So it was a great training run for me … I stayed in my normal time range… and I came back in one piece. that is all that matters. so this week my m iles ended up being a little different.

miles 178 +3 out of 435 in 9 weeks

I am pleased to tell you that my KIDS ROCKED THE SWIM MEET!!!!!!!!

they both SMASHED thier times. I mean SMASHED them. D~fly took off anywere form 5-12 seconds per race. and that is BIG FOR HIM!!!! He got out on his 100 free. “COACH… they messed up… THERE IS NO WAY I swam that in 1:24. I laughed so so so hard and said… yeah you DID! and we are both so proud of you!

My T~ fly tried a lot of NEW things… 100 back 200 IM 200 FREE..s o those were all NT. But the 50 free he broke his time in by a little over a second. and that is amazing! just so you know. He is now about 1 second away from beating his mother in her FASTEST 50 free sprint EVER!…..

well ont his happy most wonderful note… I need to get into the pool. these kids are catching me fast. Than again. NAP FIRST …t han pool!

Night all
Marathon training momma Fly out

sitting in the middle of the road. a little Beagle puppy. and rightfully so we named him snoopy. No one came forward on this little darling and after 2 weeks…. he now has a place to call home. but that MEANS POTTY TRAINING! yeah me….

while the kids were outside playing with hima nd walking him around over spring break…. my daughter came in with this AMAZING creation…..

Yes, that is a pop can….. a root bear pop can… I have NO IDEA were she found it. she just said outside… when asked what it was….. “It is a snake… see here its head is comign out of the can and LOOK MOMMA,

It ONLY has ONE EYE just like daddy……”

okay now if that doesn’t make you spit pop on your key board… I DON’T know what will. Hubby and I laughed for hours after that everytime we looked at it… did I save it you ask…. WELL OF COURSE!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait to tell her about it again when she is older and has forgotten about the one eyed snake. : )

Momma Fly off to the gym

 baby hat side view

 Momma hat

 Baby’s shoes

Than for the baby girl at church I have done these…..

 Momma hat

and a baby hat that isnt showing in my flicker right now… and it is the CUTEST that bothers me…. oh well. look for it in the side bar. it is a little ruffeled one.

 FOUND IT!!!!!!! baby hat… 20’s style

We are off to a swim meet so I will knit on the way there and on the way home… so I wont sleep. LOL… and we will try to have video for you all to enjoy. we shall see what we can come up with. When my sis does it …. it is o n

Momma’s hat baby boy’s hat momma’s hat baby girls hat baby shoes

and when I wasnt doing this… I was painting. yes it was a busy spring break… fun and wonderful…

Momma Fly OUT

When reading that article I was a classic person at risk. Overweight…CHECK….over 25…CHECK… Family or personal health history…. CHECK…. although I am white. I already had three strikes against me.

When my son was born I was so happy to be done I thought ALL RIGHT all the worry is gone. Yet I found out as time went on that the Diabetes was still hanging on. I had to make a change in my life for the better or my children were not going to have a mother. So I DID IT! I lost the weight I became active and than I thought it would all be over. I went off of my 2 kidney medications. I went off the diabetes medications. Everything was going my way…. OR SO I THOUGHT!

 
Don’t get my wrong as I tell you this. I AM MUCH BETTER OFF THAN I WAS. Over the winter two more medications were added on for my kidney. (POOP) and my asthma gives me a bit of a problem here and there. So on to something for that for the summer…. (POOP AGAIN) but the real thriller was when all the sudden LOW BLOOD SUGARS CAME CRASHING ON MY DOOR. No I don’t mean that it knocked on my door…. I mean it BULL DOZED my door.

 
Future diabetes. If you have gestational diabetes, you’re more likely to have it again with a future pregnancy. You’re also more likely to develop diabetes — typically type 2 diabetes — as you get older. However, making healthy lifestyle choices such as eating healthy foods and exercising can help reduce the risk of future type 2 diabetes. Of those women with a history of gestational diabetes who reach their ideal body weight after delivery, fewer than 25 percent develop type 2 diabetes.

 
It was an eye opener when I was able to sit with my Dr. to find out that Hypoglycemia is a precursor for me of the inevitable….WHAT? Yup… I am a diabetic. That I know. But What I am learning is that soon enough I will be on the other side of the page and be pill/insulin dependent in the future. Once you have that wonderful Gestational diabetes. You have written your future. SO what does this mean for me at this time….

 
I will be closely monitoring my levels. Making sure to eat protein in every snack and meal. That way my levels wont crash as fast. Eating get this. RIGHT BEFORE I GO TO BED. So that I wont have those 50’s int eh morning any more.

 
Will I be okay? OF COURSE I WILL. I just didn’t realize that i signed up for a roller coaster. I realy do NOT like roller coasters. They scare me.
Momma~Fly out!

I know I have talked about it before…. but I have to say it again. If my journey of weight loss was to help ONE PERSON… than I have done it for a good reason. Thats what I told the reporter when she was asking me all those questions about why I was willing to talk to her and why I had done it. And and and. Here I am a year out. And I have met people all along the way. I have been blessed to personally help some. While others have done it on their own. I met just one of those women this past Saturday.

D~fly and I have been training for our Triathlon together. Rain or shine we try to get out and well, TRI! This Saturday was no exception when it came time for our run. The difference was that we were in a race. The Family fun in the midnight sun. FUN RUN! It is done on Solstice morning every year about 17 miles from our house.

He was so nervous. Talked to me all week about how worried he was that he wouldn’t place. I kept telling him. “It isn’t about win or lose. This is about doing YOUR PERSONAL BEST! You haven’t done a race this long before so let us just get out there and do it with a smile.” Also there was the reminder that his age group was 18 and under.

I have always looked at changing the lives of others…. BUT I never looked right inside my own home. I have changed lives here too. Most of it for the better. they all eat healthier. They all take the time to eat their veggies first. They would rather have the leaner meat than that of the normal COW! They take their OWN lunches because of the unhealthy choices that are offered at school. That was all because I CHANGED the way I eat. The way I think. The way I DO THINGS. It has changed THEM forever. : )

They are more active and that is why D~Fly has made the decision to try out Tri’ing. So I know you are wondering were all this is going… it sounds like a big loop of nothing…

D~Fly ran that race with a furry that I have never seen. He was worried in one spot but I cheered him on from my side of the loop …2 min behind him…. He had an older man behind him wanting to know if all that cheering was for him or my son. I told him it was for BOTH of them. They were doing wonderful and I was proud of them.

D~Fly came in with a screaming 25:32 second time for a 3 mile race. His longest race so far. He was able to pull out a 3^rd place win in the 18 and under group. I am so proud of him. And were I came in 4 minutes and 10 seconds behind him, I was fast enough to pull out a 1^st place in my “Old lady” age group. Am I happy with the time? Sort of. It wasn’t what I wanted. But the trail wasn’t all that I expected either. Wasn’t what I trained for. A LOT OF HILLS! But I wasn’t ready to stop running either. It was a great pace for a marathon. that is what I have been training for. So … might have to rethink all that… LOL…

Now before the race ever began a friend of mine from High school came over and asked if she could pray with me. That made my day. And with her came someone new that I had never met. She said she had been reading a lot about me and was so proud to say that she had lost 40 pounds so far. That she couldn’t wait to be a runner…. But I have something to say here….

SHE IS A RUNNER!!!!!!!!!!!!

She ran the race with a great time. And she had a smile on her face. When she was running the home stretch I was there with J. and we were able to yell her in. and when we said run it in hard. SHE DID! So my dear. If you ever get to read this. KNOW that you are a runner. You are a WINNER. Your life is changing and you are the one in control of that. Congratulations on the success that you have had… and for all the future success you CREATE! I wasn’t kidding when I said you can and should compete in the tri. I know that you will do amazing in it.

Thank you for letting me have some small part in helping you make the change.

As soon as the results are up on in the newspaper. I will let you all know.

Momma~Fly Out

Is that little LEGS I SEE!?!?!?!

Peek a BOO I SEE YOU!

Thanks for the grass Lady! it is SO GOOD!

Momma moose… take good car of your little ones…

Momma~FLY out!

Peppermist

and her friend

the Additive….

Have decided that I am the town idiot. I was thinking I was all smart and started a snark contest. And we must remember that Peppermist. She is the daughter of none other than the SNARK QUEEN. I didn’t have a chance. So now when things are said.

“I know it is because Auntie is the town idiot! ask her how it feels.”

Whatever

The other little turd niece the Pup… she was here for a few day’s last week. And they found the cherries that I thought I had hidden well enough for dinner.

WRONG PRONG! So when she came running over to let me know that it “LOOKS LIKE A HEART AUNTIE!” I was told I MUST take a picture to share…..

Not sure if that is a heart or a butt…. But she looks happy about holding a butt.

Here is why it is hard to get any chores done in my house. LOL… not the kids. It is because the Dog tells me what I can and cannot do…..

Not that I mind. Look how cute she is….Vaccuming can wait!

I shared a while ago how cool my oldest Dude is getting…. well look at today.

He was taking time to share with the little ones how to beat something on a D.S.!  I don’t have one of these in my house. Don’t like them! BUT the kids have played with them in many places. And when the little one G~bear comes over. He brings his. so…

that means the kids pile around it and enjoy laughing and learning together. But how cool that he is even letting them into his space. SO NEW!!!!!!! He is growing I tell you. Growing and changing.

I hope that you all have a wonderful day. I know that I have had an amazing week. And it is only going to get better.

Momma~Fly

So it was a small day for me. I am ever so happy we did it together though. D~Fly and I are able to get time together one on one that isnt possable with all the other kids in the house.  Which is nice. I am finding that I look forward to the workouts with him more than I do with anyone else. NEVER thought that he and I would have this conection. I am so happy that we do.

we got in a 3 mile run. there is no map that I can show you. I was wanting too But the trails are not on mapmyrun.com so you are stuck with trusting me. LOL. went back over it with my bike/odometer so that I would know how far we went. it wasnt even how far. it was more about the walk before hand and the talking. He showed me the course that we were going to take. He knows it from Cross country running last year. and he wanted us to do it like it was the race. I …. DON’T mind.

so we walked and talked about all sorts of things. His BIO MOM is comig to town and we are working on visitation for her to be able to see him. This always brings fears for him. and for us…. I want him to voice them.  Now that he is older. HE IS DOING IT! all/any fear is ligitament. these… are even more so. as he has dealt with the crazienss that is his mother for a long time. He knows what will happen. But I reasure him. All will be fine.

easier said than done MOM!

Yeah for both of us babe. For both of us.

He has grown, something cool for him…. empathy and compasion is not something that he has shown regularly over the past 9 years we have had him. something about RAD makes it GONE! But this ….today….this happened.

D~Fly- “I~fly while we were headed to the car I think I smashed your lunch a little bit. and since we got the same thing… I would like you to have mine instead.”

Me-……….

I~fly……..”okay BIG BRO!” He of course at the age of 5 is seeing that the grass is greener…. not that it mattered… but you know kids are kids…

Me- “You know buddy you don’t have to do that.” hoping he will explain his feelings about it….

D~Fly… “yeah I know but I don’t want his day to be BLUNDERED because of my Fowl up.”

Me-…….

……… Okay … you know that is AWSOME empathy and compassion. I am SO PROUD OF YOU!……

Me- “Hey bud you are turning out to be just the coolest dude! I mean that. thank you for thinking about your brother and his feelings. that was really sweet.

D~Fly…….. THank you mom……….. *stunned*

so when we got home he MADE sure that the lunches were in perfect order. than let his brother choose. I was able to sit back and watch…. the boy t hat would have beat the CRAP out of anyone for thinking about LOOKING at his lunch just 2 years ago… freely give it to his little brother give him a hug and a kiss…. and just tell him he loved him.

I AM THE MOST BLESSED MOMMY ON THE EARTH!

Thank you Lord for sending this one to me.

red faces after running this morning!

Momma~Fly out!

AND CONFIRMED!!!!!!!

The boy and I will be there…. to compeat … Missy and her baby N. will be there compeating. I am so excited that we are going as a family again in AUGUST!

Look out world here the four of us come…..