April 29th, 2009
My birthday is tomorrow. 36. Yikes! Today I am closer to 30. Tomorrow, I will be closer to 40. That is a tad scary. I didn’t realize I had gotten older. Weird how that happens.
Tuesday I got an early birthday present… 2 Blue Lines. 2 Blue Lines on a stick that will change our family dynamics.
Yep. I’m knocked up.
This was a bit of a surprise - but a welcome, joyous one! To be honest, I am still a little freaked and way too many thoughts are running through my head! Hello! I am going to be a Mother of 5!
I am sure I will be babbling on and on for the next 8 months. Hope you guys can hang with me 
Don’t laugh, but the first thing I am doing is cooking and baking. I have to have a packed freezer! When that “can’t scrape me off the couch” period happens.. I need to be prepared this time!
April 28th, 2009
Well the “Year of Alicia” started off with a bang and well… came to a screeching halt somewhere in March. After battling with being sick for what seemed like the entire month of February it was just so hard to get myself fully back in gear.
While I was sick I really tired to maintain my diet and I did well, for a while. As I started feeling better, but was still not able to workout due to the cough that would not go away (and don’t get my started with the “drippage”!) the diet started getting pushed back a little further each day. I think the culmination of the lack of diet came a few weeks ago where I realized that all I ate all week was Carmel Frappachinos, Carmel Macciatos and “ho-ho’s” (snacks) from Starbucks. Yep - there some solid nutrition right there.
I wanted to get back on the wagon fully… but I just didn’t seem to have it in me. I couldn’t get motivated. I would start off going to the gym Monday morning, eating so-so during the day and then sleeping in on Tuesday and well… that week was shot!
Last week, something interesting happened though. My fabulous husband got some kind of crazy with the program! He tightened up his eating, went to the gym every day and ended up losing 8lbs! WOO-HOO!!!! So proud
Another interesting thing happened last week. A friend of mine, Brenda, who coincidentally is doing “The Year of Brenda” (and no! We did not plan that!) noted that the year in 1/3 of the way over. YIKES!!!!! That put some things in perspective. Mainly, if I hadn’t quit, where would I be now. Answer: a whole lot skinnier… darn it!
Ok, that got me going!!!! I am back in the game. I WILL NOT let the second third of the year pass me by while I watch my butt get bigger. NO way!
Who’s with me?
(btw - thanks for all the welcome backs I missed you guys too!)
April 27th, 2009
Was I taking a sabbatical? I don’t know… sounds like a good excuse to me.
In reality, I just didn’t feel like blogging. I was busying myself with all that day to day stuff and trying, yet again, to get some sort of organization in my life. In the end, I just got a little tired of trying to blog.
But, after 2 months, I kind of miss it. I miss chatting with my friends. So… I’m back. Maybe. LOL, I’ll try.
I have so much to talk about. All the stuff going on in the kids lives. Lots of pictures. Cool stuff with Marc and I. You know, all that good stuff!
I will try to get back on this afternoon, when school is all finished! I am trying to get back into the working out / eating right frame of mind, so first up will be a long overdue Biggest Loser: Alicia Style.
I missed you guys
