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Sleep Never Felt So Good!!!

Whoa!  Let me tell you, I have some energy today.  8 hours of straight sleep!!  Haley went without a real nap all day yesterday, so she must have been exhausted.   I forgot what it felt like to actually get uninterrupted sleep.  To actually sleep long enough to have dreams. So I was up at 6:30, bright-eyed and bushy tailed.

I just love this picture of Haley and Ian napping....

Haley has an eye infection.  Which isn't my main point...my main point is that my pediatrician is awesome.  I called this morning (thinking I was going to have to bring her in and pay yet another $20 co-pay and 3 hours of waiting around the office), and then nurse said she would let him know and send out for a RX! YESSS..thank you doctor!

What else.  I just finished my 4th week straight of working out (5 days a week for at least and hour).  Not too shabby considering I gave birth almost 6 weeks ago.  The last three weeks I've been going to the gym to work out.  It is so nice to get out of the house for just an hour to work out, chatting it up with other SAHMs, and working up a sweat.  Today was kickboxing.  Slowly but surely I am able to at least keep up with the class pace.  It's not easy and my form is terrible, but I'm getting there.  I'm down 23 lbs. from the day I got home from the hospital, and down almost 40 lbs. from the day I went into the hospital to have her!  Still have a ways to go until I reach my goal weight, but I truly just FEEL better by eating less and moving more.

Well it's Friday, it's beautiful outside, and the weekend is almost upon us.  I see that my good friends at the Shave Shack have a buy one, get one special during their happy hour.  Might have to go hit that up! I love me some shaved ice!

I think the Abbott family will be spending sometime at the lake at some point.  Looking forward to spending sometime on the lake and getting some sun!  Keep out fingers cross that Ian doesn't do anything crazy on the lake and further injure his knee.  I don't think I could handle that right now!

Until next time! Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

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