It's all about ME - Confessions and Ramblings

• I just noticed that my Cluster Map reset itself yesterday. Devastation! I wanted to take a screen shot to save all of my pretty dots all over the globe. Oh well...it's interesting to see where people have visited from in the last 24 hours since it reset.

• It is going to be cold and rainy all week and I love it. The kids played outside Monday night in full winter coats and I surprised them with some cocoa to warm them up. It's so easy to please my kids sometimes - they're so sweet.

• I am officially re-addicted to Super Mario Brothers. I had no idea when my in laws bought us the game for our new Wii at Christmas that it's SO similar to the original from 1988. But better. You never have to die and Mario and Luigi can play on the same screen and work together. This thing could improve the teamwork in my marriage! As an only child, I spent hours upon hours playing Super Mario Brothers in middle school. Mike thinks it's hilarious that it's all coming back to me. Last night after our Bible study left, he suggested that we set the kitchen timer for 15 minutes and play a little Mario before bed. We played for an hour and now I'm exhausted. I should seek help. "33 year old SAHM addicted to childhood video game." I could use a Ms. Pac Man and Frogger fix right about now. Do they have Atari games around anymore???

• I started a 6 week challenge through Wii Active today. Kaylin slept in long after Ryan was on the bus, so I got a whole workout in before she even woke up! It's almost enough to motivate me to get up before I feed Jason at 6:30 and workout. Almost...

• I've lost the weight from the cruise, now I need to tackle the leftover baby weight. Nine months on, nine months off, right? (I keep telling myself that to stay motivated for the long haul.)

• In my day planner, I'm starting to track a few habits that I'd like to get back into. Reading my Bible, daily devotions with the kids, exercising, going to bed earlier, waking up earlier and cleaning one area of the house every day. Right now everything is so sporadic and I'm pretty motivated by seeing it all on paper. I would love to set aside 30 minutes every morning to do a household chore so tasks don't all fall on Saturdays. Keeping a realistic housekeeping plan has been sitting at #2 on my 101 Goals in 1001 Days list for over a year now. I'd say it's time to tackle it! My goal is Mondays: kitchen and downstairs bathroom, Tuesdays: upstairs bathrooms, Wednesdays: make grocery lists, clip coupons and meal plan, Thursdays: dust and clean glass surfaces, Fridays: vacuum and mop, Saturdays: leftover laundry and catch up chores. And I need to get back into the habit of putting a load of laundry in every night, transferring it to the dryer in the morning and folding it after breakfast. It's the only way I can keep up! Pre-school spills, grassy knees, messy eaters, blowout diapers, daily workout clothes for me and Mike, dishtowels...the list goes on and on.
  

• I'm just now getting around to sending "thank you" cards for the couple of family gifts we received in the mail for Christmas. I'm almost wondering if I should write a note of thanks in a Valentine card at this point...
  

• Speaking of Valentine's cards, I should be pulling out our Valentine decorations soon, shouldn't I? Oooh...that's a great way to procrastinate cleaning today...
  

• Christmas decor continues to appear throughout my house. It's like it blends in with the furniture after a while. Last year, I had a pile of leftover holiday decorations in my back hall closet for 3 months, just waiting to get packed away in the garage boxes 20 feet away. When I finally put it away, it took less than 5 minutes. I felt so pathetic!
  

I think that's it for now. Thanks for listening to my brain dump. More soon.