New Mom Need Coffee

The thing that's impacted my sanity the most since having little ones is the fact that i don't make time to workout anymore. For me it all goes down hill from there. When I don't work out a lot of other things start to happen, for instance; my Pepsi habit. I can get so addicted to something, especially if it has addicting qualities in it like Caffeine, or Chocolate. I've also started eating ramen noodles again. I mean really thats the worst for me, bottom of the bottle so they say. I don't know this body i have right now. It jiggles and gets tired easy, and most of all it's slow. That's not me. Since I have this new body I feel like i've lost myself. When you don't feel good about yourself your whole attitude and demeanor change, you feel gross. I don't want to lose myself, I like myself, I want it back. In reality I don't think it will be too hard, especially since i'm starting my workout classes soon, in 2 days actually. I feel grossly...

I was told once that balancing your diet is like balancing your checkbook. When you look at how much money you have and how much you are spending it all has to balance out so you don't go in the negative. You can use the same principles to balance out your diet. For example if I eat a healthy breakfast and lunch I can afford a bit of a heavier dinner, just like if you save for a few weeks you can afford the big item you have been saving for. So that's what I do, I try to stay on track with my breakfast and my lunch because I typically eat a bigger dinner, and I always always have dessert. Lately I've been pretty bad at this. It used to be easy, I didn't have to think about it, I made it a habit and I liked healthy food. Today my life is much more complicated and in fast forward so I don't even know what all I'm eating through out the day, I snack a lot and I eat way too many sweets. I'm not drinking enough water either. So lets take it back to the bas...

Have I talked about sleep on here before? I can't seem to remember. Sleep used to be a subject I didn't care much about. Pre-kids I didn't care much, I knew I needed a certain amount of sleep to function but otherwise I was always the type to pop out of bed in the morning and didn't waste anytime laying around in it. Oh how life changes when you have kids. My second born is a great sleeper. In fact he is asleep right now, my oldest on the other hand is wide awake and happy about it. He has never been a good sleeper, it has been a struggle his entire existence. Sleep is now ALWAYS on my mind and I am always trying to find a way to make my toddler sleep better. Put him on a schedule, give him a bath before bed, make sure all the lights are out, don't dress him in heavy pajamas, keep the room cool, make sure there is background noise, and most of all make sure we have one or two pacifiers handy. It consumes my mind. I don't think he will ever be a good sleepe...

There's a lot of pressure to start traditions and to have your home decorated in Christmas décor and to be excited about Christmas. Here I am 5 days away and I'm that person that just really isn't into the hype. I'm not a super materialistic person, nor do I buy into getting your children everything they ever dreamed of. My kids are small so maybe I will be more into Christmas when they're old enough but right now I feel like a scrooge. I didn't have Christmas traditions growing up and I remember waking up early to open gifts from "santa" and it was fun but Christmas time was not a great memorable time for me. I want it to be a great time for my boys and something to look forward to but I'm debating even telling my kids about Santa Clause. All I can think is they will know I lied to them when they find out there isn't a Santa clause. I can't remember when I found out there wasn't a santa, I had older cousins who must have broke it to...

Let's get serious, I'm starting right now. I know everyone gets on the nutrition exercise bandwagon come January, but I am starting right now. It is time to get serious. For too long my toddler has been fed junk just to get through the day. He has been given whatever food he wants, even candy and sugary drinks. For a long time I have given myself permission to eat whatever I wanted because I was pregnant or a tired mom. Those are not excuses. I am young, I have the knowledge and I want to live the best life I can live and have no limitations. My hobby is exercise and nutrition, I used to push myself whenever I could, experiment on what made me more fit and what made me more healthy and feel better. I have some tricks up my sleeve, I know my body and I know what works for me. So why don't I do it? I have been very very LAZY. To me, that is exactly what eating unhealthy is, laziness or lack of knowledge (or lack of motivation to get the knowledge) to eat healthy and live ...

I live in a small town. I live in a very small town. Finding things to entertain you without driving an hour can be challenging. I also have 2 kids under 2 and the winter is approaching. That means we will most likely be stuck in the house for days at a time. I now stay at home with my kids 4 days a week and work 3. What is a person to do with 2 kids under 2 all winter in a tiny house? That is what I'm creatively trying to answer right now. My 18 month old and 5 month old don't quite entertain one another yet so that is up to me. (Oh I look forward to the day they play together) My 18 month old is getting dangerously close to being a "Video" addict. I want to avoid this at all costs. He will walk up to me and say "video" and that lets me know he's ready to watch a movie on the tv or something on his ipad. This I never wanted when I thought about having kids but I've also learned since having kids, you do what you can to survive, so there's no j...

When I was pregnant with Tucker I wanted to experience everything naturally. I wanted a natural birth, no medication and I wanted to breastfeed because it is natural. If you know me I would stick to 100% natural and be a hippie if I had that kind of will power. Being a hippie is hard work, so I digress. Anyhow I had a wonderful pregnancy, had eaten healthy and STILL got gestational diabetes (I know now it was out of my control, I tried so hard to keep my glucose levels in check so I wouldn't have to put unnatural medication in my body, afraid it would effect the baby, because you just don't know. (how I felt before mind you) So I bopped around all glowy and pregnant telling everyone I was going to do it the natural way. I got a lot of comments that were unwelcome, I mean A LOT of comments saying I would feel differently when I went into labor. I think I let those comments get into my head, because what did I do when I got to the hospital? I immediately requested an epidural....