well the pedometer was a fat waste of time. keeps resetting itself
I know i did at least 5000 steps yesterday but thats being conservative as there was chunks of time inbetween that it went unchecked and had gone back to zero. grrr!!
hubby loved his prezzies and enjoyed his birthday loads. we went to the cinema and as we were approaching the doors, who should start shouting at us from behind? our good friends and herbalife dealers, Rob and Kath. talk about coincidence!! so we ended up watching "unknown" which was a good film. a group of blokes wake up in a sealed warehouse and all have lost their memories so they have to work out who they r and why they r there. some of them are kidnappers and some of them are kidnapped but they dont know who are the victims and who are the baddies.
Then lastnight my kids all went to stay at my sisters for the night. was hoping to get hubby to take me out but he has had a tough long week at work and wanted to chill out so we got a lil drinky-poos in and chilled watching that will farrell racing comedy on box office.
So Im sitting here in my PJs, childless, hubbiless (hes had to go into work this morning...bless!) and relaxed
am about to do a work out DVD....just waking up properly first and catching up on my beloved minimins
Im hoping to drag sonkie on a 3 mile walk as well but she doesnt seem to have surfaced yet. then I am going to pop to gym before collecting my kiddies. My sister lives right next to my gym and she has the little ones so seems like a good opportunity to get some work done on bingo wings lol.
I am committed to the idea of getting 3 hours of working out fitted in to each day. Surely in a few weeks time i will be enjoying it and used to it entirely?? Am hoping it will become second nature and help get the lbs falling off
This is gonna go on for a long while but wanted to write about something that happened with my kids recently, my son has been bullied a couple of times by some older kids who live in the street (aged from 11 to 14) and each time i go around to their parents they dont seem bothered!! there have been a couple of times they get mouthy with my 6 yr old as well!! I swear if my kids were bullying younger children i would take it very seriously but some parents dont really give a crap as long as their children are out of the house. makes me so so mad. anyways, my herbalife friends, their children are good friends with my children. their eldest boy is 8 and in the year below my eldest son. their younger son is only 5 and in the year below my daughter so the are all good friends.
a week or so ago, a group of these older kids (about 6 of them) cornered my 9 yr old and the 8 yr old friend and were threatening them with sticks and stones. they had just smashed up the 5 yr olds bike as well!! my friend rob saw this and watched for a minute to get a good idea of what was going on and he stepped in when our kids started getting hit with the stones and sticks. then he went round to each of the parents. they werent bothered about what their kids were doing (as usual) and so rob called the police. the community police officer is taking it quite seriously im pleased to say and has been to each of the thugs homes. he has promised the little sods that he will be back for them each or any time they do something to the younger children.
Im really pleased about this as there are a lot of nice, young children in the street and i dont want to stop my kids from playing out as the good kids are by far bigger in numbers than the older thugs and i feel they would be missing out. last summer i made sure i took them out all the time so they were away from the nasty kids but i cant be out all day everyday and now the weather is nice they want to be out a lot with all the friends that are calling at the house for them.
it seems the parents of the good little kids are showing a bit of a united front now which is great. I make a point to get to know the parents of children who are spending time with my kids and making sure we exchange fone numbers etc. makes me feel more secure that the kids are safer and I know a bit about what they r upto!! last year i felt like the only parent who wanted to be involved and was constantly worried about where they kids were. this was because the parents of the good kids only started letting their children play out in the street towards the end of last summer and so we were just getting to know eachother but this year we all know who is who and are standing up for the kids which is fab! i feel a lot more relaxed about the kids enjoying their summer in the street.
Im pleased to say the older kids wont even LOOK at our children now and avoid them! yay!! i sincerely hope it lasts. I can see the green the kids play on from my patio and have a good view from the front of the house when they are playing on the street. when they r out of sight from our house, they are playing in full view of rob and kaths house so i know they are ok. they carry watches and have to come back every 10-20 minutes to "check in" or have to come back to let me know if they r going on someones house. of course, they do forget to check in on time and act up with the rules a bit but by and large, its a good system we have going now.
Just wondered if anyone else has any ideas or experiences of this kinda thing. how do u handle it and do u have any tips to share!?? Now is the time the kids wanna be out all the time and its a constant worry for us poor parents. Im also worried that getting the police involved may make the bullying worse. has anyone experienced that? Im hoping its done the trick but u never know if any of the kids will want to really get back at my kids for rob getting the community officer involved. dont get me wrong, i support what he did, i feel the behaviour should be on police records...it jus never really occured to me before to do it. i felt talking the the kids parents ought to have been enough but when u r dealing with crap people who couldnt care less what their kids do I guess the police is the next obvious step...
all thoughts and stories shared appriciated
xxxx