tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65865717193808908232024-03-14T07:28:59.543-07:00The Occasional Mermaidfor observations and occasions too lengthy for a facebook statusMadeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-16509940102843968092017-01-29T20:46:00.001-08:002017-01-29T21:08:27.714-08:00Madeleine reviews HIDDEN FIGURES<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVg0VVRd2rYPOEuruKH9qzkJ6g2AMzIjpZ5-hkUcYNh67ya3smdCk1q3_1yOI0vUUYWT471zKtnrIYFVMELjVzaXSeSNc0UATpEK0mJ07o86oD2hxtKpHkBhGsQqBHpm75uuu5MN2oP_f/s1600/hidden+figures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVg0VVRd2rYPOEuruKH9qzkJ6g2AMzIjpZ5-hkUcYNh67ya3smdCk1q3_1yOI0vUUYWT471zKtnrIYFVMELjVzaXSeSNc0UATpEK0mJ07o86oD2hxtKpHkBhGsQqBHpm75uuu5MN2oP_f/s640/hidden+figures.jpg" width="336" /></a>I gave Madeleine a choice of 4 movies that we could go see today: <i>Sing!, A Dog's Purpose, La La Land, </i>and <i>Hidden Figures</i>. After watching all four trailers, she decided she wanted to see <i>Hidden Figures </i>(and the feminist in me cheered loudly on the inside).<br />
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The following is a transcript of her review of the movie:<br />
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<i>Question: What movie did we see?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: ahhhhhhhhh Hadden Figures.<br />
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<i>Question: What was the story in the movie?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: About three women and they... it, it was a-- they made the better world, they made the world a better place because the world wasn't a good place it was just like men thought that people who were black skinned shouldn't go to the same bathroom or drink the same coffee or anything like that. They were like mad, and then the three women changed the world by being good people, by fighting the badness in the world, and they and they got to be stuff that they wanted to do and the MOVIE WAS AWESOME!!!<br />
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<i>Question: Was there anything that you didn't like about the movie?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: No. It was all just great.<br />
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<i>Question: What was your favorite part of the movie?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: When they changed the world.<br />
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<i>Question: Do you think this is a movie that other people should go and see?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: Yah! Because it's GREAT!!<br />
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<i>Question: What do you think is important about this movie?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: That the girls changed the world. <br />
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<i>Question: Who do you think did the best acting?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: The three girls: Catherine, Dorothy, and Mary.<br />
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<i>Question: What was so special about these three women?</i><br />
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<b>Madeleine</b>: They changed the world by being good people and staying resilient and being kind and doing what they could do to fight the bad parts of the world. They were really really smart. Katherine was really good at writing the words of goodness to get the rocket ship to blow up -- not to blow up (explode) but to create the trip to outer space. And Dorothy wanted to be in charge of everybody, she wanted to be a supervisor of the computers.<br />
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(incidentally, I agree, I think everyone should go and see this movie!)<br />
I'm saddened to see that Taraji P. Henson was not nominated for an academy award. I thought this scene was extraordinary and what I would play for a clip at the Oscars. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTjsDb-2Gk" target="_blank">HIDDEN FIGURES clip</a><br />
<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-70671964559688160812015-11-24T07:41:00.001-08:002015-11-24T07:41:55.338-08:00100 Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been 100 days with a new relationship with sugar. I actually have had sugar a few times; I had some pumpkin bread with chocolate chips on halloween and the last time I went to Chicago I had a brilliant piece of cheesecake (that I split with my daughter and still we could not finish it!!). But mostly I don't eat sugar unless it's in fruit.<br />
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As of this morning I'm officially down 30 pounds for the year. <br />
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It's been strange these past three weeks because I got sick right after halloween and no one knows what's wrong with me (though the best guess they have is Colitis). I have no appetite and I get sick after eating so I'm not eating very much, so you'd think I'd at least be dropping weight as a bonus for all this trouble, but not so much. I go in for a colonoscopy in a week (sexaaayyyyyy!) and hopefully will have some answers and go back to feeling healthy soon.<br />
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Just wanted to let everyone know it's been 100 days.<br />
I don't really have any time to do more.<br />
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xoxoxoxoMadeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-44014415221718399682015-10-27T20:12:00.000-07:002015-10-27T20:12:42.645-07:00nice milestoneToday a friend who I see on a regular basis but who I haven't been able to chat with in a long time asked me "are you losing weight?"<br />
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this is the first person who doesn't know that I'm doing this to ask.<br />
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That felt nice!<br />
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It's been awhile. I apologize. I was directing a show and then it opened and then it closed and since then I've been trying to catch up on all the grading I wasn't doing while the show was getting ready to open, then running, then closing. Long story short: I'm 70 days sugar free and I've lost almost 15 pounds in the process. <br />
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Mostly it's been going very well.<br />
Except now we enter an ominous time of year...<br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b>MWUAHAAHAHHAHAHAAAAAA!</b></i></span><br />
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I went to a halloween party this afternoon. A super adorable party thrown by the mom of one of the other kids in my daughter's daycare. We got all dressed up:<br />
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And we head over to the party.<br />
At first I was really pleased with how I felt. I was standing there chatting to these moms, I was standing next to a huge plate of cupcakes AND a giant bowl of candy corn and candy pumpkins (which I have always weirdly loved) and I was FINE. I was standing there thinking how cool it was that I was fine and that i didn't feel hungry and I didn't want any candy at all.<br />
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And then, I guess I hit a point where I had stood around people eating sugar for too long. And suddenly I really really wanted some. I didn't have any (unless there's sugar in doritos because I had some of those since I couldn't the treats and I didn't check the bag b/c f-that man!) I made it out in tact. But I really wanted to have some.<br />
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It's been interesting. Most of the time I don't want sugar. Except when I suddenly do. And usually that want is more like I need comfort than any sort of hunger. I also think there should come a time when I do chose to have sugar as a rare treat and then go back to not having it. I just don't know when that will be.<br />
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I found a lovely snack at the grocery store today. I got a few things that were only sweetened with dates or coconut sugar (both of which are allowed in IQS/SWEET POISON books) and all of them tasted like ass until I sampled some DANG COCONUT CHIPS. Super lovely. So I just need to replace this:<br />
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and maybe I will survive halloween.<br />
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next stop: thanksgiving!<br />
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Oh, ps, fun story... Today at the grocery store I was looking for Kool Aid packets to dye Madeleine's hair for the costume and she saw some containers of Kool Aid juice (not packets) and we had this conversation:<br /><br />Madeleine: Momma, what is this?<br />
Me: Well, that's a drink that some people like, but it's not very good for you.<br />
Madeleine: No. <br />
Me: yes, honey, it's junk, but it's a drink that's sort of like juice and some people like it.<br />
Madeleine: They like it? But it's bad for you. It has sugar. How can they drink it?<br />
Random Lady Shopping Nearby: You are doing a great job mom!<br />
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yes yes, it was a lovely moment of pride for me. And then she ate 3 mini cupcakes, drank a capri sun juice box, ate a packet of skittles and a lollipop at the party and I still felt like a jerk because I said "no more sugar" when all the other moms were just letting their kids enjoy the treats.<br />
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sigh.<br />
we fight the battles we can fight, right?<br />
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<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-1771229575871826692015-10-02T19:32:00.000-07:002015-10-02T19:35:23.899-07:00Alternatives!I've just entered Tech Week.<br />
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For those of you who have not been in a play in awhile (or ever) this means that we are soon to open and all the various elements of production (actors, costumes, scenic, lighting, props, hair/makeup, and sound) all get to come together in one room.</div>
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This can be a stressful time.</div>
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So far this show (<i>The Last Days of Judas Iscariot</i>) has been amazing to work on. I have great designers coming up with brilliant ideas; great actors also coming up with brilliant ideas; and a tremendous stage management team who are keeping everything on track. Rehearsals have been fun and inspiring and production meetings fruitful.</div>
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Basically: living the dream!</div>
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The reality is, though, that I'm a single parent of a small child who hates to be left behind (read: crying hysterically at the window "JUST ONE MORE HUG!") and there's also the other (more than) full time aspect of my job: the teaching. So my days have been long, and while everything is great, it's still a lot to stay on top of.</div>
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I'm also experiencing some low-grade sickness that seems to be storming through the ranks. For me that means a sore throat and some chills and an overwhelming desire to lie down (though I pretty much always feel an overwhelming desire to lie down).</div>
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Last night at rehearsal when we were on a break, I walked past the vending machines on my way to fill up my water bottle. My relationship with the vending machines changed somewhere around week 3 or 4 when I stopped having to turn away so that I wouldn't see the candy inside and thus be tempted by it's siren song. Now when I walk past it, I look at the stuff inside like it's a wall of shoes or transistors radios; there's absolutely nothing that registers in my brain as it being food. Or at least, it didn't until last night, when all of a sudden I saw the hydrox cookies sitting there (something I NEVER would have thought about eating 7 weeks ago when I was still living in Sugarlandia (population: almost everyone) and I really wanted them.<br />
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This was surprising. I haven't really wanted any sugar at all in awhile. I also knew I wasn't hungry. I was just really tired, about to get sick, and running on fumes and I just wanted some comfort. Sugar comfort.</div>
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Last night I resisted; though I started sort of bargaining with myself whether maybe I could have a real treat once in awhile. But today I still sort of wanted some cookies (also interesting because with this slight illness I don't really want to eat any food). When it suddenly dawned on me: surely one of these No Sugar websites will have some cookie recipes!<br />
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And lo and behold they did! (my I QUIT SUGAR book also had recipes, but they were at home and I wanted to know if I needed any new ingredients) I printed out several recipes and made these two different ones tonight, with the help of my lovely daughter:</div>
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I made a double batch of the lemon coconut cookies because it called for the juice and zest of one lemon and I wasn't about to zest half a freaking lemon. Also, I know the kids in my show are curious about this no-sugar thing, so I'll bring them in and let everyone try them.</div>
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I don't think anyone who's been eating sugar on a regular basis will think this, but I think they are both WONDERFUL!! The first bite I took of the lemon cookie I thought "good lord, this doesn't taste like <i>anything</i>!" But then I chewed and swallowed, and the loveliest taste blossomed in my mouth. Soft and warm and almost sweet (or maybe sweet, but in the tiniest, least-offensive way).</div>
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I was still feeling sick so I just heated up a cup of chicken stock for dinner, then had one lemon cookie. Then Madeleine (who was RRRRREAALLLLLYYYY excited to be making cookies) tried a bite of the lemon ones and spit them out. Her palate still has a fair amount of sugar every day (try as I do to shield her, she still gets juice and granola bars and graham crackers at school)(and I let her have yogurt and oatmeal and jelly at home--but her story is another post I'll get into) so I'm sure these cookies tasted like dust to her. So I finished her little cookie.</div>
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After I put her to bed I got a little plate out and put one of each cookie on them and carried them into the living room with some (whole) milk to write this. And I couldn't finish the second cookie. Or the milk. They sit on the coffee table to my left waiting to go back to the kitchen, their snack destiny left unfulfilled. <br />
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And the thing is: these cookies are lovely! I'm so glad I made them. I am excited to eat them again sometime. But I don't want any more now.</div>
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ps. wish me luck on tech week :)</div>
Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-68317620451279114252015-09-27T19:23:00.000-07:002015-09-27T19:24:44.196-07:00"A Sunday Trip to the Grocery Store" AKA "...Are You F*cking Kidding Me?!?!?"About two weeks into this sugar-free world, I cleaned out my pantry. It became a thing of order and beauty:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That hot chocolate tin now holds sugar free dutch cocoa and that "natural" (*eye roll*) peanut butter is almost gone and has only been eaten by the 3 year old.</td></tr>
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I had been meaning to do this ever since we moved in two years ago and I just threw everything up there while unpacking, but now I had a reason to do it: get rid of the sugar!<br />
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And I did.<br />
I got rid of everything except the Vermont maple syrup and a few "chinese" food options that have sugar in them, and those went in the shelf over the sink that never gets opened (hoisin sauce and mirin cooking wine, I am sad I've had to hide you).<br />
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And that was that.<br />
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except, I just found out that was not fucking that.<br />
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After I finished reading Sarah Wilson's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Quit-Sugar-Complete-Program-Cookbook/dp/0804186014/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443378106&sr=1-1&keywords=i+quit+sugar" target="_blank">I Quit Sugar</a>, my dad told me about a book he'd read called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Year-No-Sugar-A-Memoir/dp/1402295871/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1ZWFP6X0BFJD5404GHAX&dpID=51AJ3tANP1L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_" target="_blank">Year of No Sugar</a>. This book chronicles a woman (and her family) as they spend a year not eating added sugar of any kind. I bought it. I'm reading it. La-la-la. Suddenly she starts talking about how she and her husband can't eat out anywhere because everything has added sugar. I got a little sniffy and thought "surely you can just have non-sweet things like meat and vegetables and cheese and bread, etc."<br />
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Here's the thing this book has just opened my eyes to: ALL THAT STUFF HAS SUGAR IN IT.<br />
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We arrive and luckily find the magic purple cart (which means Madeleine will be happy). We go through the produce section and get what we need. Then I move on to the bakery. I pick up several loaves of bread to find that they all have honey, sugar, molasses or some combination of the three. Fortunately they have some "artisinal" french bread that has no sugar so I get some of that and think I'll get a loaf of one of the organic/uber healthy options. Except when I get to the bread section there are literally ZERO loaves of bread that do not have sugar in them. Even the so-called healthy/organic ones. Everything has added sugar. The same is true for all the mayonnaise jars for sale. And the sandwich meats. And the freaking bacon. THE BACON.</div>
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I was pleased to find a brand of bread (Ezekiel) in the frozen organic section that didn't have sugar. I can make bread (I can even make mayonnaise) but I'm not sure how to find time for that sort of activity now when I'm supposed to be in rehearsal till the middle of the night every night.</div>
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-74011044423842544482015-09-25T09:48:00.001-07:002015-09-25T09:48:12.686-07:0040 days and 40 nights<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Today is day 40 of not eating any sugar.<br />
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I'm almost through week 6 of the <a href="https://iquitsugar.com/" target="_blank">I Quit Sugar</a> 8 week plan to detox from sugar. This is the week where you're supposed to add back in some fruits. I had some grapes on Wednesday. They were lovely but I haven't really wanted any more.<br />
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I miss the idea of sugar sometimes, but I feel very differently about the junk food packaging I walk past every day. I see a candy bar or cake or ice cream or whatever and there is no kind of pull whatsoever. I'm more likely to get sad about not having baked beans than cookies.<br />
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So this continues to work for me.<br />
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I haven't been losing weight at the same speed as I did in the beginning, just creeping down ounce by ounce. But this morning I did hit a fun milestone... I've been working with two different sets of numbers. The first is how much weight I've lost in these past 40 days (today the total is 11 pounds), but the second is the amount of weight I've lost since the year began (this includes the weight I lost at weight watchers in the spring). So today I've officially lost 25 pounds this year :)<br />
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so that's cool<br />
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-70636554099381643202015-09-15T14:14:00.001-07:002015-09-15T14:14:51.239-07:00Micro PostI'm wearing a dress today that I bought two years ago but have never worn.<br />
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I got it in the days after moving here to Wisconsin even though it was too small. My thinking at the time was "surely this only doesn't fit because I have just moved and am stressed and am eating too much. Surely I will start losing weight immediately and then this top will fit."<br />
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Except I didn't lose weight, I went in the other direction.<br />
Until this year.<br />
Until now.<br />
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So I am happy that I am wearing this dress today :)<br />
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That is all.Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-5696043956264102162015-09-13T12:06:00.000-07:002015-09-13T20:27:41.125-07:0028 Days Later...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I mean without sugar: 28 days since I cut fructose out of my life.<br />
(oh yeah, and because I'm mildly obsessed with zombies)(and it's sunday so FEAR THE WALKING DEAD will be back on tonight - even if I won't be able to watch it until Friday...anyways!)<br />
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So it's been 28 days since I decided to follow the instructions in a book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Quit-Sugar-Complete-Program-Cookbook/dp/0804186014/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442168973&sr=8-1&keywords=i+quit+sugar" target="_blank">I Quit Sugar</a> and stop eating anything with fructose in it. No junky sweets, no sauces that seem savory but in fact have a lot of sugar in them, no fruit.<br />
nada.<br />
(well, mostly, I have accidentally tried a few things that had sugar in them without realizing it, but 99.9% of my food intake has been fructose free).<br />
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So far the net result is that I have lost 10 pounds and I feel really good. I sometimes miss sugar, but I've only had one really bad day (more on that in a minute). The rest of the time it has been surprisingly easy. I don't eat the thing I'm not supposed to eat, and somehow because I'm not eating that, my body tells me the right thing to eat. Like "hey, you know what would taste great? How about some sausage and beets and spinach sautéed with pecans and pumpkin seeds!! RIGHTEOUS!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trust me, he's saying "RIGHTEOUS! RIGHTEOUS!"</td></tr>
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I better cool it with the GIFs for awhile before I give someone an aneurism.<br />
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My one really bad day was last sunday when I got my period and it seemed like the only thing worth living for was chocolate. I managed to white-knuckle it through the day (even through an afternoon at the Renaissance Faire which was up to your eyeballs in junky treats) until I could make this recipe: <a href="https://iquitsugar.com/recipe/chocolate-nut-butter-cups/" target="_blank">Chocolate Nut Butter Cups</a>:<br />
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They seriously did the trick! It was crazy, they're not even really sweet, but I had one and didn't want any more.<br />
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That never happens.<br />
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I told my dad that and he said "I'm not very good with 'one.' I am good with 'zero' or 'all'." <br />
So at least I know where I get THAT from.<br />
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I have so far been having a really great semester too. All of my classes (all 8 total) have been really fun and feel successful. Rehearsals for the show that I cast have been going well too (hopefully I have not jinxed both by mentioning it). I have just started to wonder if the sugar is affecting these things? If my mind is clearer or if I'm just exceptionally on my game (or wildly deluded as to how well things are going).<br />
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Madeleine and I went out for pancakes the other morning (well, me for poached eggs) and when the waitress asked her what she wanted she said "May I please have pancakes without sugar?"<br />
that made my heart well up with happiness.<br />
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So yeah, 10 pounds. And literally all I've done is stop eating fructose. I do exercise some (twice a week I get a great workout when I teach my movement class; the rest of the time I'm just aiming for my 10,000 steps on my <a href="https://www.fitbit.com/" target="_blank">fitbit</a>). I don't restrict my food intake. I just listen to when I want to stop eating -- something I am *bizarrely* able to hear for the first time in my life. I eat cheese and eggs and meat (organic). I've been drinking coffee (decaf) with half and half most days.<br />
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yes.<br />
coffee.<br />
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That is another strange development in a month of strange changes in my palette.<br />
One morning I went to school for convocation and I was really tired and I decided to drink some coffee (which I have hated my whole life) with some creamer. And I really liked it.<br />
It has replaced a morning snack most days.<br />
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Back to my eating habits... I find that I'm just not that hungry. I mean, I get hungry. But Friday night I had a large breakfast and a late lunch so come dinner time, I just didn't feel like eating a meal. I had a few veggie chips while I gave Madeleine her dinner, but I literally cannot remember a time in my life when I just didn't feel like eating a meal. I have, it is true, occasionally, been so broken hearted over a boy that I couldn't eat; but to just not feel hungry and be cool with it.<br />
it was so strange!<br />
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I am enjoying feeling my body shave down a bit. The changes are too subtle for anyone around me to see them. But I'm comfortably wearing a pair of Next-Size-Down jeans that I barely squeezed into (and bought) in May when I was doing well with weight watchers.<br />
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I get sad sometimes when I think about sweets. I miss them sometimes. Wistfully. Like a toxic ex. There's a line in the play we're rehearsing now about God bringing someone Krispy Kremes and every time I hear it I want one. If I think about an entire lifetime with never eating sweets again it is sad. But I don't want them now. Or at least, I don't want them enough to give up feeling healthy and losing weight.<br />
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Finally, I want to say a word about losing weight (well, that's a lie, I want to write a rambling paragraph about it): this shit is hard. And not just because sugar is addictive, but also because it's such a difficult war to engage in. Every day people who are trying to lose weight have to resist eating the things that are not healthy, they have to find some way to move their bodies more than their bodies (think they) want to move, all day. every day. And, if you're REALLY lucky, after maybe 4 days or so you step on the scale and the number goes down by one.<br />
BY ONE!<br />
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Losing weight is hard because we, as humans, tend to suck at the long range. It's hard to think "well, if this keeps up for a YEAR I'll be half way to where I want to be."<br />
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But the good news is "IF I KEEP UP WITH THIS FOR A YEAR I'LL BE HALF WAY TO WHERE I WANT TO BE!!!"<br />
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ten pounds is ten pounds, man. I'm proud of that.<br />
I'm proud that I just ate a small dish of cashews and macadamia nuts and half a cucumber for lunch and that's all I want.<br />
I'm proud that something is making a difference in my health and my well-being :)<br />
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I'd write about it more but I'm absurdly busy.<br />
I'll check in when I can.<br />
I leave you with some happy dances:<br />
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(oh yeah. I'm definitely Tom Cruise on Oprah's couch)Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-62222178084341687252015-08-25T19:44:00.000-07:002015-08-25T19:46:33.029-07:00Alexander Days = sugar sadnessI'll admit it: today I want sugar.<br />
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It's not bad. It's like wanting to call an ex-boyfriend that you broke up with for all the right reasons, but you had a crappy day and you just wish you could talk to him for a little bit.<br />
But you don't.<br />
Because you're a grown up.<br />
blah blah blah.<br />
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So I had kind of a low-grade, crappy day. The kind of day where things all go just wrong enough for you to be annoyed, but not wrong enough for you to be able to wring any real sympathy out of it. The kind of day that a half pound of chocolate would make so much better.<br />
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(honestly, the worst thing that happened with my day was that I tried to make gazpacho from scratch and it turned out unpleasant, and the bread that I baked had been rising for too long and it kind of tasted like alcohol)<br />
kitchen fail (ps I just google imaged that and it made me laugh, here are some of the images I found:)<br />
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-5708404708302170212015-08-24T13:17:00.002-07:002015-08-24T13:17:40.672-07:00I'm Confused... but pleasantly surprisedHere I am at work. It's just after 3<br />
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and I'm not hungry.<br />
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Whaaaaaat?????<br />
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It's pretty normal that round about this time of day I want something to eat (preferably something chocolate). Normally I'm usually of this mindset:<br /><br />
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I even have a very healthy snack waiting to deal with the afternoon hunger.<br />
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I'm not hungry.<br />
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I'm so confused.<br />
I keep thinking "How about now, do you want to eat your snack now?" and my body says "nope. we're all good."<br />
I don't know what to do with myself!!<br />
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<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-46377775244546279162015-08-23T08:22:00.002-07:002015-08-23T08:22:52.195-07:00End of Week #1The big, splashy news at the end of week one is that I'm down 4 pounds.<br />
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But it's weird, I don't feel slimmer and usually I would with dropping that much weight, because usually it would happen because I would be starving myself. But I haven't been focusing on losing weight, I've just been focusing on not eating sugar; and the way <a href="https://iquitsugar.com/" target="_blank">Sarah Wilson</a> suggests you do this is by <b>Crowding Out</b> the bad stuff by eating more of the good stuff -- particularly by, initially at least, replacing sugar with fat.<br />
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Good fats, obviously, not just heading to the closest "Yellow M" (what madeleine calls mcdonalds).<br />
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And that's what I've been doing. Lots of eggs and almonds and cheese. I made this "Cashewy Chia Pudding" (chia seeds, cashew milk, vanilla, stevia) that is massively filling and sort of like dessert (I put raw cacao nibs on top so it smells like chocolate though it doesn't really taste like it as there is no sugar).</div>
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I learned how to poach eggs this week (way easier than previously expected since not all restaurants will do it) and ate them for breakfast on top of all sorts of leftovers: salad, chopped orange peppers, rolls, mashed cauliflower, whatever. It's incredible the difference I feel after eating eggs and vegetables for breakfast instead of cereal or pancakes or sweet-based things.</div>
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For me, though, the biggest difference is just... feeling simply a little better. Nothing riotously different, just a little more energy, though a lot less sick. Every day I was eating sugar (as in most of the 16,000 days prior to the previous 7) I hated how I felt as soon as I was done eating it -- it makes me nauseous, it makes my stomach cramp up, it makes me tired, it makes my throat hurt. I would sit there eating it wondering why I was eating it but feeling absolutely unable to stop.</div>
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And I'll admit, it feels genuinely sad to think about a life with no sugar. When I think about years stretching in front of me with no cake or caramel I do want to cry. But the thing I'm really aware of is that I don't want any right now. And there are all kinds of recipes on the website and in the cookbook for low-fructose sweets to have as treats now and then. Not that I've ever done "now and then" well with sugar. Here are some:</div>
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But before I get all weepy about not eating 7 candy bars a day, let me focus on a few cool things that happened this week:</div>
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1. I found my fitbit charger and got 10,000 steps in every day (often taking a long walk through the gorgeous natural areas around the campus--putting the Park in Parkside)</div>
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2. I didn't eat any crap sugars. At all. Didn't even really want them. I still had a little bit of fruit, I had one lemon pelligrino soda, and I had a couple of chocolate Bel Vita crackers because I'd bought them from the store before I knew what I was going to do this week</div>
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3. Yesterday at the farmer's market I saw a lady selling fruit bubble teas at a chinese food stand. I asked her for one (assuming she actually put fruit in it, and thought "it's still week one, I can have some fruit"). As she started to assemble it I saw her put in milk, ice, and then try to open a jar of a clear liquid. I asked if that was sugar water and she said yes. I asked her to leave that out. She got very concerned but I confirmed my request. She said ok and then opened a box of orange powder (I had ordered the mango kind -- silly me for thinking there'd actually be fruit in it) and put in a few tablespoons of what I can only assume was powdered mango dust. She blended it up and gave me a small sip to make sure I was ok with no sugar.</div>
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It was lovely. It was like a cool, ice-y milk with a tiny aftertaste of mango but without any cloying sweetness.</div>
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I really, genuinely liked it.</div>
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I also got some empendas for us to eat. So with those and the bubble tea I felt fantastic!</div>
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4. Madeleine and I had dinner at Applebees last night. I ordered steak and shrimp with broccoli and potatoes. Without any sort of deciding to, I ate all the broccoli, some of the potatoes, all of the shrimp, and a bite of the steak.</div>
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-14000298960295016922015-08-20T21:14:00.000-07:002015-08-20T21:25:06.813-07:00Ch-ch-ch-changesI am hesitant to talk about this because I don't want to be all Tom-Cruise-on-Oprah's-couch about it,<br />
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but the truth is I've found something that makes sense to me.<br />
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Last weekend Madeleine and I were walking through the local Target and I saw a book that I had seen before but hadn't bought because it was $25 and I am apparently incapable of leaving Target without spending less than $100 so why add to that. But I saw the book again and had only put a few things in my cart, and I was at the end of the store, so I bought it.<br />
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Also, because I can't stop thinking about how I have a real problem with sugar. A real problem that I can't seem to figure out how to control. Like I don't know how to eat a few cookies, I can either eat the entire bag, or until I feel like I'm going to throw up, or not at all -- no in between. I know other people struggle with drugs or alcohol or cigarettes; I have no problem with these things. Drugs and cigarettes, obviously not my thing and if I never drank another sip of of alcohol in my life I could really care less (though margaritas with The Empire or Mr. Asthe were a lot of fun). <br />
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But sugar. For so long I have just struggled.<br />
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And it's so stupid! I feel sick when I eat it, I hate that I'm overweight, and yet I can't stop eating it, I can't even stop thinking about it.<br />
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Earlier this year I signed up for Weight Watchers for a few months. I lost close to 20 pounds and was pretty excited about it, but then I just stopped. I don't know why, and I couldn't seem to start again. I went to the meetings with a friend and we snarkily commented on the things the section leader was saying, but I didn't get any help from the meetings. I just hated knowing that I would have to add up too many points so I avoided bad sugars for awhile. Though sugar is still such a huge part of WW (or sugar substitutes which are even worse!) that I would make one of their "acceptable" desserts, only to find myself eating the whole tray of it (though, really their <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/the-chew/recipes/gooey-rocky-road-bars-weight-watchers" target="_blank">Rocky Road Bars</a> are unreal delicious, I challenge you not to eat the whole tray yourself).<br />
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So I keep meaning to go back to weight watchers, even went to one meeting in Vermont this summer. But it never clicked with me again. It bothered me that I would go to these meetings and that there was a set agenda, that was never about what I was struggling with. It bothered me that they were always giving out free samples of some incredibly sugary, low-fat WW treat that they wanted you to buy (which I always ate because I never ate before my weigh in and I was starving!!). <br />
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My weight has gone up and down throughout my life, though the weight I gained with the pregnancy (most of which still sits on my frame like a 50 pound wet down pillow) took me significantly higher than I'd ever been. In the past it has mostly been exercise that kept my weight someplace healthy, and it has usually been some kind of heartache (read: boys leaving) that got me too sad to eat anything tasty and thus set me in the direction of not eating junk long enough to start dropping pounds. I have gone long stretches where I ate little to no sugar, even a few super healthy times when I could occasionally eat sugar then get back on plan with no problem. But mostly I've just wanted to eat as much sugar as possible, then I run a bunch, or take a bunch of dance classes to battle back the caloric intake.<br />
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the 80 hour a week job and the single parenting make it a little tricky to squeeze in 2 hours at the gym on a daily basis.<br />
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I have been wondering on an almost daily basis why I can't seem to walk away from the sugar unless I white-knuckle it for a day or two (the entire time wanting to eat sugar pretty much every second). Why the one thing I continually wish for -- to have my pre-pregnancy shape back -- is the very thing I sabotage while I reach for whatever chocolate is closest (and as much of it as possible).<br />
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This has been going on since I was a teenager.<br />
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So there I was in Target, and I decide to get this book to see if there's anything in it that might help me in my struggle:<br />
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and there was.<br />
Obviously or I would not be writing about it.<br />
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This is not a diet like any other I have read about. This book simply says: human beings, metabolically speaking, were not designed to eat much sugar. In fact, we are designed to be able to recognize when we are full if we are eating proteins, fats, and non-sugar carbs, but that back when our current metabolism was developing sugar was so rare that our bodies did not develop the ability to know when enough was enough specifically so that we would eat as much of it as possible to store fat (sugar pretty much entirely being in the shape of fresh fruit or the odd honeycomb).<br />
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This book tells me that we actually don't, as humans, possess the ability to stop eating sugar naturally. I know that some people have learned this, and that some people don't like sugar, but 36% of the people in this country are overweight or obese so clearly I'm not the only one who has a problem with this.<br />
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The author, Sarah Wilson, goes on to say that we're not really designed to take in more than 6 teaspoons (or so) of sugar a day -- and children even less. <br />
For perspective a can of coke has just over 9 teaspoons of sugar in it.<br />
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So this book says that you should spend 8 weeks not eating any sugar of any kind.<br />
Including fruit.<br />
The fruit part surprised me.<br />
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She goes on to say that you can add fruit back after the initial 8 weeks, but that it takes between 30-60 days for a true habit to form, and that the sugar in fruit is still recognized by the body as sugar. So no sugar for those 8 weeks.<br />
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There's a great deal more to this, as you might guess, it is a book. And I am really engrossed in the reading of it. But as soon as I started reading this on Sunday I knew that I was going to follow it. Sadly, I had already been to the grocery store and had bought a lot of fruit, however, she kindly says week one is really just to cut back on the processed sugars -- she thinks we should go slow. She also says that deprivation goes against human nature, that if we starve ourselves our bodies kick into famine mode and become fixated on food. So she recommends replacing the calories of the sugars, in the beginning, with proteins and fats.<br />
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So I've been doing this for 4 days now.<br />
Not exactly 20 years of marriage.<br />
But I feel... better.<br />
I don't feel sick all the time.<br />
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I find if I can avoid looking at sweet things (looking up that WW recipe was a bit of a mistake) and I can stay on top of eating regularly, I really feel fine.<br />
The few (very few, really) cravings I've had, it was much easier to silence them with this understanding of sugar craving/addiction.<br />
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I don't know if this will last. But it's working today and I feel strongly enough about it to want to write about it.<br />
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I can also say this for certain: normally at work I often start having terrible headaches around 3:30pm. I never once thought it might be related to what I was eating -- I always assumed it was stress or sleep-deprivation related. Two days ago I had a lemon pelligrino soda (there was one left in the fridge) and a package of chocolate bellvitas (again, it seemed like a reasonable "treat" at the grocery store before I opened The Book) at lunch time, and by 3:30 I had a raging headache that lasted until I ate dinner. I might not have made the connection even then, but I remembered reading about it in the book. Next day at work I didn't have any sugar at lunch and 3:30 came and went and I felt fine.<br />
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One more thing: I still had energy after I cooked dinner (tortellini salad from the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Super-Natural-Every-Day-Well-loved/dp/1580082777/?tag=food52-20" target="_blank">Super Natural Every Day</a> cookbook) and after doing the dishes so I walked with Madeleine to a nearby playground (something we have NEVER done after work) and I even played with her on the playground (as opposed to my normal slump on the side bench).<br />
It's a little different.<br />
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So I'm gonna see where this goes.<br />
Wish me luck.<br />
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<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-10313414021225722092015-07-06T18:45:00.000-07:002015-07-06T18:45:16.573-07:00day two... vague optimismSo I have made it through 2 consecutive days counting points for Weight Watchers. I stayed within my daily allotment. I exercised. I didn't eat anything remotely junky.<br />
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I'm... pleased.<br />
really.<br />
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For so weeks (months?) now I have felt so surly about the idea of saying no to chocolate. It felt so pointless. But it clicked in my head this past weekend that I would have been losing weight this whole time (or at the VERY least stayed as slim as I was at the start of May, but more likely continued to lose weight).<br />
So why have I opted to be grumpy and eat chocolate and be mad at myself?<br />
Seriously what on earth is that about?!<br />
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Either way, I didn't eat anything questionable yesterday or today. I kept my portion sizes reasonable. I have been hungry for meals when they came around (now that I think about it I'm hungry now but I don't want to wander through my parents house because it's creepy in the dark). And I feel cheerier. Ready to make it through tomorrow and not eat crap again.<br />
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wish me luck!Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-23139784213811932692015-07-05T16:45:00.003-07:002015-07-05T16:45:36.700-07:00Phoenix/lazarus/zombie blogI don't know if anyone in my life still follows this page but I've been thinking of using it as a place to talk about struggles (successes?) with my Weight Watchers journey.<br />
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Any objections?<br />
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JenniferMadeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-44462203480141788042014-06-12T19:33:00.000-07:002014-06-12T19:33:26.235-07:00clearly I've been away for awhile ......but here's some stuff for those of you not on the Facebook<br />
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tonight I surprised her w/ a picnic on the beach. She gets so excited when we do this so I've been trying to make it at least once a week. <br />
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<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-36572893550599239902013-04-27T07:55:00.001-07:002013-04-27T08:01:12.350-07:00Birthday party<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">normally I object to putting these ludicrous things on baby girls' heads just so that people know the child in question is not a boy. But sometimes I just cave b/c sparkles are the best!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I often think Madeleine looks like my brother. For comparison's sake, this is him on his first birthday.</td></tr>
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-23757122067648867682013-04-26T21:34:00.005-07:002013-04-26T21:34:59.212-07:00Madeleine + Sugar = not again anytime soon<br />
here's how I finally let Madeleine try honest to god sugar for the first time (and why I won't be that stupid in the near future)...<br />
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Today for lunch we three were in town (montpelier) and decided to get some Thai food for lunch. There is a phenomenal smelling sort of hole-in-the-wall place that always serves just 2 or 3 dishes they have previously made in big batches. I have stopped in many times but have been told that what they're serving is actually spicy. I was a little worried as a nursing mom, and a little worried today as I wasn't sure what to feed her that wouldn't get her eyes watering, but mostly, I just don't like eating spicy foods.<br />
It's not fun for me to sit there with my mouth tingling in an incredibly painful way while my eyes water and my nose runs and i can't really taste what I'm chewing b/c all I can taste is burning.<br />
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I know many people/cultures like spicy foods, but the appeal is a mystery to me. <br />
But Zack really wanted to eat there, so I said fine. Also, they had rice and spring rolls so there was stuff for Madeleine to eat.<br />
fast-forward 20 minutes and I've used all the napkins to blow my nose and my lips feel twice their normal size. I will say this: the food was incredibly good! But I was sort of reminded of being in labor with how the world just kind of telescoped down to the fact that my mouth was burning.<br />
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now in perhaps the most genius placement moves in the history of all business, there is a gelato place right next door. <br />
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I am not really a gelato fan (why eat anything else when Cold Stone and Ben & Jerry's exist??) but i had one new imperative: dear sweet baby jesus help my mouth! And I knew cold, sweet gelato was the way to go. So we head next door (along with several other people who had just been eating at the thai spot, I'd like to add) and I order some salted caramel gelato.<br />
so good.<br />
so not burn-y anymore.<br />
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And I am in such a good mood since my mouth has stopped tormenting me, and I'm holding sweet baby in my arms, I think "you know, I bet she'd love this" and I give her a taste.<br />
it will probably not surprise anyone in the universe that Madeleine did, in fact, love the gelato. And want more. I gave her a little more. And Zack, who had tried the lemon ricotta gelato gave madeleine his sample. And she loved that too.<br />
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fast forward 3 minutes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">also not Madeleine, but close enough in spirit to her little sugar rush</td></tr>
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suddenly Madeleine was just off the walls. Wired. Loud. bouncy. Manic. I just looked at Zack and said "this is why I don't want her eating sugar." and shook my head until she crashed.<br />
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but it was fun :)<br />
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-65090208419164181262013-03-27T18:47:00.000-07:002013-03-27T18:47:00.274-07:00today's shots from townMy cousin does a better job at this, she'll post pictures that she took over the course of a week or a month. Me? No, I have 15 from today I have to show the interworld NOW. Just how we roll.<br />
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here are the few shots I managed to take while trying to keep her from running into traffic (it's gonna be a long summer, y'all!)<br />
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<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-53456002684875254402013-03-26T18:20:00.002-07:002013-03-26T18:20:24.500-07:00First Birthday Celebrationjust a small gathering tonight. Mom (my mom) got home from a 2 week work trip, and we just had some "cupcakes" w/ Madeleine. The cupcakes were my cousin <a href="http://rossandkerrymizrahi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kerry's</a> maple syrup muffins and the "frosting" was just cream cheese blended w/ apple juice concentrate.<br />
still gave her a bit of a sugar buzz.<br />
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I also gave cards to my mom, dad, and brother to thank them for all their incredible support this past year. I got a card for Madeleine too, but instead of giving it to her I wrote a letter in it and sealed it to give to her when she's older. I'm going to make an album with all the cards people have sent her this and future years and I'll put the letter from me in it.<br />
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Ok, enough chatter. Here are the pics:<br />
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-81499412069701836072013-03-25T19:42:00.003-07:002013-03-25T19:42:44.848-07:00new cameraI got a new camera.<br />
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wait, let me say that in a font more reflective of my excitement:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>I got a camera!</b></span><br />
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(hmm, apparently blogspot is saving money by not offering very exciting fonts)<br />
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when my camera died around thanksgiving, I started looking around at what cameras I might consider to replace it on the magical day someone handed me some money. At first it was all an overwhelming mush b/c they all seemed pretty much the same. Even the guy at the Best Buy said that the regular point and shoots were really mostly the same. But I asked a few friends who frequently post gorgeous photos on facebook what I should consider. My friend Rob pointed me to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JRIK24/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Olympic PEN E-PM1</a> and when my tax returns came in, I bought it.<br />
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Eventually I will have to figure out how to do more than turn it on, point it in a direction, and take a photo, but as of now that is all I can do and I'm STILL taking better pictures than I have in years!!<br />
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so here are some of the shots that I've taken.<br />
obviously, most are of the darling girl...<br />
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<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-54577605464590638082013-02-25T20:16:00.003-08:002013-02-25T20:16:18.066-08:00duh.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hate it when someone points out something painfully obvious to me that I realize I've just been completely blind to. I have not lost all the pregnancy weight. I do not like this. I know I haven't been running (really hoping that will be able to change soon); I know I've been leaning on sugar in a way that suggests I need to get to a meeting; and I KNOW that you're supposed to control your portion sizes.<br />
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and yet.<br />
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Today I had a checkup w/ the Dr.s office that will now be my primary care place. The nurse practitioner who saw me listened to what I had to say about my life and my weight issues; then very gently reminded me that I should eat as many veggies as possible (roasted taste better) to fill up, but to take it easy on the carbs. To eat smaller portions. She told me that I shouldn't have a serving larger than 1/2 a cup (or the amount that would fit in one cupped hand).<br />
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And I wanted to snap at her and say "I know that!!" or "I'm breastfeeding!! I'm hungry!! I need to eat!!" or even "bread and pasta are good for you!!"<br />
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but I also felt this voice inside me thinking "you are a MORON! what have you been eating all this time!?"<br />
(I know my mom doesn't like me talking to myself that way so I will say for the record that in general I do not think of myself as a moron, that's just how I react to poor choices I've made).<br />
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Tonight I roasted a LOT of veggies (brussels sprouts and broccoli), made some vegan fake barbecue, and then measured out a half a cup of the macaroni and cheese my parents heated up for dinner.<br />
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let me tell you, that half a cup took up a TINY part of my plate (and by those standards I guess I've been eating upwards of 10 servings w/ most meals).<br />
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I feel pretty good about what I ate tonight. I feel pretty good about not really having any sweets for a week. But there is this irate woman inside of me that does not want to eat sensibly, that does not want to feel hungry, and does not want to count calories. I guess I just have to deal w/ her bitching in my head for awhile.<br />
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<br />Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-46565325791101401892013-02-18T12:56:00.000-08:002013-02-18T12:56:01.204-08:00Family Meeting #3<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">One thing that
became clear over the course of last week is that I have more on my to-do lists
(roadmaps, whatever) than can possibly be accomplished.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">At first this was upsetting, but the more I
thought about it the more I was ok with it: I don't really have a sense of just
how much I can get done in a week as a mom (as a mom with a co-parent; before
Zack was here I could get very little done).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">So I will keep piling up my agenda until I get a sense of just how much
I am able to do in this post-apocalyptic land called motherhood (a happy
apocalypse).</span></div>
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I still haven't made
it onto the treadmill but I am feeling like it's probably a good thing (and not
just because it's often below zero in that room in the winter). I HAVE been doing my stretch routine 5 nights
a week and I can feel my body wake up and limber out. Already!
I think it's probably good that I do this for awhile before adding
something new to the routine. Hoping to
get the 5 applications I have on my list in this week, then email and call
local/DC schools next week and then start jogging again the first full week of
March.</div>
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Let's keep fingers
crossed on this one!!</div>
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I'm also liking how
focused this is making the two of us.
It's not just this spinning vortex of "WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING!!!
WHY IS NOTHING EVER GETTING DONE BUT THE DISHES????" many of our
conversations are about all the things we're doing for our roadmaps. Last week I wanted to save what I was
finding/seeing/doing for the family meeting, but now I think "hey I want
to talk about this now!" plus the meetings keep being twice as long as
they're "supposed" to be.
Maybe if we're talking about it during the week it won't last as long on
the weekends.</div>
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Ok. Enough describing, back to doing!<br />
(ps. Here's this week:)</div>
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Family
Meeting #3 (2.17.2013)</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Start: 4:11</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Appreciations</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> didn't write them down, but it was a
good conversation. We kept getting
side-tracked into talking about other things, but in a way this felt like
the realest conversation we had all week</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Contributions</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We need to get a dry-erase
board just to keep the weekly schedule clear</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Meals</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Monday, Wednesday: Jennifer
make dinner</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thursday, Friday: Zack make
dinner (though I won't be there Friday)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday:
leftovers or meals w/ the grandparents</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Schedule activities</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this is a bridesmaid paintball party (wear the worst dress and shoot it out. brilliant but perhaps for another time</td></tr>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/divalik519/party/" target="_blank">Madeleine's first birthday part</a>y</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We decided that the weekend
after her birthday is a better time to have the party</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This week we will look up
themes and ideas for the party</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Want to invite lots of
people, even from far away if they could possibly come, so, if you're
reading this: you're totally invited :)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Trip to the library? </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Tuesday afternoon</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Remember: there will be
fines so bring some cash</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Life Insurance</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We both looked up rates
online</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We can't really afford to
get this until we have jobs</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">My rates are substantially
lower if I get back to my pre-pregnancy weight</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Goal: by the end of summer
get insurance</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Side note: I know he's
younger than me, but his rates are hella-cheap!</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mission Statement</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My three values</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Caring/kindness/love</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Zack's three values</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Detachment</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Steadfastness</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tact</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Zack misunderstood. When I said the three most important
values to you, he thought the three he should most be focused on/working
on. He's taking another week to
think about what values should be at the center of the family, which is
fine b/c I need to take some time to re-read the chapter on making the
family mission statement in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline;">Duct Tape Parenting</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">More veggies</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Eat what's in the
fridge/pantry before it turns</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Eat cheaper </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If organic meats are too
expensive, don't eat meat! Do not
compromise by buying non organic meat</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Meat only twice a week</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">My Meals</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Lamb Rogan Josh w/ rice</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Veggie tofu stir fry</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Possibly the morrocan
carrot salad if they email me back</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Zack's Meals ?</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Environmentally Sound</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cloth diapers w/ tax refund?</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm going to do research on
this this week</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What can we focus on this
week? </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let's pick one new thing
each week to draw our focus to :)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Zack agrees</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Turning off lights in empty
rooms is this week's focus</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We're both supposed to look
up ways we can be greener for next week</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Check out Al Gore's </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">an
inconvenient truth</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> website</span></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Schedule</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mon: Grocery shopping/J make
dinner</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Tue: J therapy also call
student loan people and cat vet while in signal area/library trip</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wed: J teach voice/game
night (thermonuclear holocaust?)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thur: J chiro/U32</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fri: J work U32/Girls night
out</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Volunteer</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The valentines were really
fun, what's something else we can do?</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Research volunteer
activities in the area?</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Entertainment</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One night this week not
watching videos</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Then do what?</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Games night :)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Oscars in a week</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Really want to see LINCOLN
and FLIGHT beforehand, other oscar nominees as well</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Netflix is lined up to send
me what's available </span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Miscellaneous</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When you shave/brush teeth
you must clean out the sink afterwards</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Close of family meeting #3:
4:56pm</span></li>
</ul>
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Jennifer's
Road Map</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Parenting</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Re-read chapter on how to
create a family mission statement in </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline;">Duct Tape Parenting</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Get in Shape</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Stretch five times this week
(</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Get on the treadmill once</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Read 30 pages in the baby
belly book</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">BAKS </span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Write them out on a cheat
sheet</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Add more of them to each
stretch routine</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Find a job</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Submit 5 applications (</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">)</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Trinidad y Tobago</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wilmington</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Auburn</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jacksonville State</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Western Illinois</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Write in Blog</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Family meeting #3</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One other </span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Read</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline;">Bringing
Up </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bebe (read
more)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">30 pages in Belly Book</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Chapter in Sears sleep
book </span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Physical/Mental Well being</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Chiropractic </span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Acupuncture (sugar help)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sugar</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Write about it</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pick a stop date
(2.26.13-3.26.13)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: line-through;">Phone/skype
date with one of your major loved ones</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #513151; font-size: 11pt;">(Lisa</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Play date w/ one of the moms</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Girls night out 2.22.13</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Solvency</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Taxes</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Talk to student loan people
(before they send someone to break my legs)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">More studentts</span></li>
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</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Spanish</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Get books in Spanish from
library (for Bee)(but I've been learning from those as well)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Travel</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Environmentally sound</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Research things we can do to
be greener</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Focus this week on the
lights being turned off when we leave a room</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Look into cloth diapers</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Volunteer</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Research volunteer
opportunities in the area</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Politically active</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Miscellaneous </span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Write up Madeleine's various
schedules so others can follow them</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Get large dry erase board to
keep weekly schedule clear</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Call vet to make an
appointment for Auschwitz cat</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Get car started (battery)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Send Zack substitute
teaching application form again</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-72918497384696234472013-02-13T13:18:00.002-08:002013-02-13T13:18:28.103-08:00Family Meeting #2 (2.10.2013)<br />
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I'm beginning to
wonder if I'm setting myself up for failure (or a mental breakdown); if I'm
expecting more of myself than I could possibly get done in a day or week (reality check: it took me to Wednesday to get these notes typed up!). That said, I'm really enjoying the family
meetings and feel like I do have a better hand on what is going on. Here's how our second meeting went:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">4:15 start</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack is on the job! (keeping
time)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Appreciations</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Last week Phina said that
she was curious what we said we appreciated about each other so I wrote
down some of our appreciations</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I told Zack that I
appreciated that he shaved off his stubble but left a moustache; and that
we can turn conflict into humor. (about a year ago we got into a fight
about something and I told him that the way to make it right with me was
to let me draw a moustache on his face.
He agreed. A few days later
after we had a spat about something else he joked "phew! I was afraid you were going to draw
another moustache on me." And since then we just joke about
moustaches being a punishment for him.
So the other day he was going to do all this stuff while I had
Madeleine down for a nap, except he didn't do the majority of it because
he'd just been watching videos on
youtube. He also hadn't shaved in
about a week so I asked him to shave off the beard and leave the moustache
as a reminder to do the work first and get to play if there was
time. And WOULDN'T YOU JUST
FUCKING KNOW IT: he even looks gorgeous with a moustache!!! He does not look like a pedophile or a
bank manager, he looks like freaking Douglass Fairbanks. So ridiculous! Anyway, it makes me laugh every time I
see it. I hope it stays for a
little while. Pictures coming
whenever it fills in enough. It's
a great way to diffuse tension, I think, to just find a way to laugh
about it all and move on). </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack told me he appreciated
how organized I am</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">We both said we appreciated
how patient the other one is with Madeleine </span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Contributions</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">We both felt like this past
week went well and we should continue on this path</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">One thing we can do is to
write out some of her routines and leave those notes all over the house
so that whoever is taking care of her has a map to follow</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Schedule activities</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pass out Valentine's cards
to strangers</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">There are some cards from
Mom's card making event at her happiness store but we think it would be
better if there were more</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Will make some Tuesday
night (while we listen to the State of the Union)</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Will pass them out on
Thursday at lunch downtown in Montpelier</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Political Rally</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">10 am Saturday </span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Should we bring Madeleine?</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="square">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I want to make sure she is
being political</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is her nap time</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">We are leaning towards
bringing her, but not 100%</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sledding </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack wants to take Bee
sledding at least once this week</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Valentine's Date Night</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack wants to see </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic;">Warm
Bodies</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">, how
romantic</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wednesday or Friday (mom
and dad are going to watch Bee, but they have a Valentine's date
themselves)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Miscellaneous</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I want to add three elements
to how we are being a family/raising her</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Being political</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Volunteering</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Being environmentally sound</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack wants to do some
activities with her when she is older</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Putt Putt, laser tag, other
physical play stuff (I also want to play laser tag, because it is -wait
for it- AWEsome)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Life insurance</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I think we both need to get
life insurance in case anything terrible happens she will be taken care
of</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">We are each going to
contact our current car insurance companies to get quotes about life
insurance</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Trash in the living room</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mom has requested that we
not leave trash in the living room on its way out to the outside cans</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">We seriously need to get the
cat to the vet</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">My job to call and make an
appointment</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jenny</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jenny has asked if we can
babysit Edwin on Thursday </span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Meals</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Went over grocery list/meal
plan</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I am going to cook 2
dinners this week</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Almond crusted cod w/
buerre blanc sauce, potatoes, asparagus</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chicken curry w/ rice,
mushrooms, beets</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack is going to cook 1
dinner this week</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chicken Marsala</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Crazy schedule</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mon: j dr.s appointment</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tue: z work/make valentines</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wed: J teach voice/date
night</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thur: J chiro/pass out
valentines/babysit</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Fri: Z work/J work</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mission Statement</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">First step to writing a
family mission statement: we each pick the 3 values we think are the most
important</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Will compare lists at the
next family meeting and move forward</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Close of family meeting #2 </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">4:52</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">There were some
interruptions and we were taking care of a 10 month old at the same time
but how in the heck are these meetings supposed to be 20 minutes?</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Seems like they shouldn't be
more than 30 minutes though</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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Road Map Meeting #2</div>
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This
was actually much shorter than last week's meeting and the family meeting just
before it. We just talked about what we
did on our lists, what didn't get done, why it didn't get done and how to
change that for the coming week, and then we listed our new roadmap items.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; margin-left: .375in; margin: 0in;">
I
thought a lot this past week about what was working in terms of getting things
accomplished and what wasn't. The
biggest problem is that I don't really have time to fill out applications AND
work out AND do one of the naps w/ her.
Zack is totally willing to do two naps in the day, but I don't want to
give up both naps. I know she's just
there sleeping, but it's a relaxing time for me when she is asleep and it's a
happy time when she wakes up and we can play quietly and snuggle just the two
of us. So I have a few options: one, I
can give up both naps, work out with one and apply for work with the other. Two, I can work out in the morning and then
fill out job applications at night after she's gone to bed (Captain Burnout,
anyone?). Three, I can just power
through the next two or three weeks and get all the job applications that are
backed up filled out and THEN start really working out.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; margin-left: .375in; margin: 0in;">
I'm
guessing option three is where it's at.</div>
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I
have been stretching a lot and that is helping with the pain in my shoulder
(hopefully, Thursday's chiropractic visit will also help with that), and I'm
going to add some strengthening work to the sessions this week based on what
I've been reading about <a href="http://inspiredrd.com/2012/06/dear-diastasis-recti-im-so-over-you.html" target="_blank">diastasis</a>.</div>
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With
Madeleine's roadmap we're feeling like everything went quite well except for
the sleep. We seem to be loosing ground:
not only did the plan to only nurse every 3 hours completely fail, but she
won't even take a pacifier to go back to sleep.
Something has happened and now every time she wakes up in the night she
will ONLY stay asleep if she is attached to the breast. I have stayed up for HOURS in the past week
trying to get her to go back to sleep or STAY back asleep with a pacifier not
me. No dice. She waits me out (and by "wait" I
mostly mean "scream"). Zack
just leaves the bed so that I can prop myself up with pillows and try to sleep
while she nurses. *sigh* hopefully this phase will be exited swiftly.</div>
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Finally,
I am going to need to think about sugar.
Perhaps that is an entire blog in and of itself. My addiction to sugar while knowing that it
is making me sick. My refusal to let
Madeleine have sugar while eating it myself.
It's a problem. But she's up so I
gotta go.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jennifer's Road Map</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Get in Shape</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Stretch five times this week
(</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Get on the treadmill three
times</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read 30 pages in the baby
belly book</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">BAKS </span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Write them out on a cheat
sheet</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Do them every time I
stretch</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"> </li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Find a job</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Submit 5 applications (</span><span style="color: #205867; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Missouri
State)</span></li>
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</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mail hard copies to Amherst
and Kent State</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Write in Blog</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Family meeting #2</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">One other (Kevin Gray)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: underline;">Bringing
Up Bebe</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Physical/Mental Well being</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chiropractic </span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Email Kerry about sugar</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Phone/skype date with one of
your major loved ones </span><span style="color: #513151; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">(scheduled a phone date w/ Johanna for Saturday
afternoon</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Play date w/ one of the moms</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Figure out what you're going
to do on the moms night out on the 22nd</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mardi Gras in Maple Corner</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Valentine's Date w/ DBF</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Solvency</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Taxes</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Talk to student loan people
(before they send someone to break my legs)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pay capital one bill</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">More voice students?</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Spanish</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sub the Spanish class U32</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Travel</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Environmentally sound</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Volunteer</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pass out Valentine's
cards/chocolates to strangers</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Must make them first</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Must get materials to make
them FIRST</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Politically active</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Watch State of the Union</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rally at the statehouse to
ban assault weapons</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Miscellaneous </span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Write up Madeleine's various
schedules so others can follow them</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Get large tablet of paper
and markers</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Geico: life insurance quotes</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Call vet to make an
appointment for Auschwitz cat</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">3 values most important to
you (for mission statement)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Get car started (battery)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Madeleine's Road Map</span></div>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sleep through the night</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Try to get her to sleep
unattached to the boob</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack sometimes put her to
sleep/back to sleep </span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read the next chapter in the
Sears sleep book</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Commit to some rough
nights/naps</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Talk</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read to her</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Talk to her</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Walk</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lure her with electronics (</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">she's really
getting there</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Feed Self</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Relax about the mess</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Eat at least one meal with
her </span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Home Road Map</span></div>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Clean</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Clean pantry</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Good Mom & Dad
relationship</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">DTD</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Not watch videos every night</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="disc">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Entertainment</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Oscar movies: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic;">Beasts of
the Southern Wild</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Continue w/ </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic;">West Wing</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Healthy living</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">More with </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: underline;">Duct
Tape Parenting</span></li>
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(Zack's road map is
written in his book so I can't copy it here)</div>
Madeleine's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09714676025350468276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586571719380890823.post-25147536787039036952013-02-05T18:30:00.000-08:002013-02-05T18:33:56.476-08:00Family Meeting #1 (2.3.2013)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">After reading Vicki
Hoefle's book <u>Duct Tape Parenting</u> I have been moved to try many of her
suggestions in my own life (parenting and otherwise).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One thing that she suggests is having a
family meeting once a week.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Everyone in
the family is invited, no one is required to come (though she goes on to say
that kids' allowances will be distributed at the end of every family meeting
and if you don't come you don't get your allowance, which seems a little less
voluntary than at first blush, but whatevs).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The basic format that I have gleaned from the book is something like:</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Call meeting to order</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Appreciations </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">where you say at least one
thing you appreciate about each family member present</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">The book actually suggests
keeping an Appreciation Board somewhere in your house that you can write
on throughout the week and then just read at the meeting</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">where you pick which
household duties you will be responsible for that week</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">This is basically
"chores" but I like the positive name to it</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">She says no more than one a
meeting</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Meetings are supposed to be
short (15-20 minutes MAX)(and if you don't get through all the stuff for
the meeting at the end of the 20 minutes the meeting is over anyway and
no allowance is doled out)(not really sure the point of this but she was
pretty adamant about that)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Allowance</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">She suggests giving kids one
dollar for every year old they are (5 year olds get $5)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Allowance stops at age 14
when kids are old enough to get some kind of a part-time job</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Some of the parents in my
group thought this was too much $, but the money is supposed to be used
for many things</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Any birthday presents kids
need to buy for their friends</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Any time you're out and the
kid says "moooooooooom can I have _____?" the answer is
"did you bring your money?" and if they say "yes"
then they can buy it themselves and if they say "no" then they
can just suck it! </span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">This is how you can teach
them to manage their own finances from a young age (get a bank account,
make a budget, etc etc)</span></li>
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I had been talking
to Zack about this book as I got more and more into it, and I asked him if he
would be amenable to the idea of having a weekly family meeting. Zack, who is super laid back and willing to
try most anything, said "sure."
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I realize that
Madeleine is too young to participate in these meetings, but my hope is that
Zack and I can learn a constructive approach to parenting (and dealing with
each other in this new phase of our relationship) and have the shape of it all
down by the time MadSass is old enough to join in; and that she will just grow
up in this sort of a family environment from the start. </div>
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These are the notes
from our first family meeting and the road map meeting we had to schedule for
right after the family meeting b/c that would take longer than 20 minutes:</div>
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(2.3.2013)</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">We began a little after 4 and
assigned jobs</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack is the time keeper</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jennifer is the secretary</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Madeleine is in charge of
being awesome</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack went first</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jennifer went second</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack wanted to go again
since it made more sense after he heard Jennifer do it (b/c jennifer read
the book)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Madeleine observed</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Talked about how we could
share responsibilities more but not make a chore wheel or anything</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack said we should try to
do everything as much as possible together just to get the flow of it</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I said I really like when we
map out what needs to be done and then each take half of the work and GO!</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">We're going to try to split
the naps this week </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack in the morning</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jennifer in the afternoon</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">I asked if Zack would
sometimes take two naps so that I can get caught up on the job
applications</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack will put Madeleine to
sleep one night a week (not more right away since she is still nursing)
and share more in the night time parenting back to sleep to help avoid
burnout for Jennifer</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Shared the relationship
strategies on page 92 of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: underline;">Duct Tape Parenting</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Schedule activities</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Need to plan out what we
need in terms of meals this week, make a grocery list, go to store</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Need to take a family trip
to Burlington</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack looked up the weather
for the week, looks like Thursday is out best bet</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jennifer wants to go to the
Bosom Buddies meeting --> will pair that with grocery shopping</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">The family meetings are
supposed to be short so we only have 20 minutes, so to talk about road
maps we will meet right after family meeting to talk about our roadmaps
for ourselves, Madeleine, and the family as a whole</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Want to find a time to work
on the family mission statement</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Close of family meeting #1</span></li>
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Road Map Meeting</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack and I talked the night
before about our individual and family goals so those were already written
up, so this meeting was about discussing Madeleine's goals and how we are
going to each work towards our roadmap destination</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jennifer's Road Map</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Get in Shape</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Stretch five times this week
(</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sun, Mon, Tues.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Get on the treadmill twice</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read 20 pages in the baby
belly book</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Deal with sugar relationship
(Pam)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Find a job</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Submit 5 applications (</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ashland</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Write in Blog</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Family meeting (<span style="color: red;">this is that</span>)</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">One other</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Spend Time w/ Friends</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: line-through;">Bosom
buddies</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">One playdate with either
gretchen or niki</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Schedule a girls night
sometime in february (</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">made a group on facebook and invited moms</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Schedule a night to go to
burlington w/ zack</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Finish The Dog Star (</span><span style="color: #e36c09; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Monday, Tuesday</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">) </span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Physical/Mental Well being</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Acupuncture</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chiropractic (<span style="color: blue;">made appointment for next week</span>)</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Solvency</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pay capital one bill</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Spanish</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sub the spanish class</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Travel</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Go to Burlington</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Madeleine's Road Map</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sleep through the night</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Try to nurse every 3 hours,
not every time she wakes up (unless she has a complete meltdown)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zack sometimes put her back
to sleep (</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">zack got her back to sleep on Monday night</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read chapter in the Sears
sleep book</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Commit to some rough
nights/naps</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Talk</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Read to her</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Talk to her</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Walk</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lure her with electronics (</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Monday, Tuesday</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Feed Self</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Relax about the mess</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Eat at least one meal with
her (</span><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday
night</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Home Road Map</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Clean</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Clean fridge (<span style="color: lime;">done</span>)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Good Mom & Dad
relationship</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">DTD</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Not watch videos every night</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Entertainment</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Oscar movies: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic;">Beasts of
the Southern Wild</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Continue w/ </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic;">West Wing</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Healthy living</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Meal plans/grocery store</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Good parenting</span></li>
<ul style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;" type="circle">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">More with </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: underline;">Duct
Tape Parenting</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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(zack's road map is
written in his book so I can't copy it here)</div>
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