goodbye 200's

this post was a bit delayed by sadness and the craziness of getting ready to journey with monkeyface across the border to the north BUT......

I WEIGH LESS THAN 200 POUNDS!!!!!!!!

that's right. I stepped on the scale before leaving Boise and it read 199.6!!!! Granted it's not a lot under but there was no 2 in the beginning of my weight anymore. I crossed over that number during pregnancy, oh about 3 years ago. :( I know, I know... 3 years!! my son's entire life...It floors me to think that I was that heavy for 3 years...

now that my waist band is shrinking i find myself wondering why it took me so long to do something about this number. I find myself slightly embarrassed when telling people that I was over 200 for so long. It amazes me that I was so complacent. The thought passes quickly though as I am EXTREMELY ecstatic to be under and would like to shout it from the roof top. I guess that putting it out on the internet is today's equivalent. It's possible that with the stress and vacation mindset, when I journey back home and get on the scale it might go over that number again. But I got a glimpse of that number and that was more motivation that anything thus far. I will keep working until I am well under that number. I ain't never going back!

Wondering

I had planned on posting more often than what it turns out I am actually doing. There are times when I think oh, that would make a fun post. Or when I think that I should sign on and say something. I even started to write about my Grandpa who passed away 2 days ago but ended having to do something else. I found it extremely hard to say everything that I wanted to say about grandma. So far we, my bro and sis and I, have been lucky in that we haven't lost a grandparent/parent/sibling/etc. Death has touch us but it seems to me that was in a more of a peripheral sense. A family member of a spouse, a friend/family member of a friend. People we knew and respected but maybe not loved or knew beyond a loved one. I doubt that it has hit me that he is gone, although we did have some time to cope with the idea before he passed. I hadn't spent much time with him in the past few years as life as a way of passing us by when we're not looking, but he was the grandparent that lived closest and therefore saw more often. I am wondering what life will be like with one less grandparent. There have been times, ,family gatherings and things in the last few years where he should have been there and was missing for one reason or another. Will that make it easier to deal with his absence in the coming years, or harder? How will knowing that he wasn't there when he could have been affect memories of those events? Did he deliberately choose to stay away or were there outside factors that caused his absence? Unanswered questions. I am left wondering if these questions change the memories of those events or if they change memories of past times together. I'd like to think that an offense I might feel occurred was unintentional. I choose to believe that if he could have been there he would have. He was a good man and a wonderful grandpa. He will be missed. RIP Gordie Hone 1924-2010

Giving it a try...

Hey there people out in internet-land, my name is Alison and I've decided to start a blog. Why you ask? Well, I've become obsessed with a few blogs (and my that I mean I check them at least once a day) and I figured maybe I could just obsess about my own instead. I am a stay at home mom to one little Monkeyface and wife to Big Daddy (henceforth referred to as such in my postings). I'm trying to study for degree, when time can be found between trying to lose my baby weight, (so what that he is 2 1/2 years old, I'll be the first to admit that I was lazy and unmotivated) watching my nephews, cleaning house, and any thing else that can distract me from my online classes. Facebook being the latest of distractions. I'll admit that I spend a bit too much time on the site, I am trying to cut back but for some reason my cursor always seems to navigate itself to there.
I am uncertain as to what my blog will be about, I'm assuming it will be a random hodgepodge of musings, rants, and antidotes. There will probably be pictures, oh who am I kidding, there WILL be pictures. LOTS of pictures. As for today's first post, I don't really have anything to share. If you have suggestions, comments or whatever please feel free to share.

Until I post again...