Weight loss champion (yes that's me! lol) and important life decisions in Life as a Mom of 2 boys.....and a girl!!

Friday’s weigh in was pretty awesome. It totally surprised me! Last Friday I was 196.2 so I was hoping for a 2lb loss and instead I got down to 192.8lbs!! Works for me! Especially since I have some treats here and there every day and that was the week I ate a footlong hot dog while watching the Blue Jay’s play (baseball) and later found out it was 977 calories (and it was soooooooooo good lol). Good thing I had a light breakfast that day and ate nothing else at the dome besides that. We left the boys with my MIL that day and just took the baby and it was kind of pointless in my opinion but Mike was dying to go so we went. I say it was pointless because we only got to sit in our seats for 20 minutes before the baby got fussy and then we spent the rest of the time walking around and watching bits of the game from the main area of level 1. I am really not a fan of feeding the baby in a bathroom, even if it was a special nursing one with a bench seat. It had absolutely no a/c so I was feeding her and we were both dripping sweat. Fun times! lol

Even though my maternity leave pay doesn’t end until Summer is 1 year old next April, I’ve been stressing a bit thinking about where I’m going to find a job at that point. Then I was thinking that summer is just after that and how the heck are we going to afford daycare for all 3 kids? So I decided to save at least 70% of my monthly child care benefit from now on (I get just under $1000) and then I can stay off work until September 2017 when Miles is in school. Then I would only need daycare for Summer. And even if I don’t find a job right away, as long as I have a job by December/January we will be fine. I was even thinking of maybe getting a part time job for hours Mike is home once Summer turns 1 and that would help too. To be honest, after taking care of the kids myself every single day of their lives, even thinking of going to work and putting Summer in daycare pains me but I don’t know a way out of it. I don’t want to run a home daycare and we can’t afford to live on one salary. Oh well, we’ll get there when we get there. I have at least a year now before I need to look for work. And I’m going to look for something in the accounting field since I have a 2 year degree I’ve never used. Call me a nerd but I’m excited to work with numbers lol. I’m always calculating something in my head and I enjoy it. I even add up my groceries as I go along in my head which is no small feat when I’m also talking to the kids and sometimes Mike as I do it. It’s hard not to lose track of how much we’ve bought so far!

Gotta go but did I mention that I often think of important things in my life I have to do or decisions I need to make while nursing and rocking Summer to sleep in the middle of the night? lol. What else are you supposed to do? Just picture me with her in my arms in my rocking chair in the dark, crunching numbers to figure out how long I can stay off work and stay home with my baby :) This has been taking a long time lately because I will rock her til I think she asleep and then the moment I slowly put her in the bassinet she wakes up and wants to be held again. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Ughhh. Took me an hour and a half to get her down one night.