (I'm saying it slowly)... still keeping an eagle eye on him... the mobile vet came today & said he's ok, so... we'll see!

MIL has a different doc app't or test each day this week, Tues - Fri. I asked her what she was doing today, and she said, "Getting my nails done!" Priorities! We're hoping that there will be more concrete answers to what's wrong & what needs to be done to fix it after this week.

Ack, me again. One more thought to share w/the group...

I'm trying to have a "Thy will be done" attitude w/ all these issues... in the hopes that will help w/my mood. I've said it before, and I'll say it again... I believe that to say that AND MEAN IT is one of the hardest things for me. I'm such a control freak (Really? Really??) So accepting what I can & can't affect is important, or else I just drive myself -- & everyone around me -- crazy!

I'm also trying to not fight the food... make a plan, move a bit, and do my best...

Can you hear my inner "Ohm" from here? :frown:

Yesterday I really wanted to eat bad food. I didn't, but really wanted to.

YAY! YAY! YAY! This is huge! Fantastic job, Janie!!! :frown:

Totally different subject here.

There is no right or wrong answer, just something that has been bothering me or a while.

I call my Dad, Daddy. Charlie thinks that is very odd. He said a lot of people have said something about it.

I gave my dad this plaque that says "Any man can be a dad, but it takes someone special to be a Daddy".

Honestly tell me if you think that is weird!!

Thanks for the tips Pam! I don't know what to look for, I had a friend who visited the last one with me, she was VERY thorough--she use to work there, but she just took a teaching job 3 hours from here, so I don't have her knowledge to ask the right questions!!

I think it's an independence thing. he wants to go on his own, but he can't here.. not enough baby proofing to cover this place up. So it turns into whines and fits.

He has started signing.. He's done it once in a blue moon, not sure if intentional.. but he's officially signing 'doggy' all the time. He points (well his whole hand goes out in a direction), then he does the puppy sign. When Cassy is up against the bed, he signs puppy over and over. So Puppy is his first 'sign' word, that I know he means it lol.

He said ma-ma for a week solid (everything was ma-ma).. now for a few weeks now everything is da-da.. or da. Random babbles "da da da" or if he's happy we're giving him his snacks its 'daaaaaa', points at something and says 'da!', etc.

Oh and I assume all states have this, but the last place we went said Alabama has a law on child/teacher ratio.. I think it was 3 to 1 for his age.