The bus pics

Campbell continues to love school and the bus. She also won't stop climbing and risking her life in the process. Everything else is going swimmingly. I'm finally starting on the projects that I planned to do all Summer when the boys weren't in school. It would appear that I have more "free time" to clean out closets when they're gone...imagine that?

I've also continued to stick with my quest for fitness. I was going to wait to post about it until I reached my first weight goal but it is one of the things that has been occupying some of my previous blog time (and my blog brain)! Not to mention the fact that I have been way to indulgent with myself in the past several weeks and I keep bouncing the same couple of pounds around. Who knows when I'm going to reach that goal. I have never previously participated in any kind of structured exercise program and stuck with it. Last October I gave in to the cries coming from my body and stepped on our newly bought elliptical machine. I lasted about five minutes...I was pretty sure I was going to die. And yet, here I am...still kicking, still ellipticalling, still walking, jogging, sweating, whining, moaning...still plugging away at it, alive.

If you travelled with me on the journey to get Miss Knievel here safely you know that when I wasn't driving my little boys around to school or having the baggers at the grocery store carry my milk and put it in the car for me, I was laying on the couch on my left side. If I wasn't on the couch I was eating or maybe even perhaps eating on the couch. You know I'm going to say she was worth it...every muscle atrophying bit of her. But after she was here and I wasn't protecting her life with my uterus anymore I realized that I had become rather marshmallow like. So after I had come to terms that there would be no more squirpy little babies coming from my bod and Campbell had stopped nursing I decided it was time.

In July I started working out with a local Mommy and Me Fitness group and I love it. It's hard to make the time and find help with the bigger kiddos (Thanks Aunt Kiki!!!!) but it's so worth it...I'm worth it!!! It's a stroller class so CK gets to ride along. I love it when I start running and she goes "WOW!"...too cute! I desperately want to get more comfortable with running but I keep wrestling with some sort of stress injury in both of my shins (and my 32 year old body). I refuse to give up on my goals though! Now it's out there...now I'm accountable, right?

Enough about the size of my bottom! You come here for this anyway!

Getting some comfort from one who's gone before:



I know this is so heartbreaking but she did great, I promise:



See, she warmed up to the idea:



I'm going to stop predicting when I'm going to blog next and just keep doing what I can. : ) I have lots of closets to clean out and it felt way too good to unload my bags and bags of stuff at the Goodwill trailer today (where the kind of creepy helper guy told me I was a real sweetheart and my husband is lucky to have me) to stop now!

I wrote this last night...no idea why it didn't post!!!!?

It's like riding a bike...

blogging that is! At least that's what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping that I will jump back in here and remember exactly how it was that I made time for this!

Here's my inspiration for today. As you can imagine in our house there are lots of discussions about anatomy and puberty (If you were at my house in the morning you would hear pretty much everyday, "Please shut the door I am NAKED and I want some privacy!!!). You know, like what happens when you're a teenager, say about age 15? After dinner Tucker announced, "Mom, when I am fifteen I'm going to show you my hairy bottom on your birthday!"!!! I mean really, what am I supposed to say to about that delightful gift that is to bestowed in my future? The conversation deteriorated from there... Nothing like hairy bottom after dinner jokes six year old style!

All of our little peeps are enjoying school. Tomorrow morning I will put my little baby on the bus for the first time. I have been driving her the first couple of weeks and while it's a little heartbreaking to send her off, it will ease up the chaos that has become my noon hour!

Here she is walking into school her first day, bus pictures will eventually follow:




Here's the crew:





And just because: