The Challenge

I was told by my Cardiologists yesterday in order to avoid going on medication I will need to lose 15 pounds. That's a challenge that will be difficult. I'm a middle aged women (42) single mother (with a 3 year old), I'm unemployed, I have a house to take care of as well as a mortgage to pay (all the other bills, taxes, car insurance, utilities, and now health insurance). I would say my stress level is over the top.

3 1/2 years ago I lost the 22 pounds to become a life time member of weight watchers, I wanted to be physically fit to go to china to bring Maya home. I was feeling good! Now here I am 3 1/2 years later, with three pounds over my goal weight and I'm faced with this challenge to lose 15 pounds in 6 months. How am I going to get this body to go below the weight it fights me to stay at!

Day 1 of the challenge - 4:18am I'm woken by the terrifying screams of my daughter (who screams go right throw my body), I wake with my heart in my throat as I pull myself out of bed to see what she is screaming about (I know it's a nightmare, they happen every couple of months), I pick her up and tell her everything will be ok and she comes in my bed and falls asleep within two minutes. I lay there hoping that my heart goes back into my chest. This is not a fun way to wake up, adventually I fall back to sleep, at 7:00am Maya wakes me up by telling me she is hungry in my ear continuously. As I roll myself out of bed I realize that my body hurts, what happen to make me feel this way (than I remember I did pilates yesterday), what has happen to me I remind myself that I'm 42, not 22 anymore, you hurt more after doing exercise. How did I get here, I struggle to understand how one day I woke up and I'm 42 I don't like this, I also feel like I have a hangover (I didn't even have a drink last night). I feed Maya her breakfast, made my coffee and tried to read the paper as Maya watches TV for 5 minutes. I get through about 8pages of the paper and Maya wants something else to eat, this kid can eat! So I make her another breakfast. As I'm making her a bowl of cereal I remember that the challenge must start today! So I make my breakfast (egg whites, mushrooms, onions and turkey bacon), the challenge today is to drink water and get some walking in before I go for my interview in Manhattan this afternoon. I will try and continue blogging as I try to achieve this challenge.

The End of March Already??

It has been so long since I have written, I don't know where the time goes. I'm going to try to be better at blogging than I have.

Today I ordered Maya her new bed (full), I had moved her out of the crib a week ago into the toddler bed that the crib turns into but she kept falling out, even with the rail etc. So it was off to bed, bath and beyond to find a comforter for the new bed, we walked in and spotted the set right away, one left and it was full. I can't wait to put in on her new bed.

My baby is growing up to fast, where has the time gone. It seems like yesterday we were coming home from China and now Maya is a three year who is a very independent little girl who reminds me every day how lucky I am to be her mother.

It was a month ago we were in Florida, so I just started adding photo's from our trip!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is over, it went by so fast. We went to Mom's for Thanksgiving, even through she told us kids that she was retiring from hosting holidays she is once again hosting Thanksgiving.

Maya was so cute, she totally understand what thanksgiving is this year, she is nearly 3 years old and she amazes me how much she really understands. It was only my sister (her kids were with their father this year), myself and Maya with Mom and Sal. It was a quiet day but it was nice. We helped Mom get her Christmas things down, she has one of those pre-lite trees, it's great just take it out of the box and put three pieces together and you have your 7 foot tree. Of course one string of lights were out, what a site to see three grown adults trying to figure out which light is out to cause all of them not to work. A day later and we finally found the problem but a replacement light in and how only one string of lights blinks. Not what Mom wants. So needless to say she has instructed us to figure it out.

November 21, 2008

November 21, 2008 Finally I started this family blog which I have been trying to do for nearly 2 1/2 years. This is a wonderful way to keep intouch with family and friends who are near and far. Our lives are busier than ever but as most you know that's how I always lived my life!

One of my dreams will be coming true in just a few days, my first children's book will be release on November 26, 2008, I hope all of you go to www.suitematespublishing.com and order your copy today! This story was in my head ever since I came home from china with Maya