Love These...

This is the best invention since sliced bread. I put my asparagus (or vegetable of the day) in a bag in the morning with some Mrs Dash and take it to work. At lunch time I pop it in the microwave for whatever time it says for each vegetable on the outside of the bag and...Voila! I have a perfectly healthy steamed vegetable for lunch. Wow! How healthy is that!

I haven't tried any meats in the bag...but they do have directions for that.

Funny and true story. My grandpa started cooking everything with Mrs Dash because he needed to restrict his salt and the doctor receommended it. If my grandmother knew it was in the food, she would act like it was choking her and she was allergic to it. If he slipped it in without her knowing, she would eat and be perfectly fine! HAHAHAHA I sure do miss them.

Week in Review

First things first. Week 1 weigh in Friday am.

-6 pounds

WOOHOO!!!

Saturday I had a nice easy 4 mile run with Lurlean catching up on what has been going on with us the last month. She went to the inauguration so she had plenty of stories about that and I had to fill her in about Josiah's hospital stays. Which brings us to my post run phone call. My friend called to tell me Josiah woke up wheezing again. ARE YOU F*#^ING KIDDING ME???? There will not be any more hospital bills at my house this year! I go pick him up after I got off of work and sure enough he was wheezing. Of course I was suppose to go to my friends 40th birthday dress like it is 1969 party that night. Didn't happen. At 2:20 am we left the house for Texas Children's hospital again. We saw a drunk driving accident happen right in front of us on 59...kept going...if they were stupid enough to drink and drive...my child is to sick for me to stop and help you! We get to the ER and his oxygen level is 98. THANK GOD!!! The nurse said...it is a 4 hour wait! WHAT?!?!?! A true emergency doesn't wait 4 hours. Thanks but no thanks. So we ran out and flagged down the valet parker right before he left with our car and headed home. I have kept up his inhaler treatments throughout the weekend and he was good enough to go to school today. He did go to sleep at 4:30 yesterday afternoon and slept until I woke him for school this morning...

I'M BBBAACCCKKKK!

Well, things have been crazy since the half marathon. First of all, I did not have a great half marathon because I was not as prepared as I should have been. First the injury, then the nice weight gain, then the lack of training...you get the idea. Anyways I finished, and ran with a new running partner so it was all new conversation!

A couple of days after the half marathon, Josiah had an asthma flare up from the unlimited weather changes we experience in Houston! I took him to his pediatrician and he was rushed from there by ambulance to the emergency room with his oxygen at 88%. He was put in an observation room in the ER at St Lukes for 24 hours. They thought he was getting better and released him. The next morning when I took him back to his pediatrician so she could check him...he was rushed back to the hospital with oxygen of 89%..this time Texas Children's Hospital downtown. He was admitted there for 3 days. He had pneumonia, a partially collapsed lung, and fluid outside his lung. It seems that the first hospital discharged him without seeing if he could hold his oxygen levels while being off of oxygen and discharged him with the wrong meds.

Friday I joined Weight Watchers. I gave in. I am doing it online and have lost 3 lbs since I started. Hopefully I can stick with it and it will work for me.

Last night Josiah did his 100th Day of School project that is due on Thursday. They were to pick a collection of 100 things to share with the class. Josiah decided on 100 crazy eyes stuck to a green cardboard paper. His reasoning???? His teacher always says 1-2-3 Eyes on Me. He decided that now she would have 100 eyes on her! What a smart a**! I wonder where he gets it!

Half Marathon Weekend

It is half marathon weekend! Let the running begin! I haven't trained good at all but I know I can walk 13.1 miles if I had to. I am doing everything you should not do. I have changed my race plan today...to do a different run/walk split after listening to Jeff Galloway speak at the pasta party. I have always been a science nerd and I am turning this half marathon into my science project. I will let you know how it goes...

DriFit Material

If you have any question as to whether something is a drifit material....dry it with your child's 3 red crayons. Then soak it in detergent, shout, and oxyclean. Then rewash it. If it comes out...it it really just cotton. If the stains are still there it is definitely drifit. If it is the finisher's shirt from your 1st marathon...have something stronger on hand to drink than light beer!

New Year's Project

Most everybody knows how much of a Type A I am...very organized, likes spreadsheets, alphabetizes the DVD's, etc.. Well, this was my project on New Year's Eve. I put all of my shoes in plastic storage boxes (39 boxes). As you can see from the 2nd pic, my purses, bags, and scarves/belts each have their own containers also. Can you say ANAL!!! :)

Josiah's Christmas Updated

It took Josiah 10 minutes to give Santa his list!!
Josiah cut out and decorated the Christmas cookies this year!! YUMMY!

He still loves EVERYTHING Star Wars!!

Finally...HE GOT HIS NIGHT VISION GOGGLES!!!

Testing out his new night vision goggles...

2 day old baby cows at the ranch....