New Hooping Videos, some goals, and my Monday schedule for "homeschooling"

Here's my latest hooping video. It's not half bad-- in fact, Jess and I are quite fond of it. I think in total,after editing some time out, we are looking at about 14 minutes from that practice. I kinda wish I hadn't taken anything away from it. Never-the-less, this one is pretty cute. This was made on Thursday, January 16, 2014.

This week I did pretty good. 

I netted today at 694, burning 1,079 calories during my workout.

I've been mostly proud at my ability to keep my sugars down. 

Today was a pretty good day. I was able to get a good breakfast in me. I attended church with Jess, Ian, and the kids afterwards we went to Dickey's Barbecue. Sadly, I chose not to go to Kieran's birthday party tonight, but I have a full day planned for all three of the kids tomorrow, as tomorrow is our very first Monday all together since the boys started homeschooling.

I'm really excited, because for me this is like when the boys go on summer vacation. I try really hard to do different fun things with the kids, and I feel like the experience of Jess homeschooling will be really good practice for me to come up with pseudo educational, entertaining, and productive things for us to do together. All three of the kids really enjoy when we do arts and crafts together, and I am really looking forward to incorporating artsy activities, while also assisting me to get out of the house from time to time.

In the morning, after I have Vi on Monday mornings, I have a fairly regular schedule with her, and I'm hoping that tomorrow we fall into an easy, and natural Monday schedule, looking something like this:

8 AM- BREAKFAST
8:30- Clean-up
8:45- Morning Discussion (at the table): "What are we gonna be doing on Mondays?"
9:15- Sari Reads
9:35- Break and TEA TIME
10 Stretching
10:10 Hooping/20 minutes outside
10:30 Educational Video in Sari's bed (rest time)
12:10 PM- LUNCH
1 Leave house
2 Pioneer Memorial Museum
3 SNACK
4 Leave Museum/Marc for ride?
4:30- Watch Marc play video games
5:30- DINNER
6:15-Clean up
6:30- Coloring/Roseanne until mom picks them up
7:30- Jess

Also, in there I need to make sure I make time for a workout, and I'm working on a new project. Here's some deleted scenes from the project I'm working on:

So, as far as the new project is concerned this week will mark my first full-week on a gluten-free diet, and taking Chromium. I want to focus on my health the next 30 days, and I thought it would be really interesting to focus on this transformation through a sped up, time lapse.

After finally having a significant on-the-scale victory last week (nearly an 8lb drop), I've had a periodic refresher of faith, and I feel that this project may be there very thing I need to help inspire myself inside my hoop, and inspire others to put their health first like I'm learning to.

In short, I am excited for the next couple of weeks, and what they have in store. I am trying to keep positive and move forward in my goals, and I am so grateful I am no longer sick (I'm feeling better, all the time!). Today is Sunday, January 19, 2014, and I am going to film every single hoop practice I have between now, and Tuesday, February 18, 2014-- furthermore it is my hopes to hoop every single day.

Wish me luck!