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Need help with Math???? Seriously check this out!!!

2009-11-13T17:57:00.001-05:00

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Gained weight but on track again..

2009-11-12T11:02:00.002-05:00

I had a horrible gain. I went nuts, I will admit it. I had these cravings for candy and Halloween was in sight and candy was everywhere. I could smell the candy as I walked into the store and walked the isles. I was eating candy bards (3-4 ) a day and buying M&M's and eating huge bags of them. My kids were looking at me like I had an addiction. I went to my weigh-in at Weight Watchers and I had a gain and it was bad. I was now 4 pounds over what I started with. Yuck!

Last week I saw an article in a prevention magazine extra. It was called the 2-week turnaround. I read the article after buying the magazine. After reading it I decided it was something I could do. It was only 30 minutes of cardio a day (6 days a week) and then a little strength training exercises (with simple equipment like dumbbells that I have). I really have been having a hard time trying to get on the treadmill with little bear crying all the time when I do. He sleeps until it is time for me to exercise and then, boom, he is awake and crying. I figure 30 minutes is not bad. they mix it up too. you do a different routine every other day with both the cardio and the strength training. Also, they have an eating plan where you only have 1600 cals a day. For some funny reason I find it easier to count calories than points. I decided to do this.

I have been doing this for 4 days now. I have stayed on plan and it is actually kinda fun! I eat approximately 1585 a day. I come as close to 1600 as can. I have been getting the 30 minutes on the treadmill in too. Sometimes little bear wakes up part way through but it is not too bad as long as it is only a few minutes of crying. The strength training is fun with routine A I hate routine B but I do it anyway. :) I have to say I am soooo sore! I can hardly walk but it feels good because I know I am doing something that is working. I have also lost 4 pounds in a few days!! I needed this jumpstart! The article says you will lose up to 14 inches and 12 pounds in 14 days. We will see.

I still go to the Weight Watchers meetings to weigh-in. I need the accountability of the weigh-in. I also like to think I am on the Biggest Loser and I have to weigh-in every week and it is all recorded. I also like that you are recognised when you lose every five pounds. That will help to keep me motivated. I just won't tell anyone at the meeting that I am not following the points system. ;)

Tuesday weigh-in..

2009-10-07T09:51:00.005-04:00

I was a little anxious about yesterdays weigh-in. Partly because I thought I gained weight and partly because my leader wanted to see my food journal.

I had not been doing the food journal as I had been doing it online with the e-tools and not on the paper journal. I am not home a lot so I forgot a lot to record things online. Well, on Sunday when the leader said in an email that she wanted to see my journal I decided to start doing it on paper that day. I did it Sunday through Tuesday. I found it to be better too. I can carry ti with me all day and I keep much better track of my food when I am out all day. I really think I like it better than logging in on the computer. I like the other e-tools and the recipe builder and activity points calculator and such but i think I will track points on paper from now on.

OK, I stayed on point for those 3 days afraid I would get scolded by my leader. I was about 3 pounds above last weeks weigh-in on Saturday. Well, exercising and staying on point (no weeklies) and I lost weight at Tues weigh-in!! I was only down 1.2 pounds but hey I was down! Now I am below what I started again. It says that in 5 weeks I have only lost .8 but hey I am on my way again and I am going to try much harder this week. I have been tracking everything I put in my mouth on my paper tracker. I was also told by my leader to make sure to get ALL the HG's in too. They are the oils, liquids, protein, grains...etc. I was told by my leader that my journal was all junk food. She said that I am not eating fruits and veggies and that all my points I use are junk. That is why even though I stayed on points I only lost a tiny bit. She said to try eating fruits and veggies for my points and not cheese-its and Starbucks. (even thought the cheese-its were 3 points (25 crackers) and the Starbucks was only 2 for the non-fat capp with pumpkin spice, she said that I could have had a huge amount of fat free popcorn with those powdered flavorings for only 2 points or 1/2 a cantaloupe for 2 points. That would fare me much better. I think I will try it this week and also try to get in more exercise. I did 5 days but only 30 minutes a day. The baby screams when I am on the treadmill or doing any other form of exercise. It seems he knows. No matter when I try to do it he knows and is no longer napping and just creams. it is very difficult to exercise when you have a baby screaming for you. he is so precious to me it breaks my heart. I even had my daughter babysit him in his room (right next to mine and I had the door open) and he still screamed. My daughter was at a loss. Poor girl. She tried. :)

anyway, My week was hectic and I ate poorly but I did lose. I think if I stay on track with my eating this week. (the whole week) and exercise consistently I think I should do OK. I really want that bookmark and my 5 pound sticker!! I saw a girl get her 10% key chain yesterday and it is a cute gold keyring. I can't wait to reach my 10%. I have not been there for a few years now.

I will keep y'all posted!!

I did it again!

2009-09-29T14:27:00.004-04:00

I got on the treadmill! That makes 2 days in a row! I know, I know. You might be thinking that 2 days in a row is not a lot but like I said in a previous post, Mini goals.., I am trying to accomplish things in mini goals. I am happy that I did it 2 days in a row. Usually I would say, "Well, I did it yesterday so skipping just one day will not hurt. After all, I can do it every other day and still get 4 days a week in." Then I would never get it in the third day and so on. I have to stop making excuses for my laziness sometimes.

There was a time I worked out at the Gym 2 hours a day 5 days a week. I felt great. There were days when I think I worked out too much. I gave myself headaches but at least I was consistent and I did it. I need to make a new mini goal now. I have accomplished getting on the treadmill 2 days in a row so now my new goal is to finish up the week. I need to get on the treadmill everyday for the rest of the week. (Wed, Thur, Fri).

My little bear got upset while I was on the treadmill and that made my heart rate a bit high but I will try to figure out how I can workout without little bear getting upset. He seems to know. That is the one time he will not nap. No matter what time I choose. He just knows. :) He loves his mum and I think the treadmill scares him. He is only 2 months old after all. :)

OK I have a weigh in tonight so I will post about that later. Now, I am off to prepare 4 chicken pot pies for the freezer. (Not WW friendly but my husband loves them)I feel that if I eat a small portion then I can enjoy it without the guilt. Plus as long as I am exercising then I will have those activity points to count. :)

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Update. I weighed in and had a slight disappointment but next week will be better. I gained but only 1.2 pounds. I was told it could be water weight or even muscle mass since I started to exercise again. I am betting on the water weight. (water retention) I should have a better week next week. I will not give up because of something like this. :) I will keep pushing forward. :)

New week..

2009-09-28T09:55:00.004-04:00

It is a new week. I know my weigh-in's are Tuesdays but it is Monday and it is a new week for me. I got on the treadmill and was able to finish my workout before the baby got too upset. I am now off to do errands. I feel great and have no desire to eat candy because that would ruin my workout that I had done. I love working out in the morning as it seems that once the day starts and you are part way through it , you just seem to get too busy to exercise. I told myself "No excuses." Not today. I dropped the older bears off at school and drove home. I did my devotions and then learned some moved for turbo jam. I them jumped onto the treadmill for 20 minutes. I have a heart rate monitor and saw that I burned 540 calories!! I have not eaten yet but I will. I have a protein shake I will drink. It is from Arbonne (I sell it if interested) and I will drink the fiber drink and the the NRG tablets as well this am. It is all natural stuff and I am feeling good about staying out of the candy and getting my workout in. I think i may have gained this week but we will see. I have my weigh-in at 6pm tomorrow afternoon. I will let you all know how I did!!

On our way to the park...

2009-09-25T13:22:00.004-04:00

I have not gotten on the treadmill all week. I keep telling myself I will. I keep telling myself every time I eat a candy bar from the freezer that I will get on the treadmill and burn the calories off and yet... I never do. I need to get motivated. I know that if I gain at this coming Tuesday's weigh in I will be motivated but at the same time discouraged. I don't want to get discouraged. I can't wait for this candy fundraiser to be over. Ever since the kids brought home the candy i have been tempted to go to the freezer in the garage and grab 2 at a time. (2 because each kid has a box to sell. I tell myself this will be the last time I grab some Candy so I have to be fair to both kids and take one from each box) I am seriously sabotaging myself. I need to stop this.

I have some friends that meet at the park for a home school group thing for a couple hours on Fridays. I think I will head over there and maybe get some walking in. I have a jogger stroller but I can't jog yet because the baby is only 2 months old and his head is not strong enough for me to be running with the jogger.

Maybe i could convince one of my friends to make a date every day (weekdays) to meet me at the park and we can go power walking. I need someone around me to help me.

I used to exercise everyday. I loved it. I was strong and thin and felt powerful. I felt great when I exercised. So...what happened to me? I need to start to make this a habit again. I have read that if you do something 15 times in a row then it becomes a formed habit. I need to do this. I need to make it a habit to exercise again. I need to stop eating candy. I feel guilt every time I do it but I keep doing it.

I hope to have a better rest of the day (already had 2 candy bars today.) I ate oatmeal this morning hoping that would stop me from eating the candy and it did not. I also owe about $28 for all the candy I have eaten. You would think that was a motivator to stay out of it. Right?

OK, have to get a shower and then off to the park. I will let you all know how things went and if I will get a partner in exercise. :)

I can't beleive I lost..

2009-09-23T05:44:00.003-04:00

I really can't. I had a bad cold all week. I was off plan all week. I got so off plan that I decided to see how my Tue weigh went and just start all over on plan this week. I ate probably 20 candy bars (My kids are selling them for school so there are tons of them in the chest freezer and oh so tempting) and I had nearly a gallon of cider this week. I just did not focus on diet or exercise all week. I thought for sure I was gonna weigh at least 2 pounds heavier and yet I was down .6 pounds today!!I know it is not a lot but it is still down. Yay!! So imagine if I had actually been on plan and gotten onto the treadmill or went for a walk a few times this week!! I am down a total of 1 pound for 2 weeks. I am thinking i want my 5 pound sticker since that is to be our first goal. I will try for 4 pounds this week. If it does not happen fine but I will try anyway. The goals are: 1) 5 pounds
2) 5% (of what you started at) and 3) 10%. Then after you lose 10% the leader at the meeting will help you make a goal.

I had never done i this way before. They used to ask us what our goal was and I would always come up with a number a few pounds lighter than I was before I got married. (pre-babies) I think people were planning unrealistic goals and that is why WW is doing things this way now. They find a more attainable goal that is healthy and doable. I know I can get to pre-baby weight someday but my focus and goal should be just a healthy weight and when I get there I Can then get to pre-baby.

I used to be very, very thin. I am really not far from a healthy weight now but I am not where I want to be. I have read the WW booklet and a (high end) healthy weight for me would be 179. I am almost there! I like making smaller, more attainable goals. It it less frustrating of a process when you have mini goals and can accomplish them faster. Maybe that is why I failed so many times before. My goal was too big and it took too long to get there and I gave up before reaching it. Not this time!!

Tue weigh-in

2009-09-17T09:20:00.004-04:00

I went to the meeting on Tue. I was late. I thought it started at 7 and realized it started at 6pm and ran out the door. I got there as everyone was leaving but I did get to weigh-in. I stepped on the scale and the woman wrote down the weight loss. I took the book and looked at what she had written and it said .4. I was shocked! point four!!!??? You have got to be kidding. I was disappointed and thought I needed to change my points profile. I took the quiz again and realized I need 5 less a day than I had originally thought.

I was happy about one thing. I had taken my measurements the week before just because I had never done that and I was curious how many I could lose. I also know that when you lose you sometimes lose inches and not pounds.

I re-took my measurements on Tue night after the weigh-in and I lost 6 inches all around!!! 2" on each thigh. 1" on the bust and 1" on the hips!! Yay! Ok, now I am encouraged again. I even had someone tell me in church yesterday that I was looking skinny. I don't think this but that was great to hear!

I have not had anything to eat yet today and it is already 9:30am. I do need to go eat my oatmeal and FF milk before I gorge myself on the kids candy for the school fundraiser. That is a bad habit I have always had that I need to break. I love chocolate and candy and sweet stuff in the morning. I would gorge on it and before I had children I could do it without gaining a Pound on my svelte figure but now I can not do that.
Ya know I was thinking, if i had a chef come over and cook me egg white omelets every morning and some whole grain veggie wraps with Quiona and tilapia for dinner... I think I would do ok!!! It is the preparation that kills me. I just feel like I don't have time and I need something fast. I would love to eat healthy all the time and have it ready on the table when it is time for it. I need an easy button. *smiling*

Started Weight Watchers again.

2009-09-15T11:55:00.003-04:00

I am embarking on the Weight Watchers journey again! I started it about 12 months ago and then a couple months later found out I was expecting!! I am now ready to lose those baby pounds that crept on and continue to my goal weight! I am 5' 11" and my goal is 145! I was 193 (Yikes!) at the WW weigh in last week. I weigh in again tonight. I will let you knwo what it says. I did the waist to hip ration thing today and found out it is 7.8 and that is actually high normal for a female. (Jillian Michael's said this on the TODAY show this morning) I want to be lower than that and I want to be the weight I was when I got married. I know that with discipline and motivation and some cheerleaders on my side I can do it!! (I can hear Tony Little ringing in my ear "You can do it!!")

Please encourage me on this journey.

This is my 100Th post by the way. I am still waiting for my followers so I can get sponsorship and some great prizes for contests!! Maybe I will make it my 125Th post will be a cool contest! I have written to some companies and got no response. I think I will try Etsy companies but I do want to encourage these sponsors that I do have people that Read my blog and they will get some good advertisement from the contest. So please, if you will for me... tell all your friends to read my blog and follow my journey through life, Weight loss and even view some of my Fave things! I have lots of those. :)

Thanks all!!
Ciao!

Sooth your colicky baby.

2009-08-26T14:04:00.004-04:00

We just bought the Fisher Price Lil lamb sleeper swing and I have to say it has been a life saver!!! My sweet little baby is a bit colicky these days and I thought I was losing my mind. I have been delusional early in the morning after no sleep for over a month and I am getting cranky because of the lack of sleep and "me time" and cuddle time with hubby. I can not get housework done or anything.

My baby loves to be with me and lying on my chest 24/7 and as sweet and precious as that it I do have to do other things sometimes. I love this baby more than m y own life and I love the quality time I spend with him but I do need to put him down once in awhile and that was just not happening. Thus the lack of posts in my blog lately. We bought this cradle swing and has been so wonderful!!!! I wrote a review on it here on Epinions.com Please check it out. I would recommend this swing to anyone with a young baby. The price is well worth your sanity. :)

Southern Living: Preppy Style is having a 100th post giveaway!!!

2009-08-14T11:30:00.002-04:00

Southern Living:Preppy Style is having a 100th post giveaway and you don't want to miss it! Check out her blog and enter!! It's all about the feet ladies!!

That reminds me. I am about to hit my 100th post and I will be having a really great giveaway soon. Please check back often for details!!!

Ciao!

New & Exciting Giveaway!! Details soon!!!

2009-08-14T11:13:00.002-04:00

I have a very exciting giveaway to tell you all about and the details will come very soon. Stay tuned and tell others so we can make this a great contest with lots more to follow!!!

Ciao!!

Fall is around the corner

2009-08-13T23:29:00.004-04:00

I love fall. I am from New England and I think New England epitomizes what fall is all about. I get all nostalgic when it comes to fall and fall decorating. I now live in FL where we do not have fall but believe me, when you walk into my house it is New England all over! I love decorating it for the seasons too. It is so much fun.

I was recently given a Yankee Candle that is "flavored like Caramel Pecan. I think it is a very sweet smell. Literally sweet. It makes the whole house smell like candy. I love it. It is my precursor to fall. I usually have apple spice and pumpkin smells in the house for fall.

I lit the candle tonight and now I am enjoying some animal crackers and the smell of sweet caramel and pecan while I am blogging. The baby is stirring a bit and I will have to feed him in about thirty minutes. It is so relaxing to have the house all quiet and smelling delicious and it makes it a pleasing thing to stay up all hours of the night with the baby. I love this time I have with him.

Whoops, off topic a bit there. Sorry the brain thinks baby all the time these days.

Anyway, I have some great finds I will share with everyone soon. I saw some pink and green in Marshall's the other day that I have to share with you all.

Until then...
Ciao!

Please click on my google ads and I will do same for you!!

2009-08-09T02:10:00.003-04:00

I wanted to ask everyone of my readers a favor. I have google ads on my blog here and I was wondering if you all could bookmark my blog and everyday come and check out the google ads I have. this will help me out tremendously. I will return the favor back to you as well. Just post a comment here that you will do this for me and I will also return the favor. Also, be sure to follow my blog. I want to start having more contests soon and I want to be sure I have a lot of people that will participate. That way I will get good sponsors and prizes!!

These ads have some pretty cool sites that I have visited from others google ads. Really worth the look. :)

I am so in love with our new baby!!

2009-08-07T15:27:00.002-04:00

I have 2 other kids and love them more than my own life. It is so hard to think sometimes that you could possibly love anyone else. there can not be any more love in me to give. But, when this little baby was born 3 weeks ago, I fell head over heels in love with him. I would die for him and I can not get enough of him. I love the bonding we have at night when I feed him and everyone else in sleeping. I love talking to him and Reading to him. I worry about the swine flu with him and it makes me cry to think about it.

I am 36 years old so my husband said no more babies. It makes me sad but I am soaking in every single moment I can with our new baby. I love with with all my heart. I love all 3 of my kids and God is sooooo good to us for allowing us this privilege for the third time. :)

Swap a dvd!! Cool site

2009-08-06T10:36:00.006-04:00

I just came across this neat site SwapaDVD You can take DVD's you do not watch anymore and get something you want to watch! It's great for excerise DVD's as well. I think I will use it for that! I like to switch out my exercise DVD's. It gives me more of a challenge and my nuscles get toned better this way too. I will not have to spend the fortune to buy a new set of exercise DVD's as well. they can get pretty pricey.

It's worth checking out. :) Hey, do me a favor when you sign up. tell them I referred you. Thanks. The nickname to put in the referral box is Kcrew5

Here is something i coppied and pasted form the site that tells about it.

You have original, playable DVDs that you do not want to keep.
You post those DVDs to your "DVD Tower" to offer to other members.
After you have posted the first 10 DVDs to your DVD Tower, you get 1 "gift" credit from SwapaDVD to get you started swapping (limit one per household). After that, you earn credits by sending out DVDs to others.
You may order available DVDs for 1 credit per disc (some DVDs do cost more than 1 credit)

If you want a DVD that is not currently available, you can place it on your Wish List and we will notify you by email when it is available for you to order. You can even have it sent to you automatically when it becomes available, with no email necessary.
When a DVD is requested from you, we notify you by email, provide the address for you to send it out, and even provide a wrapper with postage printed on it if desired!

Wrap and mail your DVD.

When the requestor receives it, you earn 1 credit per disc mailed. Yes, you pay the postage to send out your DVDs, but when you request a DVD, the sender ships it to you and you pay 1 DVD credit (some DVDs do cost more than 1 credit)!
The DVDs you receive from SwapaDVD are yours. We hope that you will repost them to share with other members when you have viewed them, but you can certainly keep them, or give them away. Similarly, the DVDs you send out to others belong to their new owners.
SwapaDVD is a great way to share DVDs with people all over the country!

Baby feet

2009-08-02T14:14:00.003-04:00

These are the feet of our precious litle one! he is the newest addition to our family. He was born on 7/17 and we are totally and madly in love with him!!!

Sorry I have not blogged much but I was busy having a baby and then recovering from it all. I have been soaking in everything about this baby and the pregnancy as this will almost definitely be the last. :(

I will start to blog more often now that I seem to have a few minutes of time to do it but I can not guarantee it will be everyday. I will try to make it at least once a week. :)

Ta for now!

Father's Day cookie!

2009-06-20T20:00:00.004-04:00

My kids saw a table at the grocery store with one little girl sitting there decorating a cookie. My kids asked if they could do it too. This usually is a "free" table where the kids get faces painted or whatever during special occasions so I said OK. Then my son sat down and the lady whipped out a large cookie and gave him some blue frosting to start decorating. My son jumped right in without hesitation and started to decorate. It occurred to me that this was a Father's day thing and that there was no way they were going let us have the giant decorated cookie, free. The table never had a sign or anything telling you this, but, I just knew. My daughter wanted to decorate a cookie too since her big brother was doing it and I whispered to her that I did not know how much it would cost for one so they would have to decorate the same cookie. She was not thrilled but did it anyway. My son got up and my daughter sat down and started to sprinkle edible confetti onto the cookie. She then put a "Happy Father's Day" plastic thing-a-ma-gig onto the cookie and as soon as she did this the lady at the table whisked the cookie away and slapped a clear plastic lid onto it and then a price sticker. It was nearly eight dollars for this cookie. (It was not THAT giant!) I was a little surprised and I did not have the money for it so we discretely placed the cookie on a shelf in the store (Horrible, I know.) and bought a roll of cookie dough.

When we got home I knew that I had food coloring and I can make frosting. We made a giant cookie (Bigger than the one at the store.) and the kids decorated it nicely. It only cost me $2.50 plus tax. I am sure my husband will love it. :)

33 weeks!

2009-06-17T13:14:00.004-04:00

I am now 33 weeks along in this pregnancy and I am so sorry for not keeping up with my blog lately. I am so bad! I can't sleep well because of the leg, hip and back pain and the baby is getting so big now that when he moves about it disrupts what sleep I might be getting sporadically. :D
Anyway, I went to the park today with my other 2 kids and I felt so hot and tired that I had to go back home to the air conditioning. I feel like passing out a lot these days.

I have been working at the church doing yard work and weeding gardens when I feel up to it Even when I don't feel up to it I try my best and my kids help me. I should take some pics and post them. I will be there tonight as we have youth group and we, of course, are there for that.

It is hot and feels like it is getting hotter everyday. 95 today and the humidity makes it feel like it is over 100 degrees. Of course, I am pregnant and so I may feel hotter than normal.

My kids and I found a way to the park without taking the major road. We have lived here 3 years and never even tried to ride our bikes to the park before. I never wanted them on the main road. It may take a little longer to get to the park but it is a nice ride and it is a few miles. When the baby is born I will see about getting a bike attachment for the baby and me and the kids can all ride there. Or, I can take the jogger stroller (got it at the baby shower!!!! I registered at Target.com for it and my hubbies aunt got it for us!!) and my kids can ride slowly in front of me on the sidewalks.

I am so excited for this baby to come. I am anxious about the whole delivery part but I know it will go fast and it will be over before I know it. God will be there protecting me and the baby like he did with my 1st and 2ND. I should have died from the first but God took care of me even when the docs messed up and did not.

OK, I gotta see if my kids will watch a movie and let me take a quick nap. I am so tired. :) Then I will make an egg salad for supper. Cold dinners are best these days. :D

32 weeks pregnant!!!

2009-06-08T17:02:00.006-04:00

here I am @ 26 weeks along.

32 weeks in this pic!! On the home stretch!

I am really huge and now 32 weeks along! I can not wait to have this precious baby and start exercising again like I used to!!!!Weight Watchers, here I come!!!!

I do think I need to bend my neck differently as I think I look a bit retarded here. :)

too much faith?

2009-06-04T11:15:00.002-04:00

No way! You can never have too much faith. It has been tough the past 3 months. I have no posted in a bit because I have been struggling with trying to pray without ceasing. My hubby had been out of any work for 3 months now. Recently he picked up a couple odd jobs but not enough to pay our bills. .We are behind in mortgage and medical bills. I am due to have the baby Aug 5 but the baby may come a little early so probably 6-7 weeks from now. It is been hard to pray thinking that I have been praying for 3 months now and no work has shown up. My husband is self employed so he does not qualify for unemployment and we used up our entire savings to pay our bills 2 months ago. We have been living on pure faith with some days being easier than others. today seems to be a good day but of course with the pregnancy I may start to cry in about an hour. :) *smile*

Husband has been trying to start up a new business of mowing lawns and that is big in FL. We will just add it on to his current business and that way we can use the Ins. and business name we already established.

God is so good and we know He will not leave us alone in all this. We have our human emotions and we feel alone and abandoned sometimes but that is not the case. It is our human side feeling this way but it is not reality.

We will continue to have faith and let God do His perfect work. I will keep everyone updated.

I'm thinking of writing a childrens book!

2009-05-18T16:19:00.002-04:00

I have always wanted to do this. Even as a child I wanted to write a book. I think that I will start small and write a children's' book. I have so many ideas and I have a friend who can draw anything. I will write the story and ask her to illustrate to her hearts content. I will be sure to let you all now how it is going and let you know when it gets published. ;)

I am very excited about this and I want to get started right away. I will go sit in a quiet spot in the house and start brain storming before I start to write. I also want to send a note to my friend to see if this is something she would be interested in. :)

What do you all think? Have you ever written a book before? Was it published? How was the process?

Fundraiser...Please help!!

2009-05-12T21:03:00.003-04:00

We are doing a fundraiser for our Youth group. I will be taking orders for only a week. (til May 19) The proceeds from the sales will go to the youth group and help us to do a lot more activities with the kids this summer. We tend to have a lot of the teens fall off the attendance list during the summer months and we want to be able to have lots of activities to keep them coming to church.

We have 2 items for sale they are the Sea Salt Scrub and the Sugar Slush Scrub. I am adding photos of each in this email. There is a flat $4.00 fee for the shipping and tax. The sea salt scrub is $28 and the Sugar Slush Scrub is $22. Please let me know how many you would like to order. I will send the items to you as soon as they arrive. The items are all natural and from the company Arbonne and superior products. I use them and absolutely LOVE them!

Please support the Calvary Baptist Church, Englewood, FL youth group and our Summer Activities!! Please respond to me ASAP so I can place your order. ( I will need the money by the 22th of May) Send the money in a check written to me (Krystal Brobst) As soon as you know you want to order. Thank you. :) Send me an email for my address to send the money.

~Krystal

Volunteering today..

2009-05-07T10:17:00.002-04:00

I am off to the Christian school to watch a couple classes while the teachers have a meeting with parents. I am overseeing the K-5 thru 2nd grades. What fun!

I am also waiting for the exterminator guy to show up (between the hours of 10 and 12!) so I can leave here. I do hope they come soon so I can be on time to volunteer at the school. :)

I am also posting a request for anyone wanting to host a book party for me in my cupcakesandarbonne blog. Check out that blog for details. :)

Thank you to all those followers of this blog as well as my cupcakesandarbonne blog. I truly appreciate all of you!

Remember the 2 Spring Giveaways I have end tonight!!!

2009-04-30T18:22:00.001-04:00

One is in the cupcakes and arbonne blog and the other is in this blog. Click the link to the right to see it. Win a gorgeous plate that will be personalized and monogrammed just for you!