A Week in the Life- Day 4 (Friday)

Ok, so I woke up really tired yesterday. I was a hit and miss in all I did. I was really good about some things and not so much on others. I knew I was going on another walk with the boys...give them a chance to redeem themselves after yesterday's walk.

I started off with my making our bed....Organized, good!

Then I made breakfast... pancake and eggs for the guys, and I had my favorite egg and veggie omelet, a cup of coffee, and a Journey concert playing on the TODAY show's Friday Concert Series. Cool!!

However, on the not so organized side...I had no desire to do the dishes this morning!! NONE!

OMG!! They stayed this way until about 2pm after lunch! Bad Sandy! ;\

What I did feel like doing, though, was giving myself a little change...

Just a subtle touch of red amongst the dark brown. Nothing crazy, but I LIKE it!

I also went on another walk with the boys to the bank for work. Here is how this one went...

 Much different attitudes today!!

I decided to make the walk a little more exciting by playing games as we walked by counting how many blue and red cars we saw, and picking out which house they liked best on each block. It kept them occupied!

Saw these beautiful sunflowers growing in someone's front yard

We also stopped by our local Church and paid a visit to the outside grotto
where the Virgin Mary stands and said a few prayers in thanks. 

And we got to our destination.

There was no complaining today so I kept my promise and they shared a Slurpee and a donut.
I had 2 happy campers, that's for sure!

 

 

We actually took our time on this walk, and on the way back we stopped off at a yard sale, and tried to visit a friend's house (she wasn't home), and took pictures of these beautiful little flowers. I just love how they creatively overlap in colors.



So overall it took us a good hour, but it was a success, and now the boys actually want to do the walk

a couple times a week. Cool! We can make that happen!

We didn't do much the rest of the day except for going to the store for some groceries and getting some movies to watch.

But Mikey did surprise me by wanting to mop my floors for me. Its always a cute, and honestly my floors end up more wet than clean, BUT they get done, right? He loves to mop and I wasn't going to stop him...LOL!!

 I love that he know he has to ring the mop too!

Thank you, Mikey!

Thank you all for keeping up with me this week. Not sure how much I'm going to track this weekend, but I will probably summarize on Monday.

Have a great Sunday from my corner to yours...

A Week in the Life- Day 3 (Thursday)

I have to say that this project does challenge you in different ways. I have found that I have to keep reminding myself to take pictures, and what different things to take pictures of because I think we can all agree that most days are similar to each other. Also, a lot of this project is also making observations and writing down thoughts, observations, your favorite moments and your daily schedule to reflect on in the future.

So yesterday, I did something a little different with the project and my boys. Early on in the morning, I turned the TV's off and the electronics and made the boys read, draw and just kick back in the quiet. It gave me a chance to work and work on my blog to in the quiet too. This also gave me a chance to just make some observations and write them down:

• Just how nice it is to not have the TV on in the background. The sound of a still house is very peaceful!

• The kids had a chance to have to concentrate on themselves and the project at hand instead of a video game system. What a concept!!
• I loved overhearing their conversations! They sounded like 2 little old men bickering and talking, and then complimenting each other on their drawings. Too cute!
• I was able to concentrate on my own thoughts...no busy stuff going on in my head. It made me realize how much noise clouds your mind.

 


Around 11am, I decided to go on a walk down to the post office for work, and I took Danny and Mikey with me! I figured it was a good way of getting them out of the house, they'd get their exercise with me, and they'd get to see their neighborhood in a different light (always important for them to appreciate their surroundings). It was different too because I took my camera with me to kind of capture some of the things I observed as we walked....

 They didn't quite understand "Why" they had to go on this walk with me, and Mikey decided to take his time in putting on his shoes....
(Come on Michael!!)

I was ready to go!!!

                They had no choice!!

             We are on our way!!

 This is long road they saw...

And the puppy who was not so keen in seeing us!




Making sure they knew when it was safe to cross!

It was a little frustrating for me as I'm used to walking a lot faster than they do, so I had to adjust my speed and they still had to catch up to me. Oh, so the big complaining started around here! Can you tell that they're dragging behind me?  I took advantage and made sure they knew that they should be grateful that we were walking by choice!! I guilted them into understanding that there are sooo many people who didn't have transportation and actually had to walk everywhere they went! They looked at me like I was crazy! You'd swear I was making them walk through the dessert! Oh....The tortured souls (dripping with sarcasm of course)

 Our destination was in sight!! Hallelujah!!

Well after the post office, I had decided to take another way home on one of our main streets just to change up the scenery, and then take them to 7-11 to get a Slurpee or something to reward them for taking the walk with me. HOWEVER....their complaining persisted and I had heard enough! So I unfortunately, ended up getting upset and let them know that they had lost the privilege of getting said treat! The look on their faces...priceless  (I was upset and forgot to take a picture at this point!)  And walking right by 7-11 was torture enough...OH the lessons learned!!

  After all of this, Mikey made an effort to point out things he liked.

He picked this as his favorite car


And he thought Fatburger looked really good!!    
(It actually really did...LOL...maybe we can walk down for lunch next week??)

The boys also pointed out this house that has an extremely bright yellow fence in front of their house.
Interesting!!

Once we got home, I made them aware that they had accomplished walking 2.1 miles in 42 minutes, so hence the High-5.  Aside from the attitude adjustment, they admitted the walk was a lot of fun, and really not soo bad!

Good! Mission Accomplished!

 And time for a big glass of water!!!

Later on I decided to treat myself to a wonderful little trip to Target!!!!! YAY!!!

( Enough said.)  :]

And then a trip to Grandma's pool to end the afternoon!

 

We actually ended up bringing a little friend home who lives near Grandma's for Mikey, but by this time the picture taking was kind of over for me.  We made pasta for dinner, and we didn't do much more. Christian was at a friend's house for the night, so it gave Jerry and I a chance to see the movie HALL PASS! It was funny, but not so recommended for the younger crowd, if you know what I mean. ;]








I realized today that this will be a neat post for the boys to look back on in the future. Glad I did it!

Happy Friday from my corner to yours...

A Week in the Life- Day 2 (Wednesday)

Wednesdays this summer....My typical Beach Day.

A typical 7am morning for Daniel:

 

I always pack a lunch and get the cooler ready to go with our favorite snacks. 

Going to my Weight Watcher meeting on the way to the beach

(BTW- up + .2lbs this week. Oh well!)

Danny's sly smile as he listens to Michelle's talk.

I twas soo cute to hear him giggle at her jokes.

I stop off at Starbucks after for a Misto, breakfast and to check into work

 

A beautiful day at the beach with the Counters and the Wrights

My go to snack at the beach

 A nice, cool temp at the beach

It was soo nice that I drove home with the window down

One of the things that I love the most about going to the beach is the drive home. 

Love the views and taking in PCH as the day winds down.

 

 

On  beach days, I try to make it easy on myself by having a simple dinner to come home to. So we had Costco chicken, rice and salad. Simple, healthy and yummy!

The rest of the night was spent watching my favorite show 

 Logging my food points

 

I edited Christian's summer project

 Our LuLu LOVES popcorn!

 And looked over the weekly adds to start my shopping list

Jerry came home and watched Mikey's favorite TV show with him

 

And both rebeled against the camera... LOL!

Honestly, I was really tired last night so I ended up falling asleep on the couch and the night was over.
Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Have a great Thursday, from my corner to yours...

Smiles,