Whoo Hoo!

I have lost 1 pant size! I'm down to a size 12 which I haven't been for a long time. Although I haven't lost any weight I'll take a smaller pant size. I must be doing something right. Trying to watch calorie intake and getting into exercising has been helping hopefully this will be the start of many pounds lost to come. :) My exercise routine is a few sit ups, leg lifts, squats, jumping jacks, jump rope, and the dreaded push ups. For aerobics I play Dance Dance Revolution for at least an hour. The game says I burn about 300 calories in an hour. I'm trying to work harder to burn more calories in an hour. Well we will see what happens in the next month or two.

Can't Believe It Worked!

I was looking on the Internet for ways to fix scratched DVDs and Cd's, most things I found sounded absolutely ridiculous and there was no way I was going to try them. Then I came across cleaning your DVD or CD with toothpaste. Still sounded ridiculous but I had about 10 DVDs that the kids had overly loved and needed to be fixed or replaced. So I gave it a go. What you do is put about a pea size amount of toothpaste on the DVD and rub it in like your buffing it, then rinse and dry. It worked so far on every DVD I did this to. We had some really bad one that would play for 5 seconds then skip play for 5 seconds then skip. After doing this I watched the whole movie to make sure it worked and they all played like new with not a single skip. If you have scratched DVDs I would give this a shot, so worth the time!

Lets Talk About Drugs

Last night for family night we sat down with the kids and talked about drugs. We started by asking them what they knew about drugs. Sable said cigarettes, and how they made a promise to their PE teacher to never smoke. Lyndall listed off cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine. So scary to hear those words from a 9 year old mouth. He didn't really know what they were just that they are bad for you and you shouldn't do them. We asked if he knew how they made people react and behave and he said they do stupid stuff. Then I asked if he knew what an addiction is. He said yes but he couldn't tell me, so I the way I explained that was that when your addicted to a drug you feel that you must have it and you'll just go crazy if you don't, that's when you start behaving really bad and doing things like beating people up for money and selling your most prized possessions for money like your XBOX and PSP. That did the trick, sell his video games to feel stupid on drugs NO WAY!

Now all that was great for drug talk but we were not done, we went over the difference between illegal and legal drugs and things that aren't drugs at all. Its the legal drugs and the things that aren't drugs that scare me because they are easier to get a hold of in any one's house. We asked him if he knew some legal drugs, like Tylenol, aspirin, and cough syrup. He asked why we give him those, and of course we told him because they are OK if you follow the directions otherwise they can be just as bad as cocaine or meth. We continued to ask him about non drugs, I gave him hint of smelling. He guessed it, he said how kids were talking about sniffing sharpie markers. We talked more about spray paint, and other huffing and what it does to your body. Steve talked about how it suffocates your brain. We also reminded the kids why you don't take stuff from strangers including stickers.

To seal the deal we showed the kids these pictures of drug users, yes we showed Sable too. I wanted a vivid image to be printed in their head to remind them not to do drugs. We also told the kids that they can come and talk to us about drugs anytime. Lyndall's response was, "I thought I would get in trouble if I talked about drugs." WHAT???? NO NO NO YOU WILL NEVER GET IN TROUBLE FOR TALKING ABOUT DRUGS WITH US! PLEASE ALWAYS COME TO US ANYTIME YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR CONCERN.

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Halloween 2009

Today was a great day! We started by carving the rest of our pumpkins...

This is Sable's 3 eye 2 nose 1 mouth with 1 tooth pumpkin

Her cyclops pumpkin

Lyndall's pumpkin

The pumpkin he painted, it had froze and thawed, the top was getting mushy so we didn't want to open it up

Here are mine that Steve had gutted for me

Now to the costumes...

Sable was Little Bo Peep

Lyndall was Albert Einstein

My nephew Codie was Dracula and came trick or treating with us

Here was the Halloween snow man that the boys made

And Sable posing like a little ham next to it

Then of course the kids went trick or treating and brought home some good candy loot.