Week 10 Report

Wait...week 10?! What happened to week 9?? (And, truth be told, we're already smack dab into week 11 already, soo..) Obviously, something happened in the Gentry house to keep me from blogging.

During week 9, we had some visitors--Troy's parents were here for a conference at the seminary. So I did great at my routines early in the week...but not so much at the end. So that's what happened to week 9.

THEN, on week 10--well, really at the end of week 9--almost the entire household got sick. Tayler came down with what was diagnosed as swine flu (although I'm convinced that Troy and Clayton had it as well but they only test people over age 2 who are special risk groups, which is why Tayler was tested and not them) and Tori & Cody came down with viral upper respiratory infections. Thankfully, I did not get sick, but taking care of 5 people very obviously is a wear on the system. Whenever I wasn't making a run to buy more supplies for the sickies, washing endless medicine dosage cups, TRYING to stay on top of the laundry (definitely lost that war--and now have Mount Vesuvius of laundry to tackle today), popping yet another movie in the borrowed TV/DVD player for the kids, or heating up I don't know how many pans of soup, I was in my bed completely dead to the world. And since some of the medicines had to be administered 'round the clock....well, it was like having a baby in the house again.

Thankfully, everybody is on the mend and working to get over lingering coughs and regain some strength, which means that it's time to once again pay some attention to my routines. Needless to say, I missed the weigh-in this month, and given how close we are to the end of the month, I will wait and weigh in on November 1.

Week 8 part 2

Wow. I should've just carried over from part one.

I didn't get any exercise in other than cleaning. BUT I did drink at least one 32 oz jug of water every day which is a HUGE thing for me. I'm supposed to be drinking two of them, but for now I'm going to be thrilled with the fact that I drank water each day and completely ignored, for the most part, the soda that was in the house. That is a big thing for me.

Now this week I need to work on my devotions, my exercises, and make sure that I am drinking two 32 oz jugs of water each day (a little tip for those, like me who aren't big water drinkers--add a couple of those Crystal Light to go packets to the water and you'll have flavored water. My particular favorite is the pink lemonade, but I'm going to try some others as well).

Week 8 part 1

Since week 8 is split between two months, I'm dividing it up into two posts.

The flu (not sure if it was the swine variety or not) found our house over the weekend and keep this mama hopping and extremely worn out. Although I personally didn't suffer more than occasional stomach cramps, three of my poor children were sick, sick, sick! Between being up all night with them as they were sick on two occasions and sleeping with lights on in the bathroom on another, I really did not sleep much--at night that is. So during the day I didn't get anything done that I wanted to. Monday I did four, yes four, loads of laundry from the sickness over the weekend and gave the kitchen and bathroom and thorough cleaning. That is the literally the most exercise I got for this part of the week.

As I stated last week, I already plan to send in an extra $10 for the pot. I am praying that this next month has a better showing at the end of it!