Thought For Today

Brilliant blog post ideas are escaping me so it's time for another quote. It's one that my dad sent me a while back and I really love it. It's one for all you complainers, pessimists, and dooms-dayers out there (just kidding)....

"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse."

- Jeffrey R. Holland

To Tell You The Tooth...

It's been busy around here and in all honestly, the last thing I should be doing right now is worrying about a blog post. However, Hudson lost his other front tooth on Tuesday evening. He was so excited and wanted an outdoor photo shoot this time around. He was cracking both of us up and I just can't resist his totally goofy smile...

Sorry that so many of my posts have been about Hudson's losing teeth lately. But it's the only thing I that I've been able to come up with at a moment's notice.

Have a happy weekend!

And Another One Gone

My rapid teether has lost yet another tooth. At the ripe old age of 6 years and one month, Hudson lost the 1st of his two front teeth the other night (goner number five for those of you who are keeping track...right). You're glad I don't have a "before" picture. It wasn't pretty. But since you're totally wondering, I guess I'll go ahead and describe it for you: the tooth was totally pushed to the center causing a major gap to one side (hence the 2-tooth sized hole that's there now), it was starting to turn grey, and after an unfortunate incident with a drumstick (wooden, not chicken) the other night, the front was completely detached and the whole thing was hanging down abnormally low.

When I asked him to let me give it a try before bed, he did his usual freak out act and tried to summons a few tears. Too bad for him that it didn't work and he has a mean mommy who gets her way. When he and I finally came to an agreement (aka I won the argument), all it took was a quick little pull and it was out. Hudson immediately started laughing and - don't read the rest of the sentence if you are grossed out easily - laughed even harder when we saw that there was actually basil from that night's pesto pasta dinner resting in the top of it. After getting over the giggles and stopping the tiny bit of bleeding, he went running for the kitchen to get my phone so we could text Max a picture and then grabbed the camera so that we could get real pictures for posterity.

My happy gap-toothed boy. Note how far in the new tooth already is.

As if the gap isn't big enough already, the other front tooth isn't far behind and both of the teeth next to the front ones are loose as well. If he keeps this up, he'll need dentures by the time he's 40.

Belated Mother's Day Gift...To Myself

Starting sometime last year and over a period of several months, I played with the idea of ordering myself a personalized necklace. I almost ordered it a couple of times and always decided against it. Then Mother's Day was on the horizon and I took a look at the website again. This time, they were promising that the necklaces would be received in time for the big day if ordered by April 20th. It was April 19th so I jumped on it and...when I went to the page with my desired necklace, it showed that they were sold out or back ordered. Bummer. Maybe next year.

Or not. A week or so after Mother's Day I went to the website again and found that my desired piece was available again. I quickly ordered it and on Saturday, I received my belated Mother's Day gift. Yes, my new car counted as as a MD gift as did the clothes that I got the weekend before and as my new iPhone will when we get it in the next week or two. Sorry...I am a little spoiled from time to time. But that's entirely beside the point. Back to the necklace. I wore it Saturday, yesterday, and today and got lots of compliments on it (cue proud look on my face).

To: Me

From: Me (with lots of love)

I know a few of you already know about this company or may have seen them mentioned on NieNie's blog. If not, you can just click on over to The Vintage Pearl to take a gander if you like. Lots of cute stuff and trust me, you won't be disappointed!

I'm So Much Worse Than I Thought...

It's no secret: I need to lose weight. I 'm not going to go into the nitty-gritty of the times I've lost weight in the past or times when I've put it on. And I'm sure as Hades not going to be posting the horrendous number I see when I step on the scale. I will say that I'm glad to be below my all-time highest weight but like I said, it doesn't take a genius to look at me and see that changes need to be made.

I've been trying to get started - again - over the past couple of months. Stopped eating after 8:00 or so in the evenings (for the most part), started eating healthier breakfasts and lunches, upped my fruit and veggie intake. I've dropped a few pounds but nothing near what I'd like to lose.

Then the other night, Max came up with a goal for both of us... Until we leave on vacation in a number of weeks, we're both going to make some changes and thereby hopefully shed a few pounds. No eating after 8:00, no fast food (only "fast" meals that are okay are salads, rice bowls, etc.), no soda (just my rule...Max isn't picking it up), and only 1 treat/goodie per day. I think the 1st three are going to be easy enough for me as I'm already pretty much in the habit of not eating after 7:30 or so, I only pick up "bad" fast food a couple of times in a month, and I'm not a huge carbonation drinker (though I do love root beer with a home grilled burger). However, the 1 treat/goodie a day thing is going to require a lot more conscious effort that I initially realized. Yesterday and today I did allow myself the single permitted treat (both times it was 3 or 4 tiny bite-sized sugar cookies that I made Sunday before this plan was devised...going to go up and toss them when I've finished this post). However, I've only been going at this for a whopping 2 days now and I can't believe how often the thought has crossed my mind that I'd like a piece of candy, a little cookie, some chocolate (of any sort), etc. I've succeeded so far in stopping myself from giving in to temptation but SERIOUSLY, I've never realized just how often I dip in to our household sugar product reserves each day. I'm interested to see just how much of a difference the decrease in sugar intake is going to make.

There's no way that I'm going to make this a weight loss blog and I'm not going to obsess about it. I'm just saying...I really was/am so much worse about grazing on goodies than I realized. Hopefully this change is going to do me some good. And fast.