Ok here it goes again………………back on the wagon! Yes I mean doing the diet thing. Some of you don’t agree with the dieting life style. Somethings it is only for extreme cases. I’ve been going back and forth with eating healthy then eating fast food a lot. I partly blame the husband for the fast food times which seem to be occurring a lot more then I like. I’m not putting the whole blame on him but he doesn’t help either. So here it goes I’ve started a another new meal plan which is mostly based on speeding up the metabolism. It’s kind of a quick jump start to weight loss. Now this is not a meal plan that you can be on for an extended period of time. It’s more just  an incentive to keep you going. The meal plan is for 3 weeks . You eat the same food every day for a week then the second week it changes adding more protein or complex carbohydrates. Same goes for the third week, increasing the amount of food intake. Now you really have to stick with this diet or your just fooling your self. This diet consist  of vegetables, oatmeal, quinoe, low fat meats ( fish,chicken) apples, nuts and berries. Pretty simple right?? Absolutely no refined foods, flour or sugar. I drink coffee and tea so try drinking it with just some artificial sweetner. Or drink it black.

I know spring break is over for most kids……..my daughters just ended Sunday March 21st.  I was planning to bring her to disneyland for March break but my plans fell through. Well honestly I couldn’t get the time off work but luckily for me I didn’t say a word about it to her. She didn’t know what she was missing. At my daughters school Spring Break is 2 weeks long something new this year depending on what district your child is in. I was planning on putting her in kids klub for the 2 week but fortunately my mom (grandma) was able to watch her for one week. I also took a few days off at the end of the week second week to make it a special March break.

We planned a trip to the Aquarium and stayed in a nice hotel with an indoor pool and waterslide. Isn’t it funny when you plan these kinds of trips, you expect some appreciation from your child. Well I don’t kmow about others but my child is 5 years old and has it so good in life. I sometimes question myself about the parenting that I’m doing. I’m really trying to be a good parent………showing her how things work, read,teach, play, love, care, comfort, everything you can think of I’m doing. But it all comes down to did I give her too much as in treats  (candy, chocolate,ice-cream) new clothes or toys. When is it too much before they have you wrapped around they’re finger. I’m cutting a lot of treats out of the equation now when it comes to her misbehaving. I’m also going to start taking things away that mean something to her.

Ok just had to say all of that because now you know what the trip was like. All in all it was nice to do a family trip before back to the routine of lunches, snacks and after school swimming.

Oh yeah another thing is that we basically could of just as easily have gone to Mexico with the money we spent just going across the water on a ferry to the mainland.