Author: MRJ

Tonight Jacob grabbed some paper, a pen and some of his scrambled letters and tried to make words. It amazing to watch my little guy sound out words.

Wedseday is work from home day and with it I got to walk my boy to school. Walking down with Jacob and Violet was fun. Our little guy really gets excited by school. Though the cutest thing is how Violet reacts when the bell rings.  She lines up with Jacob’s class. Today she worked her way to the front of the line, it was so cute. Melissa tells me she does it every day. Its so adorable.

In honour of meet the teacher night at Jacob’s school I’ve decided to use a picture of Jacob headding off to school. It was weird client scheduling of today that let me get home in the middle of the day and take such a cute picture of our little school boy.

Today Violet turned 20 months. She celebrated it with the sniffles. I snapped this picture while Violet played in her room before bed. I had hopped to get a better shot but with the first illnesses of the fall sweeping through our house It just didn’t work out. Tomorrow I hope to post my letter to my little angle, so stay tuned.

Today Melissa and I picked up new gates to keep our children out of mischief. While at toys-r-us we looked over some possible presents for the kids, I found one of me but Melissa wouldn’t let me get it.

Today the family packed up a lunch and headed out to Chudleighs for some apple picking. It was a great day, for my picture tonight I thought I’d change it up, usually I’d choose a cute on with the kids, but not today. Today we have a picture of an apple tree with its apples spread around its base.

Today I was walking through Dundas west station and saw this announcement board. Its based on GPS in the street cars, months back I had taken a picture of the trail signs at Spadina (Project 365-068: TTC Streetcar Tracking). That struck me is about this sign today is that Dundas West used to have sides forecasting the next arrival of street cars.  Over a decade ago they had screen that showed the next schedule vehicles, sure it was based on where they should be and not where they are. But like the Time Line Schedule I always found it helpful.

Today Melissa posted on Facebook that Jacob was reading the paper work for a fun fair they are having at his school (I’m still not used to thinking that Jacob has a school, but that’s a post  for another day). So tonight when we sat down for computer time and he asked to go to starfalls.com I thought it would make a perfect picture of the day. It’s amazing watching as he sounds out letters and tries to form words.

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I seem to like challenging myself, I have my blog everyday challenge and my 365 challenge (to be fair they have shortage merged). More importantly they have worked.  So now I am going to add a new challenge. A sleep challenge.  I have spent the summer trying to become a healthier person, with varying degrees of success. I have become a much more active person, though my weight-loss has been slowing down. As part of my self-examination before I took the leap to join weight watchers I realised that all that was good, but I need to do something about my sleeping.

I don’t sleep enough. The way my days go now, I wake up with the kids in the morning, usually between 7 and 8 and don’t get to bed until around 2am, sometimes later. Most nights I’m lucky to get 5 hours sleep.  Of course then you have times like the last week where I was struggling with a deadline and got less than 3 hours on a few nights. The biggest problem is that most nights between 6 and 8 I’m a walking around like a zombie, occasionally going as far as falling asleep in my chair. This isn’t a good time to be half asleep. On some days it’s the only chance I have to be around the kids so I want to be more alert.

Continue reading “The sleep challenge”

Well today I took a step I’ve been debating all summer. Today I joined weight watchers. I’ve been loosing weight sence spring, working out and trying to eat better. Well as I’ve watched my weight hover around the 240s for the last 6 weeks it became clear that I needed to get serious about what I’m eating. To help with that I’ve joined Weight watchers. I’ll be talking about the process in the coming weeks so stay tuned.