Busy Tuesday Morning

Up at 4:00 am for practice.  Had a pretty good practice.  Wanted to workout, but forgot my clothes.  I was not happy.  Instead I drove home and stopped at Walmart to get what I forgot yesterday.  I ended up getting the stuff for James' Easter basket.  They had Spirographes on sale so I got him one.  He loves doing things like that and I really think he is going to love it.  I also got him an animal atlas. 

Then I came home and put some beef stew in the crockpot.  It's a recipe I haven't used before.  It has sweet potatoes, zuccini, diced tomatoes, onion and lots of garlic.  I looks good so we'll see how it goes.  Yesterday I made meatloaf and James ate half of it.  I think he's getting ready to grow again.  He's eating everything in sight.

I'm now getting a few things done around the house and a few loads of laundry folded.  I love doing laundry, but I loose interest after the first 2 loads with folding.

Last night the dogs went to the groomer.  They have everyone so wrapped around their fingers there.  Mulder was spoiled by the girl that gave him his bath and brushed his teeth.  Since he was done before Anya she played with him for an hour.  Anya was spoiled as well.  They loved on her and played with her.  They even gave them matching bows.

They looked so cute.

Here they are relaxing on the couch this morning.

They are too cute and they know it.

Tomorrow it's a regular workout after practice then at the pool all day long.  Wednesdays are my long days.  I'm so so about that some days.  I do get a lot done though.

On to the rest of my Tuesday!

Monday Monday

Very busy day ahead of me.  I spent all weekend at a swim meet where my swimmers shined!  Yesterday coming home it was snowing...Yuck!  Today is raining.

That's okay since I have a ton of stuff to do.  My morning started with packing lunch and getting school stuff together for James.  Next up I have to take Indy to the vet, get dog food at Global, grocery shopping, Walmart, post office, clean the basement (?), make dinner, and finally take the dogs to the groomers.  I don't have practice today, but I will be running around all day long.  It's amazing how when one thing is taken away to give you more time, 15 other things seem to need to fill it. 

I wanted to get a short run in today, but I don't think that will happen.  It's raining now and is only supposed to get worse as the day goes on.  I willl get on the bike tomorrow after practice. 

I do have my next race on Saturday at 6pm.  I'm hoping its nice and that I do well.  I'm heading towards my goal of under 30 by September 24th.  We'll see though!

Busy morning and finally back on schedule

I had to get up and go to practice this morning after only sleeping about 3 1/2 hours.  I have not been able to sleep at all lately.  I am working on it though.

Practice went well.  Kids did pretty good this morning.  I then went and rode the recumbent bike for 35 minutes and went 8 miles.  I would have gone 10 minutes longer but Mike had emailed me that one of the animals had gotten sick.  I then started to think about who it could have been and what did they get into.  I remembered that I had had a piece of chocolate the other night.  I tried to remember if I left the bag where they could get it or not.  I couldn't remember so guilt and fear brought me home.

They hadn't gotten into the chocolate so all was good.  I felt better seeing that.

James had asked to bring in a treat since he's Star of the Day tomorrow.  Star of the Day is kind of like Show and Tell when we were growing up.  He gets to bring in something special to him and share it with the class.  He also let us know that he can bring in a treat to share.  He looked through his cookbooks and picked out a recipe for As You Wish Muffins.  They are a healthy breakfast muffin made with whole wheat flour, very very very little sugar and some of my homemade jam.  I am making 36 muffins today.  I will put them in little bags that I picked up and add a pencil and a stencil that I found in the dollar section.

When I'm done with that I have to get dinner ready so all Mike has to do is pop it in the oven when he gets home.  We have found that doing that or using the crockpot works best.  James is usually hungry so all he has to do is wait about half an hour for dinner.  Mike doesn't have to cook and they can eat and it will still be warm when I get home from practice.  Tonight I'm making Rustic Chicken and Mushroom Stew.

I feel like I'm finally back on my schedule.  I have the meals planned out for the rest of the month.  The grocery lists for each week done and ready to be added too.  I am on schedule to work out tomorrow and Friday and possibly even Saturday.  I'm getting the house cleaned slowly.  Very very slowly, but it is getting done.  I have my workouts written for the week and am working on the newsletter tomorrow.  I feel like I'm back in the groove.  Finally.  Now I just have to maintain that groove and get my sleep back on schedule and life will be good.