Healthy Me

For the past month, I've dived into finding deals - deals on food, deals on health care needs, deals on school supplies, and even finding whatever great sale for school clothes that I just can't pass up.  When you combine drastically reduced prices on online school clothes with free shipping, how can you not buy it?  I actually have a small stockpile of things like toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, etc. so we won't run out (which happened too often before with all these kids in the house) and found a pretty little pair of Nike hi-top tennis shoes for my daughter at sale prices.  I've bought school supplies for little to nothing. In this economy, saving money is the way to go.

Once I'm done with school clothes, it'll be time to think about Christmas (can you believe it?).  I finally bought myself a Wii Fit (I really wanted it to help make exercising fun and it does), but the kids need some things for the Wii system too and Christmas is the perfect opportunity to get it for them. My son also wants those Monster Beats headphones all the kids are wearing.  It's become a challenge for me to find the best price for everything I buy now.  I keep watch on Buy.com for great deals!

It's been awhile since I've posted.  I took some time off and enjoyed the hectic schedule with my kids finishing up last school year, enjoyed the summer off with them, and now that school starts in little more than a week, I am getting excited about school starting and getting back to work myself.

In terms of healthy news - - I have kept off the weight I lost earlier this year.  Yeah for me!  I stopped dieting because I wasn't sure if I wanted to go further or not.  I've decided that I do.  So, on the day my kids start school, mom starts The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results again.  It's just too easy to lose weight this way (and after all these months, I've kept it off) so I'm going to get it finished up.

I am 2.9 pounds away from my weight loss goal!  After feeling fat and lumpy for so long, it's awesome!  Rather than repost all about it here because I just posted about how I did it on my Thyroid blog, follow that link to my other blog and read up! 

I have a waistline!  I kept my boobs, thankfully (I was a little worried about that).  My arms are thinner.  My legs are thinner.  I have cheekbones!  No more squeezing painfully into jeans anymore - they're getting too big.  Yeah, shopping!!

We just set up two more dog kennels for two of our dogs to sleep in and I bought several safety gates to gate them off from the bedrooms on both levels.  This is an attempt to: 1) potty train them completely, and 2) stop them from using the bedrooms as their own personal potty playground!

I sure could use some good dog training advice on how to finish potty training, especially in the winter when the little dogs don't want to go to the bathroom in the snow! Seriously, they're dogs - get outside and potty in the snow already!

It's been a month of viruses in the family so I am sure looking forward to the end of winter!  I am counting the days until spring.  Fresh starts, spring cleaning, and babies!  No, not MY baby but baby showers galore for a few friends of mine. 

I have a great idea for a baby shower gift - have you ever thought about personalized baby gift baskets?  No?  Well, you should!  What better way to give a new mom what she needs for baby while still making it unique and personal to the new little bundle of joy?

I have to admit that for our four children, it has been the personalized gifts that have become keepsakes to keep and pass onto them when they're older.  Generic gifts?  Yeah, not so much.  OK, not at all.