One Last Giveaway

Ok... I'm having too much fun and there are currently over 1000 giveaways!!! (check out my other 2 if you havent)

So I decided to do one last giveaway and giveaway this pin.
(not sure why the picture is coming out sideways)


to enter: read one of my other posts and comment on it HERE. For a second entry... add me to your blog reader (post a 2nd comment if you do that)

The giveaway will end on Saturday Aug 2 at 5pm (Eastern Time).


You do not have to be a blogger to enter. Just leave a valid email address. The winner will have 4 days to respond to me or I'll go with the next person from my random number generator.

I'm sorry this is only open to US residents.


And now back to the giveaways....

Book Giveaway

I saw a few people doing this and thought it's such a great idea I'd do it too. I love PaperBackSwap and am giving away 1 book from it to

I will close it at 3pm EDT on Thursday July 31. EDITED: Since I'm still having a constant stream of people I've decided to extend this until Saturday Aug 2 at 5pm. (esp since the Bloggy Giveaway is still going on). I hope that doesn't bother anyone.

You do not have to be a blogger to enter. Just leave a valid email address. The winner will have 4 days to respond to me or I'll go with the next person from my random number generator. To enter you have to go to their site and tell me what book you think you'd pick (you can always change it later) or a book you've recently read.

The winner will receive
1) if they are a PBS member (or want to join)...i'll transfer 1 credit to you
2) if not, (and you dont want to become a member), then i'll have one available book they have shipped to you. You'll just need to let me know when you received it.

And sorry i think you need to be in the US for this.

I just got the new James Patterson book in the mail. And the best thing about PBS.... it's all FREE. you only pay shipping to mail a book (book rate) to someone else. the first time you join and add 10 books to swap...you get to get 2 books. after that, each time you send a book you get a credit to pick a new one.




And now back to the giveaways....

Bloggy Giveaway

It's bloggy giveaway time again! I had so much fun last time doing this. This time I'm giving away a $10 gift certificate to the winner's choice of LL Bean or Lands End(2 of my favorite stores!) (If a non US resident wants to enter-- they can win $10 US to their paypal if they prefer)

I will close it at 3pm EDT on Thursday July 31. EDITED: Since I'm still having a constant stream of people I've decided to extend this until Saturday Aug 2 at 5pm. (esp since the Bloggy Giveaway is still going on). I hope that doesn't bother anyone.

You do not have to be a blogger to enter. Just leave a valid email address. The winner will have 4 days to respond to me or I'll go with the next person from my random number generator.

To enter you have to answer one the following questions:
1) If I were to visit the nearest big city (or even your local town/city) what is one place that I should definitely visit?
2) What is your favorite recipe?
3) What are 3 websites that you have to visit every day?

Have fun! Happy Giveaways!

wii fit i love you

I go to see my nutritionist tomorrow. Not sure what she'll tell me about eating better--well she'll tell me to eat better of course....but I have to FOLLOW it. but I'm still excited to see her. Last I saw her in Dec or Jan she was telling me to exercise... and I am... but now my eating is crap.

The girls are good. We had a busy weekend and they did a ton. They crashed hard tonight. Bean2 is becoming so hard to get to sleep. Tonight was the worst....since DH wasn't around for bedtime she was crying for him....so much she was almost hyperventilating. It made me want to give her the pacifier back---but i held firm (i did lay on her floor for 20 min...shhh)

Still doing good with the wii. i'm averaging about 45 min a day with aerobics and my mom said she noticed a difference when we saw her yesterday! woohooo.

I did do a waist measurement and got that I lost about 2 inches!! but i'm not sure how scientific that was with the crappy measuring thing i had. so i got a new thing and took new measurements...so hopefully in a week or two I can check and see accurate results. I'm still thrilled though.

Bring on the veggies!!!

no tubes and plateaus

So bean2 does not need tubes!! he wants her off the preventative meds and since her ears look so good--just see how she does. fingers crossed!

I've been pretty bummed about wii fit. after off to a quick 7.5 lb deficit and pushing myself hard (45-60 min or aerobics and boxing every night) i had 4 successive days of gaining 1/2 lb a day. I'm hoping that it's just converting some fat to muscle since i'm feeling better and having more energy...but the weight gain was bothering me.

Saturday I decided to do a waist measurement so hopefully i'll see some increases there for my hard work. I've also scheduled a meeting with my nutritionist for next week. I haven't seen her since January since i've been slacking so much. I need to really start eating better. and also figure out what i'm allergic to and can eat.

Yesterday I had a very bad allergy day and didn't end up doing any wii fit (my first day 'off' in over 2 weeks) but i did go for a nice 20 min walk with my friend so i'm counting that. and this morning--i lost 1 lb!! yeah! here's hoping the plateau is gone!.

off to wii-fit-ify

crappy day

Here is how my day started...

AF was due yesterday. Some cramping for the past few days but no sign of her. Took a test this morning... bfn (11 dpo)

Come down stairs to try wii fit because i think i'm about to hit a milestone weight thing and want to see if i did good.

Turn on the tv.... the tv dies. no picture just sound. it's gone bye-bye. :( (it is about 18 years old)

Drop the girls off a day care and come home to work from home. about 11am... AF decides to show up. crap crap crap. ugh! i'm so frustrated. Why did it only take 1 month each time with bean1 and bean2 and then it's already been 3 months this time. I'm getting so pessimistic about it working (i know 3 months isn't really that long...but i'm having a pity party)

And then at 2 we have to pick up bean2 to take her to the ENT doctor to see if she needs tubes.

Oh yeah...and did i mention that while i'm typing this the dentist just called to confirm my appointment for friday?

i'm going to cry. but first i'm going to go buy a tv---gotta do something productive.

(i did hook the wii fit up to our upstairs tv and it said i made my goal. :) thank goodness for the wii fit)

scary

two nights ago bean 1 was running at a giant blow up ball (~4 ft), the ball rolled and she flipped over it and landed on her head!

she cried right away and got up (before we could tell her not to move) and she seemed ok. played all night with her friends and seemed fine.

yesterday woke up and couldn't look up or turn her head to the left without screaming. so I took her to the doctor who thought it was probably just sprained but wanted x-rays.

so i took for her x-rays. Now since there is a chance i could be PG right now (not getting my hopes up though ) they didn't want me to go in with her so we had to wait awhile until they had 2 technicians free--1 to stand with her.

they did the 3 xrays and for one she started crying so hard since she needed to look up. :( it was so sad. she did good though. they weren't sure if they got what they wanted so had us wait in the hall. Nope--need more x-rays. so she went back in and they tried laying down this time. She even started talking to the woman. :)

As we were leaving with her handful of stickers the technician whispered ("i'm not supposed to tell you this but everything looks fine" ) :) :)

so back to the doctor's who gave us the all clear again. thankfully it's prob just like a stiff neck/sprain of some sort and should get better within a week or 2.

poor girl. scary

wii fit

i also just got a wii fit today and it rocks! i'm liking it better than ddr. the aerobic is way cool! and it said just tonight in exercising for 45 min that i lost 1.5 lbs. :) now to keep it off!

bean updates

Bean1 has still had a 103 fever all day (whenever the motrin wears off). hopefully by tomorrow she'll be back to normal. the fever stayed with bean2 for 24 hrs.

And we decided to push the pacifier today with bean2. since she didn’t use her pacifier for 3 days with the virus and then last night we got home after she feel asleep in the car…we decided to push it today. Naptime she cried for about 5 min but then we kept explaining to her that it hurt her mouth (which she remembered) and told her that if she took a good pacifier-less nap, after nap I’d take her to the store to get an elephant or stuffed-animal (she really wanted an elephant). So she did.Then she picked out the cutest little elephant. And tonight she went to sleep just crying for it about 3 times. poor girl. But this seemed the easiest time to push. Hopefully it’s like it was with bean1 and just a few days of her asking for it.

sick kids

so bean2 was sick on Tuesday and Wednesday. high fever, vomiting twice (36 hrs apart---how weird is that) and bad sore throat. some weird virus. today she seemed mostly back to normal. at least starting to eat more... still says her throat is sore (which has made her not be able to take her pacifier....can we just get rid of it?? one good thing then in the yucky sickness) we were also surprised that her ears were clear since she's had 11 ear infections and is going to see the ENT in 1.5 weeks

well for the past 2 days bean 1 has been getting into more trouble and at her sister much more. we figured it was because of the attention that bean2 was getting and the changes at daycare this week (new kids and some of her other friends are gone). and then today with the excitement of July 4th (we went to a cool parade and then grandma/grandpa's). we left earlier because the girls were just at each other and neither napped so we headed out. Both feel asleep in the car at 7:30. 30 min ago...bean 1 wakes up ...with a 103.5 fever saying her ear hurts. oh no! so i guess that explains her behaviour. poor girl. dosed her up with meds and maybe off to the doc tomorrow (I LOVE that her doc has weekend and evening hours)

wishing a healthy household.

oh...and did i mention that i just got a + opk today. sigh...