Hi everyone.
Talitha--Hope you get better soon. And hope its not whooping cough. My DM had that when she was a child, back in "the olden days." It was a dreaded disease then, because you'd almost literally cough yourself to death. Just take care of yourself, gal. You've done so well through this pregnancy. How much was the grand total of weight that you gained?? I remember being amazed at how great you have been.
We took our walk this morning, my DH and I. I don't know how far, since I was not wearing my pedometer. Probably about 1.5 miles. We went to the farmer's market and got some veggies, and then walked around the village of Winter Park for about 30 minutes. We had tons of errands, and we also wanted to get away from the house for a bit, since they are reroofing the built-up part of our roof. It was beginning to leak badly onto our new "porch." We have a pickled pine ceiling in the new room, and several boards were starting to show some bad leaks, and when it rained hard we had to put buckets to catch the water. It has only been doing this for about a month, so not too bad a problem. They replaced the bad boards up there, and are retarring, rerocking and rerolling it with tar paper. Should last another 35 years! We'll probably have to have the shingle part of our roof done in about 5 years.
We got some jumbo head-on shrimp this morning and will use them for dinner: sautéed shrimp with garlic and parsley over pasta. Plus a salad. If it is late enough, we may eat out by our pond, because by then it will be cool enough to be outdoors.
Tech--Hope you read this and are not MIA totally this weekend. I am so sorry to hear about your woes with your sis and your mother and father. It reminds me so much of the "relationship" between my DS and our mom. The sad truth is that you really don't have a relationship with your mom. When you cannot be honest with each other, then you all are just playing at being "family." My DS was always the "dutiful daughter" and put up with hurtful events by my mother all these years by "stuffing it down." She never really said anything about how she felt when my mother was too busy to go to the grandchildren's graduations, or soccer tournaments, or, or, or . . . . So when you never say anything about how hurt your heart is when you are flagrantly ignored or excluded, then there is a lack of honesty and a lack of intimacy between y'all. My mother now realizes that there is something missing between her and my DS, kind of like there is an invisible wall between them. She doesn't know what it is, or why it is there, but just that it is there. My DS politely just goes on, stuffing down her feelings, just to not rock the boat. But the truth is, my relationship with my DM is much better, much more intimate. Even though I tell my mom some hard stuff and express some raw emotions, at least she knows where I am coming from, how I feel, and "who I am." We can discuss things through, and even though we may disagree, we see better into each other's "soul." So, when you avoid talking about "the big elephant in the room" and everyone carefully tiptoes around the elephant of hurts, exclusions, children being left out, sisters being domineering, etc. etc. then some sort of phoniness in the relationship exists. Actually, the "relationship" is not really a relationship, but more like very long-time acquaintances who are polite to each other.
My suggestion, like Monet's, is to speak to your family, both your parents and your sister. But speak the truth in love. Don't accuse, do name calling, or point fingers. Just state the truth of what happened, and then tell them how that affected you and your family. Tell them how you were affected in your relationship with them and how you felt in your heart. Do all this with a loving attitude. Avoid arguing with them. They probably will try to justify themselves--especially your sister. Don't respond to what she says. Just stick to your message of how their actions affected you and how you and your family felt--and keep it all with a loving attitude toward them. Hard to do, but better in the long run. Good luck to you and we all hope it will work out.
Food today:
B. raw oats--1/2 Cup--with fresh fruit and 1% milk
L. 4 oz. hamburger on 2 sl. WWSG bread with condiments. Iced tea
Dinner will be the shrimp, garlic and parsley on pasta, salad, iced tea.
Hopefully they will have finished reroofing by dinner time or we will be eating to the aroma of eau de tar.
BOB--We'll be thinking about on surgery day. I know that it will be a "piece of cake" for you, but the worry beforehand is always worse than the real thing. At least you won't have to worry about having a scar! Could have been worse if they had to cut on your face.
Just trying a bit of levity here, girl, to make you smile. Keep us posted. I do remember your mentioning earlier about surgery, but as the weeks go by it is easy to get confused about what week it is and what's happening to everyone when. Do post the exact day and time the "event" will take place and we can pray for you then.
Monet--Keep up the good work with the exercise. It sounds like you still need to get on a regular plan, say, for walking x number of miles each morning and then swimming for x number of minutes at noon or in the evening. When school starts you will have to be more vigilent to get that exercise in and stick to a regular plan, rather than doing the catch as catch can plan.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Then we went to the liquor store, and to Leslie's Pool supply where I found an indoor/outdoor clock to use for my water workouts, then we picked Justin up from work and came home. I have not been home all day it seems. 
It often is. My system is all out of whack from getting up at 4....and my feet still ache from yesterdays three miles. I am bummed...physically, I can handle it just fine, but just my feet complain! 
THis just gets me so mad. So I get home and try the mower again and nearly blew out my tampon trying to pull the friggen thing (sorry, too much info...but its the truth) and so now here I am pouring it all out to you guys so I can get it off my chest. Okay...so now I feel a little better. The lawn is still not mowed and now it probably wont get mowed until Monday because we have to go to this thing tomorrow. 
! He has no more restrictions, play and swim as fast and as hard as he wants! We have a few more days of sinus rinses to do, but that is no problem. We don't have to go back to see him for 4 months, other than our weekly allergy shots, but those are just nurse visits. Our next stop is seeing the neurologist on Tuesday. I think he is planning to wean him off of the daily preventative Topamax that he is on. I guess we'll see how that goes.
