Tales of the T's

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Reunion 2012

My dad and stepmom were in town from Wyoming so we threw an impromptu family reunion in my backyard yesterday. We missed the folks who couldn't make it but were glad to chit chat with everyone who did. Lots of yummy food and conversation. I realized that I kind of suck though as a photographer. Not only did I not get pictures of everyone, but I didn't take any pics of my kids with their grandparents. Duh. Guess we'll have to take a trip to Wyoming sometime.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mothers Day 2012

Yep, it was that day today. I celebrated by getting up at 5:30 am

Going to work for 4 hours
Cleaning out my closet
Cleaning the bathroom
Cleaning out the linen closet
Doing 4 loads of laundry
Cleaning the kitchen
Arguing with my husband about why I shouldn't get a special day because I went to Mexico

Awesome, eh?

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A whole lot of birthdays

I managed to lose half a pound last week, even with my donut rebellion.

And then I gained it back this week. Was it the Easter candy and dessert or just PMS week?

Hard to say.

Anyway, I was going to post pictures of how I got smart for birthdays and realized when I uploaded my camera, that I hadn't posted pics of any of the boys birthdays.

Tanner turned 15 on February 16.

Cupcakes are semi smart because they are automatic portion control.

And I did eat only one.

Travis turned 12 on Februrary 26.

A very colorful wacky looking store bought cake is also semi smart because it doesn't necessarily look good enough to eat. At least not several pieces.

(And it's not because it was the least girly cake to be found at the local grocery at 7:30 in the morning on the day of my boys birthday because I sort of kind of forgot)

I think I actually only ate a bite or two of this one.

Teagan turned 7 on March 29.

And the smartest thing of all?

Taking the kids to the bakery so they can pick out their own cupcakes = no cake in the house!

You'll notice that only one kid actually picked a cupcake while two went for brownies, and the two oldest split that huge Devil Dog.

Even smarter? Eating them in the car on our way to Coco Key water park.

And these were all of the 3 pictures I got before my camera battery died.

Woops.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Big changes a coming

Maybe......

I'm heading to Pennsylvania in a few days for a big interview. I'm getting really excited and nervous, of course. I haven't met any of the midwives in person yet but just the emails and phone call that I've had with them makes me feel like this could be "the one". I had a phone interview with another practice in Michigan yesterday and while I felt pretty good about it when it was over, I'm not getting my hopes up. They are really looking for a local candidate so will interview a couple of them before they would even consider bringing me out for a face to face interview. Whereas the Pennsylvania practice is flying me out, putting me up in hotel, and have given me a complete itinerary for the day - meeting the providers, then the director of the perinatal unit, lunch with the office staff, docs and midwives, and tour of housing and the community by a local realtor. There are two midwives in the practice, one who wants to pick me up from the airport Sunday night, and the other who wants to pick me up for breakfast at the hotel Monday morning. I feel wanted. :o) But also incredibly worried that I will say something stupid. Or that they will ask me a clinical question and I will have forgotten everything I learned in the last three years.

Anyway, that leaves me with just a few days to feel good about myself physically and to find something nice and professional to wear. While I plan to stick with Jorge and the BFC, I'm going to give myself a jump start by following the Flat Belly Diets four day anti-bloat menu plan. I just don't want to feel blah when I get to Pennsylvania and I think eliminating some poochy belly foods will help. So that's my plan..... Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Well, that and a trip to Kohl's.