Well today is the last time we will hold service as pastor of Morris and while it's sad, it's a good feeling that there are new blessings and experiences just around the corner. It's all happened so fast that my head is reeling sometimes but itll all get done somehow and we'll be on our way Thursday as planned.
This week was extremely stressful and my throat was sore most of it. I found myself craving diet coke. Derk said the exact same thing was happening to him with coke too so I know this is part of the addiction process. Funny how we did so well and suddenly we're fighting the desire to have one again...but....we did NOT cave in!
So its 38 days coke and diet coke free and headed for 40 in a few! So excited that this victory is outlasting extreme stress. Now i have some more desk work to deal with, and then my drs appt tomorrow and after that.... packing and more packing. We load thursday morning and leave as soon as it's all done! Getting excited for that new house! It will be nice to have a working bathroom sink...no toothbrushes in the kitchen...finished walls, more than one bathroom... need I go on?
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Day 32 - inches lost!
Another week... another measuring session! Adding up all I've lost since I began this journey has made me feel very excited! 5 inches on the belly.... 2 3/4 on my behind... and a whopping 4 inches on each thigh! Still so much to lose,but feeling quite proud of myself that I've accomplished this simply by quitting diet coke for a month! Wow...only craved sugar for 2 days and then discovered I had a bladder infection. Since then...I haven't hardly eaten anything sweet!
Excitement is building for our move and so is the stress. Still, I don't want diet coke anymore and ate out yesterday with our ladies without ordering my usual diet coke to go with it.
Excitement is building for our move and so is the stress. Still, I don't want diet coke anymore and ate out yesterday with our ladies without ordering my usual diet coke to go with it.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Day 29
It's been 29 days and still doing well. Today my face feels thinner to me but not sure if others see it. It's been a long day for some reason yet it went quickly as well. Funny how that works eh? I got lots of work done, yet had moments where I was so super lethargic I could hardly move. Still kind of feel like that, like I could go to bed now and sleep till morning.
My morning was spent packing, my afternoon with desk work and sorting pictures because a folder broke that I had them in so now they are back in freezer bags waiting that never arriving day when I can sit and scrapbook them!
My family is getting excited or nervous about the move as it looms on the horizon. The little ones are getting hyper and silly saying can we do this in the new house or that? The school aged ones are more concerned with saying goodbye to friends and things and the ones that work are worried about college or employment etc and sometimes are upbeat and excited and others grouchier than an old bear as is the case with a few tonight.
Derk and I are excited, but we know that this type of upheaval means a lot of work and sacrifice of free time in order to get it all done when it needs to be so for us, there's no shouting from the mountains or hanging from the rafters.... just quiet plodding along and facing this task and that one and the one two three four...after that! Somehow... the Lord will step in and it'll all be done when it's supposed to be if we do our part! We've seen his hand at work before and he is definitely performing miracles this time too.
My morning was spent packing, my afternoon with desk work and sorting pictures because a folder broke that I had them in so now they are back in freezer bags waiting that never arriving day when I can sit and scrapbook them!
My family is getting excited or nervous about the move as it looms on the horizon. The little ones are getting hyper and silly saying can we do this in the new house or that? The school aged ones are more concerned with saying goodbye to friends and things and the ones that work are worried about college or employment etc and sometimes are upbeat and excited and others grouchier than an old bear as is the case with a few tonight.
Derk and I are excited, but we know that this type of upheaval means a lot of work and sacrifice of free time in order to get it all done when it needs to be so for us, there's no shouting from the mountains or hanging from the rafters.... just quiet plodding along and facing this task and that one and the one two three four...after that! Somehow... the Lord will step in and it'll all be done when it's supposed to be if we do our part! We've seen his hand at work before and he is definitely performing miracles this time too.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Day 27 - feeling frazzled
Well.....what can I say today? The diet coke addiction is pretty much broken and I'm grateful but now with this move.... the stress is mounting. How do I co-ordinate everything to go with different people's needs, some need to go to Regina, this one needs this car, or van or has to travel back and forth, these ones need jobs and on and on it goes.... sigh....just when we think we've ironed out a wrinkle a new one develops but I am staying off the diet coke and hubby has been coke-free as long as I've been diet-coke free! So almost a complete month for us both and we're seeing signs of it by the weight we're losing. Hubby says he can't get over how fast I am losing weight. I've always lost it fast IF I could find that one thing that triggered it. Guess I still have that in my favor but lots to lose!!
Took Derikkah for her 12 month needles today that we'd had to reschedule. She did well except for crying when she got 3 shots! Anyway, she was good and showed off all her talents and skills for the nurse. She's even LOST weight since beginning to walk and is 28lbs now. She is healthy and tall and impressed the nurse so all good there!
Sent my kids outside to eat on the picnic table for an early lunch! Now... what's for supper?
Took Derikkah for her 12 month needles today that we'd had to reschedule. She did well except for crying when she got 3 shots! Anyway, she was good and showed off all her talents and skills for the nurse. She's even LOST weight since beginning to walk and is 28lbs now. She is healthy and tall and impressed the nurse so all good there!
Sent my kids outside to eat on the picnic table for an early lunch! Now... what's for supper?
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Day 26! Doing just awesome!
Okay folks... I know I've not been on here much lately, but so much has happened in the past few weeks that I am running in circles... good circles, but circles nonetheless lol!
First the diet coke info for those inquiring minds who want to know.
That is going awesome. Wanted one very briefly the other day because it was a new thing that had cropped up where I usually drink diet coke and once I reminded myself that I can change this into iced tea or water or lemonaide here too... I forgot about the coke. So I think I'm about 99.9% free of it. I won't say 100% until I no longer feel any twinges... I can go into a resturant, fast food joint or whatever else and order water or iced tea... am starting to like that icky Nestea in a pinch but found Brisk lemon ice tea is okay and closer to my good host. I've always loved that! I'm drinking and yea even CRAVING water when really thirsty and my coffee drinking has even changed too. I drink about 1 cup per morning but never ever finish it regularly unless it's a special occasion. I just need that warm drink in the morning. Well... now.... I may have 2-4 sips and leave it! Also, I've been horrified at the sweetness and have instructed my daughters to use less sugar much to their amazement! I LOVE my sugar right? Not any more!
I'm eating one or two cookies... maybe three out of an entire package and not touching anymore of them. I have had a couple of soft chocolate icecrea sundaes this week... a rare treat but with the stress and craziness of what I will write below this... you will understand we need a break a breather and so we go out for an ice cream for me, something other than ice cream for Derk and a drive where we talk and pray together about all that has happened and is happening and will happen to our family in the very near future. Then we come home refreshed and feeling stronger to tackle the things we need to get done.
SO..................
First of all is the awesome news.... hopefully men other than my hubby aren't reading this blog... but if you are just get over it!
This morning I measured and compared back to July 11th when I wasn't doing anything about my weight yet. I have gone down all over my body but won't bore you with 1/4" or1/2" etc. My stomach area is hard to measure because it's going down and changing shape on me so very hard to keep measuring in the same spot when it is no longer there! lol. Lets sufice it to say, I can pull out my skirts on either side of my legs bigtime.. get to that in a minute and can pull my wasitbands out on my skirts or wear them lower if they are that type of skirt as my jean skirts are.
Now.... drum roll please................
I have lost 1 3/4" off my behind!!!!!! YES YES YES!!!
I've lost even more..... a whopping 3 1/4" off each of my thighs! DOUBLE YES YES YES!!
I knew they were smaller but not how much. I'm sooooo happy. Maybe if you met me for the first time or never paid attention to what I look like, you wouldn't notice anything different, but my family does and I sure do. I'm amazed at what has come off SINCE quitting diet coke! First though was that ballooning up like I was pregnant and then wham! It started coming off.
So now... I've added working out with my 5 lb free weights for my upper arms. My arms are very weak and sore due to the tendonitis which today is driving me up a wall in both elbows if I try to use them a certain way.
I hope to add more exercise in soon, but due to my other news... it's kind of impossible at the moment!
Okay... here it is folks.
We've not put this on facebook exactly because some of our children's futures aren't quite figured out yet, but here it is.
We are moving. Soon. Out of province and back to Saskatchewan a place I said I never wanted to return to. But we are going and I'm very happy about it. We have a house reserved for us to rent but perhaps also buy at some point in Preeceville SK. We told our church on Sunday night and it was sad to think we're leaving 7 years of hard work here in this church, but it's time and for the past two years we've felt it and have kept our ears and eyes open but were never settled on where God really wanted us to go. When this opportunity came up, we fought it, prayed and talked about it, and tested it to be sure it was GOD talking not just us or someone else, but when we went to camp over there, a very dear preacher friend of ours, one we look up to so much, Bro. Budgell preached right to us and we could no longer delay. Even though we couldn't see how it would work out, we made the comittmant and within hours I'd found a 4 bdr house with 2 bathrooms just like I was praying for and it was renting at a reasonable price. I think we will love it there and I didn't want to move to the city of Yorkton just now, not with little girls who are town girls not city girls at all! This will be a much better environment for them to start out in and I will be relieved.
So that's the news. We're waiting on a possession date... it'll be sometime in Sept and the kids and I may go first and the rest of the family will do what they have plans to do. Our house is still being renovated and I've said for years we need to move out in order to finish it and here we are.... doing just that. Keeping the house with it's low mortgage and moving out so we can finish renovating it and then either sell it, or rent it out.
I won't put the kids news on here... and by kids I mean my oldest two. Their plans are their own to tell and they will do that to whomever they want however they want when they are ready to do so. Until then... you will have to just guess lol.
First the diet coke info for those inquiring minds who want to know.
That is going awesome. Wanted one very briefly the other day because it was a new thing that had cropped up where I usually drink diet coke and once I reminded myself that I can change this into iced tea or water or lemonaide here too... I forgot about the coke. So I think I'm about 99.9% free of it. I won't say 100% until I no longer feel any twinges... I can go into a resturant, fast food joint or whatever else and order water or iced tea... am starting to like that icky Nestea in a pinch but found Brisk lemon ice tea is okay and closer to my good host. I've always loved that! I'm drinking and yea even CRAVING water when really thirsty and my coffee drinking has even changed too. I drink about 1 cup per morning but never ever finish it regularly unless it's a special occasion. I just need that warm drink in the morning. Well... now.... I may have 2-4 sips and leave it! Also, I've been horrified at the sweetness and have instructed my daughters to use less sugar much to their amazement! I LOVE my sugar right? Not any more!
I'm eating one or two cookies... maybe three out of an entire package and not touching anymore of them. I have had a couple of soft chocolate icecrea sundaes this week... a rare treat but with the stress and craziness of what I will write below this... you will understand we need a break a breather and so we go out for an ice cream for me, something other than ice cream for Derk and a drive where we talk and pray together about all that has happened and is happening and will happen to our family in the very near future. Then we come home refreshed and feeling stronger to tackle the things we need to get done.
SO..................
First of all is the awesome news.... hopefully men other than my hubby aren't reading this blog... but if you are just get over it!
This morning I measured and compared back to July 11th when I wasn't doing anything about my weight yet. I have gone down all over my body but won't bore you with 1/4" or1/2" etc. My stomach area is hard to measure because it's going down and changing shape on me so very hard to keep measuring in the same spot when it is no longer there! lol. Lets sufice it to say, I can pull out my skirts on either side of my legs bigtime.. get to that in a minute and can pull my wasitbands out on my skirts or wear them lower if they are that type of skirt as my jean skirts are.
Now.... drum roll please................
I have lost 1 3/4" off my behind!!!!!! YES YES YES!!!
I've lost even more..... a whopping 3 1/4" off each of my thighs! DOUBLE YES YES YES!!
I knew they were smaller but not how much. I'm sooooo happy. Maybe if you met me for the first time or never paid attention to what I look like, you wouldn't notice anything different, but my family does and I sure do. I'm amazed at what has come off SINCE quitting diet coke! First though was that ballooning up like I was pregnant and then wham! It started coming off.
So now... I've added working out with my 5 lb free weights for my upper arms. My arms are very weak and sore due to the tendonitis which today is driving me up a wall in both elbows if I try to use them a certain way.
I hope to add more exercise in soon, but due to my other news... it's kind of impossible at the moment!
Okay... here it is folks.
We've not put this on facebook exactly because some of our children's futures aren't quite figured out yet, but here it is.
We are moving. Soon. Out of province and back to Saskatchewan a place I said I never wanted to return to. But we are going and I'm very happy about it. We have a house reserved for us to rent but perhaps also buy at some point in Preeceville SK. We told our church on Sunday night and it was sad to think we're leaving 7 years of hard work here in this church, but it's time and for the past two years we've felt it and have kept our ears and eyes open but were never settled on where God really wanted us to go. When this opportunity came up, we fought it, prayed and talked about it, and tested it to be sure it was GOD talking not just us or someone else, but when we went to camp over there, a very dear preacher friend of ours, one we look up to so much, Bro. Budgell preached right to us and we could no longer delay. Even though we couldn't see how it would work out, we made the comittmant and within hours I'd found a 4 bdr house with 2 bathrooms just like I was praying for and it was renting at a reasonable price. I think we will love it there and I didn't want to move to the city of Yorkton just now, not with little girls who are town girls not city girls at all! This will be a much better environment for them to start out in and I will be relieved.
So that's the news. We're waiting on a possession date... it'll be sometime in Sept and the kids and I may go first and the rest of the family will do what they have plans to do. Our house is still being renovated and I've said for years we need to move out in order to finish it and here we are.... doing just that. Keeping the house with it's low mortgage and moving out so we can finish renovating it and then either sell it, or rent it out.
I won't put the kids news on here... and by kids I mean my oldest two. Their plans are their own to tell and they will do that to whomever they want however they want when they are ready to do so. Until then... you will have to just guess lol.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Day 21 - Nobody is feeling that great today!
All my kids have runny noses and husky voices sigh.... Derikkah is a bit on the whiney side and her nose is running too but she is teething for molars by the look of it. Poor baby! She's an angel most of the time so for her to be upset is unusual!
I still have not succumbed to the evil of diet coke and am happy to have reached the 3 week mark! Yaaaay for me! The weight is coming off or something... not drinking much water though so maybe that's a new challenge since we've reached this milestone and the symptoms are going away and the urge to have one is barely there at all and if it does come, it's a passing thought and then oh no I don't... and that's that. No whining to hubby I WANNA COKE every 5 minutes anymore so I'm sure he's grateful!
I'm super busy this week with something I'll reveal after Sunday. So excited though and although there's tons of things to do with school just a few weeks away and all that goes with that, plus all the other things on my plate.... I'm happy and so very glad I've ditched the diet coke! When I see the flat spots on my hips or thighs or see how much fluid is gone from my arms and wrists, how my neck has gone down and all of that... even with the pain...which today is very bad and I can hardly move.... I'm happier, skinnier and functioning! YES!
I still have not succumbed to the evil of diet coke and am happy to have reached the 3 week mark! Yaaaay for me! The weight is coming off or something... not drinking much water though so maybe that's a new challenge since we've reached this milestone and the symptoms are going away and the urge to have one is barely there at all and if it does come, it's a passing thought and then oh no I don't... and that's that. No whining to hubby I WANNA COKE every 5 minutes anymore so I'm sure he's grateful!
I'm super busy this week with something I'll reveal after Sunday. So excited though and although there's tons of things to do with school just a few weeks away and all that goes with that, plus all the other things on my plate.... I'm happy and so very glad I've ditched the diet coke! When I see the flat spots on my hips or thighs or see how much fluid is gone from my arms and wrists, how my neck has gone down and all of that... even with the pain...which today is very bad and I can hardly move.... I'm happier, skinnier and functioning! YES!
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Day 20 - Not going so great
Today a little bug seems to have bitten my children. It's the attitude bug! My son's 19th birthday is today and he's moping silently around the house as does his father on HIS birthday sigh... My 16 yr old son, has a huge attitude problem since he refused to get up until noon something we don't allow around here. There are reasons for this believe me! Anyway, he has had a major attitude and mix that with my children all wanting in the pool today instead of doing their chores and so they are NOT in the pool because they did NOT do their chores... yeah its been awesome!
As for the quitting diet coke side of things.. that's going great. Just feel dizzy today and my eyesight is terrible and hasn't improved all day! Glad that appt with the opthmologist is coming up on the 29th. My head is achy but not really aching... stomach feels kind of hungry but icky at the same time and I'm really tired. Kept waking up last night for some reason.
So that's where I'm at this afternoon.... noticing the slump, only ate a piece and a half of pizza for lunch, nothing for breakfast and so not the healthiest day I've had but there's tons going on right now in our lives and I guess I'm just too busy to eat.
As for the quitting diet coke side of things.. that's going great. Just feel dizzy today and my eyesight is terrible and hasn't improved all day! Glad that appt with the opthmologist is coming up on the 29th. My head is achy but not really aching... stomach feels kind of hungry but icky at the same time and I'm really tired. Kept waking up last night for some reason.
So that's where I'm at this afternoon.... noticing the slump, only ate a piece and a half of pizza for lunch, nothing for breakfast and so not the healthiest day I've had but there's tons going on right now in our lives and I guess I'm just too busy to eat.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Day 19 - A great Day
Wow! It's been 19 days already and I'm doing awesome now with the diet coke thing. Here's the biggie! There are 2 bags of chocolate chip cookies, 1 freshly baked pan of brownies and 1 left over piece of butterscotch pie and I never touched any of them except for one small brownie because my daughter gave it to me! Tell me that diet coke or aspartame in particular doesn't make you crave sweets and food in general! I won't ever believe it! I have seen a visible difference in how I look, at least to me and my family in the past week or so. Amazing too is how I a barely needing to eat! I am hungry at meals sure... but yesterday I had a chicken strip dinner from DQ and left 2 of the chicken fingers! I'm really not needing as much food as I did before and therefore am losing weight.
So there's that... and as for symptoms, my legs and feet are still burning every night and morning, last night my stomach hurt all over with a sort of sharp cramping pain that seemed to radiate from the right side to the left and I had a hard time getting comfortable and to sleep. This morning it was still there sort of, and my stomach was burning for about an hour or so after I got up. I felt really groggy this morning. I barely had two sips of coffee though and had a 16oz glass of ice water before switching to iced tea with tons of ice for the remainder of the day. It's water though of sorts I guess and it must be working because for the first time since quitting, I've needed the bathroom on the hour it seems! lol
Good things are happening in our lives in other areas which I will discuss some other day. Just let me say my entire family is finding out new and exciting things and it's blessing all of us!
Well, time for bed for this mama! Who knows what tomorrow will hold?!
So there's that... and as for symptoms, my legs and feet are still burning every night and morning, last night my stomach hurt all over with a sort of sharp cramping pain that seemed to radiate from the right side to the left and I had a hard time getting comfortable and to sleep. This morning it was still there sort of, and my stomach was burning for about an hour or so after I got up. I felt really groggy this morning. I barely had two sips of coffee though and had a 16oz glass of ice water before switching to iced tea with tons of ice for the remainder of the day. It's water though of sorts I guess and it must be working because for the first time since quitting, I've needed the bathroom on the hour it seems! lol
Good things are happening in our lives in other areas which I will discuss some other day. Just let me say my entire family is finding out new and exciting things and it's blessing all of us!
Well, time for bed for this mama! Who knows what tomorrow will hold?!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Day 18 - Home from vacation and updating the days I missed
Our vacation was awesome! We enjoyed it so very much. The diet coke cravings have dwindled down to almost nothing and the travelling and busy schedules helped alot but also created new situations where I'd normally reach for diet coke and had to choose something else. A lot of iced tea.... and some water... more and more I guess as the heat increased!
Now, that we're home, after the long drive, my legs are burning with that cold fire from the mid calf reigon to the toes. They are extremely stiff and sore and walking is very painful and hard. My hands are sore too.
A few wierd things that happened.... both ankles swelled up but the right one feels like a razor blade is in it and hurts so bad it wakes me up at night and the blankets are too heavy. Almost as if it were broken! Then also my left wrist. The arm with the worst case of tendonitis.... developed a lump which I feared might be a ganglion like y son had, and then it turned purple, sort of collapsed and a bruised looking color diffused through my inner wrist area. I have no idea why either of these areas are the way they are as I did not injure either of them.
I've lost more of that dreadful prego tummy I think and am over the moon with joy at that one! I will measure later and see what 2 weeks has done to change me. My stomach is upset today and I'm dead tired. My eyes were kind of dry but runny too all week so not sure if it was the motel room and allergies or what it was.
Back to laundry again...
Now, that we're home, after the long drive, my legs are burning with that cold fire from the mid calf reigon to the toes. They are extremely stiff and sore and walking is very painful and hard. My hands are sore too.
A few wierd things that happened.... both ankles swelled up but the right one feels like a razor blade is in it and hurts so bad it wakes me up at night and the blankets are too heavy. Almost as if it were broken! Then also my left wrist. The arm with the worst case of tendonitis.... developed a lump which I feared might be a ganglion like y son had, and then it turned purple, sort of collapsed and a bruised looking color diffused through my inner wrist area. I have no idea why either of these areas are the way they are as I did not injure either of them.
I've lost more of that dreadful prego tummy I think and am over the moon with joy at that one! I will measure later and see what 2 weeks has done to change me. My stomach is upset today and I'm dead tired. My eyes were kind of dry but runny too all week so not sure if it was the motel room and allergies or what it was.
Back to laundry again...
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Day 15 - another day at camp
Nightmares last night again, wonder if it's diet coke or late nights lol. People have said I've lost weight. Not to be too vivid, my stomach seems to have slipped down yet is smaller leaving loose skin thanks to bearing 9 babies. SOooooo while losing lbs, Now i have new issues to deal with. Mentally, i am doing better and the urges for diet coke, are dwindling for the most part.
I'm not eating as much and far less sweet stuff. Once we get home, we'll try to revamp our menus so we can lose more. Off to service now.
I'm not eating as much and far less sweet stuff. Once we get home, we'll try to revamp our menus so we can lose more. Off to service now.
Day 14 makes 2 Weeks diet coke free
I am hurting all over my body! Blew my left knee trying to go down from our 3rd floor room, insides of my stomach area burning and throbbing. I feel like an incision is hurting again on my left side...but that is the only place thjere aren't any! Sooooo exhausted too. This week has taken so much out of me, but given me so much more! AweSome camp!!
So i still am asking for Diet coke at the oddest of times...but Derk says no and I'm okay With it. It is gettoing better. Think I am getting a migraine aura right now so time to sleep before the headache hits.
So i still am asking for Diet coke at the oddest of times...but Derk says no and I'm okay With it. It is gettoing better. Think I am getting a migraine aura right now so time to sleep before the headache hits.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Day 13 - up n' at em bright n' early
We have been on vacation since Saturday and so far it has been a trip jam packed with adventure and fun. Yesterday, we had a flat in a parking lot in Regina noticed by our sons saving our lives perhaps since the tire split all around!
Instantly, as true Derkson form, out came a blanket spread in one of the parking squares where all the children were told to stay by their oldest sister, and snacks were scrounged up by mom and girls including mom's untouched lemonade for a drink. As the kids ate, girls" hair was combed, guys n' dad changed the tire and plans wewre made for the day's activities. A true team effort and the issue was dealt with in short order!
The afternoon was spent at "Ipsco" now called Evraz where mom and dad shared memories of their days at the big slide and the park, while we kept a long promised trip there with our children and made new memories that one day hopefullyu their own children will share. We brought a picnic lunch and had lots of fun and mom even climbed the 40foot slide and went down with Zachary to prove she could still do it. Of course that cage over head is meant for kids and the pole and mom's head connected as she got up at the bottom, but all is well.
After we finished there, we headed to the Milky Way the best ice cream stand ever and then to Wascana park shoWing the littles the man made lake and sharing more memories. I missed my dad in all of it, but it was a good day!
We ended up at Derk's Aunt Pat's place for a bbq which Josh cooked being nominated chief bbq'er. It was a peaceful evening,no pressure to hurry-up and get on the road. So nice and So needed! After that, we went to Derk's mom's place for another hour or two then piled in the cars close to 11pm and left for Alberta. Driving through the night lets the kids sleep and it is cooler for travelling.
Around 3am, we stopped and Slept waking to hills on our right and the welcome to Alberta sign in front of us! Everyone had their turn plugging their nose while using the outhouse-like toilets and off we went to Medicine Hat where we gassed up and got Tim's. Now, we're all driving in the cool morning sunshine westward.
Now.......coke withdrawal update:
I am doing awesome. Still crave a diet coke at the craziest times where it was once my habit to have one, but i get past it and drink something else. Believe it or not, because of the heat and nothing else in the cooler, i am now averaging 2-S bottles of water a day. I think i am starting to like the stuff!
Mentally the habit of normally having a coke is the hard part now.
Physically, because of the heat I guess, i have ballooned up in my hands and feet to where i could hardly walk yesterday. That wasn't so fun. Well we're driving doWn the hwy and within a few hours or so will arrive at our destination. Looking forward to the motel shower!!
Instantly, as true Derkson form, out came a blanket spread in one of the parking squares where all the children were told to stay by their oldest sister, and snacks were scrounged up by mom and girls including mom's untouched lemonade for a drink. As the kids ate, girls" hair was combed, guys n' dad changed the tire and plans wewre made for the day's activities. A true team effort and the issue was dealt with in short order!
The afternoon was spent at "Ipsco" now called Evraz where mom and dad shared memories of their days at the big slide and the park, while we kept a long promised trip there with our children and made new memories that one day hopefullyu their own children will share. We brought a picnic lunch and had lots of fun and mom even climbed the 40foot slide and went down with Zachary to prove she could still do it. Of course that cage over head is meant for kids and the pole and mom's head connected as she got up at the bottom, but all is well.
After we finished there, we headed to the Milky Way the best ice cream stand ever and then to Wascana park shoWing the littles the man made lake and sharing more memories. I missed my dad in all of it, but it was a good day!
We ended up at Derk's Aunt Pat's place for a bbq which Josh cooked being nominated chief bbq'er. It was a peaceful evening,no pressure to hurry-up and get on the road. So nice and So needed! After that, we went to Derk's mom's place for another hour or two then piled in the cars close to 11pm and left for Alberta. Driving through the night lets the kids sleep and it is cooler for travelling.
Around 3am, we stopped and Slept waking to hills on our right and the welcome to Alberta sign in front of us! Everyone had their turn plugging their nose while using the outhouse-like toilets and off we went to Medicine Hat where we gassed up and got Tim's. Now, we're all driving in the cool morning sunshine westward.
Now.......coke withdrawal update:
I am doing awesome. Still crave a diet coke at the craziest times where it was once my habit to have one, but i get past it and drink something else. Believe it or not, because of the heat and nothing else in the cooler, i am now averaging 2-S bottles of water a day. I think i am starting to like the stuff!
Mentally the habit of normally having a coke is the hard part now.
Physically, because of the heat I guess, i have ballooned up in my hands and feet to where i could hardly walk yesterday. That wasn't so fun. Well we're driving doWn the hwy and within a few hours or so will arrive at our destination. Looking forward to the motel shower!!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Days 11 & 12
Never got to update this yesterday as our day was jam-packed with church in Preeceville and then Yorkton. In between was dinner and a rushed trip to Zellars to replace my daughter's broken shoes. Of course there was only one pair to fit her and no price tag! Sigh. At least they were on sale when it was all said and done.
After church it was so hot we all went to macDonalds to let the kids play in playland while we visited. Ahhhh bliss. We also were waiting for our teens to arrive as josh had to work Sunday morning. Once we were together, we headed ack to preeceville for the night.
Now.....the diet coke thing!
I wanted some a few times during the trip so far but have not given in. Both derk n' i are doing good and today is Day 12! It is very hot and humid today and almost foggy at the moment. We are on the road once again, headed for Regina. As far as physical symptoms...i am drinking more water, juice and iced tea but NO diet coke. My energy level is coming up, bathed 5 kids this morning, but my legs swelled something awful to pregnancy proportions I guess. Not sure why. My legs are extremely stiff and sore and the bottoms of my feet are burning like crazy. Due to the humidity and heat, my fingers and arms are also swollen and stiff. Hoping it gets better soon!
MEntally....I feel A bit down today. Family is tired of travelling and we've only just begun! They will calm down soon though. I am tired. Had dreams all night of matching 2 words!
After church it was so hot we all went to macDonalds to let the kids play in playland while we visited. Ahhhh bliss. We also were waiting for our teens to arrive as josh had to work Sunday morning. Once we were together, we headed ack to preeceville for the night.
Now.....the diet coke thing!
I wanted some a few times during the trip so far but have not given in. Both derk n' i are doing good and today is Day 12! It is very hot and humid today and almost foggy at the moment. We are on the road once again, headed for Regina. As far as physical symptoms...i am drinking more water, juice and iced tea but NO diet coke. My energy level is coming up, bathed 5 kids this morning, but my legs swelled something awful to pregnancy proportions I guess. Not sure why. My legs are extremely stiff and sore and the bottoms of my feet are burning like crazy. Due to the humidity and heat, my fingers and arms are also swollen and stiff. Hoping it gets better soon!
MEntally....I feel A bit down today. Family is tired of travelling and we've only just begun! They will calm down soon though. I am tired. Had dreams all night of matching 2 words!
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