but i have a good reason!

I've been MIA and I feel awful after my last post about how often I will blog!! Whoops!!

Things have been a little crazy in my world at the moment, nothing too crazy just busy crazy!

Work is crazy, my house is crazy and my dogs are CRAZY!!

But mainly it's cause of this little crazy kid!

It's her 1st Birthday today!! Happy Birthday Sophie!!

I can't believe how quickly a year has gone! It only feels like yesterday my sister was being taken to hospital to have her. And how my world has changed since she came along.

My auntie (my mum's sister) said to me not long after Soph was born "I feel like a second mother to you and your siblings, I don't know why but I guess it was becuase I was so involved in your lives growing up". And she's right! She is like a second mum to us - an interstate second mum!

And that's how I feel with Sophie! I'm not her mum - I'm no where near as good as her mum - but I love the fact that I can see her growing up and she knows who I am! She will bum-shuffle (her version of crawling!) over to me and will get a cheeky smile when she sees me get home from work! 

It's going to be hard to move out into our own place... better make sure we don't move too far! I know I'll be having withdrawals!! 

Anyway, apart from that, my goals pretty much are still travelling along. 

It has been a little hard to keep with the exercise side of things, but I made the most of the long weekend and headed to the gym bright and early monday morning and I LOVED IT! It felt great apart from the ankle be a little wonky, it was great to get back into it. 

Food wise is at about 85% if I'm being honest. It's all about preparation - and MAKING the time to do it!

This weekend we are staying at my folks place as our place is full of interstate visitors for the party on saturday. It made for a very restless sleep last night... our dogs came with us and being in a place that the only visit occassionally to now needing to sleep at was interesting to say the least. They were up all night sniffing, looking and barking at any noise. I love my dogs but I was ready to re-home them last night!! Which I'm glad I didn't cause they were so cute at 5am this morning once they finally went to sleep - cuddled on our bed!!

Also, I'm thinking about heading back to my GP soon to see what the next step in the baby making journey will be. I have another appointment with the Chinese Medicine man on Saturday - which I can't wait for as it's 40mins of relaxing, peaceful napping!

I promise to keep with not only this blog, but weight and health goals. No distractions! Unless it comes in the form of a baby...

amiee

do you come here often?

I check in generally every 2nd to 3rd day. I wish I had the time to do everyday, but count yourselves lucky cause my posts would be something like this...

Ummm so today, I went to work. And did work stuff. And ate my lunch. Tried not to eat a billion biscuits. Then I went home. Had dinner. Went to bed. Good day.

Yes, I would be B.O.R.I.N.G. (unless you already think my posts are which is cool, cause I don't really know if anyone actually reads this...!)

So, how often should I be blogging then? Daily? Every 2nd day? Weekly? Fortnightly? Monthly? NEVER?

I think I'm going to run with as often as I can and when I have a decent topic - which I'm going to assume around the 3 day mark.

But don't hate me if I post too much or not enough. Or about boring things. I will try my darnedest to pick up the pace and try to do some exciting things in my life!

amiee

and... go...

Yesterday the 12WBT officially kicked off! And I feel GREAT! Cause it's only day 2...

But I certainly didn't have the greatest lead up to kick off. My plans almost were unravelled - and not in a good way!

First off, great weekend! Full of lots of things I love including friends, family, sleeping, catching up on IQ, relaxing, shopping, wine, visit to the Chinese medicine man (which also included sleeping and relaxing!).

Sounds great right? Sure was up until I went to the movies with some mates Sunday arvo and totally stacked it down the stairs at the end of the movie. Popcorn everywhere! Must have had the guilt's cause I didn't even eat a third of the popcorn hence popcorn everywhere! My shoe also went flying and I could not control my laughter. To the point of tears. But I picked myself up, with the help of my mates who all missed seeing my epic fall, found my missing shoe and hobbled away! No "structural" damage, but a massive egg on my re-constructed knee. Little did I notice until Monday evening when I also discovered this:

Don't worry though! I'm all OK! I can walk and run with only minimal (and really minimal) pain! I hardly notice it until I accidentally knock my knee or hit my ankle. I think my pride is more damaged...

But anyway, that wasn't the worst of it. I did not get prepared for the 12WBT meal plan. I didn't do my grocery shopping until the last minute (as in the day of...) and I spent the majority of the day preparing everything. I wasn't feeling great to begin with...

But I sure am now! I also got in a gym session too even with the dodgy knee and ankle!

So off we go on another 12 week journey... I hope this will be my last... I'm going all in and can't wait to come out the other side!!

amiee

sssshhhh

Is there anybody out there?

If so, listen up kids!

Yes, I'm blogging into the universe, and yes anyone can read it and yes I'm more than happy for anyone to read it.

But... and there's always a but...

How do I say this without contradicting this whole blogging thing...

Letting all of our family and friends know about our issues falling pregnant isn't something we are doing. Our immediate family and closest of friends know, but we don't want the look of sympathy and sadness when we say we are trying but it probably ain't gonna happen naturally.

We also don't want the added pressure of people asking how it's going or when it's going to happen.

More than happen to spread the word about trying to buy a house and weight goal tasks, but this is a little more sensitive.

Hey, when something happens we are gonna yell it off the roof tops! Don't you worry!

So if you are reading this and you know me personally, more than happy to chat about it with you but try to mindful when people are around. Lets make it a one-on-one conversation. And please don't talk about me, what I post in here or what I do behind my back in a negative way. Positive all the way peeps!

And if you don't know me and we are not connected in anyway possible, tell your friends! I don't care and I honestly don't think they will either!

Glad we got that squared away. I know it sounds silly, why would I be telling you to keep it hush hush when I'm posting this into the web where anyone can read it, but I don't know why, I just feel the need to say ssshhh.

And FYI - I don't have blogger regret about what I posted yesterday. I have dodgy ovaries and I'm cool with it!

amiee