Saturday is a special day.....

Saturdays are always busy in the Cockrell house. The kids are involved in sports every season and now that AJ is old enough to play sports we are running the boys everywhere. Luckily soccer hasn't started for AJ yet so we just have Noah's basketball games to go to. He has 2 of them every Saturday.

This was last week but I thought
it was too cute not to share

We also have housework to do on Saturday's. I don't know about you guys but growing up, Saturday was the housework day. When we woke up Saturday morning, and before we could go anywhere or do anything, we had to have our chores done. We had to dust the whole house, vacuum, sweep, mop, clean the 2 bathrooms, clean our rooms, and in the summer we also had yard work to do. Of course we also had laundry to do but since that can't possibly be done in a blink of an eye we just had to make sure we kept up with it through out the day. There were 4 of us kids so we were able to knock out our chores pretty quickly when we weren't fighting about who needed to do what. I promise I'm not complaining about all of this, although at the time I thought it was TORTURE, I just want to let you know that this became habit for me and I make my kids do the same thing lol. Since they're younger, 9, 5, and 1, they don't do all of that but they do each have chores they are responsible for. Sometimes I wonder if I'm giving them more than their capable of at their ages but I do help them with their responsibilities.

I've been waking up all week with terrible headaches. I can't figure out why other than I'm not drinking enough water maybe but I feel like I'm drinking a ton. Like I've said in previous posts I normally drink 5-7 24 oz bottles of water per day. Isn't that enough?! Anyway, it happened again this morning and I really had to push myself to get ready and go to Noah's basketball games. I tried my hardest not to take any medicine for it because I hate taking medicine when I don't absolutely have to but finally at 11:30 I took some ibuprophin and I felt so much better shortly after. When we got back home and I got AJ and Kennady down for their naps I got going on my workout. I needed to change it up a bit though because I was getting bored doing the same thing every day so I decided to try this workout I found on Pinterest. This was seriously the hardest workout I've ever done! I've never in my life done 45 squats in a row! I don't know if that makes me sound weak or what but it's the truth. Holy cow! If this workout isn't HIIT I don't know what is! I was literally shaking the whole time during the workout and after for about 15 minutes. I am so sore already everywhere so I know tomorrow morning I'm going to be hurting for sure but this is exactly what I wanted out of my workout today. I needed to feel the burn again and needed something different. It took me about 30 minutes to get through all of these. I'm sure people who are more fit could get it done a lot quicker. Everyone should try it at least once though and let me know how you did. I'd like to hear all about it. Also I'd love to see or hear about some workouts like this that you've found or tried and liked.

I didn't eat breakfast this morning because I had such a bad headache but for lunch we took my Mother-in-law and my husbands grandma to lunch at 3 rivers and I had their special of the day which was a BBQ chicken sandwich so I really don't know how healthy it was but it sure was yummy! For dinner Jake and I quickly made some tilapia pan fried in olive oil with garlic powder, seasoned salt, and pepper, steamed carrots, and rice. We had to cook so quickly because Jake took AJ to the Monster Truck show in town. He already sent me pictures and isn't AJ so cute?! He looks so happy. He has been talking about it all week and was begging us to make it get dark quicker so they could go.


This morning I got a call from our Vet and he said that both of the bones in Chase's lower leg are broken with a spiral fracture. He said that they have to go in surgically and place pins in and he won't know until they're in there if they can place wire to limit the rotation of the bones or if they'll have to put external pins in. He'll be getting the surgery done on Monday afternoon and will hopefully be able to come home on Wednesday evening. They said he was quiet (which is rare for him) and doing good so at least they're taking care of him.




Thank you all for reading, commenting, and supporting me. Have a great night and a great Sunday!
xo,
Tristen