Cheers to 30!

Collin, "Mommy who is SU playing against today?" 
Me, "They are playing Pitt"
Collin, "Oh, like Pitt Romney?!"

There is never a dull moment in a house with one mom and two little boys and a dad who may as well be one of the little boys. I wouldn't change it for the world and it's taken me a long time to come to this place. I have never written a blog but as I'm approaching the cusp of 30, escaping my younger years and moving on to becoming an adult, if you dare, looking back I think about how much I've been through, where I am now, and realize how much I have changed. By the time I was 21 I was married with a one month old baby (John), a place I never saw myself being at such a young age. By 22 I was divorced with a one year old and no job and a little unsure of where this next adventure was going to take me. It was a scary and intimidating place. I was lucky enough to have an amazing support system of family and friends who helped me get on my feet. My divorce was nothing less than messy and horrible, but after 8 years it's safe to say that my ex husband and I are friends which makes co parenting that much more tolerable. The next man in my life (Jimmy) not only stepped up as a support system for me but as an amazing step father to my son and when we had a son of our own (Collin) continued to prove how amazing he is.

Don't get my wrong we've had our ups and downs over the past 7 years but we've pulled through everything together and stronger each time.  He has been such an amazing inspiration to me to be a better person. He also pushes me to my limit to make me prove to myself that I'm stronger and smarter then I let my self believe.

I'll be 30 this July and was recently at the Dr.'s and they pointed out that I still have my baby weight and since my boys are (John)8 and (Collin)5, that's something that really needs to be addressed as it would also take pressure off of my knee and back. Jim has been kind enough to take on a second job working for our local YMCA so that they boys can take swim lessons and be involved there and so that I can work out to lose the weight I need.
 
This brings me to the other reason for wanting to start this blog. I'm going to start tracking my weight loss progress on here (good or bad). I imagine that posting my weight tracking on a weekly basis after I weigh in every Wednesday at Weight Watchers will hold me more than accountable to two venues, the group from weight watchers and those who are actually kind enough to read this.

Today is actually my ninth week with weight watchers and currently I'm down 9.7 pounds which I can say I'm quite proud of. Next week I plan to post pictures of myself and my weight loss/gain amount.

This is a new adventure in my life and I'm excited to start it and hope you enjoy coming along with me on this journey that is my life!