Quote of the day

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
— Doug Larson

I called into the Flyshow on world talk radio and talked to nutritionist Leann Ely about my Jack Sprat family. Riley and his dad wont eat any veggies hardly (except Chris eats potatoes and Riley eats corn) and Jared loves veggies but doesn't like meat. I will eat anything!! Well, I was hoping she would tell me the magic words to get them to eat better but she bacially told me I need to just have a family meeting and tell them we are going to start eating healthier. They might not like everything but they have to eat it anyway. I don't know how that is going to go but we will see. I'm going to take it slow and introduce one thing at a time. I'll try out some new recipes and God help me, we'll get them eating better!

Jumpcut

I've been having fun at jumpcut lately. If you haven't heard about this site you should go check it out. They let you upload your pictures, movie clips, and sounds files and then make your own movies. You can edit, add titles and special effects and it's great fun. If you go by there you should look me up. I'm Donnabug. I just made a great music video out of pictures of the boys dancing with an exercise video in their pajamas. I also wrote a country song for Flylady. It's a song about decluttering so it may seem funny to most people. My kids were certainly laughing their tails off.

You know, a cop just drove by my house way too fast.... do you think I should call the cops? LOL I live across the street from a park and people drive too fast all the time. I am always yelling at someone for almost hitting a child. Hmmmm can a cop get a ticket? And who would give it? Things to ponder.

Well, great news! I found my purse! It was at Quiznos! I didn't even remember going there but I'm so glad to have it back! My husband wanted to go there for lunch before he left for Vegas and I had a class that night. So I couldn't even concentrate on lunch because I wanted to study more for my quiz. I pretty much just stuffed my face and wanted to go. That must be why I forgot it there.

In other news, LOL, I managed to maim myself in the middle of the night. The dog needed to go outside at about 1:30 am and I think I was sleep walking when I got up to let her out. When she came back in and I closed the door the metal edge of the weather stripping on the edge of the door sliced right underneath my big toe nail....right where the nail bed starts. Oh man it hurt and I woke up real fast!! It started bleeding, turned dark purple and blew up to the size of a drumstick. I put some stuff on it and tried to go back to bed but I couldn't sleep it was throbbing so bad. I kept soaking it with antiseptic and finally the swelling went down and it was only purple under the nail. So I painted my toenails a dark color. It still hurts though. Owie. Cry for me.

Well, Happy Fathers day to all the fathers out there. My husband is in Vegas still so I know he's a happy father.

I better go study for my Medical Terminology class.

Flylady.net (Click here to visit the website)

A couple of months ago I joined flylady.net and I've been trying hard to stick to the routines. I know I lack organization and flylady.net helps you build routines that help you become organized AND motivated. If you join the yahoo group you can get very helpful daily reminders emailed to you to keep you on track, but it is optional. I read and delete them each day. Of course I adjust everything to my liking and even though dear Marla (Flylady) loves purple, I (bug) detest that color LOL I think it's because that's my sisters favorite color and I had to be different. So everything I have is either green, blue, or red so that I feel good when I get it out. That sounds kind of Christmasy huh? I'm talking more of a soothing sage green which most of the things in my house are and a nice *pow* red which is a color I choose for clothes to help get me going and feel confident. I have a pair or red tennis shoes that I wear when I'm cleaning and when I'm exercising and they just make me feel like I have super powers or something LOL. I know I get more done when I have them on. Blue seems to be a relaxing color to me and I like all shades of it. It either makes me think of pale blue skies or sparkling blue water or the blue green of the pine trees...... or my dog "Blue" who is actually a tri-colored Beagle. When I look around to see what I bought in blue, I see all of my craft tubs are blue, my bath stuff is blue, my heating pad and other things for relaxing are blue and my favorite papers, pens and the marker that I write with at my desk are blue. Oh, and the very pretty clear acrylic tape dispenser that I swiped from my oldest son is blue LOL I know that color is important, especially for me, and what colors you chose can tell a lot about you. There are personality books based on color choices alone. Anyway, I got a little off track there but I also adjust my routines to work better for me and my family. I've started to make my control journal but it's not just for me but for the whole family. My boys are given chores to do to help keep things in order and I have an extra after school routine and bedtime routines for the boys. I like to use a smaller spiral bound notebook (the cover is sage) with bright sticky notes inside for the boys to take with them to remember what they have to do. I added tabs for them to quickly find what they need. The routines are all in there written in pencil so we can easily make a change until we get it down.



When I started to use Flylady.net I was only thinking about myself. I knew I needed to be better organized but I never thought it would also help my boys. Riley is the one that has benefited the most. His favorite part of Flylady's plan is Kelly's Missions. The home is divided into zones and each week Kelly sends out missions for every day to complete in that zone. When the zone was in the bedroom Riley was thrilled because he could do it too. One day when Riley was home sick from school he told me that I should email "Ms Kelly Fly" and tell her that she should have more missions that he could do. He was so very sweet and I emailed her describing him and how he looked sitting there wrapped up in his tropical fish blanket with a cup of warm peppermint tea and his unicorn book.......and protruding lip LOL I also quoted the little guy because it couldn't have been said any better! I would try to tell him things he could do instead of cleaning light fixtures or dusting the ceiling but he wanted it to come from Kelly in mission form! Well she got my email and I can't believe what she did!!!!! She made special missions just for kids like Riley and they are called Riley challenges!

He was so thrilled when he came in from school and I showed him the email! I wanted so badly to get a picture when his face lit up when he saw his name but my camera had dead batteries. DRATS! The picture I added above shows Riley with his "fishy" blanket. Doesn't he look like an angel when he's sleeping??? When he's not he's more like the Tazmanian devil!! When after Riley read the email he took off to grab his backpack and did the challenge in less than 3 minutes! He likes to set my timer to count up instead of down so he can see how long it actually took. Then in a whirl he was off yelling for his friend to show him the email I printed out.

Here is the email:


Dear Friends,

About a week ago I got an email from a sweet boy named Riley and his mom. They wanted to know If I would send out some missions or challenges that he could do in the house. He wanted some for his room and some for him to be able to help out his mom. The email was so sweet and got me good, which I think was his Mom's intention LOL!

This week we are in the Children's room for our other room in Zone 3, we have included children's room missions in the missions for this week, but in honor of Riley and all the other FLY kids out there, I am going to send out Kid Challenges this week.Let me know how this works out for you and your kids.

Without further adieu let me present our first Riley Challenge of the week!Our very first Riley Challenge is to go grab your backpacks! Sit down on the floor and let's de-clutter those backpacks. De-Clutter means to get rid of anything that we do not need or use anymore! Take out all the papers that you no longer need to have, if you have a recycle bin go toss them there! Get rid of any broken pencils, pens or markers. Any used up, dried up glue sticks? Do you have any Library books that need to be returned? The end of the school year is coming. Are there any papers that you need to give to your parents? Let's set a timer for 15 minutes and see how fast we can de-clutter those back packs! I bet they will be much lighter tomorrow!

Have fun! Thanks to Riley and his Mom for this request - I think we can have some fun!

Love,

Kelly