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Being a mother of three wonderful children has made me want to do more with my life than just staying home cooking, cleaning, and playing around on the computer. Coming to this realization has pushed me to go back to school to further my education. I am currently starting my third semester for my Associates degree in Medical Office Administration. I enjoy waking up every day knowing I am doing something to make a better future for my family. My time at school has been nothing more than amazing and I have my wonderful friends to thank for that. My husband and children are my strength, and without their support and help I wouldn't have been able to do this. I have a little job that I do to bring in some pocket change. I love being able to spread the word about Scentsy! I had no idea what scentsy was until my friend introduced me to it, and now I can't get enough! To me it doesn't matter about how much money I'm making right now, but the feeling of knowing I am helping my family is awesome even if it's only a little bit.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Strength

So...Curtis and I have decided to quit smoking!! It is something we should have stuck to the first time we tried it. We went to Florida last April, and quit the day before we left, seven days later without any nicotine we got home and back to reality I guess you could say, and just went right back to the nasty habit. I have been thinking lately, especially after being in the hospital with a pulmonary embolism that it is time to quit. Why risk my life over a stupid cigarette? I want to be able to breath without wanting to die after walking from the car to class, I want my kids to be able to say, "my parents don't smoke," I don't want people to be around me and say ughh she smells like smoke.

What am I gaining by picking up that cigarette? NOTHING!!!!! I'm certainly not able to run around outside with the kids for long periods of time, I'm not showing my children that smoking is a nasty habit, and they should never do it. I am however putting myself at risk for having another PE, and I'm putting my kids at risk for breathing problems because of the second hand smoke. Even though we do not smoke in the house or in the car, it is on our clothes.

We are setting a quit date for February 11. I will be cutting down from now until then so it won't be completely cold turkey. This girl will have the strength to do this, I'm planning on buying plenty of regular old gum and everytime I feel like smoking I will just pop a piece in my mouth. After I feel like I have achieved this and am able to breath normally I will begin my journey to get back in shape!! Jillian Michaels here I come!!

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