Where to begin....? Well If I started at the beginning this blog would be 2 miles long. Frankly I dont have the energy yet to fill you all in on the things life has thrown this way since we moved North. So here is where we are now! Kenny is home living with us full time. We have spent the past 2 months driving around, finding new things to look at, new places to spend our oh so plentiful free time. It was nice while it lasted, but as most of you know I am the most stir crazy-need to be active-cant do nothing for a whole day-let alone 2 months-kind of lady. So I was ready to restart a new life.
We started looking for preschools for Megan so that we could venture onto new things and to get her socializing with kids her age, her maturity level, and her education level.......WHAT A JOKE! We were fortunate to have our kids attend Unity preschool, the most well rounded, properly put together school I have ever seen. We are in Portland, so I assumed we could find an alternative care facility that at least aimed toward their standards. Boy was I wrong. We cant find a school at all! Not having anyone who can recommend one is hard as well. In Eugene if I said where is a good school, I would be flooded with advice. Here not so much. Everywhere I go either has a teacher/Student ratio that is far too high, or not enough kids to even make a dent in her need to make friends, the prices are WAY too high, or the teachers just freak us out! So far, no luck. Either Unity ruined me, or most of the people up here don't mind if their child is not able to learn the basics and more, or their child is lost in a sea of other kids, or if the teachers seem like they could use a little one on one with a man in a white coat. So the search continues. Ill let you know what we find.
This past weekend I felt more at home here than I have the whole time we have lived here. We had friends! Our lovely new friend Lacey and her beautiful babies came to stay with us in Thursday night, we went to the Museum and Megan was able to hang out with friends who act like her equals. It was so nice. Kenny, lace, and I watched tv, drank wine, and were able to just relax while they played. It.was.heaven. The next night one of my oldest, most lovely and beloved friends of 20 years, Caitlin and her hubs Chris has us over for dinner. We had mommy time, the boys had man time, and our little girls were able to play! Megan is abot 16 months older than Caroline, so there is room for improvement in Megans ability to play with her correctly, but time will prove that they are going to be bffs and I couldnt be more excited! Then Saturday night my new Step-Sisterish, lol, Danielle invited us over for a dinner party, game night. We ate, drank, and played for hours. It was great! Megan is one of the gang, she feels right at home with them. I have never met a group of grown ups without kids who are better parents! Oh I was in heaven! I would love to have weekends like that all the time. Well, every other weekend maybe. I need to think of a signature dish or two that are Vegan so I can take them anywhere. Ideas? Thanks!
Today was my first day back in school! I think it is the 5th or 6th time I have enrolled in college. I have one degree, but not the one I set out to get. So this time I will not stop until I am an RN. No excuses, no babies, no jobs, nothing. I am getting my RN. Period. I have 3 classes this term to get me rolling again. I had to start with math 60, Intro to Poetry, and Intro to Speech communication. At first I thought I was taking some slow kid classes. Now that they have began I feel like I am right where I should be. With Megan at home 24-7 and 12 credits to pull off, I am glad I didnt aim higher, or I would be lost! We shall see how it all plays out. Going to a new college where I literally know no one is definitely different. I am used to running into people who know me from my jobs, high school, or a mutual friend. In this place I am living in complete anonymity. Its so foreign. I think it will be good for me. Right? Ill let you know.
Today was also our first day at the gym!!! I have gained....drum roll please......10 lb since we moved here. I knew it was at least that, you should see my gut! But I guess that is to expected when we sit and watch tv, movies, or whatever we can and eat, and eat and eat. I got a cook book from my mom for Christmas and have been making all of our dinner, and shopping for the week in advance. Its paying off financially, but my belly and kenny's I might add, are getting fuller. I think that with the added activity we will take it back off. Of course we will. We have great metabolizes, we just have to get up and get moving! I went straight for the treadmills, which were full, al 30 of them, seriously. So instead I went for the bike. i rode 10 miles in 30 minutes. I have no idea if that is good or bad. It didnt feel like I was doing anything, pedaling as fast as I could I barely broke a sweat. I thought it was all in vain. Then i stood up. I literally almost feel down when I tried to walk. My legs were jello. So I did w few weights for my stomach, arms, and back. I am thinking I really over did it considering my inactivity level for the past 3 months, but if I can move tomorrow, I am going back in. Kenny is still there, he has been playing basketball for 3 hours straight. Hehehe. we are going to be so sore tomorrow! Megan and I got home from the gym and I was a ravenous starved crazy woman. Big mistake! I have done this working out, eating healthy, trainer kick before, you think I would have thought ahead. Nope, not I. I had a bagel and an apple at school today at 12 m, that was the first and only thing I had eaten today. Bad move. As I usually do, while working out I started to plan my next meal, and actually stopped working out and came home due to hunger! I walked in the door and saw red.....or green. I knew I needed to eat a lot and fast and it couldnt be candy. Even though it was readily available! So I tore apart the fridge. First I ate a bowl full of steamed broccoli, while my asparagus cooked. Then I finished off the turkey lunch meat, that helped, then the asparagus was done. I ate too much of that. Not good. Then Megan asked for a Peanut Butter and Honey sandwich, so of course I made myself a half of one. Oops, then I took a rather large bite of cheesecake in the fridge....double oopsI started to feel out of control and I was laughing my ass off at how I cant stop eating while burning calories in any form. So I grabbed an apple and came to blog about it. LOL. So here I am. No longer hungry I guess, though I really want some bread and the rest of that cheesecake. My armpits are OMG AWFUL and I need to go back to the gym to pick up Kenny now.
So if any of my lovely buddies can suggest a way to find a good preschool up here that fits our needs, let me know. Also some suggestions for things to eat before and after or even during workouts...lol, seriously though, I love food. Let me know..And of course some Vegan or Vegetarian dishes that are dinner party friendly.....gimme!
Signing off. The oh so happy to be back in the swing of life,
Marci Edmondson
