Problem Solved

So this week again was 1 pound! But after I had been up for a little bit, and hadn't eatten yet I had used the washroom one more time before eatting, and weighed myself again and it went down 2 pounds! So I'll take it! This past week was equally hard with Cheyanne. We had a bad time Monday putting her to bed, and it just ended up pushing me over the edge emotionally. Tuesday I worked the whole day with a stress headache that wouldn't go away, luckily my mom came to the rescue and took Cheyanne for a few days so we could get her room in order, and so I could catch up on some well needed sleep! We had also bought her a dream catcher as she would either say she was scared of bad dreams, or of her big bed(which unfortunitly was still in her room and she was just sleeping on the old one) But while being gone I took the old one down, and my co-worker bought it for her granddaughter. She slept great at my mom's house and so we hoped it'd be the same at home, luckily last night her first night home, she went to sleep no problems and slept the whole night! So glad that hopefully this problem is over!! So now that I'm mostly caught up on sleep, time to try to get my head back in the game of losing weight!

Rough week

So this weeks weight results were 1 pound down. I'm happy with it, of course I want it to be more, but I know that it's not safe to lose to fast. I'm actually surprised I lost anything at all. It was a tough week, I ate properly, but my working out was lacking. We had many issues with Cheyanne not wanting to sleep in her own room this past week, so I've been lacking on sleep and definitly energy. Luckily last night with a few changes (like her bed and some night lights) she slept in her own bed with only waking up once, to go to the bathroom, then back to her own bed to sleep!! Here is hoping problem solved with that, as I'm not sure how many more late late nights and early mornings I can handle! So this week, new goal is to make up for this past one and work out my 4 or 5 days and to fully stay on track with eating.

Been Forever

Well it dawned on me that I haven't written on here in pretty much a year! We have still kind of been trying but with many difficulties seeing as my cycle is soo very rare! 4 weeks ago I decided it was time to make some lifestyle changes. I know that part of my cycle issues is that I'm very much overweight. They say in many over weight people they produce different hormones which sometimes makes their cycle only a few times a year. Lately I seem to get it 2 months back to back then nothing for 2-3 months, which obviously makes it very difficult to conceive! So I am now on a diet that involves counting calories, and such. I pretty much joined a free website and based on your height and weight and how much you wanna lose by when, it gives you a certain amount of calories, carbs, fat and proteins to intake a day and so far in 4 weeks I've lost 14 pounds. It's definitly hard to change so many things in your life at once, but it's something I want and need to do for my health, and if I want any chance of having a second child. We have decided to continue to try during all these changes, if I somehow happen to become pregnant during it, I plan to continue it during my pregnancy(and after) which wont be hard seeing as with my first pregnancy I only gained 8 pounds total, and after having my daughter, was 20 pounds less then pre pregnancy. So fingers crossed for a successful weightloss journey as well to eventually become pregnant. I think I'll be updating this more now, to track my journey. Not that I really have many readers. But still at least something for myself.

Shutterfly Christmas Cards!!

Have you heard of Shutterfly? (www.shutterfly.com) They are a website that allows you to create many different things with your own photos. You sign up and upload pictures and choose from just regular photos, picture books, calendars and even holiday cards. You can do almost anything there. In the past I've ordered many photos from them to send to family members as well as two different photo books, which are amazing and fun to design. They have different sizes and the option to choose your own backgrounds for each page and the amount of pages you like. Their cost for products and shipping is very reasonable and I found delivery time was good as well. Last year I wanted to use them for my holiday cards, but unfortunately procrastinated too long, and didn't get my pictures done in time and wouldn't have received them on time. I love that they have so many different choices for Christmas cards from just one picture or many pictures. My favorite type is ones with nice borders and able to put one big picture on them similar to this design http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/charming-dotted-ribbon-christmas-card?sortType=1&storeNode=93476 I'm sure as my family grows I'll love having the multiple picture option on the cards for the kids to have different spots, and poses to themselves. I am looking forward to using shutterfly this year for my holiday cards. They are nice and convenient way to send pictures and a card in one to your family members near and far, and never leave me disappointed with the finished product. Shutterfly has many things to offer! Here are a few of my favorite links Holiday photo cards : http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery Calendars : http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars Announcement cards : http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/announcements To top it off Shutterfly is offering 50 free holiday cards to bloggers! Bloggers get 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly. Learn more: http://bit.ly/sfly2010

Almost There

Only a few more days until we will be in the new place. I'm very excited. It's long over due to be out of my current place. The new one is a much healthier environment and I love everything about it. The move should be very quick, we have many great friends helping us, and we've already helped out by slowly taking over loads in the van. So mainly the only stuff left is the furniture and a few boxes, which we are hoping to move over before Saturday. Still ttc, I'm hoping maybe in the new house, we'll be happier and less stressed that maybe it'll happen easier, who knows. Still no cycle since April, but have tested a few different times, and figure I'll keep testing every few weeks or at least the beginning of every month if my cycle doesn't come, so fingers crossed. I'm more then ready for a new addition, and everyone around me seems to be getting pregnant and it'd be cool to have some friends to be pregnant with. Although I'm not picky and just want to be pregnant whenever it happens. Miss Cheyanne is gone for the week with my sister, surprisingly I'm doing very well with this, probably because I'm busy with last minute packing. I've talked to her everyday this week, today I finally started to tear up a bit when I talked to her. I'm going to give her the biggest hug ever when I see her. Then let her loose to look at her new room which is decorated in Dora the Explorer and I know she's going to flip out! I guess that's all for now, any other posts will be from the new house!! Fingers crossed for good news in the near future!

Things outside of TTC

We recently started looking for a new place to rent. We are more then sick of the place we are in, with our landlord pretty much being a slumlord. He's out of town 8 months out of the year, at least anyway. Hard to get a hold of if you need anything, not to mention a little over 2 months ago a new girl moved in below, and she's trouble. In almost 6 years that I've lived here we've never had an issue with safety. Since she's been here, her apartment has been broken into twice, apparently one of the times they were demanding money, and "apparently" hit her with a gun. It wasn't random, it was targeted, so then you start to wonder what's this girl into? Well I ain't sticking around to find out. You constantly hear fighting (although she's suppose to be living on her own) loud music after 11:00. We luckily found a new place, it's bigger it's better and the landlord seems great. He's been really nice about everything, meeting us at the place so we can unload some boxes so our current place isn't stuffed with boxes as we don't have the room to store them. Moving day is June 19th, and I couldn't be happier to put this place behind me. I hate being here every day and every little creek or noise scares me. I don't want to be in a place with my DD where I have to constantly worry. So bring on the new beginning in a new place, and then hopefully in a more positive environment we'll have more luck with the pregnancy thing, less stress seems to be important. So here's hoping!! Fingers crossed!!!

Update on Things

Well I was slightly reminded that I haven't written on this thing in awhile. Still ttc. Although it's somewhat been shoved to the back burner so to speak as we are now moving into a new place. Thank god! Seems like many people around me are getting pregnant. I hate feeling jealous or envious of people getting pregnant some sooo easily. I hate that my cycle is in no way regular which makes it completely hard to plan at all, just pretty much keep on trying and pray it happens. Doctor doesn't seem to say too much about the irregular cycle just that it's like that with many people. Last one was beginning of April, and nothing since and 2 BFN. So we shall see what happens, maybe once we're in the new place and stress levels are down we'll have more luck. Here is hoping. I guess that's it for now. I will really have to try to update this thing more..although I think I dont bother as I know there is barely r no readers.