Hello Ladies........

Firstly, Girlie, my good thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Debbie - Wowser, way to go on the loss, you are on a roll, you rock!

Suzy - many things can make protein show in an urinalysis, here's to no kidney probs.

Hello to all.

I will be out of the office on Friday, taking dad for his pace maker surgery. Then out on the holiday Monday and on vacation Tuesday, therefore I will not be able to post till Wednesday next week. No puter at home. WI day is a holiday, so I will try to make it to WW another night next week. We will see how busy next week is.

Anyway, everyone have a wonderful Labor Day weekend, and Iwill chat at you on Wednesday.

Hugs to all. Stay focused and OP.

Annie

Hello all... I am 57!! single and a mom of two, a girl 33 and a son 26.. I been trying to get down under 200 for a long time, I am currently 230 and I belong to Tops... and work out in a gym.. so Linda, your not alone age wise, lots of us older gals to buddy with.... .India

Good Morning Ladies,
Annie- Good Luck with your Dad's surgery and have a great time off. Talk at you Wed.

Deb- Nothing wrong with a little competition among co-workers, lol. Whatever it is, keep it up. You are doing great. What a great menu.

I'm doing well. Had a light dinner to make up for all of the gold fish yesterday.
Sue

Good morning beautiful chicks!!!

This is my last day of 8 kids every day for 9 hours!!!!! Money well earned but yehaaaaaaa.

I did have a headache ALL day yesterday still. Hubby was particularily nice and rubbed my neck.We had lots of laughs. I laid on the floor on my back and watched TV awhile in the aft.
I went to decorate the baby room at church last night.
Kids came home at 7pm. Within 5 min DS was whining and complaining and stomping his feet. DH stepped right in and sat him out til my folks left and then we had a big family meeting. Both kids have had things taken away and we have laid out clear expectations. We have removed a bunch of privileges too.They will have to earn them back. DD is accepting it well. DS is hysterical. DH is off work so the timing is good. We will both be home for the next 4 days.
I had spaghetti for lunch and fruit for supper. That is how I used to eat when I was single. We had left overs so DH was on his own for supper. I took a looong bath.
No headache today. No plans. I am going to just the church to that wedding on Sat. DH is staying home with the kids. They consider it a party to have a sitter here. More tough love.
Hevron~how's it going today?
Girlie~ any updates. Thoughts and prayers are with you.
Debbie~ congrats on another big loss!!! I have perennial gardens, the older ones have something blooming every season. The new ones are getting there.
Right now I have blackeyed susans, fall lilies and rose of sharon bloomng. I have some mums next and then I have some shrubs that turn red in the fall.
Annie~Hope your Dad's surgery is "routine" and he heals quickly. Enjoy your time off work.
Welcome Indiacatz!
Suzy~ you are just rockin along!!!

I guess that is it for today.

Thoughts are with the folk in Louisiana.

Seems like it has been pretty quiet here lately. Probably just the long weekend. I am doing well with food, water, exercise could be better.

Holly- You sure do have your hands full all of the time. I don't know how you do it. Enjoy the lighter load with less kids to care for and have a great weekend. Sounds like you are doing well.

Hi India- Welcome aboard.

Have a great weekend everyone.
Sue

hi chicks i didn't totally disappear again. doing well so far just VERY busy. having a hard time getting the ME time i need. it will all come together though. long weekend for me and then the last little one in school on wednesday. then i can breathe and get used to the schedule. went to a family wedding last night very informal lots of fun. just puttering around most of the day today and then over to a friends for dinner this eve. found a new website this AM mypyramid.gov interesting. everyone sounds like they are doing well keep up the great work.

girlie- sending prayes for your family hope everythig works out

annie- prayers for your dad too let us know how he is. good job with WW keep it up girl!!

hevron- glad you like the smartones, keep resisting at work! you can do it!!!

holly- busy as usual! great job with avon! you sound like you are in a really great place right now!

debbie- you are rockin girl!! keep it going!

mychoice- i hope all goes well for you!!

lillibut- hi!

welcome to india and bluebonnet and everyone else. hope you all have a great day!!!

It's the WEEKEND!!!!!

Hello Jodster!! My youngest is in school on Wed too. HUGS!!
Hope everyone else is out enjoying the weekend!!

I slept til 8:30. I am feeling quite rested. I went to bed around 7pm to read. Almost done the DaVinvi Code for Book Club next Thurs. I must say I am enjoying it. Quite the epic tale.
No plans today til the wedding at 5 pm.
The tough love with the kids has been working out great. They are really thinking first before acting.DS had a couple of meltdowns but much more in control.
Yesterday was super happy. I had all 8 kids and then the new boy came with his Mom, DH was home and I had both teenage helpers here. It was beautiful weather. It was a great last day of summer vacation at the babysitters.
DH is a little miffed. Feeling rejected. I was just soooo tired and headachey last night, if you catch my drift. Sigh. I might have some sucking up to do today for the poor old goat.
I typed out my new 2 week baysitting rotation to see it on paper. It works out that every other Tues and Thurs I will have all the kids but most days it will be 4-6. Just right. I still may have my helper come after school some days.
Food a was a blur yesterday. Mybe now with a lighter load I can focus on me more.
I am feeling proud of myself for getting through the summer work load quite unscathed and and only minorly burned out.
I really want to putter in the garden today. It is sunny with a light breeze, 16C for now!!
I may move some shrubs.

Have a carefree, easy, breezy day!!

Hello Everyone,
I want to say Welcome to those who are new. This is a great board and we are glad to have you in the Race with us.

Girlie: I'm sorry to hear about the sickness in your family. I will pray for their health. My SIL was just diagonised with breast cancer (she has MS also), so I completely understand the fear and the hope against all hope feelings you are having. I'm sure the ladies here will help you with the questions about the children. Just remember to make time for yourself in all of this.

I just read through the posts. It seems like everyone is doing well for the most part and if there are some struggles you are taking a quick look at them, admitting them and planning ways to move on from them. That's the key I think.

I had a good week. I did find a lot of ME time. I just made a deal with myself that I would not leave for work until 7:30 a.m., and I would leave work by 5:30 p.m., no matter what. It really worked for me. I got a lot done and I had about 20 min in the mornings where I just would read a book, send an email, just something that I wanted to do. The same thing when I got home in the evenings. I had about 30 min and I used that time for just me, then I got on with the rest of the "have to's" for the rest of the evening.

I'm really enjoying the long holiday weekend. I cleaned my house a little each night (the Y was closed so instead of working out, I cleaned) and today I don't have to do any cleaning. I can just email, post, look through all my new magazines (I'm an addict when it comes to them; I think it's the glossy covers and so much promise of things inside).

I lost 3 lbs at TOPS this week. Back to where I started the year at...time to get get busy and get those scales in a downward fashion each week. I want to be at 229 by the end of the year. I'm at 246 now.

Hubby just said breakfast is ready, so I'll see you all later.

Love,
Susie

Hello,
The board is very quiet this weekend. I find that the weekends are the times that I can post regularly. That's the way it is, what works for some doesn't work for others and I think it's important to remember that as we work our own plans and race for that 199.

I woke up this morning and went on a 2 mile walk and did some ab work. It felt great to get up and move. I just woke up from my nap (I love to nap on Sunday afternoons!) and I thought about getting me a snack that would tie me over until we get out of church this evening and go for dinner, but I asked myself if I was eating because I was hungry and the answer was no, I was eating in speculation of hunger..so I didn't have a snack. I decided to come and check out the board and my email. I feel like I won the victory for the day!

Hope everyone is having a great day as well. See you later.
Susie

Hi Everyone. Sheesh, it sure is quiet. I hope that means that everyone is have a great long weekend. I went to the doctor for my kidney issues and have to go through a bunch of tests. He suspects a few different kidney diseases that would explain the protein in my urine but nothing difinitive until all of the tests are done including a kidney biopsy. I'm a bit freaked out about it but I am keeping a positive attitude. We are having a quiet weekend at home doing some much needed yardwork and home repair. Things fall apart quick when things get busy for us at work. My eating has been about 50/50. Yesterday was a real lazy day for me. One of the new medications that the doctor prescribed knocked me for a loop but I managed to eat just fine all day. Today has been much better. Water (seltzer) is always great and exercise is also 50/50. Today I worked hard. I fear a gain this week though. I have until Wed. to really buckle down. Stress and goldfish... not a great combo. The good thing for me is that I haven't been putting too much pressure on myself to be the perfect dieter and I haven't been beating myself up. There was a time when I was merciless to myself in that way. That is real progree for me.

Susie- It is great to hear from you. I was wondering where you were. CONGRATS ON THE 3 POUNDS!!! WOOHOO!!!
I was wondering if you got your new car and what you got. There is nothing like a new car.

I hope eveyone is having a great weekend.
Sue

Hi gals,
Saturdays news~A perfectly dreamy day.
I had coffee out on my porch swing, journalled and DH made breaky. I got right out into the yard. It was 22C(74F), a crisp blue sky with big fluffy clouds, no trucks, kids swinging happily, Hubby splitting wood in the shed. I dug a new 8 ft bed and moved 3 3 year old shrubs from the back to the front south side, watered and mulched them. A sparrow bathed in the sprinkler.
I took a break on my swing, chugged lots o water and closed eyes and felt the sun on my face. I had a rockin steamy hot shower and headed out to the wedding.I was sooo excited to see S(the bride).
She and her bro(M) had the worst childhood ever.They had lived on their own since he was 14, she was 16. At 18 and 20 I gave them jobs in my company and they just blossomed. She is now a nurse and her bro is a head chef. He catered the wedding. It is hard to believe they are 30 and 32 now.
It was just so warm and fuzzy to see them. I got home at 8:30 and hubby went to a party with the “old guys” back in the bush.
I cuddled with my babies and they went to bed without a hitch. They had cleaned up all the toys to surprise me!!!!
I loved that!!
I just went out and picked mint out of the garden for some tea and tingled from head to toe with sheer bliss. What an incredible blessed life I have.
I just had a lighthearted online chat with a friend from BC .
Oh happy sigh.
We are having a few families over for a BBQ tomorrow. Another happy sigh.

Happy. Happy. Happy!!!!!

happy....happy

Sunday's news~ Pretty darn dreamy too.
Had coffee out on my porch swing. Did a power clean through the house. We had 6 families for the potluck 11 kids racing about.It was a real mixed up gang from hither and yon so the conversation was great. Dinner was yummy. We had a campfire.
I just settled in and ate some pie, oops!
Very tired today. Looking forward to a light load tomorrow. Just DS's laundry to do for back to school.

Big happy YAWN!! No more PIE!!

A Day of rest....REALLY!!
Everyone was gone by 10pm. Our kids were wiped down and tossed into bed. DH was asleep in seconds. I read mags til midnight in my CLEAN house.
I slept in til 9:30 am!!!!!!!!!!!!! Decadence.
I just made back bacon and eggs for breaky. I had small portions. I was hankerin for pie for breaky but didn’t do it. Jumble berry pie! MMMMM! DH better eat it quick.
The tough love has been great with the kids. Yesterday was geat with DS only one conflict and he was equally matched.He handled the discipline with grace. Yeah DS!!
He is calm today and excited about school tomorrow.
My new boy starts tomorrow too. He is a high energy kids who gets labeled but is really a sweety. A lot like my son. He was at the same sitter since he was 6 months and the sitter didn’t like him or the parents. Can you imagine all that negative energy. The poor kid. He was getting sick to his tummy when he had to go there. He is a perfect playmate for my son and then DS wont bug the other kids here as much. A win win situation.
They were here yesterday and the Dad got all choked up telling me how happy he was for his son to be here.
I have to do 3 loads of wash today and get the kitchen organized for packing lunches again.
I WILL eat clean all day.

My focus this week is to get organized for canning. I am 3 weeks behind but I will still be able to get some peaches, tomatoes and cucs.I skipped blueberries.
My Avon order comes in tomorrow moring as well. I will have 18 orders to pack and deliver.It is like Christmas every 3 weeks here.
110 Days

14 Hours

18 Minutes ... til Christmas.

It is 10:42 and I haven’t cleaned a darn thing!!!!! No one has whined at me either. Gosh, I am easy to please.
it is a perfect 17C, 64F!!! Sun is shining and a light breeze!

Oh,I need to make 1 more SS schedule. Piece of cake. Or Jumble berry pie.

Have a glorious holiday Monday you north american chicks. Happy day to everyone !!!!

Hello Everyone,
It's been a lazy day here. Slept late...laid in bed and read for about an hour after I got up.

Paid some bills this morning. Starting to plan the packing list for the trip. We are leaving on Wed morning for a few days in Nashville.

I'm meeting my workout partner for a walk in about an hour.

That's how the day is going. Doing well with the food and since the exercise is planned.

Sue: You asked about my car. I got a new one a week ago. It's a 2006 Hyundia Sonneta...I love it! It's white with a moon/sun roof, beige interior...very classy looking.

Well..I must go get some clothes out of the dryer.

Susie

Hello all,

Well the long weekend is over and for some reason I am kind of depressed about it…..I guess it is back to work tomorrow and no real break no until Thanksgiving. I get this way every year…I will go to work tomorrow and get busy and be ready to go again!

Didn’t do tooooooo bad this weekend, didn’t count calories like I do every other day, but I was pretty good, just watched it and didn’t stress…..so on to a new goal!!!!

Better get ready for work!
Lilybutt

Good morning everyone,
Sorry I was MIA all weekend. It was DH 4 day w-end. He is all consuming...LOL. He's off every other w-end, and every 10 weeks he's off for a 4 day w-end. We eat out a lot then. I have very little self control then. I've really been trying hard. What I'm getting to is I had a bad food w-end. I WI tonite at curves so we will see how much damage I've done.
I did buy some new jeans the next size smaller. I'm now in a 24 and they aren't tight.

Holly: Your w-end sound dreamy. You live your life to the fullest. :).

Lily: HI :)


Susie: CONGRTS!! :) FANTASTIC LOSS.
3lbs gone forever.

Jodi: I'm glad you stopped in. We really enjoy hearing from you. Sound like all is going well. (((HUGS)))

I better go they are wanting me to start b-fast. I love my men. Both DS's can cook and fend for themselves but DH is totally clueless in the kitchen.

Everyone have a bless day.