Author: Yajaira

Mom Duties!

I’m getting over a cold right now and Mabs is kneading on my stomach while I’m wrapped in my comfy chevron blanket, my legs curled up on Jorge’s lap. I wish I could stay like this for the rest of the week, watching Fixer Upper on HGTV. 

Today was the first “cool” day of the season, the high topping 78 as opposed to our usual 100+ degrees. 

It was hot last Thursday when we went to the boys’ football game:

It was thr opposing school’s Homecoming and they went all out with a parade, food trucks, etc. The Littles, Jaylen and I had to leave early since he still had projects to do  and the Littles still needed to shower. I am so proud of that boy; he completes every single bit of work he needs to do for his classes, and he hasn’t even started Dual Enrollment yet! 

Friday when I had to work at the Food Park during Karaoke was another scorcher, but the kids had fun:

Not a corn on the cob, but sushi!

We had sushi from TaiHu Sushi Truck, Alaethia had a baked potato from Los Brothers and we had aguas de sandia from Tamales Beba. Jaylen didn’t finish his, so I drank it. Aaaaand that’s when I got sick 🙁 . I was over-confident in my usually impenetrable immune system, and went for it, but this cold is kicming my butt!

So I drowned myself in Vitamin C and tried to sweat the sickness out by going for a jog with Sally on Saturday. And my knee didn’t give out, woo!

1 whole lemon, honey and cayenne pepper

My love made dinner while we were at the park.

Homemade chili!

The next day was spent cleaning and helping Alaethia and Jaylen with projects. So off to the library we went to print stuff.

The current art exhibit is by Mario Godinez and I am in love!

La Frida, La Muerte y El Andy
El Dali
La Marilyn
Cantinflas

Those were just a few of my faves! 

I vowed I wouldn’t  be doing projects all day Sunday but you know how that goes!

Sally came over for a bit and I helped her with her hair. And my love made dinner again! 😀 Shrimp Alfredo this time.

I dropped the boys off on Sunday night, as much as I hate to lose any time with them 🙁 . But it’s unfair to all of them to have to wake up at 5:30am just so I won’t be late to work. 

Monday flew by, even though I felt like crap all day. The rainy weather made me wish I was home, but I still had to go return stuff at Kohl’s after work for the girls. 

I had a dentist appointment after I dropped the girls off at school. Went to work with my mouth numb, but I survived. Left work early for Alaethia’s cheerleading outfit fitting. Even though it’s expensive, cheerleading was something I always wanted to do, but was too poor to. So I wanted to make this possible for her. Thankfully, her dad, dad’s mom and my mom also chipped in to register her! We’ll see how it goes with this new adventure for all of us!

After the fitting, Jenny and I took the girls to the library and then we came home, where they did their homework and played to their heart’s content. 

We chilled out and had pizzas and watched Fixer Upper. And now I must go to bed and mentally prepare for a presentation I volunteered for tomorrow morning. Hope the day flies by!

Regulate

Feeling incredibly nauseous. Can’t sleep due to that. Ever since my appointment with my GYN I last mentioned I’ve since been put on birth control to regulate my cycles.

Me, at 34 with my tibes tied. But I’m hoping it’ll help an array of items that have ailed me lately. It sucks getting old! But at least this pill makes me drink lots of water?! I’m dying of thirst 24/7 and my mouth always feels dry 🙁 . Hate it. But, the nausea helped keep me from indulging in all the meals they fed us at work today, so silver lining!

And although I have to work tomorrow night, at least I get to wear jeans!

Labor Day Weekend

We don’t have the kids this weekend, for Labor Day. Didn’t have them last Labor Day either but  last year I kept myself busy by taking a run in the morning. At least I felt like I’d done something productive.

This year, though, I decided to be brilliant and start the 3-day Military Diet. Which I guess is good, considering I’d probably be eating everything in sight from boredom since the kids aren’t here. 

A few of the meals on the plan

The meals honestly haven’t been too bad, and I feel full between meals so that’s good.

I haven’t started running or working out since the last boob incident so I figured I’d do something to kick-start my weight-loss again. I wanted to at least take a walk before meeting Jessica at noon today, but I woke up with my knee killing me! I don’t even know what happened!

[The next day…]

Seeing Jessica R. was great, I missed her! We caught up on a lot of stuff, but it still felt like it wasn’t enough! So grateful for friends you can pick up where you left off with.

I stuck to the diet and had tea, then I got home, had lunch (a boiled egg) and went to see Gramma briefly. I came back home to pick the girls up (Mary took them to doctor and brought them home. Emmos had a cough, Eenan had an infection on a hangnail!) We went grocery shopping and then I really couldn’t stand my knee 🙁 . 

I have to admit I got ahead of myself and weighed in yesterday morning. I had lost 1 lb. I guess seeing that discouraged me a bit, so I ate tortilla chips and salsa at dinnertime 😕 .

I weighed in this morning and *drumroll* …

Lost 1.2 lbs. Same as what I weighed in yesterday.

Oh well, it was something, I guess! At least I didn’t gain and I proved to myself I could have self-control if I tried hard enough. Gotta get this knee better so I can start P90X/jogging again :(.

At the doc now for a follow-up (GYN). Meh.