It's a number........

I forgot about my number......drum roll pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee...........

the number is ONE...that's right, uno! That's how many lbs I lost last week! But that's ok...add that number to my other numbers and the total is 6 so I'm pretty happy about that.

I know what I did wrong on my "I"m not going to eat anything white diet".......I ate a few white items. Like bread, rice, potatoes.......oh well, back on track this week. The scale may only say that but my clothes are looser so that's my goal.

and here's a few pics of my darling diva girl.......Little Miss Chrissy and her great big underbite!

later.........

Just pictures........

from Random Mommy........

Tagged by Random Mommy......
Why do you blog? I don't really know.......I just thought it was cool and I want to be the cool grandma.
What was the first blog you ever read? http://lifewithcherylwray.blogspot.com/
What was the first blog that had you hooked? hands down.. http://catwomantexas.blogspot.com/
Which blogger friend would you most like to meet in real person? I don't think I could pick just one...then someone might get mad at me!
Which blog do you admire the most, why? I think maybe Random Mommy and Wiping up Snot (Karly) because they tell it like it is.....and they are so freakin funny
How different are you in real life than in your blog? what you see/read is what you get.....yes, my life is that boring! But not to me
How many blogs do you keep up with on a daily basis? A LOT......my blogroll is no indication at all
Link to your 123rd post. Or your 3rd, if you don't have 123. and really, I'm still new to all of this and I don't really know how to link anything......... and I haven't even hit my 100th post.....but it's almost here.
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I could stay home....again......

So I've been home with Maddox for 2 days and even though I hate the fact that he has felt bad, I have loved the fact that he just wanted to lay in my lap for 2 days.

I stayed home with my kids for 14 years.....and it was fun, a lot of work and sometimes crazy but always fun....and I always loved it and never regretted it. Now I work........and staying home with Maddox those 2 days made me want to stay home again!!EXCEPT for the following......
**Dora the Explorer
**Spongebob
**Go Diago Go
**Backyardigans

OMG....who writes this stuff. My kids had Sesame Street, Mister Rogers and Care Bear. And I could tolerate them.....but this stuff now, I think I would rather work.

later.......

He's home.......

and all is well. Maddox did great and we're home. He's pretty much out of it and only wants his mommy to be holding him. And that's understandable. He's on liquids for the first 24 hours and then soft food for a week. I don't like seeing him like this.....very whiney and we have not seen a smile since this morning before he left. I bet he smiles when his grandpa gets here!

I have taken Tues and Wed off from work to stay with him so Nicole can work. He can return to the sitters on Thursday....this ole grandma is going to be tired!

later.........

It's Sunday ya'll......

we did get a little bit of snow on Saturday......just a dusting. Damn it....I want the big one!! Another shot on Thursday. And man oh man.....it is bitter! It's 11:00 in the morning and it's only 26 degrees with wind chill of 12. Our high today should reach 33 and that's it.....brrrr.

Here's a number .... 2. That's the number, that's the lb's that I lost this week. Add that to the number last week and we have a new number..5. yeah me! I have not been able to slip my diamonds on my finger for probably 3 months and last Thursday, they slipped right on. So I'm happy about that.

We have the final games today....should be good ones. I'm cooking a chuck roast, my favorite and I'm using Pioneer Woman's recipe, which is very similar to my own.

And then tomorrow sucks because our little guy Maddox has to have his surgery. It just makes me have tears thinking about it. He's all happy and loving life and not even knowing whats going to happen tomrrow. I'm sure he'll do fine and I hope he bounces back quick.

So let me go get my roast going so I'll be all ready to sit down for the games.

later.....

SNOW....

yeah......we got a little bit of snow.
I knew when I walked out of the house this morning that we would get some......it was that pre-snow quiet. You know it...it's always so very quiet right before the snow comes.
It snowed for a couple of hours.......and we enjoyed it at work looking out the windows. Then it turned to just rain....a lot of rain and really cold rain.

I left work a little early just so I could avoid the crazy drivers.
"They" say we are getting some more snow on Saturday....we'll see.

Good news / Bad news.....

The Bad news........The Richmond Braves are leaving us! That's right, they are heading down to Georgia. I said last year whenever we attended games that it was down right pathetic of the number of fans in attendance. If you don't support your teams, then they go away. They also needed new facilities and Richmond had to just keep arguing over that and now, they are heading down to Georgia! We still have this season in Richmond.....then bye bye!

The Good news...they are calling for snow this evening, maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow afternoon, maybe turning to rain, maybe an inch of slush, maybe nothing! Who knows but I still get excited about the possiblity. The storm is coming from the south and that usually means a good snow but the past few years have proven that fact to be wrong!

so here at work, we're still a bunch of kids I guess because we all said we need to wear our pj's inside out and backward and do the little snow dance before we go to bed tonight....yeah, that's what we do here in Virginia!

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Update.......

3......3 is the number. that's not so bad

and the Cowboys.....well, it was sad, it was painful and it hurt my eyes.

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Tomorrow's the big day.......

no....not just the Cowboys but my weigh in after eating what feels like practically NOTHING! Kidding....it hasn't been that hard and I'm surprised that I've been so good for a week. Usually I just tell myself what the hell, I'll start again another week. But nope......I stuck with it this time. I wonder how much I lost?

I received my Kraft magazine in the mail the other day......if you do not receive this, you should go online and register for it. It's free and it has the best recipes. And the really great thing about the recipes, you usually have all of the ingredients already in your kitchen. Or maybe I do since Johnny boy works for Kraft (Nabisco)...

so tonight I tried one of the recipes out of the magazine......which is really weird because I NEVER cook on a Saturday night but this is my new healthy eating plan. I'm trying to stay away from take out.....sorry Gino's, sorry Vinny's, sorry Mr Wongs, sorry Casa Grande.....

I cooked Brushetta & Cheese stuffed Chicken. Yum Yum.....mix up Italian style tomatoes, (do not drain) Stovetop stuffing for chicken, basil and mozzerella cheese. Flatten out the chicken breast, spoon on the stuff above and then roll up the chicken. Drizzle Kraft Roasted Red Pepper Dressing with parmesion and stick in a 350 oven for 40 min. After that, put some cheese on top of each breast, stick back in oven for about 5 min. This stuff is good!

well, New England just won.......so NE and Green Bay are set for next weekend. Tomorrow we'll find out the rest....

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A little nervous.....

about tomorrow's Cowboys / Giants game.

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Not much....

going on......so let's have some bullet points!

*SIL from Atlanta has been here since Saturday. She came up for a funeral but I have to admit, it's been awesome spending time with her. Johnny and I are going down to Atlanta in April to hang out, go to some festival and see a Braves game..oh la la!

*Work has been crazy busy......arghhh

*I'm officially on a diet....have to get rid of the "no smoking" weight gain. So what I'm doing is not eating anything white...ie: bread, potatoes, pasta, etc. I'm having Special K for breakfast, a Smart One for lunch or salad bar, vinegar dressing and then some veggies, chicken, salad...that sort of thing for dinner. Snack is celery and/or Slimfast snack bars. Also drinking lots of water. Now that the weather is good, riding my bike each day. So we'll see.....we'll see how it goes. At this point I either lose or accept the fact that this is the way I am. I'm not stressing over it.......not wearing a bathing suit this year but not stressing..haha.

*I have never found a flavored water that I like...umm, that is until now! Ice...that's right, Ice babeee.......yum yum! And only 5 calories. It satisfies my sweet craving.

*Our grandson Maddox is having surgery on the 21st....but shouldn't be too bad. He is having his adnoids removed, also they are checking out his trachea....from the surgery they did when he was 6 months. They think they might need to do a little work there. I know he'll be fine but boy I sure hate that stuff happening to him.

*I have already filled up one of my memory cards for my new camera and almost filling up the other one. I'll post some pics soon.....I'm looking into taking a class. Also, hoping to get on Karen Russell's online class. I need help in deciding how to store my photos. I have always stored them on Image Station but then had to move to Shutterfly. I then get them put on CD....so I feel I have a good backup. I don't want to store on my computer so I'm looking for some kind of external device....any suggestions....anyone????

that's it for now....I'll try to post pics tomorrow

later.......

back to work.......

I knew I was going to have a hard time going to sleep early last night. Especially since I've been staying up so late and sleeping even later so I decided to pop open one of the bottles of wine I recv'd for Christmas. So this one was a blackberry wine that a friend at work gave me. She said it's just so hard to find and it's yummy....like a dessert....like people pour it over cakes and ice cream!
so I opened it and oh my...it's good alright! very sweet but good. She told me she would find me the wild raspberry one.

and it was just enough to help me ease on in to an early night's sleep...but I still didn't want to get up this morning.
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Happy New Year.....

my first post for 2008!
a very laid back day......with a little cooking. We're having pork chops (fat chops that I cook all day long in a low oven and they just fall apart) also having the traditional black eyed peas for good luck (we ARE southern) and cabbage for prosperity. I'm also fixing sauteed mushrooms and cornbread.....again, we ARE southern!

It stopped raining and I stopped shopping so I rode my new pink bike today! I love it. I was wondering while I rode it if I looked silly....I had my Polo big cape on and my hair up....so I was kind of laughing thinking maybe I looked like that witch from the Wizard of Oz when she rode that bike in the sky.....oh well, I had fun.

And now it's back to work tomorrow..everything returns to normal. I'm about ready to go back to work but I'm not ready to get up at 6:00 am. I have been loving sleeping late! oh well......

later........