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This weekend is supposed to be humid, hazey and 90. I am not looking forward to it. Where can I take the children that will be cooler, Josiah will not eat dirt or any other ground cover, and I won't have to hold both children in the water? Josh is going to work on our "upstairs bathroom" this weekend. I put it in quotes because right now it is a space with pipes so I can't actually say it is a bathroom.Josiah is just about done nursing now. He isn't very interested anymore which is fine because he will be 1 on the 28th. Since I'm no longer a calorie source for him I've decided to cut my sugar and flour intake to try to lose the last 15 pounds of baby weight. The thing I realized when I began this yeserday is how little self control I actually have. I haven't worried about my eating much because I didn't feel overweight, but when I decided to cut back my body was screaming for ice cream and cookies. So "skinny" doesn't equal self-control. I am actually hungry very often, but alot of times I eat because I'm bored, lonely, or it's nap time and a book and a snack sounds so relaxing. I like to read Jane Austen and then I want tea and muffins or cake or something. Anyway, I need to beat my body and make it my slave. Gluttony is a very accepted sin in our culture but that doesn't make it right.
posted by Liz @ 5:19 PM
4 Comments:
Do you have a sprinkler? I bet Josiah and Emma would love to play in a sprinkler in the yard. They get to use up a little energy while getting cooled off, making naptime a bit more likely. (Can you tell I had boys?)
Maybe you could buy one of those sprinkler things that attaches to the garden hose - they look like fun and I bet it would help - I think you can find them at WalMart.
As for the food thing - I suffer from the same problem...especially in the summer when I have so much more spare time.
Maybe we could work together on this somehow?
Oh, I would love to come to Rochester as part of my vacation, but I have to seriously consider if I can afford the gas money or not....we'll see.
I am in the same boat as you with the sugar thing. I never craved sweets before I got pregnant with Caedmon, but ever since, I am always wanting sugar. Because of this I have been avoiding desserts since the beginning of June...I'm hoping to break my body's sugar "addiction"...maybe then I can get back to just eating sweets on rare occasions rather than every day.
What is it with having little kids and eating too much sugar?!?! I'm so strict about what goes in their little bodies (or, I try to be, in spite of them having a daddy who thinks that every treat should be as sugar-filled as is humanly possible), but in the quiet moments of my life always feel that I "deserve" something sweet to help keep me sane. Ugh.
Also, I can appreciate the challenges of keeping cool with young kids. During the afternoon when it's hottest, I find I'm stuck sitting in their bedroom while they fall asleep, sweating profusely. Ick.
Hang in there! One day we'll figure all this stuff out!
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