Me: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

I love my husband. At the risk of sounding like a pile of sugar drenched in honey, he is my soul mate, my other half, the one. That is why when we argue about something silly like what to movie to watch, who didn't refill the ice trays it just makes me sad.
It's so funny, we never argue about money, house work, not putting gas in the car. All the normal things that couples fight about doesn't plague our relationship. But something small like not wanting to go to bed yet get feathers ruffled.
Our relationship isn't perfect, we aren't perfect, we're only human, but our relationship is close. We are the highlight of each others day, we have been together 2 years and 3 months and married for 2 months, and we still hold hands, say "I love you" multiple times a day and snuggle while we go to sleep.
He is the most amazing man and I am so lucky. I'm so blessed to have such an amazing relationship and to have the one person I am meant to be with.

So here's to love and just letting go.

Thanks for stopping by I appreciate it so much and I hope you have an amazing day!

P.S. Keep a look out for future posts and recaps of my journey into Yoga!

Fitness and Dance!

I just had to share this woman. She is on youtube and doing the most amazing thing! Dancing...but she's working out! And showing you how to do it too! She has a great array of songs to choose from, very different moves to each song, it's great for those who get bored or love music to work out to!
As you know I have been trying to work out every day, but not a bad week, 5 days out of 7 which is still great! I fully intend to incorporate this woman's workouts into my daily routine and I hope you do too! At least give her channel a look, I'm sure you'll find at least one song/workout that you'll love!


I hope we can continue on this fitness journey together, so far this week I have gained 2.5 pounds and then lost 3.5 pounds, so I am 1 pound down! I'm really excited to see my body change, I hope I can keep this up and stay motivated, and hopefully that is what Emily's videos will help me do.

I really hope you decide to give her workouts, or working out in general a try, it feels so good to be healthier, even after just one week, I breathe so much better, I crave a cigarette still, but it's wonderful breathing so clean and clear! So again, I hope you decide to get fit with me, or at least get a little healthier whether that is drinking more water, giving up smoking, or just eating more veggies!

http://www.youtube.com/user/emilysum

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you have an amazing day!

The World: Too Young?

In today's world there is so much sex bombarding young girls. I personally like Miley Cyrus but I am 24 years old. I don't really think she is a good role model for her fan base, from what I hear is a lot of girls from ages 8 to 16 being the most common.

So what do you think? Are shorts just short of showing a girl's backside, overexposed cleavage and grinding hips really appropriate for 13 year old girls? In my opinion it's not. As a mother of a 7 month old girl, I would be horrified if my 13 year old walked around and looked as if she was 16. What happened to kids being kids? I treasure that I had a good long childhood, I just wish that kids now had that chance.
I don't mean to preach, I don't want to put anyone down. I just think kids would be safer and happier if they didn't grow up so fast.

That's just my 2 cents.

thank you all for reading, have an amazing day!

Me: Are You Going To Eat That?

I have a problem...



I am always hungry. I don't know why but ever since I had my baby and got over my lack of appetite and dizzy spells, I had an appetite with a bite! I am always hungry, I can eat a decent, filling dinner and be hungry an hour later. What is up with that? I just don't understand. I try my best not to be a total pig but really, as a stay-at-home mom, when I first get up and when my baby sleeps I am ravenous.
This isn't exactly boosting the effects of my new work out regimen. Which by the way I went from working out for 5 minutes to 8, then 11, and today I worked out for 15 minutes. Every day gets a little better. I'm sure snuffing out the cigarette habit is helping. I've only had one since I quit about 5 days ago, which is amazing now that I think about it! Usually by now I beg my husband until he buys me a pack. Which is great! Not only am I getting healthier, feeling and breathing better but I'm saving us money!
Money is a big thing in our house, which I hate! Money should be something that is just there, that you don't have to worry if you need new underwear, or a new shirt, to go out to dinner with your significant other! It should just be there.
This is one of the few things that bothers me about working out right now, we only have a $100 dollar food budget a month, so it makes it quite hard to buy the most healthy things. We can get little broccoli and cheese stuffed chickens that are a dollar each and a dish of parmesan noodles or some shells and cheese. We love to have corn, it's probably me and my husband's favorite veggie for dinner. We would buy more salad stuff if it cost less and didn't go bad so quickly!

I would love to eat healthier especially since it would compliment my workout schedule rather than cancel it out! I'm really looking to get fit.

Anyway, I am rambling again so if you have any suggestions especially about food shopping for health but on a tight budget or opinions please leave me a comment or email! I'd love to hear from you.

Thank so much for stopping by and have an amazing day!

Me: Wishin', hopin', thinkin' and plannin'!

I realized something today, I miss reading.

I've been trying to remember and have the motivation to read my leadership books everyday, that usually doesn't happen, but I would like to start doing that because it is good for my personal growth and for my business.

As far as my personal mind goes, I would like to read my leadership book each day so I would not feel guilty for pleasure reading because I really love reading vampire novels. From Anne Rice to Sherrilyn Kenyon and more, I love vampire books. Twilight I love, especially Twilight and Breaking Dawn. I need to re-read Eclipse because I don't remember too much of it and I'd like to brush up before the movie comes out because you know as a fan I'm going to want to see it.
I think I digressed! My main point is since becoming a mother 6.5 months ago I have really stopped reading almost all together, like I said, I read my leadership books at least once a week but other than that I only read articles and news online. I miss it so badly.
I've finally started packing to move in just a couple of weeks, the house is finally, (slowly) getting cleaner. I'm finally getting into the habit of picking up things immediately or soon after it happens to keep things clean. I noticed if I don't pick up something right away I tend to just not do it and that is how my apartment quickly becomes a trash dump. Especially if I don't take the opportunity of my daughter being in her swing happy or asleep than I don't get the chance to clean.

I'll cut off my ramblings here for today, I might update later, if not definitely tomorrow. I'm really enjoying the daily blog! I know that people are seeing this, even if they aren't commenting so THANK YOU!

I really appreciate you stopping by, feel free to comment with topic suggestions, opinions or critiques!

Have an amazing day!

Baby: Video of ridiculous cuteness!

One day I was taking lots of pictures and video of my daughter Gabrielle because she was just being so darned cute!

Tell me this isn't the cutest little girl you've ever seen?


Have an amazing day!

Me; Fitness:Envious? I am!

Hello Makeup Moms!

As I talked about in a previous post, I decided to quit smoking and start working out. I plan on working out every day either during my daughter's nap or after she goes down for bedtime at night. At first I just looked for a low impact cardio workout through google but I was looking on Hulu today and I found this pretty cool series called ENVY, it has a full body work out and then it has separate targeted workouts, buns ,arms, abs, etc.
Yesterday after my first workout after my last cigarette, my chest hurt, I was so out of breath, I was dyin'. I only got through 5 minutes the first time before I had to stop, but I tried out the full body work out of ENVY a little bit ago and I got through 8 minutes! It's great, it has weight resistance with nearly all the moves, great at using gravity to help you get a good workout (like squats), and it has these fit and pretty girls taking you through everything. And the great thing is, they aren't all twigs! Yes they are thin, fit and healthy but most of them are a good healthy weight, neither chubby nor skin and bone. So just like calling it ENVY, it's a pretty good motivator to see real women of a few different sizes (not over weight but from petite and slim to healthy but plump) doing the work outs.
I plan on doing this every day, all I did was one 8 minute workout and when I walk my thighs feel kind of wobbly and shaky, which to me is great, it means it worked!

So if you are like me, just had a baby, are overweight due to a baby or just genetics/poor decisions have left you overweight and frustrated and are ready for a change, I highly recommend these workouts.

http://www.hulu.com/envy-girls

If I can empower anyone to take the reigns of their health and start working out or quit smoking or just feel a little bit more secure in how they look and feel, it's a good day. Thank you so much for stopping by and listening to what is going on in my life. I really appreciate it, if you have any questions, comments, opinions or suggestions please feel free to let me know, I love to hear from you.

Thank you for making me part of your day.

Have an amazing day!