"This won't hurt Hopey"

Hayden loves this shirt camo and pirates!
This shirt is from Ms. Belinda (piano teacher) it is vintage 1980's.
Hannah Banana

Hunter ready to play some HEAT baseball!

I had JUST put Hope down for a minute in my bathroom to get dressed in my closet when I hear "this won't hurt Hopey". I immediately go out to rescue Hope. Hayden was trying to cram her little hand into a toy. I explain the obvious and hurry back to finish getting dressed for the gym. When I hear "now this really won't hurt Hopey not one little bit". Again I rush back out. This time he is trying to pick off some little scab. The joys of having a 5 year old brother.

It's amazing what you can get done when you stay at home for the morning. Laundry, picking up, balancing the checkbook and paying the bills. Feels good. I did it! I went paperless on bills. I have been paying online for several years and I love that, but I hadn't converted over to receiving my bills online. My bank has recently updated there online services and it is way more user friendly. I'll give it a go!

So, Scott read my blog last night and I hear him say "what are these purple bags?" They are nylon shopping bags I answer back. "Why do we need those?" I explain back how many grocery bags we go threw in a week and how bad that is for the environment. "How much do they cost?" They are only $5!! I say. "$5 for a GROCERY BAG when you can get them free at Wal-mart." Well some cost like 8 and 12 I say. "Oh what a great deal...I'm all for being earth friendly if it doesn't cost a lot." I was amused with the exchange.

I like Charlie Gibson and I like to watch him on the evening news. I don't know maybe I am getting old enjoying the evening news and all, but whatever. Last night in honor of the upcoming Mother's Day celebration, they had a feature about stay at home moms and our financial worth. Charlie said instead of flowers this year Mom might like a 6 figure paycheck instead. Heck yeah. Salary.com did a study, and took into account all (or some/most) of a stay at home mother's responsibilities and factored in overtime and came up with a salary of $138,000 a year. Interesting I thought.

Well, I'm off to the gym. I'm going to skip my favorite class total conditioning with Pamela today. I have REALLY been enjoying the running this week and I woke up with a back that was a little stiff. Oooops. My fault. Not bad...but it's talking to me and I will nip it in the bud. I don't want the dreaded "flat back" to return. The elliptical machine, weights and some gentle stretching should do the trick.