Phew! Life is crazy.

While this last week wasn't as crazy, the week before was insane. I worked 42.5 hours the previous week, but because of the holiday and not getting a sub call on Friday, I only worked 30. I still feel very, very tired.

First, my goals.

1. Water: I'm doing such a better job about drinking water these days! Woohoo! I also don't think I had more than one or two sodas the whole week.

2. I'm still doing a good job on my veggies! I've eating at least one serving of veggies every day.

3. Exercise. I taught class on Monday and Wednesday, so I got those workouts in. I ran on Thursday - quite a bit further than I had intended (4.67 miles) Oops! But it felt amazing and it was so nice to be out side. I swam for about 20 minutes on Saturday. Definitely not where i want to be, but improvement - that's for sure!!!

4. Time for me. I've managed to finish knitting Kara's bag and now I'm working on a blanket for a friend's baby boy. It's proving to be much slower than I hoped, but so far it looks good. I'm doing a checker board pattern of warm, light blue and a bright white. I'm doing it in strips right now and then will sew them together to make the blanket. I'm also going to crochet a boarder around the edge. I have a white yarn with blue and brown flecks that think I'm going to use on the border. I'm also knitting with two strands together to make it thicker and so far I really like how it's turning out.

5. Patience with the girls: Ehh! Not so good. we're struggling with Jana and her reactions. She's so over tired, so instead of handling corrections or frustrations well, she's throwing fits, kicking and screaming, and hitting. Ugh! Not a fun stage!!!! The girls and I had a wonderful day on Friday, though. We headed to Michaels and then we played at McD's for about 2 hours. They had so much fun! They played together so well and just had a blast being together and playing. I also got some knitting done, which was nice.

J and I had a date night last night at is was wonderful!!! We had an amazing dinner at this little restaurant that is in a converted house and then saw Invictus. Sooooooo good! We had lots and lots of time to talk and talked about all kinds of great things. We definitely enjoyed reconnecting in an adult-married way, instead of a worn out Mommy and Daddy, how do we get everything done way.

We also had a chance to talk about having more kids. I'm really, really struggling with my desire to have more kids. With all of our financial struggles, it's driving me crazy that I would even be so desperately wanting a baby, but I can't seem to shake it. J brought up the idea of adopting. His hesitation with having more kids is a very interesting one that I'd never thought of before. He's an environmental science guy and thinks very intellectually about everything. His great concern about having more kids is that the over population of the world is something that is going to have a huge impact on our kids and grandkids and we have no idea what is going to happen to the world because there are just simply too many people on the Earth! So, we had a long discussion about adoption. We'd both like to have boys - that's a given, but of course if we had biological children, it wouldn't matter what we had, but we'd have two more. So we talked about the idea of adopting siblings. I'm intrigued by the idea of adopting sibling boys from Ethiopia. We already have a bi-racial extended family (on one side of the family) and my siblings are adopted, so this is a comfortable option for us. It makes sense to ease J's global responsibility concern and if we're going to wait until the girls are in school, to reduce the childcare costs and to reduce our debt load, we'd be getting into the 35 and over age bracket for me - which is worrisome. This doesn't abate my baby-fever and desire to be pregnant (yes, I'm saying those words!), but there are so many pros to this idea.

We've got a lot of time before we'd be doing anything about this, but we've also got a lot of thinking to do!!!