Merry Christmas!!

From our family to yours, we wish you a Merry Christmas!

As always, thank you for reading along. I cannot put into words how happy it makes me when someone tells me they enjoying reading my blog. 

I'm sending each and every one of you so much love! I hope 2018 is filled with much love, happiness and joy! xoxo

Cheers!

 Love, Kristen, Mike, Kamryn, Logan, Kensington & Tenley

We are SO PROUD of Kamryn & Logan!

Happy Tuesday!!

In the past couple of weeks I had parent/teacher conferences with both Kamryn & Logan's teachers. I couldn't possibly be more proud of my babies big kids! They are both doing so well!

First I met with Logan's teacher and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. At our kids school they have you schedule your parent/teacher conference when you go to the open house. This year we had a wake the same night at Logan's so we weren't able to go. I had emailed his teacher to set up a time to meet with her and she told me she'd like me to come in on another day because she'd like more than 15 minutes to talk because she had some concerns. I was SO scared there was something I missed and something was wrong. I went in to meet with Logan's teacher and one of the occupational therapists at the school. They have a few concerns about Logan's gross motor skills and fine motor skills, which with a few therapies just 1 day a week for 25 minutes they can work on and he'll be fine. BUT they also told me that academically and behaviorally he is above and beyond where he needs to be. They said he gets along great with all his peers and is the sweetest, nicest most polite little boy. As most of you know we didn't send Logan to preschool, so this was his first experience with real school. His teacher told me that in all her 20 years of teaching she has never had a kid who has picked up on the routine, school work and rules as fast as Logan! GO LOGAN!

Then I had a phone conference with Kamryn's teacher. With Mike working nights and needing to sleep during the day we couldn't come up with a time that worked for both us and Kamryn's teacher but she was more than happy to talk with me on the phone. Kamryn is just a super star. She gets a little help with reading and see's a specialist a couple days a week for that and her reading teacher sais she's doing great. We just need to work on building that confidence because she can read she's just nervous. Besides that Kamryn is doing AMAZING! Her teacher went on and on about how sweet Kamryn is and told me what a joy she is to have in class. She said Kamryn is everybody's best friend and a really hard worker. She told me that Kamryn is the type of student that all teachers hope to get in their class every year. Between that and her awesome report card it's time for a date night with her, her daddy and I! We love our little date nights! We decided Logan can tag along this year too!

These kids make me SO proud!! Way to go Kamryn & Logan!!!

Real, Raw & Honest

I’m going to be raw and honest here and in turn hopefully hold myself accountable. At least that’s the goal. 

If you’ve been following along you know back in March/April/Mayish I started using Isagenix as a way to help me lose weight. And it worked, oh did it work! I stuck to the plan, ate healthier than I ever have in my life and lost 19 lbs. 

But then, life happened. And unfortunately, in my life, a lot of crap happened. Stuff that sent me into a downward spiral of a depression and in turn I ate junk. Junk junk and more junk. I was eating like crap and sleeping like crap, I didn't have motivation to do just about anything except make sure my children were taken care of. I don’t really talk about the bad stuff that happens in my life often and even those closest to me probably don’t understand how bad it got for me. But it wasn’t pretty. It needs to be said, I’m not writing this for sympathy, if I wanted sympathy I would’ve looked for attention when I was at my worst. I vented to my family and friends, I complained and sometimes even cried, but I didn’t really let anyone on to how badly I felt about myself. You see, I didn’t want attention, I just felt sad, lonely and helpless so I ate. Then I’d put on a happy face to those around me and pretend everything was fine. I believe this is important to talk about. You truly never know what's going on in someones life. From the outside looking in we have it all. I have a great husband, four beautiful healthy children, a great family and awesome friends, but deep down I was just not myself and none of that really mattered. I was thankful and so grateful but I was still so sad. Life isn’t perfect. I’m not perfect. And sometimes social media is a way for all of us to portray our lives as perfect. I don’t want anyone to ever think it’s all sunshine and rainbows over here. So today I'm putting it all out there. When I ate I didn’t eat a lot, but I wasn’t eating anything that was good for me either. It goes without saying but I gained most of that weight back and I’ve noticed especially in the last few weeks that my clothes aren’t fitting like I want them to. So now I'm not only hurting mentally but physically as well. As a mother I need to do better for my babies. They mean absolutely everything to me and I want to teach them that no matter what happens, you pull up your boot straps and keep going. Take care of yourself first so you in turn can take care of those you love. My husband, my children, my family and my friends deserve me at me best. 

I'm going to make a change for myself first and then all those who I love the most.

It’s time to cut the BS, feel better about myself and get back on track. I can’t let anybody or anything rule how I feel. That is up to me! Here is my plan.....I need to order some Isagenix stuff to replenish my supply, so I'm thinking January 1st I'm going to jump back in. I’m a cheese ball and I love a fresh start. I love the idea that a new year means new beginnings. But I'm not looking at this as a New Years Resolution, I'm looking at it as almost a prescription I'm writing myself. A way for me to take back some control. I WANT to feel better and I NEED to feel better. So I’m going to enjoy the holidays, I've got enough to think about in the next coming weeks and coming up with two meal plans, one for me and one for the family, just isn't going to fit right now. But after that that's it! NO MORE EXCUSES!! 

Let’s do this!! It’s time to feel great again! Not only physically but also mentally.

Email me over at kriskrumbs@gmail.com if you too want to join me on this journey to a better US! Don’t worry. I won’t try to sell you Isagenix. You can choose your own way. It would just be nice to has others on this journey with me. I'd love to start an accountability group.

Cheers to good health, no matter what the circumstances!