The Weight Loss Challenge

Tomorrow the game is on!!

June 1st - July 1st..

It was going to be just the first one to 10 lbs wins.. but the rules changed a bit.. from the first 10 to whoever lost the most fat persentage in 30 days is the winner..I will try to write as much as I can to keep things updated.. I need everyone to pray for me.. and cheer me on.. I want to do this not just to win ( I don't care if I win or not) but for my health!! :D well HERE WE GO!!

Well, Thanks for reading!

Jade

I'm going to be in a weight loss challenge..Starting Monday June 1st.

A friend of mine is have an weight loss challenge "Who can lose 10lbs first?" She said the winner will get a cash prise! I will be working my butt off. Not just to win the challenge, but just to lose the extra weight before my SIL's wedding.

I am on a diet and I have already lost 15lbs since I started my diet a little over a month ago. I haven't really kept track over these last few weeks. But now my game is back on..

I have to weigh in first thing Monday morning. I plan on weighing in every morning and keeping track. Rather if I win this challenge or not.. It will be good for me.

Little moments like this I wish could last for ever.

We got home from church kind of late yesterday. At first no one was saying there were hungry..So I just worked on a few things around the house to finish cleaning things up from the weekend. Around 3pm Gracie came out from her room and started saying that she was getting hungry. Well he usually don't have lunch that late in the day..but since we weren't hungry right when we got home we didn't eat right of way.

Well, after we had lunch Gracie and I sat in the living room in my recliner to rest and watch some TV. Needless to say after a while she had fallen asleep leaning back on me sitting in my lap. I was just dozing on and off not really falling asleep.

Then 7:30pm came around and she was still sleeping.. (she had fallen asleep around 4:30ish) I figured she was out for the rest of the night.

As she was laying there sleeping on me..all I could do is just sit there and admire my beautiful baby girl and thinking how sweet she is. I also thought how I couldn't believe how fast she's growing.

That's when I started to wish that I could just freeze time and the moment would last forever. I know that once she is older she will be to big to sit in my lap and snuggle up to me to watch TV..or read a story. Someday, I will miss her being little.

Well, Thanks for reading!

Jade

Before I was a MOM

Before I was a mom..

I could sleep in on the weekend

Walk across the living room floor and not step on a toy

Not have to wake up in the middle of the night with a sick kid

Didn't have kiss boo-boos to make them feel better

Didn't have to tell a bed time stories

Could drive and play the music loud and could listen to whatever I want



I could go shopping in the store with out have to put a box of cookies back on the shelf

I could watch any show or movie that I wanted and didn't have to worry about if it was age appropriate for a 4 year old.

I could go out with my husband and not have a kid with us.

All these things I would not want back b/c I love the way my life is right now. Having a child is a blessing and there is nothing sweeter then to be called Mommy!

Well, Thanks for reading!

Jade

School is out for the summer

Well, today was the last day of Gracie first year in school. I know this will probably be hard on her over the next few days when she thinks its time for school. She loved going to school. It's so hard to think that its all over..

I know she will make new friends in the fall. The hard part about it is she will not be in school with her same friends. We are moving over the summer and she will be in a new school. New teachers and new kids in her class.

Of course, I'm sure by the time its time for school to start back she will not know the difference. I have been trying to explain to her that she will always be moving on and getting new friends each year along with new teachers.

Well, Thanks for reading!

Jade

School is coming to the end

I can not believe how fast this school year has flown by. I think back on the first day of school..We got up extra early and had a big breakfast. Gracie was hard to wake up early. I woke her up and she got out of bed and went in the living room and laid on the couch and curled up and acted like she was going back to sleep.

Now there is only a few days left. I know Gracie will miss all of her friends and wonder why school just ended. The big thing that gets me is we are moving and once she starts school again in the fall she will not have any of her same friends or anyone at her new school she will know.

Gracie tells me all the time that she misses her friends. I wish she could be at the same school again. I know once she starts her new school and everything she will be ok and make new friends.

It's just hard to get friends and your kids make friends then you move away. It is hard at first but we will still have our friend even if we have to leave them behind..but keeping in touch with your friends is the key!

Well,Thanks for reading!

Jade

Please, make health care affordable..

Health Insurance?

Why is it so hard to get?
WHY can't most of us afford it?

These are all question we all ask..Some jobs provide Health coverage for their employee's..BUT what about their partner/spouse?? To add you spouse(and even your children) to the coverage you husband/wife gets from his/her job it cost somewhere between $300-$400 extra (roughly).. A lot of us can not even afford that. Some people who can get medicare/medicaid have to make a certain amount.. and if you go over by even a little bit you do not qualify for it ( or you lose it if you had it before) I can honestly say a lot of women (mostly) can not even go to the doctors on a regular visit more less for something important b/c it cost so much for a doctors visit.. or a visit to a specialist (God forbid if you have to go to the hospital/ER) Also.. not to mention if you need a Rx.

Some families do not have health insurance at all..maybe b/c the husband and/or wife work.. and the place they work for just doesn't offer health coverage for their employees. They can't afford it b/c like I said before the price for good coverage cost SO much.. Then again with the Medicare/Medicaid..If you make even $12 dollars to much you will not qualify.

I think if it could be easier for the middle income families who do not have the insurance (that can't afford it.. or make to much to qualify for medicare/medicaid) so be able to at least be able to get on medicaid/medicare.

It's obvious that people who can't afford the high price for health coverage need the help some how.. What about the middle man??? Ever think about that?? What about those of us who make just enough..but not enough.. Ya know what I mean??

Well, Thanks for reading!

Jade

Gas is going back up!

Is there a GOOD reason why all of a sudden in less then a week the gas prices have jumped up more than $0.20 a gallon for regular? Just b/c you raise gas prices doesn't mean people will drive less..As far as I know people all over the US struggle to make a dollar.. People HAVE to drive to work to make money. We have to drive our children to school. I do not think it is fair to any of us that have to drive on a daily basis..no matter if price of gas is way high.. or not! Yeah, we can carpool, take public trans. or ride a bike.. but carpooling and taking a bus or taxi still something we have to pay for.. and they still pollute the air..

Think about it.. IF everyone in the US rode a bus or taxi.. or even light rail system.. Can you just imagine how many buses or taxis we would need to be able to hold every one of us?? So it wouldn't really cut down on the cost of the price we pay for gas.. or the pollution.

With the economy the way it is right now.. how much will we all have to suffer with these gas prices?? Why not keep the gas prices low (around $1.60).. It would make the price of food cheaper, too! People are hurting.. Especially the low and middle class/income families.. and that is a good percentage of us. Companies will still make their money.. b/c the lower things cost the MORE people will buy.

I am very upset with gas prices going BACK up.. It is really ridiculous.. I know I am not the only one who doesn't want to have to pay $50 or more to fill you cars,trucks or suvs.. Thats saying if gas stays low.. UNDER $3.00 a gallon.

Well, Thanks for reading!

Jade