Catch Up

Well since my last post we've celebrated two birthdays, dressed up for Halloween, enjoyed Christmas break from school and brought in the new year with fireworks. Overall a success!
Here's a recap:

Parker's 6th birthday

Halloween

Kennedy's 9th birthday

Christmas morning

Fireworks

Summer

Here we are already a month into the summer and the girls summer school classes end tomorrow. AHHHH! I count on those two little hours a day to get work done. I don't know how I will manage after that. I remember how hard it was to send my kids to school the first day of Kindergarten and now, sadly enough I need them to go so I can go to work!

Parker is loving tumbling! I would post a pic but I'm usually working and someone else takes her. She really enjoys it so I will get a pic soon.

Swim lessons seem to be going well. It is hot as heck out there! This Saturday the heat advisory is on for 116 degrees!!! Luckily lessons are at 10:15am but the girls are begging me to let them stay afterwards for public swim time. Literally, they are counting down the days. I'll blame it on mother nature. I'm sure they'll totally understand. Ha.

As for me, my feet are finally feeling better. I am dying to get into some tennis shoes and go walking, although I have to do it at 5am to beat the heat. I can't get motivated to exercise in the house but if I get out and walk I can walk for ever. I was doing well and then went and tattooed my feet and that stopped that. I know I'm going to need touch-ups and it pains me to think I will have to go through this again. Sigh. Why?? Why my feet???

Ouch

So I had been thinking for awhile to get the girls names on me and last night I finally did it. And Holy hell it hurt! It hurt ALOT more than I expected but of course now that it's over I'm like, Eh, was it that bad?

So as I let them heal I am laying off of them for two days. However after that I am back in my shoes and out walking. I'm doing really good with the weight loss so I am not going to stop now. 

In the meantime with the weather out of control HOT, we will entertain ourselves the best we can.

One Foot Two Foot

Officially back to my pre pregnancy weight. Woo Hoo! My friend was in town for a few days and I was able to get out and walk everyday which was so great since I have two kids at home and can't just GO anywhere when I want to. I started going to the high school track really early in the morning after dragging the girls out of bed. I sit them on the bleachers in the shade while I walk for as long as I can or walk the bleachers. Ah, bleachers. The first time we went to the track the only thing i DID do was walk the bleachers, for 15-20 minutes. Ha. The next day I was hurting. The 2nd day I was suffering. Getting up and down my own stairs at home or just sitting down to pee was a challenge. It was getting back out and walking the track that made all of that go away almost instantly.
So having someone in the house made it possible to just go walking and be back before anybody was even awake! I will miss that. Well, here I am the day after she left and I am here on the computer rather than out walking. LOL Anyway, I've got my old body back, now I'm working on a new one. Working towards 17 more lbs of weight off to meet my new goal.

The girls have been enjoying summer school. It keeps them busy and K is learning tons of stuff in babysitting  and cooking classes. P is in Yoga and Reading. She made those choices but I think she is disappointed. She wanted something livelier and Yoga isn't it but she is still enjoying it as much as she can. What she is in LOVE with is tumbling. Both of them started off in the class but K was not loving it so I let her opt out. P however wants to go two times a week. She is doing really good at it. They also do swimming on Saturdays and they both love that a lot. I'm going to pursue year round swimming for K because she loves it and the only other things SHE loves is reading so I'm happy I found something she really enjoys and could be great in.

I'm doing something for me later today but am having trouble uploading pics at the moment so I will share it later if I can get this figured out.

What's In A Name

Yeah so you will quickly figure out that this blog has NOTHING to do with cooking. I set this blog up quite awhile ago with my full name as the domain(why would I do that?) so in an attempt to keep it a little bit annonymous I had to change the domain. That was not easy. Every thing I typed in was taken. And I typed some crazy shit, too! So this is what I get, Cakemixcookies.blogspot.com.

FYI: Cake mix cookies are FaBuLoUs! My advice would be to bake up a batch so here you go:
One Cake Mix
One stick of butter
One large egg
Mix in a bowl - Scoop into balls - bake at 350 for 9 or 10 minutes
I have tried Chocolate, Lemon and Sprinkles and I find they turn out best with a sprinkle of powdered sugar!