5 minutes

Sometimes 5 minutes seems like it lasts forever, like when I'm working out or doing the dishes. Other times 5 minutes goes by too fast.  Every morning I sit outside with my 14 year old for 5 minutes waiting for his bus.  Not because I have too, he is old enough and big enough to do it by himself.  I do it mainly because I know it can be lonely and boring outside in the dark and I like to keep him company.  Most days we chat about what he has to do at school or afterwards.  Some days we talk about history or goofy sounds or weird things we have seen. Others we complain about the weather or mundain things like chores.  When we see the bus he hugs me tells me he loves me and we do silly waves as he walks down the driveway.  Whatever the topic is that day I realize those are some of the best minutes of my day.  I am pretty lucky I have a kid that likes talking nonsense with me.

Foggy days

Yay for kids so far going to school all week..well except for Connor coming home sick yesterday. He is the only kid I have ever had to pick up sick (multiple times) from school. He has a way with the teachers and they all feel bad for him when he is sickly..funny kid.

As weeka go, it's going pretty good. Hubby's bday is today and he is home sick in bed. I am making him cheesecake and maybe something good for dinner, but probably not since he will be gone all night at a wrestling meet Nate's school is having.

I think it's crazy pet day today too because all of mine are driving me batty! Here's to keeping my sanity today:)

Mondays

Boo for Mondays..but then again the kids are back in school finally, yay! We had a fantastic weekend with lots of rain. Nate had a wrestling event which we watched a little bit of. I don't think I did very much but watch football, which is completely disappointing since my Green Bay Packers are not playing..wahhh!!

Mondays are not that different for me besides having to get up at 5:30 in the morning, I hate mornings and I don't think I will every get use to waking up that early. The high school bus comes at 6:30 so I try and get up to make sure Nate gets up and mostly to keep him company because he gets up and ready by himself normally..I'm just the emergency alarm:)

My pantry challenge is going pretty good, all meals last week and some deserts were all pantry things. Connor even helped me out and I made him some enchiladas from some sauce I had in there! This week so far I am Lasagna planned for tonight (frozen I had), chicken parm tomorrow made with some cream of wheat (sounded good), pudding pumpkin pie..some weird pudding I bought for some reason so will have to use up! Not much else figured out, need to look through it a bit more..it's tons of fun for some reason.

I also won another prize..$50 walmart GC from Like a Bump on a log. Biggest win this year and I love it!! Entering contests is something I love and I consider it my job:)

Here is to a fantastic start of the week!

So cute...

Ok he said people said he looked fresh not cute.  He is still cute to me. 

Connor had to dress up for the wrestling match tonight..their team won..yay!
Nate has a match tonight too and will get in late. 

It's suppose to rain in the morning, freezing rain at that. Will see if schools get delayed or canceled again.I'm hoping for no rain as I'm not sure my sanity will hold up with all these days off!

Im keeping on task and won another $10 for Amazon from Mattel playground. .love them!

...ya, just got the call school is delayed. That's how they roll in Virginia, threaten to have frozen rain and we delay lol!

I am Cold!

Ya so it was really cold here yesterday, not Wisconsin cold but still cold. The kids didn't even have school, though I thought they could of went..but hey I grew up in this kind of weather. Needless to say, yesterday was not too productive for me. I cleaned a little but did not get my workout in. Today I did though and I cleaned a bit, and it's a short day since the kids had a 2 hour delay( ya was a little cold this morning). The loose meat sandwiches the other day were a HUGE hit..I really didn't think they would like them as much as they did..toasted buns are the best with them. Yesterday I also received $10 in Amazon..another win for me yay! Still doing good with my savings and cleaning out my pantry so I am on a roooolll! Happy Wednesday:)

Be happy!?!

Well here it is Blue Monday..ya I never heard of it either. Apparently its the saddest day of the year according to the scientist who research that sort of thing. Blue Monday It's not so blue for me though, kids are at school, I did my shopping, cleaned a little..even talked myself into working out and afterwards sang a little song to myself about how I did it! Oh ya, I even put food in the crock pot for dinner: Loose Meat Sandwiches I have never made these before so hopefully this kids like them. Still on my mission to clean out the pantry and doing fantastic..I even spent only $89 shopping today..I normally go over $100 so that's good for me!

Almost

I almost talked myself out of my workout today! Then I talked myself into it.  I figure if my son can do 3 hours (he is in wrestling..huge workouts), then I can put in my measly 30 minutes. 

I also can log in my first win of the year...a coupon for challenge cream cheese...hey it's a start!

Just for January

I put my goals down but I forgot about a monthly challenge I am doing for the month of January. I am only using what I have in my pantry for dinners and trying to clean it out for the new year. This means only buying things at the store that are perishable..meat, milk, eggs, fruit, veggies. I am also extending it to my freezer and using that all up also as much as I can.

 Yes it's a mess that's why I need to go through it and maybe get some things to help reach the back easier!

Happy New year!

This year is all about goals for me..I know every year we all have crazy unreachable goals that get sidelined after a few weeks. So..I am doing small ones. The first one is the 52 week money challenge...pretty easy to do:

My other goal is to work out at least 14 weeks straight (14 weeks for 2014..ya I'm cheesy but Yay!!) and whenever I work out I put a quarter into my saving jar along with my other above savings. I am hoping I can buy some nice presents at the end of the year with all my savings. Another goal type thing is to win more prizes this year. I did pretty good last year and raked in a pretty good chuck, my biggest prize being a custom recliner worth around 2k. I need to bump it up and keep it going. Of course I am still going to paint the rest of the house, hopefully I get it done this year. Last year I wanted to get another tattoo which I didn't get done so maybe I'll start seriously working on what I want to get. Another goal should be working on this blog and getting it going into something I am more proud of, i'll keep that in my head and see where it goes! Happy New Year!!