Time For a New Post

Do you ever have a time in your life when it's time to reinvent yourself or start afresh? Well, it's one of those times for me.  Today is the one year anniversary of my weight loss journey and I wanted to start the next year of toning and muscle building with treating myself right every day...making sure to clean my face and moisturize, use my stretch mark cream, put on a little make-up; look nice, even for myself.  I also want to dedicate more time to my husband who gets pushed back due to the kids, the house, all my little projects, etc.  I want to be a little more patient with the kids and I want to cut out the long line of future ideas for right now and focus on the important one; the one that means the most to me...my writing.  I have a chance to maybe get a job doing massage again which I have to look into and with that, I want to actively write.  And that's all I can concentrate on for right now.  I just want to focus on being healthy, fun, and funky.  I'm excited about the upcoming months and hope to blog my journey!

Okay, so I really don't have anything important to say except that I really do want to start posting more...and I finished Lost.  I was skeptical before I started but it was truly amazing.  The last episode was perfect; I am very happy (and I cried frequently).

Quick Post

So, there's no Before and Afters because I forgot but Dave and I did a seven day tooth whitening thing with natural tooth whitener and I give it a thumbs up....it didn't hurt my teeth and it made them feel really clean.  I don't know if there was a huge difference but they definitely feel better.

Alright, I did not forget about my goal to get firm, glowing skin on my legs! I just was on hiatus for awhile....results are in! Jergens Body Firming Glow lotion is awesome! It doesn't smell gross, it doesn't streak and it looks natural, while leaving my legs smooth.  I recommend it highly!

Also, I will not be posting this week on the underarms, because while I've been faithful to the body scrub, I keep forgetting the lemon, which is a natural bleaching agent and thusly a big part of the regime! However, I accidentally, on purpose started in on my facial regime this week, as well and it's been going awesome.  I've been thinking a lot about how even though I'm not freaked out about turning 30 next year, I don't want to start looking like I'm in my 30's (at least not yet).  I wanted to get a jump-start on wrinkles, etc but have not been able to afford to really splurge on skin cream, cleanser supplies and then my awesome friend Kim, who sells Mary Kay, had an open house to which I went exploring, and she set me up! I walked out of there with an arsenal and didn't pay her a dime (I will, but I get to use the product now! So this is what my face regimen is now:

Morning:
Use the Skinfoliate electric brush with cleanser to scrub away oils, dirt, make-up, etc
Spray some freshening spray on a cotton ball and work onto face
Apply Hydrate cream
Apply eye cream

Night:
Follow same routine, adding a demo Micro kit (with three more tubes of scrub/lotion) and then twice a week, I add a mask to the nightly application (to be washed off before freshening).

It sounds like a lot, but it only takes fifteen minutes and my skin felt softer right away, the make-up comes right off and I think it's really going to help keep those wrinkles at bay!

Here's to skin care!

Underarm Charm

Okay, sorry I haven't written in a month and a half.  I have been not even that busy; just enjoying not being busy...working on my new calendar for the grandparents, doing some kid crafts, knitting a pair of gloves, reading for book club, etc.  And of course working out and trying to stay on track that way.  Plus, the entire family had the flu this week so that slowed us down! But, I haven't forgotten about my body improvement; it just got waylaid for awhile.  Still doing good on my feet and legs and now it's time for armpits.   I have always had dark underarms so I was reading up on natural and easy ways to lighten them and I decided on rubbing lemon wedges sprinkled with turmeric on them, scrubbing them with a brown sugar/olive oil mixture to exfoliate and of course, moisturizing.  I think I'll do this treatment every day for a week and then just cut out the lemon part to once a week.  So here's the start....let's see how it looks in two weeks:

December 23rd and 24th.

Well, we got too busy to do any crafts but we did do our Christmas activities on these two days; on the twenty third, we made out cards for all the businesses in town and me and the boys dropped them off and Christmas Eve we looked at Christmas lights and did a light scavenger hunt.  We finished the book on Merry Christmases around the world and then on the 24th, we read a poem kids' version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore.
Hope your Christmas was awesome, ours was!

 

Writing out our Christmas Cards (Yes, I'm wearing the same thing two days in a row).

 

Handing out a card to the girls at the Credit Union.

 

Our scavenger hunt list.