Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The journey continues

Well when I weighed in this morning as I do every morning, I saw that I have lost 8 pounds. Wow, 8 pounds, in a week. I am taking this one day at a time, since long term has always been a failure for me in my struggles with weight. I have had a couple of days where I have thought, "man, a cheeseburger sure would be good," then I tell myself that the cheeseburger will still be there when I am all done with my diet. I am looking forward to the purchase of new jeans, Levis 501's will be my first purchase and then a great pair of Silver jeans.

I have been working out on my treadmill for 30 minutes a day and today I am going to charge up the Wii Fit and get after the yoga workout and some boxing. After all, the only use the Wii Fit board seems to get is when I have moved it to vacuum or putting it up after Tay has snowboarded or Tori Kay has been here and her and Tay have juggled.

Brandon has been working out with me and that has been awesome to have him and his skinny butt going through this with me. It has been hard at times because when you live in a house of skinny people, no matter what you are always the elephant in the room. People make fat jokes and I laugh, but then I wonder, "is that what they secretly think of me?"

On to week 2, and downward the scale will go.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

New Journey

In the morning, I will be starting a new journey, one that I hope will be very successful for me. Since 1997 when I fell from a ladder, damaging my knee, I have struggled with my weight. I have tried several diets and exercise regimes...only to lose and regain the weight. During a recent lunch with some girlfriends, we started discussing the HCG diet. I have been researching it and ordered my supply, day before yesterday. I will have to be strong and stick to the diet and the drops. I will rediscover portion size and how to control what I am putting in my mouth. Since exercise is difficult for me, do to the ongoing knee problems, this diet is the only option I have found that will not cause more undo stress to my knees.

I am very excited to get started. I am hoping to be a whole new me before July. I will lose weight rapidly but safely. My doctor has given me the OK to do this. I am also hoping to be able to get off of 4 of my 7 medications. I will post weekly blogs about my progress and will also be posting pictures for everyone to see. If anyone is interested in the diet, I have a coupon code for $20 bucks off your order.

Wish me luck. :)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Sixteen..............WOW!!!1

Where do I start......Let's see, I know.....November 16th 1994. For some reason that day, I felt an overwhelming need to clean my house. They say nesting is something women do just before they go into labor. I should have known what lay ahead for that evening. I was finishing up the last of my to do list....which was to take the trash out and burn it. Of course, this lead to me smelling like smoke. Brandon had just gotten home as I was finishing and we decided to go over to his folks house to pick up the baby swing they had for us. It was around 6:30 or 7 pm, we no more than walked in the front door, I took about 3 steps and whoosh.......my water broke.

I spent the next 12 hours in labor. For the most part it was pretty easy as long as they kept the staidol coming to make the contractions bareable. At around 5:30am the Dr. had checked me and said that we were still probably a few hours away from delivery. Let's just say that the Dr. was wrong. About 10-15 minutes after he left, I felt a need to push. So they called him back in and he said, "you have about a couple hours of pushing." I am think to myself, there is no way I am doing this for two hours, so I proceeded to get down to business. I pushed and pushed and with in 40 minutes, she was here. We did not no that we were having a girl, and when the Dr. delivered her he said, "congratulations"..............Long silence.......I said, "do we have a boy or a girl?" It's a GIRL.......Since everyone had said or told us that it would for sure be a boy, since that is all Reynolds' seem to have....we figured Boy.

Taylor Lynn Reynolds was born at 6:42 am on November 17th 1994. My life was forever changed. Today, we celebrated her 16th birthday. It has been filled with so many emotions. I have cried on more than one occasion in the last couple of days. Children have so many milestones when they are small, but as they get older, they are few and far between. Today she got her license and in just 2 1/2 years she will be graduating high school. It seems like yesterday, she was running up the sidewalk to school for her first day of kindergarten. I was not emotionally ready for today. I found myself wanting to cry as she left to go and take her drivers examination. Where had all the time gone......I wondered. She returned from her exam with her quirky smile on her face and said, "Mom I did it." I was so proud of the young woman who was standing before me. With each of these milestones she reaches now, she grows up a little more each time.

I know she is growing up, but I always think back to that day when I held her for the first time. Because when I do that, she is still my little girl.

Monday, August 23, 2010

I know I need to blog more and now that school has started again, I will have more time in my day to do this. Summer is almost gone. It went by so fast, especially when you are at the ballpark watching and coaching the game of fastpitch softball. I wouldn't have my summer any other way, for in just three short years these summers will change and I will be praparing my daughter for college. But for now, this is the summer I choose. We took second in our league, which I am so proud of my girls for the hard work. Now we are into the full swing of things with high school softball.




WoW, sophomore year is here. Taylor will be an offically licensed driver in November. So many amazing changes are on the way for her this year. It sometimes seems like only yesterday that she came into this world. She changed my life in a way I didn't think was possible. I have never felt my heart so full as when I think of her and all that she has brought into my life.

Taylor is also in experiencing her sophomore year with her best friend Jessica, (who also happens to be my Goddaughter). Jess is staying with us and her grandma while her dad is on deployment with the US Air Force. The two of them have waited for this chance for their entire school life. It is such a blessing to have Jess with us. The laughter and giggles I hear from these two is priceless. It warms the soul.

More to come later and hopefully some pictures of this sophomore year.

Monday, May 31, 2010

Won't let her go far

So much has happened in the last few months. Taylor has played for a state basketball title and got 3rd, went to state with the FFA Knowledge team, they were 15th in the state. The biggest thing though is that she completed her freshman year and is now a sophmore. I have had to realize that she will complete her high school journey in 3 years. Where has all this time gone. She has went from a smiling baby, to a little girl with curls, a awkward pre-teen, to what she is today an beautiful young woman. My heart is so full of joy everytime I look at her. There is nothing in this world like the love that you have for your child. My heart feels like it will burst at every step in her life. I have smiled with her, cried with her and laughed with her. She will be 16 in 5 1/2 months, I knew that this would happen, but I didn't want to think about her growing up. As I have watched her grow and change, I am beginning to understand that I will have to let her go and become a woman. Just know this.......I won't let her go far.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Taylor's First Deer




Hunting is such a huge part of our family's life that Taylor shooting a gun is somewhat of a natural progression. So I have a teenage girl, who is hormonal and now can shoot a gun. We have eagerly been anticipating the day when she would decide to head into the woods to kill her first deer.

That day came on November 1st 2009. Her and her dad set out for the woods at 5am. They made to the hay bails where they were going to sit for the morning. About 6:15 a couple of does came out and wandered their way into the field. Taylor let them pass by and waited patiently for something bigger. Well at 6:30 bigger appeared. He was about a 100 yards away. She waited until he came a little closer. Then BOOM! her shot rang out and the buck dropped. She killed him with one shot from 88 yards away. She wanted to immediately run on see what she got. Dad told her she would have to wait 15 minutes, to make sure that he was dead. She said that was a very long 15 minutes. They made their way across the field, where dad was graciuos enough to gut it for her. When they got home, I have never seen so much pride on a father's face. I think he was as proud then as he was the day she came into this world. I was just as proud knowing how much she wanted this and seeing her success. So now there is meat in the freezer and antlers on the wall, that are her's and not her daddy's.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Latest Happenings

I almost never go to myspace anymore and realized I have not blogged in a long time. My amazing nieces use this site to blog, so I thought I would give it a try. Taylor is a quarter of the way through her freshman year. WOW!!! She just finished up her first year of high school softball. She had a blast. She has decided to play basketball, Yay more bleacher butt. Just kidding there is no place I would rather be than watching her do something she loves.
Brandon and Taylor both had Influenza type B last week. Thank the Lord it wasn't swine. Tamiflu is an amazing drug for the flu. I am doing ok. Having some surgery tomorrow to remove a fluid filled mass from where my left ovary used to be. I could wake up with all my girlie parts gone if the Dr. thinks that it all should come out. I am not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand no period would be great but on the other I somehow would feel like part of me was missing. I can not believe that the holidays are just around the corner. Where has 2009 gone?