Modern Mom Challenge

I've joined Modern Mom Challenge and am so
excited to finally start shedding this weight.
I unfortunately climbed up to 296 pounds
by the time October rolled around this year.
Since then I have been slowly trying to get
back down. I currently weigh in at 281 right
now. My ultimate goal weight is 180.
I am not in any Weight Watchers or Jenny
Craig programs right now. So I have just
cut my portions and eat in small plates,
drinking alot of water & China Slim Tea
1 bag per cup after every meal . I've
been asking my husband after dinner
to watch the kids in the evening while I
go walk about 2 - 4 blocks. I've had to
start sleeping in my walking clothes
and have my walking shoes next to the
bed so I have no excuse to not get up
early at 5 to go walking..lol..

Last two days.....

Ok. so I am finally able to sit down and catch up

on what's been happening for the last two days.

So yesterday was the last Sunday of the year. We

woke up late and finally got to church an hour and

half late..just wanted to make it in since we're

going to have an interview with our bishop for our

tithing settlement from 07/08 -12/08..the records

from 01/08 til 07/08 is with another ward.

So I found out in our Young Women meeting that

we're going to have our youth dinner on the

second thursday of January.

Met up with a my friend, Sivea from our Mixxed

Plate group 2 years ago and we chatted it up

about couponing. Other than that we did

see the bishop and got our family blessing.

It was wonderful, since this is our first tithing

settlement that we've ever attended as a family:)

I ended up staying up til 4 am this morning

checking my emails and researching how

to create diaper baby cakes and wreaths..not
sure how it's going to turn out..I was on fellow
mom blogger Renee's page, Cutie booty Cakes

blog & website. Boy was I  blown
away by her beautiful work and thought 

maybe I could just 
try out one cake and wreath..this is just a
spare time thing..but my first priority will
still be the dc, specialty painting & faux
finishing..I guess it's something to do
while the market is still down..

..so I am seriously

thinking about going forward with this idea

to make some extra cash from it. I luv it

and think I'll have a blast doing it. So I

checked out all kinds of how to videos on

youtube.com and saw some pretty awesome

cakes..couldn't keep my eyes open anymore

so I turned in by 4 am. to get some

zzzz's for the next couple of hours.

Back up at 9 am..ready for another day.

So Sivea called, we chatted and agreed to

head up to the mall at 4 for some girl time and

let the kids release their wiggles at the

play center while we chat it up over

couponing and other entrepreneurial

options. So I am cleaning house

doing my laundry and sorting out my

expired coupons that need to be

trashed. The mall was fun, afterwards

we head on over to

McDonalds to feed the little ones and

brainstorm some more over our new

ideas..I'm excited and feel even more

motivated about making that extra

dough and welcoming the new year and

all that it has to offer us...

So I'm back at home with the kids and

got them to bed at 8:50 so I could

return to blogging, brainstorming and

spending some alone time w/ dh..lol..

1st post: an evening relaxing alone...

I've gotten the two little ones to bed and my dh is spending
some bonding time with his buddies drinking kava. If you don't
know what it is..it's a ceremonial drink they consume in the
polynesian islands. I wanted a separate page away from the
couponing and stuff..just to get all my thoughts onto..

For the last couple of weeks I've been looking for a way
to make money on my own. Money that I can put away
for the kids, go coupon shopping with and money for a
rainy day. something that my dh won't be able to touch
and spend like water..so here's a couple of ideas I came
up with...

• I can do make overs with all the great quality makeup I've accumulated through coupon shopping. for instance, I can offer my services to bridal parties, or hold my own makeovers here at home for a small fee per person. I've been watching Blush on Lifetime Network and have been thinking of it. I had ended up with so much Max Factor Makeup from the Kmart BOGO free deal (back in Oct. 2008 or Nov.)on Max Factor Makeup and couldn't help but think this would be a great way to make use of all that make up that I stockpiled on.

• Start making assorted cakes, baby diaper cakes, wreaths, etc with all the baby items that I've accumulated from coupon deals and start selling them. My mind is reeling from all these ideas flooding my mind and I think this is the one I'm really excited about. I just want to test it out and see how creative I can get with this. I'll start on that tomorrow morning and post up pics. on it..and the one on makeovers too..