6 months already

You hear moms say it all the time "they grow up so fast". You may even roll your eyes and think nahh but when you become part of the "mom club" oh yes there is a mom club, you suddenly realize - yes, they do in fact grow up WAY too fast.

Today Rylee is 6 months old. It has gone by so fast yet at the same time I feel like she has always been with us. It is hard to remember what life was like before we had her! Next thing I know she will be going to college! I'm sure it will all go by in the blink of an eye.

Now my baby girl Rylee has brought us SO much joy in our life. I love everything we get to do together and don't know how I will be able to cope when I have to go back to work. I don't want to have to leave her, and although it is still 6 months away, I know it will be here before I know it.

Life as a mom is pretty much what I expected it to be. I feel it has come very naturally to both Sean and I and we don't over do it like a lot of first time parents do (which there is nothing wrong with that). We use cloth diapers, which is surprisingly simple (I really like simple) and has saved us quite a bit of money along the way.

Now my day involve cooking, cleaning, tending to Rylee, working my home business and laundry...lots of laundry.

                

                    3 loads to fold...

Mission accomplished!

I love all of the things that we get to do with her, and I could go on and on about how awesome and cute she is...but you already know that and she just woke up from her nap and is ready to be fed. 

Happy 6 month birthday Rylee Roo. Mama and daddy love you very much!

Until next time...                                                   

Dead weight

Even when I was at my goal weight, I felt like a blob in the sense that I didn’t move very gracefully. I feel like I walk like a man, and not very elegantly. I am heavy in my steps and don’t have very good movement.

Why is this coming up you ask? Because the personal trainer I go to (who is great) focuses on sports training. We do a lot of foot work and quick feet, two things that I don’t have. I always dread the part of the session where we have to do foot work through the ladder.  First of all I am trying to focus on what my steps are – because each time we go through it’s something new and my coordination is not great and second trying to stay light on my feet.

I always get so frustrated because I am trying to move quickly, yet I am going so slow.  Plus trying to remember to move my arms at the same time – there is just too much going on!

After my session yesterday I asked him why I was having such a hard time moving and staying light on my feet – and it all depends on the position of your body and how tired your legs are. The more tired your legs are the harder the drills are. WELL THAT EXPLAINS IT! My legs are always sore just from the warm up! Haha. No but for real, I need to work on the position of my body and hopefully I will be able to have quicker feet. I tried it after we were done talking and I was able to move quicker, but I was also in a good mood so that probably had something to do with it as well.

I am also going to try to walk lighter on my feet too – more on the balls of my feet. One reason why I never wear heels (besides how much they hurt my feet) is I always feel clunky and clumsy walking in them. I know I am tall – but I am not that big, I should be able to be somewhat graceful.

I guess I can’t have it both ways – competitive soccer player and graceful female…or can I?

On a different topic I still need to find a new sport/activity to do. Yes I have my soccer and my trainer, but since I gave up running I want to find something new.

I used to go to the Zumba classes at my gym, which I loved, but haven’t been in quite a while. Perhaps what I’ll do is look at the schedule and pick out some gym classes to go to and try something new next week!

Tomorrow is my birthday...stay tuned for a special post!

P.S. I sprayed my clothes with laundry smelling fabreeze this morning (even though they were clean) and now I am getting this GREAT smell every time I move!

A long weekend

Since the last post was from the past few days, luck you, get a second post!

It's a long weekend here in Canada and both Sean and I get Monday off. I decided that the best way to spend that extra day would be to cook ahead a bunch of meals to stock up our freezer, that and do my taxes.

I worked on my taxes last night and this morning, and they are mostly done (just have to go over them and double check my numbers.

The rest of the day today I have spent figuring out what I am going to make to stock the freezer and put together a grocery list. I am going to make the following:

- 2 loaves of banana bread
- 2 loaves of meatloaf
- cranberry oat muffins
- veggie soup
- hamburger patties
- sloppy joe mix
- hamburger surprise
- meatballs
- zucchini risotto (I'm going to try this in the slow cooker since it does take a long time to make normally).
- homemade tortilla shells
- burritos
- ginger cookies

I was only planning on using Monday to cook, but I am making more than I thought I was going to, so I am going to start on Sunday afternoon.

This morning we had our usual weekend breakfast of pancakes. Sean went to mix the batter and realized that we didn't have enough pancake mix, so we got dressed and went to the grocery store. While we were there we decided to get some bacon too. When at my parents house earlier in the week I had tried bacon that had been cooked in the oven, and it was so good, so naturally I wanted to try it.

It was an epic fail, but at the same time a great success...

This part was the fail - it was on the top rack:

This part was the tasty part - it was on the bottom rack:

I think next time I will switch the top and bottom rack cookie sheets half way through to make it a little more even. But I still consider breakfast a big success. * Side tip - if you have left over pancakes put them in the fridge, then when you are ready to eat them put them in the toaster to heat them up, and they won't be soggy!

Tonight we are going to be going to the states since we need a bunch of items that we can only get there, so we might as well do all of our groceries at the same time. The list is quite long since I'm going to be doing all of the extra baking but it will cut down on cost and time over the next little bit.

Anyways, my laundry is done, so it's time to fold it and then take a short rest with Levi who is sound asleep and Patches who is snoring away (we are watching her this weekend while my parents are away - and of course using their washing machine!)

Until next time...