My Future Tarheel

Friday Follow - Building Friendship One Blog at a Time - June 11

Lately, one of my favorite things to do in the evenings is read through people's blogs. I have a few that I am following but for the most part I just browse through a few each night and as I come across ones that spark an interest, I bookmark them and try to visit them often. Currently, I have only one follower so am hoping to increase that by joining Friday Follow. My blog is sort of a journal for me to write about life with Mason. I don't consider myself a very good "writer" but I know what I write comes from my heart and my joy of being a new mom!

Let me know if you stop by. If you follow me, I will follow you.

Until next time...

Kim

My nephew's preschool graduation

It is hard to believe my little nephew is already old enough to graduate from preschool. It seems like yesterday that I received the call from my sister telling me she had been admitted to the hospital and that it was time. Of course, I dropped everything that I was doing and headed to Concord because there was no way I would miss being there! I can remember Joshua’s dad, Eric, coming out to tell us he had been born and that everyone was doing well. That day was the beginning of a very special bond between me and Joshua. I have watched Joshua grow up over the last 5 years and have been very close to him. I am fortunate to live only an hour and a half away from them so it was pretty easy for me to visit them often. Being able to spend a lot of time with him was amazing. It was the medicine that I needed. I was trying to have a child about the same time that my sister had Joshua so being around him continued to give me the strength and the hope to continue pushing forward and helped me to be the mother that I am so fortunate to be today. While I would hope Joshua has learned a little from me over the last 5 years, I can guarantee that I have learned a lot more from him. He has been more of an inspiration to me than he will ever know. One day when he is old enough to understand I will share with him how much of an impact he has had on my life and how he helped me to get through all those years without my own child!

Congratulations to Joshua on his graduation from preschool. In a few months, he will go to Kindergarten and a whole new phase in his life will begin. I am proud of him and love him very much!

Until next time....

Kim

Jillian Michaels 30 day shred!

Ok so what are the chances of looking like that in the very near future? In my case, probably slim to none. However, I am not giving up. I have 25 pounds that I would like to lose and am going to do it by working out with Jillian every day. So far I have done 4 days in a row and while I am a little on the sore side, I feel great. I got on the scales this morning and have lost a few pounds so that in itself is motivation for me. For the past couple of weeks, we have really focused on eating healthier and eating less so that combined with my 30 day shred workouts should provide me with results. Losing weight is tough but can be accomplished with lots of will power and motivation. Looking back through my blog, I posted on December 9th that I had 25 pounds to lose and well here I am 6 months later and I still have that weight to lose. Sucks but at least I am consistent. I will keep you posted on my progress.

Until next time.......

Kim

Enjoying the Pool

This weekend we took Mason to the pool for the first time. One of my co-workers and really good friend, Patsy has a fabulous pool that she is so wonderful to let us come over to enjoy it whenever we want. It is awesome. I have contemplated putting a pool in our yard but each time I do I think about the work that is involved in maintaining a pool and I say forget it. I’ll just keep enjoying Patsy’s pool. And now that the Y has an outdoor pool, we can take advantage of that as well. Oh back to Mason’s first time in the pool; he absolutely loved it. We bought him this little float that has a canopy on it which is awesome because it blocks out almost all of the sun and he loved that too. He was able to float and splash around pretty much independently without us having to hold on to him. Of course, we were right there beside him so no worries there! We plan to go to the pool as often as possible this summer so be certain there will be more pool stories to come.

Until next time…

Kim