Hello again all!
Sorry to have been gone so long. I just spent an hour reading everything I missed, but honestly, I have a mind like a sieve and have forgotten most of what I read.
So, just a general congratulations to everyone, and keep up the good work.
Learn - I am sorry about your friend. My prayers are for the family.
Egon T. Oast?
How's the ankle?
Ags - your dinner sounded yummy.
Lynnie: good for you and WTG on stocking up healthy foods.
Ona - hope the party's a smash!
Well, for myself, I have one huge thing to be grateful for. I've been under some serious stress lately because my 2 year old daughter has been having some severe issues at her caregiver's home. She goes all day with out eating or drinking anything (8+ hrs!), she cries hysterically when she needs to have her diaper changed, and she does nothing but sit on the couch all day. She doesn't interact with the other kids, and refuses to enter the kitchen area, even for snack time. She's been completely miserable at home, and makes a huge production in the morning about not going to the sitter's. She calls the sitter "bad", and clings to me for all she's worth. Now, in this area, there is a waiting list of 2 years to get into dayhomes, and good sitters are few and far between, even if they have openings. I need you all to understand that on top of these behaviours she's been showing, my DD sustained a neck injury last July, and has chronic whiplash. So she's in terrible pain a lot of the time, and can't participate in a lot of activities like a normal 2 yr old. We went through months of her not being able to turn her head (she still has very limited range) or look down, and if she overdoes it, she stiffens up again.
So my positive is this: I found the most wonderful babysitter in the world!. She is from my congregation, so I know her as a friend as well as a caregiver. She is a stay at home mom with two kids of her own. and she knows all about my DD's neck injury. She treats my DD like one of her own. She snuggles with her, reads to her, involves her in activities she can do. It's only been 3 days at the new place, and my daughter is already playing with the other kids. She is running (as well as she can), and has all kinds of energy when she comes home. She has no problem with "Auntie" changing her, and wants to go to auntie's in the morning. She's eating again, and drinking. The sitter doesn't push her, but encourages her.It's like I have a whole new child. I pray that this situation is forever!
Thanks for listening. See you all tomorrow! Stay POP!
everyone!
and Learn,that's so cool you were able to reunite w/your old friends on FB and the chili contest 
Hope you like your New Doctor.The mammogram procedure has changed,they use a different machine that's more comfortable(at least here) but i know what you mean.Hope you can get that Ice cream into Mother 
I can't exercise like i have been but I'm very happy cause i see that i can eat healthy and hold my weight without so much exercise.
