Day 3 of P90X

and day 13 of Eat from the Pantry Challenge was yesterday. I'm doing much better eating from the pantry than I am with the P90X. I was feeling good yesterday and woke up this morning with legs that don't want to carry me up and down the stairs and arms that can barely buckle my seatbelt. I would gladly clean a 3rd bathroom if it meant there were one on the main floor...okay, I don't clean the bathrooms but I'm sure DevilDoc would also agree to cleaning an extra bathroom if it meant we didn't have to hobble up and down the stairs.

We are still going strong on the pantry but I must hit the store again today, if I can manage to get upstairs to take a shower and get dressed of course! New sales started today and coupled with some coupons I have and in store rewards I just can't pass it up. But, I am counting it towards the second 1/2 of the month budget since we get paid tonight :)

And lest you think all we do is workout and shop for deals I want to share some things from the kids. Yesterday Pookins came home from school all a-flutter about "Marvin Lufer King Jr." (I did help him pronounce it correctly after 10 or so tries!). He told me all about what MLK Jr. did, the speech he gave and that he died. He wanted to come home and find out how old MLK Jr. was when he died. So, we did. And when I told him that MLK Jr. was 39 he burst into tears. My birthday is right around the corner and DevilDoc JUST LOVES to tell the kids how old I will be (celebrating the 7th anniversary of my 29th birthday) and Pookins being the little math whiz that he is quickly determined that my age and MLK Jrs. age at death are very close and promptly told me I could not die because I need to live 'til infinity.

{{{Insert mommy with heart bulging out of her chest here!}}}

Then he went on with "how did MLK Jr. die"? So, I did my best to put it into 7yo words...I told him that there were people who didn't think white people and brown people could be friends so they didn't like MLK because he thought that we can all be friends. And those people were very bad and killed MLK Jr. Oh my, that really turned the faucets into high gear. He was darn near hyperventilating at this point and I had to take a few minutes to calm him down the best I could. God love him. He told me that his friend Derrick at school is brown and it's okay that they are friends. As a matter of fact, even if Derrick was purple they would still be friends, that what he said.

{{{Insert mommy doing her best to hold back the tears because she is SO PROUD of the little boy sitting next to her.}}}

Fast forward to this morning before school I had on the news and of course everything is about the tragedy in Haiti right now. Pookins was VERY concerned about the people he was seeing on TV, mumbled under his breath each and every statistic they were providing on the news and asked me for more information about earthquakes. Then he said, "what can I do to help the kids in Haiti?" My baby has such an amazing soul. Remember he did this for his 6th birthday. So today, while he is at school filling his little brain with more math, phonics and facts about MLK Jr. I am going to do my best to find SOMETHING that he can do to help the kids in Haiti. Somthing he can ACTUALLY do, participate in, be a part of...not simply sending money - though we'll be doing that by text when he gets home, but something of his own that he can say "I did this".

If you have any ideas, feel free to leave it in the comments.

Visit The American Red Cross Website for more information about the disaster in Haiti and ways you can help.