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a family pic

here's a pic of my us at a vineyard visiting with some friends. Chris has officially donned his "winter" beard. I love him ;)

i miss rome

let me paint a verbal picture of the incredible lunch on my plate right now. An amazingly delicious sweet, juicy honeycrisp apple cut into eight perfect pieces with heaping mounds of crumbly, creamy fresh blue cheese decorated with thin strands of salty prosciutto. yum. Oh how a glass of wine would go so well with this masterpiece. Some how drinking in the middle of the day, while home with my 3 month old doesn't seem quite fitting =) I wish we were still living in Rome because that is the only way I could justify drinking half a bottle of wine with my lunch. St. Ambrose was so smart is his dear words "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"

the shred

Getting back in shape after giving birth was a bit challenging. Usually I am not a"work-out-video" type of person. I can never get past the overly chipper, super in-shape, extremely thin hosts of such videos. I would much rather spend a couple hours in the gym watching my favorite cooking shows. However with this new little bundle of joy I can't imagine dropping her off in one of the swine flu invested nurseries at the local gym. So alas I have conceded and have turned back to the work out videos.

Except that this time I found one! Yep that's right I found a video that I have done more that once. And while the host is still super in shape and slightly annoying her workouts produce results. You may recognize her she is Jillian Michael's from the Biggest Loser. And the video is called The 30 day shred. What I like about it is that it gives me a time frame. I like a schedule. Jillian says try it for 30 days and see what happens. Well I tried it for 2 weeks (can you believe I did a work out video consecutively for 14 days?!) I have to say those 2 weeks kicked my butt! But it's worth it, I am back in my old jeans! Now if I could just do the next 14 days...

I asked Chris to keep me accountable to working out every day and he made me promise this morning to do it. Does writing a post about it count?

Ok maybe if I get out of my pj's and put on my work out clothes I will do it, but I have to warn you you may get addicted!

simplifying my wasted time

So not that reading other blogs is wasting my time. In fact they are a great way to keep up with friends, read about current news or just check out recent pics. But as a new mom I am sure there are many (many, many) other things I could be doing with my time like for instance taking the laundry out of the dryer that has been sitting there for a full 24 hours(I am pretty sure my dryer has now become my second closet woops!). However this will simplify your blog reading and is a definite must if your time online is limited!

scheduling sleep

So the amazing sleeping schedule that I had for Stella is MIA. I don't know if it's the fact that we both have been a little under the weather or the fact that it's just sooo much fun to stay up late with momma and dada but she keeps going to bed later and later. I mean last night she was up until Midnight and Chris and I are totally in bed by 11pm kind of people. I guess it doesn't help that I am usually out of bed at 630am and ready to go to morning mass and the past couple days we have been snoozing late to try to beat this bug we have but I'm kinda in a place where I don't know what to do. Let her keep sleeping (which she currently is) and help her body rest? OR Wake her up and hope for an earlier bedtime tonight?

The girl loves to sleep so she will sleep a good 10-12 hours (waking up to eat once) BUT currently it's the wrong hours 11pm to 11am (ugh). And how on earth am I going to be able to move her bedtime all the way back to 7 or 8pm?!

Whew, seems like we may have a few grumpy days ahead.

All you seasoned veterans I would love your much needed advice!

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