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Moms and Mums Club 2013 Part 6 |
Ah....nice shiny new thread, thanks Dee! |
I made it ladies! Home on the couch with my ice cream and Saturday night live. One more hurdle overcome. :) |
I slept last night!! Baby woke around 3, but was consolable, and I slept with her until just before 6. Ahhhh.... I love waking up without the awful feelings of "too much to drink last night." I'm having my coffee and morning smoke out on the patio before the sun (and everyone else) rises, and then will drive up to the corner store for the paper and smokes. I love this feeling of morning alone time. I've started blogging to get my feelings out. I journal occasionally, but I like the idea of releasing my thoughts to a random public. I'm sure no one reads it, but it's just the idea of my thoughts being out there that helps to make them more solid for me. I write differently online than I do in my journal, and typing rather than writing lets me edit and change, which is not better or worse, just different. It also lets me get things out faster, which helps the flow of my thoughts. Babs - Yay for a nice peaceful evening last night! |
Hey ladies, I'm in the hairdressers getting my roots sorted - wooohoo :) Had a fab date night last night, wore new shoes if bought in the day and we found a wicked curry house - it was heaving and the food was lovely - I have leftovers for when I get home and will re-start my diet tomorrow ;) Anyways - just off to get rinsed so best shoot! Well done Babs - you're doing amazing :) Xxxxx |
Also hoping joygirl is ok and comes back soon :) xxxxxx |
Morning moms... Having my coffee and hoping to see the sun soon. Babs...good job! Glad you had a nice night!! Sarah...I love curry!!! It can be different here in the States...I remember I made it once for hubby because he loved eating it when he lived in Ireland. It wasn't the same for him, so I scoured the web for the type of curry made over there, and found a recipe he LOVED! Hoping for a quiet day...just some gym time, and it looks like a nice day for some fall cooking/baking:-) |
Morning! Thanks, Dolly, for your response last night ;) Helps to know I'm not the only one. It still feels like summer here. Missing the cool, crisp autumn days :( We took my daughter to a pumpkin patch/fall festival yesterday and it was too hot out to enjoy! Not sure what the plan is for today. Kind of feel like a day at home and maybe trying a new recipe for dinner? We'll see. Hubby is still sleeping, which is very rare for him as he NEVER sleeps in. He could be out all night drinking and still not sleep in. Me in the other hand .... love sleeping in, but not so much now that I am no longer hungover :) Anyway, daiughter is playing with a new toy/watching Disney JR so I am enjoying some "me" time. Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday, How are doing sunny, Imperfectlyme? Grace, hope your night/talk with hubby went well :) |
Hi all am ok just been manic had a load of my sons friends and their mums here yesterday and my husband has been out celebrating his 40th with a long bike ride and dinner with his friends yesterday... Feeling zapped stil from this virus and frustrated because I have put on weight from lack of exercise and comfort eating anyway tomorrow is a new week and hoping I will feel normal again soon! I think mt slip was caused by me feeling I'll and not getting better fast enough it was total self indulgence which only made me feel more ill!!! You are all doing so well!!! |
2 Attachment(s) Hey Dolly, I'm a huge curry fan - I think it's a British thing but ooooh a good butter chicken is amazing! Soooo greasy and stodgy and soooooo goooood :) We'll today I got my roots done and got out in the bike with the hubby, stopped at a pub half way for Belgium chips (covered in Mayo) and a quick bev before getting on the bike and coming home - it was a lovely avo and rode home as the sun was setting - it was actually really awesome considering I was holding on for dear life ;) am slowly but surely finding my feet with it :) Oh a pumpkin fair sounds lovely Ladybug - wish we had things like that here Anyways, am off to catch up with last nights X factor and homeland starts tonight - good telly at the mo :) Oh and Sunny, glad you're on the mend - catch you all soon Back on the diet tomorrow :) xxxxxx |
1 Attachment(s) Hi moms... Rainy Sunday here, but days like this make me get my cooking on. Baked an apple cranberry pie, and sent Hubby to the turkey farm for a nice whole breast. Gonna have a turkey dinner with all the trimmings tonight and the pie for dessert:-) This day would normally scream for a snifter of brandy, but only thought about it for a moment. Hope I don't have to deal with frequent cravings now that the colder weather is coming. Anyway....did a solid hour of cardio at the gym, now for a shower and to getting turkey in the oven:-) Here is a pick off pie...like my leaves on top? |
Yum, that pie looks delish, Dolly!! Good for you, enjoy:) |
Wow, lots of chatter on here today! It's like we are really all together, gab gab gab! Not much time to post as I have to get the kids ready and we are off to church, but I wanted to let you know how last evening went. My husband responded so wonderfully! He was completely supportive and sweet. I talked for about 15 minutes straight as we drove around after dinner, I wanted to get everything out and not forget any point I wanted him to know. I feel so much better. He was wonderful, and now I feel like I am living the truth. Thanks for all of your positive words and thoughts. They really strengthened me! Dolly, what a beautiful pie! I am impressed. And hungry. Sarah, those pictures are just lovely. Riding on a motorcycle is on my bucket list, so your afternoon sounds heavenly to me! Crazy waving at the rest of you! Stay strong! |
Yaaaay GG, that's amazing news - am really happy for you :) That is one good looking pie Dolly and well done with the cardio too :) Off to bed now - zzzzzzzzz :) xxxxxxx |
Grace - I'm so glad it went well with hubby!! It really helps to have some support, and backing for when you're feeling a little weak. Dolly - that is a beautiful pie. I love the leaves - did you cut them by hand? What a great idea. I think I'm going to make a pumpkin pie tomorrow (with butternut squash from the garden). I wonder... if I made leaves like that to put in the middle, do you think I could cook them on a cookie sheet for like 15 minutes while I pre-cook the crust (I always pre-cook my pumpkin pie crusts for about 15 minutes)? And then lay them on top near the end or after it baked? |
Hi there... Bebetter...yes, I cut them freehand using a knife and then also did the veins in the leaves with a butter knife. I would think you could bake them on a cookie sheet like you said...should be fine. Would probably look even better on the pumpkin pie...would stand out more. Grace....so glad your talk went well with hubby. It really makes it do much easier! Sigh...a hectic night here...daughter was really acting up. She seems to do it more when daddy is home...don't know why, and he sometimes yells at her for small reasons. Sometimes he lets her get away murder, then other times he Hollars at her for something stupid:-( Ugh...just want my bed and peace and quiet! |
Aww, Grace, so happy your hubby was wonderful and supportive. It really does make a world of difference :) Had a really nice day. Went to church this morning with my mom and daughter, then did a little shopping with my mom while my daughter hung out at home with her daddy. It is so hard to clothes/shoe shop with a 3 year old. I have tried on numerous occasions and usually end up giving up and leaving with nothing (maybe that is a good thing, though lol!) Finishing up some laundry, going to give my daughter a bath, and then go to bed! Well, I may eat some ice cream too ;) Going to get back to the gym starting tomorrow. I feel like I have gained back the 7 lbs I recently lost. Have a nice evening Mommas!! |
well am slowly starting to feel human again just back from 20 minute run first time in 3 weeks and nearly killed me ...considering I can run normally for 40 mins!!!...I just want my energyback this virus was totally rotten...probably detoxing too thought!!! Dolly what a pie !!! I am a useless baker! Sarah awesome !!! the weather here is so balmy its great!!! we have yet to have the heating on! Grace good on you... after my heart to heart with hubby we have been getting on so much better...sometimes it pays to show our vulnerable side? Anyway my finances are really getting me down I don't have enough to get me to the end of the month... spent too much money on wine cigs when I slipped... also London cost a fortune my friend is on a big salalry and we ate out alot!! plus I paid for my Hubbys birthday night....ahhhhh... took a payday loan and had to pay that back.... too scared to ttell H...any advice???? Sarah I watched x factor and Dowtown and could not drag myself out of bed this am ..I have told my H to make me got to bed at 8pm tongiht!!! excuse spelling speed typing here! other thing really getting me down is the house we boughta site to build on 4 years ago and still havent sold this house sooo 2 mortgages and this house really needs some new floors and carpets and sofa's we have two dogs and the smell is ingrained it is really driving me up the walls ...plus because I havent been well I have had no energy to get really stuck into a good clean. Ok moan over for the day am going to try and catch a AA meeting before our parent /teacher meeting at school.... w we are all doing so well thanks for being there for my offload! |
Oh yeah just to keep us all motivated don't you feel a little smug on a Monday when you are sitting in traffic and see all those tired faces which are recovering from a BIG weekend!!!! |
Happy Monday girls.... Sipping my coffee, and getting ready for work..blech! Sunny....I hear you about financial woes. When I was drinking, I would take out those online "cash next day" loans. It would take me a while to pay it off because the interest was a nightmare. Things are much better now since I quit, but this month I paid a duplicate payment to my utility company (an extra $350!!!), so things were tight this week. And now Disney is about 5-6 weeks away, and we will need lots if money for that. Anyway...time to pack lunches and get going with this Monday:-) |
Hi Moms, My daughter is in school today until 1:30 vs the usual 11:30 pickup time so I have had the whole morning to myself. Went to the gym and then came home, swept and cleaned bathrooms - fun, fun! Oh well, it needed to be done and that is something I don't usually get done with her around. It is raining hard here and we have a tornado watch, ugh. It is a nice break from the hot, sunny weather we have been having, though. Lost 2 more lbs so that makes 9 lbs I have lost since giving up drinking. I am back to where I was when I met my hubby, woohoo :) I really do think most of that weight was alcohol bloat, yuck. Never again. Hope everyone is having a great Monday! Hugs to all of you xxx |
Hello all... Pretty decent day here. Congrats on the 2 pounds and getting back to dating weight Lady!!! Doesn't it feel great? With all the weight I have lost, I am still not back to what I weighed when I got married, never mind dating, but all in due time. I bought a new outfit as my work clothes have gotten soooo baggy since my weight loss. At least 3 people have told me how terrific I look. One of the people was one of my supervisors, and she then said..."can I ask you something personal...did you stop drinking?" I said yes, and she again told me how great I looked! I wonder why she asked that? We didn't socialize together, so she never saw me drink except for the annual Christmas lunch (which we would all only have 1 glass of wine). It makes me wonder (and the idea fills me with with embarrassment) if she ever smelled it on me. I would often have 2 quick pops on my lunch hour, so it's pretty feasible that she did. Ugh...the idea that my supervisors might have suspected my daily drinking is humiliating:-( Oh well...I got past it, and relished in the compliments! I now go to the gym on my lunch hour....yay, much healthier! Today however, I was watching the Pioneer Woman on the FoodNetwork channel while I was on the treadmill (yeah...not the best idea), and she was making rigatoni with chicken thighs, the cheesiest garlic bread I have ever seen, then finished the show with some peanut butter cup cookies! Well let me tell you...by the time I got back to my office, I was famished and proceeded to demolish my turkey sandwich. Anybody looking over to my desk would have only seen flying bread crusts and heard growling noises:-)...LOL. Anyway...check back in later mommies!:SteprobL: |
Dolly, I love the Pioneer Woman! She has a great pot roast recipe that I make a lot. Her recipes tend to be easy, too, which I like ;) That is strange about your supervisor asking about your drinking. Especially if you weren't drinking buddies, etc. Towards the end I would sometimes have a couple glasses of wine on my lunch hour and would worry about my boss/colleagues smelling it on me, but no one ever said anything. Not sure where you work/what you do, but I imagine if she had smelled it on you she would have said something? Anyway, it's great you are getting so many compliments! Makes you feel like it is all worth it, right? The weight loss and being there for my family is what keeps me motivated :) |
Ladybug / Dolly, good for you on the weigh loss - am so jealous as my scales are stuck....eugh - am having a serious fall out with them at the mo! Anyways - good for you guys :) sunny, I still haven't finished season 2 of Downton so it's all on tape at the moment. I did watch x factor though and me and the hubby couldn't believe the Irish girl didn't go through for the 4th year running - I thought she was amazing! Boo to Nicole for that one, but i also thought Joe would go through too with Sharon, not the blonde from ******* (she's awful) !! Anyways - I had such a busy morning, hubby was up and out early so I had the kids to sort, house to tidy, school run, workout, ironing / washing to do - picked up 3yr old at 2.30 then the grocery shopping got delivered - fed kids - breathed a huuuuge sigh and parked my butt on the couch for an hour! It was productive though - although with 3 loads of washing done, my ironing basket is still full - I HATE ironing. May have to look into getting that sorted when I go back to work ;) Other than that another warm day today - I'm enjoying delaying winter for a few more days :) it's now 8.30, kids are Kipping and I'm in bed - at this rate I'll be asleep before 9pm ;) Hope everyone's doing well and having / had a good day :) xxxxxxxx |
Congrats on the weight loss, Lady! I haven't seen the scales budge even a lb since I quit drinking... I'm sure I'm eating more. I think it's funny that most people are trying to get back to their wedding day (or dating time) weight, and I hope to never see that weight again! I'm a good 20 lbs lighter now than on my wedding day... I got an interesting email from a new friend of mine last night. She and I have gotten together just a few times - introduced through a mutual close friend of mine. We have tons in common, and up until I quit drinking, drinking was one of those things. Anyway, her email to me was that she's taking a cue from me and has dropped her drinking down to 1 night a week, and realized that wasn't working for her because she always really overdoes it, and is thinking about quitting entirely. It's very cool to think that my quiet sobriety is being noticed, and that it can affect other people in a positive way too. |
Hi Ladies, A busy day here, too, but beautiful fall weather always makes me so happy. I went to a hot yoga class this morning. I hadn't done this particular class since before I stopped drinking and I wondered how I even did it with a hangover! I thought I was going to drop a couple of times. My legs are dead now and my husband and I are supposed to go for a walk after dinner. Not sure I can do it! Dolly, about your boss's question. I wonder if she could tell you drank from puffy face/eyes, bloodshot eyes, etc. I know I always had bloodshot eyes and I thought it was from my contact lenses and being tired. Duh. Slow learner over here. Anyway, congratulations on all of the compliments and the weight loss. I am with you, Bebetter, my scale hasn't budged since I stopped, I think because I am eating more sweets. I am not happy with my weight, probably a good 30 pounds overweight, but I would rather be fat and sober than fat and hungover. Blech. Have a great evening, all! |
BeBetter, I was 4 months pregnant at my wedding so I definitely don't want to look like I did at my wedding, lol ;) I gained 60 lbs with my daughter, yikes! Luckily, we were already engaged and had the wedding planned when we found out I was pregnant. She was an unplanned, but pleasant surprise and, knowing what we know now, our precious miracle :) |
Good evening moms... Busy weekend at the festival and had to be up early to fly out of torn for a meeting and back home tonight. Exhausted but still good. Even managed to bypass celebratory drinks with my team after our meeting today. Gave my drink ticket away to the garbage...one more day down. Want to write more to give feedback from some of your posts. Ill do that tomorrow - feels so good to be in bed. It's going to be a long week! |
Still no word from Joygirl? |
Hi all in work ansd quite slow!! My scales have only budged 2lbs need to loose another 6 by 25th Oct as we are going to a Halloween Ball and I have a hot dress to wear!!! Sarah I am with you on Xfactor!!!! I used to drink all afternoon in work mixing wine with coca cola!!!! Madness!!! I am finally starting to feel human again ...still deaf in one ear though!! I went to bed at 8pm last night but woke for an hour or so at 3am still feel better! My H and I have a night away at a lovely hotel booked for friday!!! we are going to head in the am and have lunch on route ..enjoy the spa ansd dinner out . My sister has the kids yeha! |
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