Can I come back please?????

I thought that I should probably ask since I have been so MIA lately! I have missed all of you terribly and my dieting and stress levels have all gone absolutely crazy since I haven't been able to post here. If I thought that I knew it before it is TOTALLY confirmed in my head now---I NEED you guys!!!
Things have been so crazy since school got started! On the plus side-- football season is officially over !! The athletic banquet is this next Tuesday and I am almost 99.9 percent sure that my son gets a varsity letter. He played defense in all but one game, so I think that qualifies. Of course, in the last game of the season he hyper extended his ring finger on his left hand (he's left handed) when it got smashed in between two helmets. Needed a trip to ER for Xrays after the game. It is fine now, but needed to be splinted for about a week. I am very thankful that it was only a finger. Next week basketball practice begins. Last Sunday he was Confirmed at church. We had my husband's parents and some aunts and uncles for dinner. As I am just finishing up the final touches----the smooth top surface of my stove shatters into a HUGE spiderweb of cracks!!! It is only 4 years old!!! Of course the warranty is only for 1 year--and it costs $400.00 to replace--I am going shopping for a new one today. Not in the budget. We have been eating either take our or crockpot meals since then! NOT good for the diet! The rest of this week was crazy too--my son had a district choir concert in a town 45 minutes from here Monday night, Tuesday night I had a teacher seminar from 4:00 to 7:00 at night, Wed. Halloween ( NOT FUN with 30 3rd graders all high on Snickers Bars!) Thurs.-sent home report cards and had parent teacher conferences for 30 kids Thursday night and Friday!!! In the meantime my husband found out he has high BP and has been milking it for all it's worth and I ended up grinding my teeth so hard in my sleep that I broke off a piece of a back molar and had to go to the dentist yesterday!!! Thankfully I only needed a filling to take care of it. Doesn't this sound like something you would see on "All My Children" or something?????? Dieting has not been going well, but I am maintaining. Today I am stove shopping and errand running. I am heading to the store after I get my stove so that I can stock up on the "good food" so that I can get going again before the holidays strike!!
I am going to go through the message board--there are SO many new faces and I need to get caught up in all that is going on your lives!!!! I have missed you guys and have promised myself that I am going to start guaranteeing myself some ME time for the computer--hope I can stick to that.

Hope that you are all well and happy!!! Take care!

OF COURSE YOU CAN COME BACK

WELCOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!


LOVE LEENS

Please, please, please come back! We are here for you!

Jenniwookie

Annie, love, it sounds you are far too stressed for words and it doesn't surprise me a bit that you're stress eating. I'm glad you see the wisdom of giving yourself 15 minutes in the day to do nothing but be with yourself. Play some relaxing music or even do a little meditation. It can help you refocus your goals and put the priority back on yourself. I wish I could reach right through the computer and give you a big hug because you really need it. Please promise me you're going to take the time for yourself, OK?

Annie pleasw we miss you!!! and check out the new challenge your on the list give me ten min to get it posted!!!

OMG i had 4 pages and it is all missing!!! it must have gotten lost inthe computer glitch i had. OMG I am so upset!!!! it was a good one i hope that i emailed the right one to janice!!! i will have to check it out.

Hey AdoAnnie!!!!

I have been missing you! Glad you are back! Although I have not been the best little low carber in the world lately I keep trying to keep connected to the gals here hoping that something will eventually kick in for me. Keep posting, keep connected ok?

Geeze....Halloween....and teaching...I remember the day after Halloween as being the worst in the classroom. Kids are all sugared up, tired and excited. Yuck!

You make sure you take time for you and don't get bleacher butt watching all that b-ball ok?

hugs and stuff!
peach

Welcome back Annie; I just came back and Monday will be my first week so glad to see some of the names I remember.... You sound oh so busy....Toni

Hey Annie --

Just so you know -- I think you're the best ('specially since we're practically neighbors!) and I understand the teaching madness more fully than I want to (not with little kids but BIG little kids!). I, for one, think it's an honor to everyone on the board when busy, frazzled, frantic women stop for a minute, take a breath, read and respond to the lives of others whom they care about. No guilt trip here (for you, of course, but always for me!)

It's good to see you!

Sooner

Welcome back ~~

J