feb 10 2011

today's to do list
breakfast- done
playing in the snow- in progress
lunch
speech therapy at 1 pm
homeschooling, from 2-pm and on
dinner- 5 pm
clean up, bedtime routine
Husband- teaching private Piano lessons tonight- 7:30-8:30

Accomplishments:
breakfast
setting up blogs
outdoor time- snow time

Mamavation Monday feb 7 2011

So this week was better than it has been in quite a while as far as the workouts go. Began working out again this week and had a really good workout on wednesday, and friday.. atleast for me! I burned 177 calories on Wednesday's workout, and 197 calories on friday's workout. (both days working out 25 minutes on the wii fit!
So I was pretty proud of myself considering I had been inactive with the workouts in well who knows how long!

Goals for the upcoming week:
Monday: wii workout- atleast 10-15 minutesm,Strength training
tuesday: wii fit- 25-60 minutes
wednesday- Strength training
thursday wii fit 25-60 minutes
friday -strength training,
saturday- walk if weather permitting, wii fit,



This week's blogging carnival is hosted by Chef's Requested and the question of the day is:
What are you doing to keep your heart healthy?

well for me, I am trying to up my fruitt and vege's and get active again. get my heart pumping! I have been terrible about both since November. This has been a better week!

as for weight loss this week. Lost about 1 lb last I checked. could've gained it back but lets hope not!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Mamavation Feb 1,2011

So I guess I have REALLY been M.I.A. as of lately. Been trying to get into the swing of things with this new schedule of homeschooling and been making excuse after excuse of not working out, and I have fallen off the bandwagon. My apologies for not being active in the sistahood, and I am back to recommitting to being more active and more supportive on here, and more active with my posts. I have WANTED to workout and get back to being healthier,tracking my food intake, and everything but by the time the kids are in bed, I am sooo tired. so, I'm back!! Weighed in the other day at 205 lbs, fully dressed weight..

I did take kids on a walk the other day and we did community service around our neigborhood picking up trash, so we got a walk in doing that, but it was slow walking. no heart pumping or anything.

Goals for this week:
Lift weights/Strength training atleast 3x a week for 15-30 minutes per day
100 Jumping jacks- atleast 3 days a week-
cardio 3 x this week for 30 minutes
will try to walk with the kids on the days the weather permits. Our church is having their first 5k walk/jog in May, and I am looking forward to this. This oughta give me some motivation, and our church leader has challenged us as a church to get fit, and eat healthier and take care of our bodies.. so here's to my new goals and a new year!

Wintery Wonderland!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Season this year and a great start to the new year! We already getting our 2nd snow storm of the yr. Usually we don't get more that 1 inch of snow more than once a yr but this Winter it's been different. On Christmas we were hit with 3 inches of snow and that is the first GA has seen snow on Christmas since 1882!!! And now, tonight we are supposed to have a double threat snow storm. (Snow storm, and ice storm!) Kids are excited about the expected snow, but at the same time, we also have the threat of real dangerous roads, and power outages so pray we are all safe and sound. Originally I heard we were expected to get 7 inches. Now the forecast is saying 1-3 inches. 2 yrs ago they said 1-3 inches and we got 6 inches, so with the weather system out here.. ya never know what to expect. LOL It's supposed to go from 7 pm tonight to 7 pm tomorrow night.
Thank goodness I don't have anywhere to go tomorrow. If the roads do ice over, I am praying they let my hubby off work. I REALLY don't want him driving an hr to work in extremely dangerous road conditions. Hope everyone stays safe this weekend/week! Cheers!

Mamavation and homeschooling

The homeschooling Life!
So who feels like hearing about one of the busy days in the life of this homeschooling mom? Here was my day today. No wonder I am exausted by the end of the day. By 9:30 my eyes burned and I was so tired, that the thought of excercise wore me out.. but be proud of me.. I did it!! Okay now.. don't say I didn't warn you!!

homeschooling: Jan 4,2011
Breakfast, home economics/lifeskills- 45 min- 1 hr- everyone


2. everyone(30 minutes): History/social studies: read about "in-out" Baskets an artifact from the Smithsonian.(took turns reading paragraphs- older 2 kids) a basket made out of grasses,brush and bound with cow ribs,broken off spoons, and flattened nails. Disected article into parts to discuss so they would understand and comprehend the article and how the baskets were made and with what materials. resource: http://historyexplorer.si.edu/artifacts/resource.asp?id=1603
movie- Robin hood- cartoon while mom cooks lunch,Seth-josh- imaginitive/creative play
Lunch, Spiritual studies- family Scripture reading.- 30 minutes
Alphabet organizer- (resource- thinkfinity.org)- 45 min- Anna (wrote 1 word per letter, with a sentence per word)
handwriting skills- lizzie, joshua, Seth, Anna-(resource-: http://handwritinghelpforkids.com/worksheets.html)-

outside time- excercise- everyone- physical education
family walk- physical education- health and fitness- 1 mile- 35 minutes
Anna- 1 hr Ballet class- fitness- (driving back and forth to and from ballet)

Seth- reading and comprehension- story "Ben's loose tooth", and worksheet- questions on the story. (resource: superteacherworksheets.com)

Anna- finish- Alphabet organizer.- 30 minutes
Andrew- Alphabet organizer- (listed 3 words that begin with each letter)- 1.5 hrs
Anna- story comprehension.- "Ben's Loose Tooth", and worksheet with Comprehension questions.
Andrew- read story(on his own, with guidance on a few words)- "That's not all"

Handwriting worksheet- Letter Cc- Josh,Lizzie (age 4,5)
lifskills/homemaking- 30 minutes
dinner- pizza
get ready for bed
kids bed, prayers said, family prayer
mom- excercise- wii fit plus

I weighed myself today. first time in I don't know how long.. I weighed in at 207 eeek.. so a 2- 3 lb gain give or take. Seems I was 205 last I weighed so not too bad considering how long it had been since I had excercised last and how long it had been since I had tracked my food intake, and weighed myself, and also considering the holidays!
But I did it today. I walked 1.13 miles and I did ST on the wii fit. So 2011 here I come! This is going to be a good yr.

Dec, 29,2010

Sorry ladies. Still not much to report. Just haven't felt good lately and had alot going on so I haven't done much in the way of excercise lately. I haven't eaten as much on certain meals though due to loss of appetite. Also my sister complimented me on Christmas and asked if I had been losing weight. That made me smile. I haven't actually checked my weight or measured in quite a while though. I did do some excercise yesterday on the wii fit cheer to try to figure it out for my daughter who was having trouble getting it to log her total points earned but I didn't do any better but boy was it one heck of a workout! :-) I got new clothes for Christmas in smaller sizes too and they fit. woohoo! So that's my report on my fitness goals.

There has been alot going on in my life lately between homeschooling, doc appts, speech therapy appts, holidays, snow, being sick and all . I have been sick with a horrible cough that felt like the flu. Might have even been bronchitis or Pneumonia. The dry cough is still lingering on. So needless to say, workouts have been last on my list of importance and I feel so gross, but I am hoping to get back into the swing of things this week and with the new yr starting up.

As for Christmas, we had a wonderful Christmas with family! My sisters came in town and it was so wonderful to see them, and their spouses, to see my dad, and step mom, and it even SNOWED on Christmas day! That NEVER happens in Georgia! Supposedly that was the first it has snowed on Christmas since 1882! LOL So yes, it was a wonderful holiday. We opened gifts at home in the morning, Opened more gifts at my dad's home, then had snow, so yes My kids were in Christmas heaven!

As for home organization.. it looks like a tornado blew through.. Christmas deco is staying up till probably New yrs day! But I seriously need to get to the housework RIGHT now! Got back to the homeschooling after the holiday break yesterday.
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Sicklies are no fun- Dec 15,2010

So today I have been just FUNCTIONING so to speak as I have been sick with a nasty cough, achy muscles, chills, queasiness that made it hard to function so needless to say I didn't get any workouts in today and yesterday I was way too sore.. Find it funny when a little bit of wii fit kung fu can make my neck so sore! LOL that's sad! But needless to say despite the sicklies, I did get some homeschooling in. Most of it was online learning mind you, but we did get some guided reading in, and some worksheet time, and I assessed some of their skills.. so it wasn't as eventful of a day but good considering how crappy I felt.