So I have a bit of an addiction.

I think I need a 12 step program. I got this in the last 2 days. It's over $100 worth of yarn.
I need to get knitting. Will take a pick of my whole stash tonight.

Because my life isn´t busy enough.

Hahahaha. So I´m looking at even more hobbies like bee keeping or back yard chickens. I actually really want back yard chickens. I like knowing that I´m producing my own food. That is why I like veggie gardening so much. I like to know where my food has been and what has been done to it.

This is the coop that I would like in my back yard


I would only like 2-3 chickens. That would be enough for us for now. I might add another when DS gets older. The droppings will be good for the garden as well.

I also have way to many projects going on my needles. I finished a whole project yesterday. It is a bag that I´m sending to a friend. Made with Icelandic wool. It was a fun make.

I am also sending these socks.

Well need to go take a shower and then go outside and garden.

Running again.

I've finally started running on the treadmill again and I'm glad that I am still in some shape. I'm starting slow and only running 2.5 min of every 5 min for 30 min and then I'm going to do less walking and more running each week until I can run for 30 min straight. When I first started getting on the treadmill when I was at my heaviest I was having a hard time walking for 20 min straight.
But when I can run for 30 min straight I will start training for a half marathon. I'm excited. I really am looking forward to feeling better physical and mentally by running. I mean who doesn't feel better about themselves when they know that they are doing something good for themselves and start looking better as well?
Well, Time for bed. Need to have energy to get back on the mill tomorrow.

Doing research on spanking and its lasting effects.

So, I started my research for my research paper for school and I picked spanking and its results on children because I am a new mom from a background of spanking just being used when children do something that can be deadly to them and then it is the last resort. I don't plan on hitting my child at all. I feel that there are plenty of other things that can be done to get your child to understand. It does take more work on my part in the beginning but I did not become a mother thinking that it was going to be easy or that there are any short cuts. Both me and my husband were only spanked 1 in our life and it was when we were around 4 years old. I had nightmares after my spanking for several years afterwords. I don't plan on doing that to my son.

Having run into mothers that use it as their main form of punishment I started wondering what sort of research has been done on this subject and its lasing effects. I came to find out that the earlier that children are spanked especially before the age of 2 there were more disciplinary problems. These children tend to pick more fights when they get to school and tend to hit their siblings more when their parents are not looking. Spanking tends to teach them that it is ok to hit others if they are not doing what you want them to do. Spanking also usually does not help children to think of why they should not do things other than their parents, the people that are suppose to love and keep them from harm, will hurt them if they do it. Also people of lower economic status tend to spank or hit more than people of higher economic status. Most pro spanking researches were very clear on that spanking should not be used before the age of 2 and should be last resort. There is also the problem of a mother or a father loosing their temper and hitting the child harder then they meant to and I'm sorry but most spankings no matter how much you love the child happen out of anger. If the parent wasn't angry then they wouldn't be spanking the child and if the parent waits until he or she is not angry then the moment has past and the punishment would not work. For it to work it has to happen at the moment of misbehavior. I'm not saying that all parents are enraged at the time of spanking but they are frustrated and sometimes taking the frustrations of the day out on a small child that can not defend themselves from the person that is here on this earth to care and protect them from harm.
Well there it is. I know you spankers out there dissagree with me. That is ok. I have the right to my oppinion and if you have emperical research that showes me that Spanking is the best sort of punishment and should be used all the time please tell me about it so I can use it in my research paper.

Biggest Looser Confession

I have a confession to make. When I watch the biggest looser I almost always have something in my hand that I'm eating that is sooooo far from being healthy. Last night we were watching this weeks episode (we TeVoed it) and my DH had brought home KrispyKreme. I ate 3!! doughnuts.

For those of you that don't know me you need to know that 3 years ago I was 25 pounds heavier than I am now and I lost 32 pounds to get pregnant. I did this the right way and it took me 2 years to loose the weigh by running on my treadmill, eating right and changing my behavior one behavior at a time. It was a lot of hard work and when I got pregnant I had decided that I was not going to let myself go and that I would run as long as I could. 2 months into the pregnancy I started to get shooting pain when I tried to run and I got discouraged. I so wanted to that I kept pushing through the pain til one day I just broke down and cried because I knew I couldn't keep doing it. I could not even walk fast. I ended up gaigning over 40 poins but by x-mas after the baby was born I was only 5 pounds from being at my pre-pregnancy weight. Then my parents came with lots of Icelandic candy, then thanksgiving, and Christmas came around and I gained 7 pounds! I'm still eating too much and I have decreased my breastfeeding to only 1-2 a day and 1-2 a night. So I have started walking again since the weather is better which helps a lot. I still can't run very well since I need to go get myself some better support for the girls but I am going to start training for a marathon as soon as Odinn is weaned.
I want to loose 15 pounds in the next 3 months so I need to get my ass in gear. We are on our way to St. Thomas in May. 5 pounds a month isn't too much to ask. That way I will not be scarry in a swim suit. After that I want to loose about 9 more pounds and then I will be good.
For some reason, when I think about 32 pounds, I don't think that it is that much but then I try to pick up a full bucket of cat litter which is 36 pounds and I am struggling to get it in my shopping cart and I realize that I was carrying that around every day and I am still walking around with an excess weight of 24 pounds. I want to be healthy for me and my family.

So in the futtur I hope to stop eating KrispyKreme while watching The Biggest Looser.

Grad School Woes!

I have lots of homework do tomorrow and a test and I am not motivated to start doing what I need to do. I have a tape to transcribe and a study guide to finish and turn in for credit. I also need to e-mail clients and set up new sessions for this weekend. I also get to give my nephews the WISC this weekend which I am super exited. Who would have thought that an intelligence test would cost over 800 dollars?

At least the weather is crappy so I don´t want to be outside watching my garden grow. I do want to get some seeds in some grow pods tonight though. It´s time for peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes to get seeded.

Óðinn finally went down for a nap but I´m going to have to wake him soon since it is 6pm and we would like him to go to bed at some point tonight. Man it is hard to wake up a child when he has been fighting sleep all day long.

So a blog needed to be created.

It is time for me to find a place to start a new and blog about my life and passions.

I'm a stay at home mother of a 10 month old angel and his name is Óðinn Eggert. I also am a grad student that loves to knit and garden. Trying to fit all of this in to my already busy schedule with my son and school is hard to say the least and I have to admit that my home is not always squeeky clean.

Oh, and I'm forgetting that I run my own home business as well www.clothdiaperhut.com . I sell cloth diapers online and I enjoy it. I have not done much marketing because I am waiting on my sister to make a logo for me but I have sold some just by word of mouth.

We have 3 cats that do not help with keeping a clean house but they have been great companions.

Now that spring is in the air I have gone seed and gardening crazy and I have already transplanted lettus, broccoli, and cauliflower. I have also put down seeds for spinich, peas and carrots. I also have loads of other things sprouting in my window.

I got some great pics of my son outside today while we were all out working in the yard. He let go and stood on his own and wasn't really realizing what he was doing. I was so happy that I got pics of this happening.

I started on a Icelandic sweatervest for myself the other day and have had fun working on it. I also have a blanket and 3 sweaters for Óðinn in the works. Maybe I should finish one of them. My sewing mashine is on the frits so 2 of them are on hold because of it and the other is just on hold because I got tiered of all the cabeling. I started making dishcloths with a KAL on ravelry. I didn´t make this weeks because of everything but maybe next week.