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hey all
hi ladies. i've been a little MIA lately....mostly bc i'm really busy and i just am too darn tired to even stay up late and post. i try to stop in and check up on everyone from time to time but i've been a bad poster.
things are pretty status quo here....i'm still on my crappy restrictive diet and i'm still losing more weight. finally got on a scale and confirmed that, since my heaviest last year at this time i have lost 50lbs. i haven't been this size since i was single..before meeting H almost 5 years ago. crazy! so i have like no clothes that fit me and i forgot what it feels like to feel good in clothes that are smaller. but...i have absolutely zero interest in food and my family has now gotten concerned. all this time of hearing "you'd look so great if you got in shape!" and now they think i'm wasting away. wahteevs
i feel like i never see/spend time with my husband. we wake up at 6am, throw the boy in the bed with us until about 7...get him ready for daycare/H for work...i ship them off until 6pm when they get home. we find them something for dinner and the little guy is in bed by 8pm. some nights i get out of the house with B while H works on some sort of house project. after B is in bed, i pretty much hit the bed too. H stays up late. rinse. repeat. we're kind of in a one of those places in life where we're just like.."let's just get through this and it will get better". we just aren't spending much quality time together and it sucks...but i dont know how else to do it. we can't have B around when we're trying to do anything productive around the house bc he wants to "help" (get in the way) so i'm always taking him somewhere and letting H get stuff done.
so...i'm sitting at the airport in Phoenix now at the beginning of a long week of a work trip to Cali .of course my flight is delayed so now i wont get there until 11pm and then i have to drive another hour to get to the place i stay. my only saving grace is that my boss isnt in town...so i get her apt to myself. a week alone is actually something i'm looking forward to.
miss u guys. hope you're all well.
June 2011
Re: hey all
Oh my. I know the feeling of "let's just get thru this and it will be better on the other side." We are there right now.
I hope you guys are able to move along swiftly and come out better for it. Congrats on the weight loss - I'm super jealous! Show us some before and after pics! Are you guys TTC also or are you holding off for a bit?
Hi! Good to hear from you. I hope this week gives you some peace. I know the weather has been bad out here, maybe in OH too, so hopefully you are enjoying the heat.
Sorry about the diet and weight loss too. It's far different to lose weight that way than from hard work. I hope the weight loss is from the diet and therefore will stop soon as opposed to from being sick. Do try to eat as much as you can. Maybe even do some non dairy calorie shakes. You need to keep your strength up as much as possible.
Try not to worry about the during the week quality time... I think it's like that for almost everyone, especially people with children. Even if any of us have time during the week, do we really have much to give? It's just the nature of how we live our lives. Try to get some of that good quality time together on the weekends, and maybe increase weekend getaways if you have someone who would be willing to take care of Bennett. I think it's good that you are going to sleep early. The most important thing right now is for you to feel better.
P.S. - Consider yourself fortunate that your H does projects around the house! And even that's just a function of having a new house... so hopefully it will slow down. Remember everything is temporary.
Ditto, sorry you're there bucks. Hope it gets better soon.