My Journey....

Saturday, February 2, 2013

January in a Nutshell

Chase at Emerg..

The Verdict: RSV.

The Treatment: Oral Steriods once daily,

and four puffs of Ventolin every four hours!

Scouter Chip (AKA DADDY)
on the night of his investure at the 68th Beavers Colony!

Harry Potter or AIdan?
Excuse the poor quality, its a picture of pictures on his door!

Did I mention Drew also had Strep Throat? And Robbie had Chicken Pox? January wasn't the best! Aidan and I are the only two who are healthy. We are running away! :)

Monday, January 7, 2013

What????

Am I not allowed to eat the snow?

Roxy hears her name...

Starts to run to me

Realizes there's snow

And this is where I loose her EVERY.TIME.

At this point I close the door, and go in.
I know she's going to be out for a while!

Friday, January 4, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Aidan loves electronics. ANY kind of electronics. On Wednesday when he came home from Day Care he jumped at the chance to be on the computer. He immediately went into his ZAC browser (Zone for Autistic Children Browser) and found his game. This game involves a nursery rhyme and a letter falls off during the saying of the nursery rhyme. They have to figure out what letter fell off. Aidan mastered this the first time he played it! My lil' man is SO smart!

In the "Zone"

Look at his determination!

Other news:

Tonight was suppose to be date night. Its the night where Drew and I go weigh in and then we go out for dinner after. Our baby sitter can't make it tonight, which worked out ok. We need her tomorrow night anyway. We are heading out for dinner with our friends on Friday. So tonight I weigh in alone. I haven't stepped on my home scale today, I'm afraid too. I haven't tracked this week, and tracking for me is the key! Wish me luck. Will update tomorrow with my news, good or bad!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

January 1 2013

Good-Bye 2012, Hello 2013. 2012 was not a great year for our family. Why you ask? Well I will tell you!

We started out our battle with getting a proper diagnosis for Aidan in March. It took us three doctors and and 6 months to get our diagnosis of PDD-NOS, or A-typical Autism. I have known since he was 18 months. I was upset by this diagnosis, but now we can move on and get Aidan the help he needs!

Chase was hospitalized not once but twice for his Asthma. Once in January and once in May. They both had awful timing. My parents were in Hawaii for his first stay, and the second stay was his birthday party weekend and my wedding anniversary and mothers day weekend. IT SUCKED. I am hoping that 2013 is the year we stay away from the hospital!

Those were the two worst things that happened to our family. Now on to happier moments.

In 2012 we adopted a new puppy, her name is Roxy. She is a Lab/Shepard/Collie mix, and Aidan adores her! As do I. I ~~like~~ love dogs! Ever since my dog Blue passed away when I was still living at home I wanted another! It only too me five plus years, but I got one!

2012 we also purchased a new van. Our old KIA finally bit the dust, we were putting too many band-aid type fixes on it, and we couldn't afford to spend that much money each month, when we could be putting that into a car payment.

Now on to 2013.

This year is going to be a much better year for my family. We have so much planned for us. We are saving for a house, for a trip out west, and just saving in general.

Saving Plan?

My plan for saving is to start using Gail Vaz-Oxlade (http://www.gailvazoxlade.com) jar system. It should be interesting.

I have set up my budget and will be putting money into my jars today. Then every Tuesday I will add to the Jars. Tuesday is a weird day I know, but its the day Drew is home in the afternoon for a bit from work, and we can talk and discuss money kid free!

Weight Loss

Once again I am working on loosing weight. Now to me this should be easy, I know the Weight Watcher program inside and out, but I just can't seem to keep on track, but I am human and I will do it. My first goal? Is to hit 230, and I give myself one Month. January 31st is my last weight watchers weigh in of this month. That night I will be at or under 230.

365 project

I can't guarantee I will do this, but I will attempt to upload pictures when ever I blog! Which I hope is more often then last year!

Today's Uploaded Picture's:

A few pictures from Christmas! We spent Christmas morning at our house as a family. We opened gifts, played with a few of them then had a nap. After nap we got dressed and went for dinner at my parents!