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[PamsPride]

Thanks for the wonderful comments!


I am in the process of dehydrating up more potatoes. I managed to slice all of the potatoes up without cutting my fingers on the evil mandolin slicer!! YAY ME!! My dad and brother are notorious cutting the tips of their fingers off with that thing. It has even got my DH a couple of times. The slices came out much more uniform vs my food processor.

It is beautiful here today....70F with lots of sunshine. It is supposed to start storming around midnight and last through the day tomorrow. The boys are supposed to go on a 5 mile hike in the morning with Rangers. If it is nice I am thinking about going. I could use the exercise for the weigh in on Monday. I walked 45 minutes yesterday up and down my road with the baby in the sling. Felt like I was 8 months pregnant (haha never made it to 9 months) again carrying her on the front of me like that.

I have been eating really good this week, drinking lots of water, and I have exercised a few days but my scale here at home just has not budge!

I am taking my 2 girls and going to the mother/daughter banquet with my mom and MIL tonight at their church. I am going to dress the girls up in their butterfly outfits.

 

[MorelCabin]

Wow love the butterfly outfits and the jacket! You are so talented Pam! One day maybe I will be able to sew like you...but probably not:>)

Your scale must be broken, throw it away and forget about it, concentrate instead on how great and thin you feel and how much you love to get outside and walk! the mind is a powerful tool all by itself, scales are just dissappointing

 

[PamsPride]

Thank you!!

The jacket was easy but time consuming.
How I made the jacket: Take a sweathirt that fits nicely...every brand fits differently. I used one of my 6 yo's old GAP sweatshirts for this one. I am using a sweatshirt I got for .50 at the Village for mine. Cut off the bottom band and cuffs. DO NOT CUT OFF THE NECK!! It will ruin the sweat shirt and it can not be fixed. *Then I cut the seams on both sides from the bottom to the hand holes and lay the sweat shirt out flat.* (That was a light bulb moment for my mom and I that made these elaborate jackets seem so easy when we went to the seminar on how to make these.) I cut my fabric in 3x3 squares randomly by hand. I used 4 different colors. I randomly layed them on the sweatshirt and started sewing around each block with a decrotive stitch. The first blocks do not need a decorate stitch though because all of their edges will be covered up by other blocks. Once the whole sweatshirt was covered I cut up the middle for the opening and then I folded down the collar and sewed it down. Sewed the seams back up. Then the cuffs and edging. I used two hair rubberbands for button loops, which I sewed in under the edging. I still have to put the two buttons on.
It takes about 2 1/2 yards of fabric to make an adult quilted jacket.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

I second that . . . don't be a scale watcher. It really does not equate with healthy living. When you exercise, you build muscle and muscle is heavier than fat. So you may be trimming down, but you won't notice a difference on the scale. Put it away.

It also takes time to lose weight, if you are exercising moderately and eating right. Keep at it. Don't stess it.

 

[PamsPride]

Am I the only one that thinks $70 for a toy is OUTRAGEOUS???
http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=8961&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US
Or even $20 & $30 for the smallers is a lot of $$??

A boy brought these to church to play with and now my 6 yo (soon to be 7 in a few days) wants this for his birthday. I am not opposed to Legos or toys...heck they have a tub of legos that is so heavy they can barely lift it up and a tub of K'nex that rivals it in weight. We already have a box of Geo Trax the size of a smart car....at least most of those fall in the $10-$20 range and when you have two sets of grandparents and us buying them for the last several years they sure do accumulate.
So how do you justify $70 for a toy??? Maybe it is because I have 6 kids and not just 1 that makes it seem so outrageous??

 

[DrakeMaiden]

If I had kids they would play with rocks and sticks. LOL

Well, maybe I am over-exaggerating, but I think the more specialized a toy is (when you can only build one thing with it, for example) the less fun it is over the long haul. JMO. That isn't something a kid would ever admit to though. LOL They would just stop playing with it.

 

[PamsPride]

My kids LOVE to play with sticks! We try to discourage the rock playing though because of the two vehicle windows they have broken!!
They love to play on the wood pile!
Whenever I go through and throw out garbage bags full of toys my kids have never once complained about missing a toy after it was gone.

 

[PamsPride]

After reading about this farm:
http://www.kookoolanfarms.com/Sustainability_Practices.html
from the organic feed thread it makes me want to fence in my WHOLE property including the front yard, put a gate across the driveway, and put a couple milk cows, goats, and lots of chickens and turkeys loose out there on it! I have been slowly building up my orchard. It would be so cool to look out my front window and see a cow out there!! My neighbors would 'love' me!!LOL! If I had the $$ to fence in my whole yard (actually only 3/4 of it because the neighbor behind me already has the fence posts across the back) I totally would!!

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Yeah, I want a cow pretty bad too. I'm thinking mini cows are about my size. My husband is in semi-agreement, but we are not taking on any new projects right now!!!!!

And who needs expensive toys when you've got animals to hang out with?

 

[Beekissed]

Pam, I finally faced the facts with my kids when it came to toys.....if I spent big money for one, it would be the one that lay broken on the bedroom floor and never cared for. When I stopped buying toys, they became more creative withs, wouldn't you know it?..sticks and cardboard boxes, duct tape, ropes.....you name it, they had fun with it and it didn't cost me much except in duct tape. Yes, their games became more......er.....messy and dangerous as they grew older, but they still had more imaginative play with simple items.

I finally learned all that when I invested in a $60 model train set that was never set up and all the pieces were lost and broken when next I saw it. Never again. And I stuck to it!

Never regretted it to this day!