Jaxon's getting so big now. Starting kindergarden this fall, which just kills me. I miss these days when he would just be over the moon to dance with his big sister!!

No rhyme or reason..

My friends Judy and Tiffany, (and me in the middle) last month in Michigan

I burned off 414 calories today. Ugh. So hard to work off 414 calories, so easy to put it on. Sometimes I really resent my love of food and my crappy metabolism.

Shawn, the pool water dude is supposed to show up tonight, tomorrow if it storms (which it's looking like it might). My poor little Jaxon will be so upset if he can't swim tonight. :(

I'm making homemade pizza tonight with whole wheat crust! It's one of the few things the whole family will/can eat. Between picky kids, my weight loss endeavor, and Jeff's cholesterol, planning mealtimes can sometimes be very stressful! I'll take pictures of the ooey gooey goodness!

Sleep and stuff.

I took some OTC sleep stuff last night. Slept like a dream (pun very much intended). The 4-5 hour sleep cycles are just not working for me anymore. I'm too old.

Finally, the sun has decided to show itself. Thank the Lord! The days on end of cloudy drizzle was making me depressed.

I have to put the pool up today, the "Water dood", or Shawn, as "some" like to refer to him, is coming tomorrow. It'll be so nice for the boys to be able to swim.

I'm from Michigan. I don't miss Michigan per se, (maybe a little bit), but I so miss my friends and family. Going back there for a week last month just made it worse I think. It just made it more glaringly clear how much it stinks being here in NY. At least when we lived in San Diego we had friends, and well, it was San Diego. Beautiful, sunny, warm. You had mountains, and desert and the sea. It helped make up for missing people a little bit.

Ok, I'm done whining for now.

:)

A First Post

So I'm Renae. I have 3 lovely children, a daughter who's 20, a son

who's 14, and a son who's 5. They are one of my biggests joys, and one of

the biggest reasons I have to color my hair every 6 weeks! My husband is

Jeff. Jeff had a heart attack in January (more on that later). We also have

a fat, gimpy cat named Gobbles, who rounds out our little family quite

nicely.