What's in a name?

Well speaking of this blog a whole lot is in a name!

So I am beginning a weight loss journey and am all about motivation and goals. I am also fixing up my home room by room until it is where I would like it to be. After raising 3 kids of my own, taking in a 16 year old boy and having many neighbor kids over regularly through the years my house is in as much need of a makeover as I am!

We moved here when forest was first learning to walk. This is Forest:

These are the 3 kids at the time we moved here. Left to right Dustin, Forest and Skylauna.

 Awww they were so little!

Before I had little people I never had an issue with weight. Once they came along I gained and lost in a roller coaster of fat cells.

Wouldn't trade any one of them for anything!


This is Forest now. (18 years old) Quite a handsome young man I would say. (Not biased at all of course!)

Forest graduates this year and the house will be that much more empty. It's a double edged sword, your kids leaving the house.

I am happy they are all still so close to each other. Dustin and Skylauna live together now in a town 30 min away where they can go to community college. Forest plans on moving in with them when he graduates.

Anyhow back to what I was getting at.

So raising the 3 kids to adulthood did a number on the house .

 Forgetting i mattered to in the hustle and bustle of raising kids did a number on my body.

I decided to combine the transformation of the physical being of my house and my body into one year long (maybe longer, especially for the house funds and all that) project.

 What better way to keep up with it all but to blog about it! Maybe my "Projects" will help inspire someone else.

 So this was me before kids. Yep 20 years ago when i was skinny, young and beautiful.

(funny how you never felt as beautiful as you were when you were there.)

My first goal is to get down to 165 pounds. Right now I am 264. At my heaviest I was 318 pounds.

 I have lost a decent amount of weight (45 pounds) in the past 2 years but not nearly as much as I would like and I wasn't tracking foods/calories.

OK so this is me as of last year. My son Dustin Graduated high school (So proud of him!) and that is my daughter Skylauna with us as well. (I am proud of her too!

Such good kids! We have had our ups and our downs and our punched holes in the walls. Overall they make me proud to call them mine.


So tomorrow I will take a pic of myself and show some pics of the house way back when (and now of course). Post them so people can see my progress!

Tomorrow is my birthday and it's fitting a new decade of life for me in a new house with a new body!  I would like to be near my goal weight for my birthday next year.