Easter recap, etc.

I’m going through one of those "I want nice new clothes, purses and shoes" phase.  I’m not quite sure how to satisfy it.  I am trying to lose weight, so buying clothes would be silly.  Purses and shoes are expensive and I don’t really have the money to blow right now.  I’m trying to save my extra cash for our anniversary and also for our vacation that is in 2 months.  I haven’t worked much this week because my kids had the flu, so I won’t be getting paid.  I have been listing clothes that are now too big for Jamie and myself on Facebook (on a yardsale type page) and have been selling a few items.  I’m going to set that money aside in a "new clothes fund".  Jamie has a ton of nice dress clothes that are too big for him.  I figure that if we get rid of items as they get too big, it will be motivation to keep the weight off.  I want to have an actual yardsale when the weather warms up.  We have so much stuff to go through in our house and get rid of.

We didn’t do too much today to celebrate Easter.  Usually we go to my mom’s house for dinner and an egg hunt, but the kids have been sick with the flu so it will be rescheduled for later.  I did make Easter baskets for the boys.  I was going to leave a trail of eggs from their room down the hallway for them to follow to find their baskets, but we have hard wood floors, and the cat would just swat them around all night.  I wound up putting their baskets on the sofa for them to find, and littered the living room with eggs filled with candy.  I tried to not go over the top with their baskets this year as we buy them so many toys all of the time.  Each kid got 3 toys, a chocolate bunny, a toy story juice, a box of peeps, a bag of bunny tails (cotton candy), Cadbury eggs, a sucker and some small pieces of candy. They were pretty happy with their loot. We’ve been watching Easter movies like Hop and Rise of the Guardians so they would have some concept of the Easter bunny.  When Owen woke up this morning, I asked him if the Easter bunny came and he was very excited, so excited that I didn’t really get a chance to get any good pics.  Hopefully I can get some at my mom’s.  We didn’t get to even hide easter eggs outside because it was rainy today, so I am excited for the egg hunt at my moms house which will probably be next weekend.

I haven’t worked out for the last couple of days because I haven’t felt the greatest.  My weight was back down this morning, so I am happy about that.  I’ve been doing better with eating on target for calories for the past few days. I go through these phases where I just want to eat all of the time.  I’m guessing it is either stress eating or tied to hormones.  I have noticed the more I exercise the more I want to eat.  Hopefully I can get a good balance worked out.  I have 2 months until we go to the beach.  I’m hoping to see some progress by then.  

We littered the living room with eggs last night after the kids went to bed.

Sorry for the blurry pic, but I didn’t get any good ones (the Nikon’s battery is dead and had to use my iphone).