When the Truth Hurts...

What would you do if a Doctor looked you straight in your face and told you, "If you do not change your ways you will not see your son turn 8."? Even to go on saying that stress could break up your marriage, family, and that in the long run you were not only killing your self but also your kids from teaching them YOUR bad habits. What would you do? 

Would you tell the doctor to mind his own damn business? Cry? Maybe say ok we will start "Monday!" (By the way saying you are going to start on Monday is nothing but an epic fail all in it self).

What did I do? Looked at my husband and said yup he is right and things need to change. We both agree that we need to be a family...let me rephrase that... a fun, loving, and respectful family. We need to not let our marriage run like our business. A marriage is not a business agreement and it was starting to feel that way. We get one weekend a month that we cherish and we need to worry more about the quality time we spend together more than the place where we spend it. If you see my posts on Facebook you know we are ALWAYS going SOMEWHERE! 

Then again we have to leave the nest to get time to ourselves. You see, my dad lives with us. As much as we love him we need a break from him as much as we do the kids and even hope that maybe one day (by the end of January) he will be back living on his own. By then Cole should be in his own bed and maybe have his room back! 

We also need time for ourselves! I miss getting my hair and nails done. I miss buying an outfit that makes me feel pretty. I am always in capris, a t-shirt, and flip flops. Not much sex appeal going on there! I know he misses shooting darts, messing with his bow, and just hanging out with guys that are older than 2 and 11 lol. 

Finally, and the most important thing is we need to get healthy. So what will be our approach you may ask? My response is Clean Eating! I have a good friend that has been doing this for quite some time now and I have been doing a little homework and even my husband likes the idea. Will we quit all the processed foods and fried foods cold turkey? If I told you yes it would be a damn lie. Can I say this is something we are going to slowly move into our daily living and make it our main dietary lifestyle? Yes. It will take time but I know we can do it.

Is this going to be tough? Of course it is! Not only do I have to reprogram 3 adults there are also 3 children that I have to also. Will I continue to make all of their fav things? Of course, but now I will do my homework to find out how to make it healthier. Sure it will taste a little different but our taste buds will adjust. Oh, I can see a lot of blogging in my future! lol

So the game plan is...

• Get the kids involved with helping around the house
• Get this house back to being a fun home and finally getting outside and making the yard the place to be so we can get everyone outside and moving
• Get Moving! I will be exercising!
• Taking on a healthy  eating lifestyle! (MOST IMPORTANT!)
• Becoming a better family...to each other and ourselves!

There is so much more to list but this is a great start. So come on this journey with me. From the eating, to family, to all of the projects we will be doing! I have said this so many times in my other posts but this is so different! I do not want to hurt my kids when this is something that can be changed and I want my husband and myself to see our kids, grand kids, and heck great grandkids, grow up!

xoxoxo,
Kelly