A Time For Change

Well y'all.  This is it.  The day before a BIG change.  A new journey.  A new beginning.

I have decided to take the Advocare 24 Day Challenge, and I would like all of you to follow along with me in my journey.

I am so SUPER DUPER excited to start this challenge.  It is seriously time for a change up in the Goldylocks household.

Without further ado {is that how it goes and how it's spelled?} Here are my before pictures.  Wow!  Don't mind the blurriness of my husbands lens on his phone.  Oh, and don't mind the unhappy face and the non-washed & styled hair.  I figured that's what you're supposed to do for before photos: slouch, don't wash your hair, and frown.  That way, when I show you my after photos, I will be one hot, skinny, happy momma!!

So will you follow me in this new adventure?  I can't wait to share all of the positive things that are coming my way.

Smooches!

Tiny Slips of Paper

It's New Year's Eve.
The last day of twenty-twelve.
The day before the first day of twenty-thirteen.

What are you looking forward to?  What are you looking forward to leaving behind?

I read something today in Sarah Ban Breathnach's book Simple Abundance:

"Before we can welcome in the New Year, we need to put the Old Year's unfinished business - mistakes, regrets, shortcomings, and disappointments - behind us." 

Ms. Ban Breathnach then encourages us to write down on slips of paper all the things we'd like to forget, place them in a cardboard box wrapped in dark paper, "sealing in the sorrow and hard luck" and throw them away or place in the fireplace to "burn away the past" as a way to say Sayonara.  Banish the past and bad memories, keep only the good.

What will you write on your slips of paper?

Blowing The Dust Off

Wow. Has it really been since May that I last posted?  I'm sorry. 

One of my New Year's resolutions is to blog again.  But not necessarily in the manner that I blogged before.  I want to use my blog as more of a journaling spot.  A place where I don't care what I say or who I offend.


Me and My Boys - September 2011

On that note I am naming this year New Year, New Me! 

This year's goals:

Lose weight.  My first goal is to lose 30lbs by April.  My starting weight is 190lbs.  Ugh.  Such an ugly number.  This is exactly where I was LAST new years.  I was down almost 20 lbs by last April and threw it all in the garbage.  Ugh again.  Oh well.  You live and learn right?

More family time.  I feel like we are always in a hurry and running here and there.  I want to take more time to spend as a family.  Doing family activities.  I would love for this to include a family vacation.

Focus on my business more.  Set little mini-goals for myself each month.

I'd like to end this post with photos of my boys.  They have grown so much this last year.  I can not believe how quickly time is flying by.  They will be four soon.  And we have finally gotten rid of diapers!  Woo Hoo!!!



Marcus - Christmas 2011



Maddox - Christmass 2011

Just Thursday

Outside my window..blue skies, sun, and estimated highs in the 70's today!!!

Today I feel..excited.  I got a big order in the mail yesterday, another one to be delivered today.

I am thinking..about all the things I have on my plate.

I am thankful..that God has allowed me to live another day.

Tomorrow I am..working and playing with the fellas.  I need to go out and buy a birthday present and a graduation present too.

I am wearing..new gray pants and a new pink shirt, and new black wedge sandals.  So so cute.  It's amazing what new clothes do for my attitude.  I feel great!

I wish..I could just blink and my projects would be done.

This weekend I..must start painting the ceiling and walls in my kitchen.  I'm going to take the boys to an event in the town I work in.  They are bringing a bunch of vehicles and equipment in for the kids to explore.  We also have a birthday and a graduation party to go to.

I need to..clean and organize the boys' toy room. {Same as last week...never touched it.}

I am reading..The Pioneer Woman's, Black Heals to Tractor Wheel.  Well I shouldn't say I'm reading it.  I have it, but haven't cracked it open yet. 

Yesterday I...did a friends' nails and played with the fellas.

I am hoping..for a stress free weekend!!!!

Goodbye