Random Friday

Things have finally started to... for lack of a better phrase, taper off. I feel like I can breath again. Although our summers are usually pretty busy, the end of the school year can be crazy! Last week my daughter's high school softball team played in the first round of the State's 6A tournament, which ended their season. Baby girl made cheerleader for next school year. That's not an ending, more like the beginning of her summer.

Tuesday, I turned in ALL of my grades, thus ending my semester. Each year I tell myself I'll do better, and not get so stressed out. It still hasn't happened, maybe next time. Wednesday, I celebrated my 29th birthday. I know, I know... for a while now I've said I'm 26. My oldest daughter will be 23 this summer, I figure I have to move up a little. Soon she'll just have to go around!

I had the BEST birthday ever! I walked five miles, and Mr. Husband treated me to a birthday lunch of my favorite... shrimp! Oldest daughter gave me a gift set of my favorite perfume, Daisy, and I rested the rest of the day. Great day!

Lets back up to last week. I didn't want to say anything, but now I absolutely must! I started walking, and cutting back. No, not a diet, just cutting back! I started walking four miles, and on my birthday this week, added a mile! Keeping track of my food intake at livestrong.com has really helped. I made a commitment to lose two pounds a week.

With Live Strong's My Plate, keeping up with my calories it was easier than I thought. I've never been a calorie counter, but this works. After entering information, and how much weight I want to lose per week, it gave me just how many calories to consume each day to achieve my goal. Monday morning, I stepped on the scale two pounds lighter. You would have thought I had won the lottery.

This summer... I'm losing that 10 pounds I gained last summer!

BlogHop '10

I found the neatest thing, Blog Hop '10, Robin at PENSIEVE'S is hosting the 3rd Annual Blog Hop! Created as an at-home opportunity for bloggers to meet and greet during BlogHer's annual conference.

What's a Blog Hop? Glad you asked... check out the Blog Hop '10 post, and be enlightened! Now that all the preliminaries are out of the way, here goes...

A little about me and my blog

• I'm a 40-something wife, and mom of 5, one young adult, three teens, and a tween. Yes, bless.my.heart.
• I love all things social media! I'm a Twitter fanatic, like to Skype, and reigning Mayor of my Wal-Mart, on FourSquare.
• I'm a "Foodie," in training, and a wanna-be "Travelista."  
• I'm a lifestyle blogger writing about my journey through my 40s, and all that goes with it. I realized, there is so much I've not done, and trying my best to get to it. But often I get side tracked, life happens, and I write about that too.
• You can find me from time to time at Woman's World Magazine, and as a regular Editorialista at My Blogalicious. 

Okay, that's the skinny on me. If you're already hopping, I hope you're having a great time. If not, what are you waiting for, get going!

Old School Photo Friday

This morning while strolling through Twitter, I was intrigued by a tweet, clicked through and ended at parenting By dummies, it's Old School Photo Friday. So here goes...

Oooo, weee! I thought I was CUTE! It's me, and my oldest daughter, she was about 6 mo-old. Can you believe, I was a senior in college! I loved those glasses, I think I cried when they broke. And that hair. I wore a feather, and several variations, from about 9th grade until... I don't even remember! The lipstick was Fashion Fair, Chocolate Raspberry. It was my absolute favorite. That lipstick went with everything, that was my signature color. In that picture, I barely weighed 100 lbs, soaking wet! Time, children, Coca-Cola and Chessmen cookies can really pack on the pounds!

Fast Forward, literally 21 years later. That baby, turned 21 just last week. I think I still look like me, but I've changed so much, I don't even feel like the same person. I remember the former me though, she was a sweet kid. I still wear glasses, but not that big, and I've ditched lipstick for lip gloss. I'm a little more tha 40 lbs heavier, and still drinking Coca-Cola, and eating Chessmen Cookies!

This looking back at old photos of the family almost makes me sad. We no longer have babies, they're all grown up, not actually grown. And I miss it. Oh, no. I don't want any more babies! I just miss my own being babies. That's all.

If you want to get into the action, click on over to parenting By dummies, link up, and join the fun.