Cruff Family Chronicles

All my life I have been able to eat what I want and still be skinny. Until I had my 2nd kid I think. It wasn't until recently that I realized I've always been "skinny fat". Where the outside looks thin but is not strong. When I was working out at the Y, I tried a fitness class and almost left in tears from how hard it was. I remember there was an older lady who looked at me and said "You're skinny so you should be able to do this." Goodness, that stung. So after having my 3rd baby, I wanted to give myself some time. I wanted my milk supply to work out its kinks so I took it slow after this one. After my 2nd, I started running at 5 weeks postpartum. I don't even think I made it a year. I worked up to my 5k and quit. I've always been on and off with exercising so I'm hoping this time it sticks. So I shared a pretty big change pic the other day in a tighter fitting shirt. The angles were a little off but you could still see the difference. ...

If my kid's obsession with Minecraft and my constant postings about it annoy you, believe me, you aren't the only one. It annoys me too. I've been thinking about this for a while now. Last year, I was so anti-Minecraft. I don't like getting into "what everyone else is into" and I know that's what a lot of kids are into so I didn't want Bri to fall into the trap. I didn't know much about it. I think Bri was introduced to it from my MIL's iPad because she has it for her students up in Alaska. All I knew was that's all she wanted to do when she had access to it. "Hi Grandma! Can I play on your iPad?" wasn't really a very nice greeting when she got off the plane from Alaska but Grandma took it in stride. This summer the passion grew in her and Avi. It was installed on our iPad to keep the girls from fighting over Grandma's. Once Grandma left and it's all they wanted to do, it was uninstalled. They weren't happy but i...