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Home for the Holidays

Okay...so if you have visited my page you will see that it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Please don't think that I am rushing the holiday OR forgetting Thanksgiving. I AM NOT!!! I am actually one of these people who get angered at the stores who are putting out Christmas while I am looking at Halloween costumes. THAT BEING SAID....Christmas IS my favorite holiday of all. But when I think of Thanksgiving, ...

November 9, 2008 | comments (1) | Home Improvement

Students can teach the Teacher

Since I have gone back to work, about a month now, I have not been able to exercise like I was....I was on a schedule of 6, sometimes 7 days a week. I was running 3-8 miles a day and hitting the weights hard. Now, that I've gone back to work, learning to readjust my schedule at home, trying to wash clothes, cook, do kid's homework, clean up, get kids to dance lessons, ball practice, etc. I can say I have not had much time to work out LIKE I WO...

October 27, 2008 | comments (3) | Classroom Lessons

Back in the Classroom

Welp, I am now back in the classroom. I am teaching Social Studies. My students are inner city kids, so think of the movie...Dangerous Minds...yes, I am the new Michelle Pfieffer. I love it though. The hard part is balancing work, mommy time, wife time, workout time, Jesus time, me time all in 24 hours.....it's almost impossible. Somethings get cut out of the day, but I am trying to get back on track. I know on...

September 25, 2008 | comments (4) | Transforming

Full Speed Ahead

Welp, it's been awhile. I've kind of taken a few days or week off. I had to get regrouped, refocused. It's amazing how the body has a mind of its own. I am at my midway point and you would think after miles of running, and lifting weights, and eating clean, my body would be reved up ready for anything. But lately, it has slowed down. I could go for a run and I would just stop, for no reason after 1 mile. ...

September 8, 2008 | comments (5) | Transforming

My heart is heavy!!!!

Wow....I knew this day would come...I did a lot of self-talk to prep me for this day, but I never anticipated it hurting this bad and being in such a slump. For the past two years, I have been blessed to be a stay home mommy. After being in education for 10 years, this was such a treat to come home to raise our last baby. Joshua will be 2 in October and I am so thankful that I was there to see his first smile, hear the first coo...

August 18, 2008 | comments (7) | Home Improvement

Run.....Forest......Run

Before I started transformation, I use to think....."I want to lose 10 lbs" well that wouldn't happen so I would quit. Now with transformation, I've set a different goal each week. Hit stronger weights, don't drink a diet coke for one day (that is hard :), lose 1 lb in a weeks, run further in this week, etc. I've realized that the little goals set and accomplished are so much better than setting a big goal never obtain...

August 16, 2008 | comments (9) | Transforming

Going for the Metal

In the spirit of the Olympics, it made me realize how we are all like the Olympic Athletes. When you think about their journey, some of them have been working for 4 years to get to China. 4 years!!!! and most of their lifetime. It makes the 18 weeks that we are working for seem very reachable. I've set back and started thinking about the "metals" I'm wanting to obtain. The first metal, of course, is to tran...

August 11, 2008 | comments (2) | Transforming

Would You Check Out That Scenery

Wow...would you check out that scenery....how amazing is that...Oh! I'm sorry I guess you were thinking I was talking about the beautiful mountain or river behind me....well sorry to disappoint, but I was talking about those jeans!!!! Yes, I will say that as I stood in front of the Animas River in Durango, Co. I was amazed from the beauty around me, but I was more amazed that I was standing in those jeans. Yeah Baby!!!!! or shou...

July 30, 2008 | comments (7) | Transforming

There's no place like home....

Praise the Lord....I am home....what a trip. It was chaos from the get-go and didn't think I was going to be able to get home...more problems with the airline on the way home. But I am here. Oh! How I missed my babies....starting with my number 1 baby...my honey Matt and all the way down the line to the baby, baby...Joshua. I will say though, that was the best get away and best timing for me as far as the transformation process ...

July 28, 2008 | comments (3) | Transforming

Another One of God's Masterpieces

At 6:30 this morning (mt. time) my body still on Central time was screaming...wake up, it's time to go run. So, rolling out of bed I hit the pavement. One of the things I love about running in a new town is that you get to see parts of the city that other people don't really see. A thing I don't like is getting use to the different altitude and weather. Farmington New Mexico is located in the top left hand corner of ...

July 22, 2008 | comments (1) | Transforming

God is really a comic

I have never encountered the humorous side of God until this Sunday. My cousin and I left Sunday at 1:10 from Shreveport to go to Dallas, Tx., Denver Co. then on into Farmington, New Mexico. We were suppose to land in NM by 5:00 on Sunday evening.....well, it didn't work out that way. The airline in Shreveport gave us the wrong tickets so when we got to Dallas, we couldn't make our connecting flight to another airline....long st...

July 21, 2008 | comments (3) | Transforming

Where I am Weak, He is strong

Wow...I've just started my 3rd week and for some reason, I hit a weakness on food. Don't ask me why. I was doing SO good and being so clean and so strong....and now I'm like craving everything and nibbling on stuff I wouldn't have dared put in my mouth. It's probably hormonal, which is a VERY big issue for me. I suffer from severe PMS, infact my doctor put me on meds just for that time. So this is the first time sinc...

July 15, 2008 | comments (9) | Transforming

My Cup Runneth Over

I am just so pumped..... I have to tell this story, my heart is full of praise. Today was mine and my husbands long run. I ran 6.3 miles in 67 minutes. That is the absolutely furtherest I have ever ran in my life. The whole way, I'm listening to music and have my "talk" with the Lord. This is when I can dive deep inside me and really get to my core with no babies, no husband, no dirty dishes or clothes........

July 12, 2008 | comments (7) | Transforming

One Week Down.....

My first week of the challenge has come to an end. As I sit back and take a look back, I can feel nothing but success, accomplishments and being proud at myself. I began my journey at 170 lbs. I know that weight is not a good determination at what your body should be like, however, before all of my babies, I weighed about 135 so I know I can be smaller!!! So, as I got on the scale today, I was anxious to see what a week of busti...

July 7, 2008 | comments (4) | Transforming

"Mommy Promise Me Something......

During the summer months, my family and I do a lot of traveling. We are both from different towns than Shreveport, so we take advantage of the summer months to go back home and spend time with our families. We are also on the road a lot vacationing. If we are not away, we are acting as Tom Bodet and leaving the light on for someone and always have a house full of guest. That being said...unfortunately...we have not b...

July 5, 2008 | comments (3) | Home Improvement

"Out of the mouth of babes"

Ok....this one was hard to swallow, but I am the bigger person (no pun intended) and I will be stronger...So, I am standing at the kitchen sink cutting up potatoes to go with my pork chops and collard greens (doing the whole "right" stuff) and my loving, sweet, Zachary comes into the kitchen and in his Dennis the Menace way says..."Mommie, your booty is big and so is your belly....are you having another baby?".....At this poin...

July 2, 2008 | comments (9) | Home Improvement

What kind of Transformer are You!!!

So, I just got through running my 3.5 miles and being "a new kid on the block" my mind was wrapped around this whole transformation idea and I started thinking about the 1st assignment..how we have to write words of how we are going to look and how we will feel...then, being an 80's child..I thought about the cartoon, "Transformers." That got the brain flowing and I noticed as I was running my own "engine" star...

July 1, 2008 | comments (2) | Uncategorized

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