Good morning everyone!! We are home!!!! I have mixed feelings about that. It is good to be "home" but I think I am even more determined to move to Phoenix!!! If DH gets his job we will have alot to iron out as far as how we are going to make this happen!!! He should find something out this week. He is also still continuing to look for other jobs as well. He seems to have a good feeling about this and seems to think they will offer it to him. Time will tell I guess!!! I'm trying to figure out what we need to do to the house to get it ready to put on the market. It is only 2 1/2 years old but we will still have a few things to do to get it ready. YUK!! I don't know if we will try to sell it on our own for a while or if we will list it with an agent. I hate realtors!!!!! UGH!!!! I can't let this stress get the best of me.

Well,on another note I did manage to maintain my weight loss while I was gone which is a good thing, so I am very happy about that. I am starting back on WW today since I really haven't been on it since we left.

I'm looking forward to getting back on a routine and schedule.

It is time for me to take DS to summer school. We went at 8:45 to find out they changed the time to 10:30 while we were gone. I will try and get pics of the trip posted tonight.

Take care!! It's good to be back!!!

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Thanks aphil! I knew that but I wasn't sure how many others use the email notification.

Hi Val! I know where to find our thread! (But I've been wondering, too, it people were having trouble.)

I'm up early, because my son decided it was time to get up at 4:25 this morning. Ugh. I should be working on my midterm essays, since the kids gave me problems till late last night and I ended up falling asleep trying to get Evan back down at around midnight. ...sigh...I wonder how I'm going to get everything done that I need to for that class!

Paige, glad your back! You have so much to think about! Kind of exciting, huh!? Good luck sorting it all out. I guess a lot will depend on whether your husband gets that job. Try not to worry too much until you know if he's got it or not.

Well, I do need to get to that school work, while Evan's occupied with a movie.

Stress!!!!! DH got the job!! It is a good offer but I don't know what to do!!!! I feel like it is up to me to make this decision. I know Dh wants it but the cost of living is sooooooooo high and a house would cost us 200-300 hundred thousand more for something similar to what we have here!!!! I just can't imagine how we can swing that. Then I would probably be a single parent for about a year, because our house would need to sell, I have to get certified in Arizona and find a job!!!! Ugh!!! Then to top it off I think I have a hernia and it would require surgery!!! I go to the doc in the morning to check it out. I am so freakin' stressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My head is pounding and I know my BP is running high because I don't handle stress well!!!!! I'm not good at making these kinds of decisions...I can tell other people what to do but when it comes to myself forget it! I just can't think straight with this headache!!!

Well I am going to raid the cabinet for some Tylenol. I'll check back later!

I had trouble getting up this morning, but once I got going it was OK. I feel really good this morning! I mean really, really good! I wish I could wake up feeling like this everyday. After I got going I actually curled my hair and put make-up on today I am also wearing a new skirt that I bought with some birthday money way back in May. It is above the knee, white, and straight. I got it at Old Navy, and I'm wearing a navy blue v-neck tee with cap sleeves, and my flip flops. Nothing fancy by any means, just casual and comfortable. But I feel good and I feel like I look nice. Hmm...maybe that has had an affect on my mood. Maybe if I got up every morning and actually took time to "get ready" I would feel like this. I may have to try a little experiment with that. Usually I'm so tired (not a morning person) that I allow myself to lie in bed until the last possible moment before I get up throw something on and rush out the door, and I usually make myself a little late doing that.

Andrea, its so good to know that you are here. I miss your long posts, but I know that right now you need to work on your class when you have time. Also, I realize with the kids it is not often that you have time. I'll be here hanging around whenever.

Paige, how exciting (and stressful)!! Congratulations on your hubby's new job!! I know it is going to be crazy for you for a while but hang in there and it will all work out!! If you catch yourself getting too stressed take a deep breath and slow down. We don't want you getting sick. Oh geez, I almost forgot...GOOD FOR YOU.... that you were able to maintain your loss while you were away!!! WAY TO GO!!

Kim, where are you? I hope all is well with you and your family and we hear from you soon.

Although these may be a little late here is a link to some of the pictures I took of Jacob in his tux before prom. http://journals.aol.com/vapasley/Momof3/entries/252

Holy Cow!! I never expected when I logged on this morning that my post from yesterday afternoon would be the last one here. Hellooooo......do I hear an echo.........

I guess I'm just talking to myself.

Good Morning!!

Val- I know how you feel. I get back from vacation and everyone disappears!!!!

Well, this has been such a stressful week!!! Trying to get back on a routine after being gone is hard enough..... We decided not to accept the job offer in Phoenix. We are still planning to go but it would just have been too hard to do it now. I would be a single parent for a year and have to handle selling the house and keeping it in "show" condition and work on my AZ certification. Just too much!!!!! We are going to put the house on the market after Christmas and then in the meantime I am going to take two online classes that I need on Arizona and the constitution, get my fingerprint card, and take the two exams that I need...one for teaching and one for principal certification. That way I can be certified when I start looking for a job in the spring. I won't move unless I have an admininstrative job. I have worked too hard to get were I am professionally to go back to the classroom and teach. Once I have a job then we will move and DH will find something once we get there. That is the plan for now.

I also went to the doctor this morning and I have an umbilical hernia. So I am waiting for the surgeons office to call me this week to schedule an appointment with him. She also put me on blood pressure medicine and I have to go back and see her next week for a physical. Then she is moving to San Deigo so I will have to start seeing someone new after next week. When I was at the doctors office this morning I was so embarrased my kids looked like I had just beat them. Cameron has a bite mark on his cheek that he got from the dog this morning. He deserved it!!! Then Hannah fell out of bed last night and hit her nose on her toy box. So she has a swollen nose with a bruise and a swollen upper lip. It is always something!!!!!!!

Also on Monday while I was at the store the water company came and shut the water off. DH didn't mail the bills while I was gone, he didn't even open any mail...it was all waiting for me....along witht he notice that the water would be shut off if not paid by the 3rd!!!!!! So I had to take care of that with a reconnection fee of $50.

And the doctor wonders why I have high blood pressure!!!!!!!!

The good news is that I am back on plan and doing well....I am still so surprised that I didn't gain any weight on vacation!!!!

Well it is time to take DS to his reading class. I'll check back later to see if anyone has been around.

Paige it sounds like you had quite a day! I hope everything goes well with the hernia. Maybe things will settle down a bit now that you have decided to move, but not right away. I can't believe your water got shut off!! Men you just can't count on them for anything. Still I would call the water co. and see if they can't waive the reconnect fee for a good customer who was away and made a boo-boo. It might work.

I am on my second week back on phase 1 of the SBD and things are going really good. I was a little pressed for time yesterday and didn't eat as much as I should have or drink as much water as I should, but I also didn't slip up and eat anything that I shouldn't. I am excited to see what the scale will say on Monday. Not that I haven't been stepping on the scale nearly every morning, but I only take seriously my Monday weigh-in.

Guess I should get some work done and maybe an entry into livejournal since I've been neglecting that.

Ok, this weekend was really busy, DD played in a softball tournament that kept us away from home all day Saturday and we celebrated her birthday on Sunday with family over and then going to the mall so she could spend some of her birthday money. After the mall the softball team I am playing on had a 2 1/2 hour practice. Anyway all of that is my excuse for not staying on plan this weekend. So my weight didn't go up or down this week. I'm still hovering at 183. I am a bit disappointed in myself for letting it happen, but I'm right back on plan today. I am going to start phase one of the SBD over again today and stick with it!!! I am not going to allow myself to sabotage my efforts when I've been doing so well.

Our little group here seems to be falling apart. I miss everyone and hope that you all come back soon.

WOW! I am here Val, but where is everyone else??? I expected to have 10 pages to read!!! Loved the pictures of Jacob! Was that senior prom?

Well, I am leaving in a couple days to go to the mountains. I am feeling a little guilty though...My son is in Montana for a mission trip with the youth at our church.....my daughter was SUPPOSED to go on vacation with some friends to Florida this week as well, which was why my hubby and I decided to take a trip while they were gone....well, My daughter is not going on her trip.......she is staying with her grandmother.......I feel like we should be taking her....but that would defeat the whole purpose of our trip...am I making sense???

Paige....good luck with everything..you certainly have your plate full. And now you will have to change doctors. I hate that. There is nothing worse than having to switch doctors. We have played that game many times. Not a fun one. I have high blood pressure too. I have to take meds daily to control it. I can tell if I don't take it cause I get headaches like crazy. I hope the hernia ends up being something simple. If there is such a thing. Really....Is anything ever simple? Keep us updated though.

I can not believe this is the first post since Val on the 15th!!!

Oh, I decided to wait till we finish our trips (first week in August) to start back on SBD. I can't do Phase 1 traveling..I could do phase 2, but not 1. So that puts me restarting when we get back. I can't wait though, especially after reading Vals reports about restarting!!!

Hi Ladies! Its a blast from the past! I am still alive. Been really busy plannin my july 4th party for my friends and reduing my sons room. I am still looking for a job. Haven't been on program tho but just been too busy to eat. I was shocked to see that I lost 4lbs instead of gainiing it but went to my grandmothers 90th bday party and when i saw the pics of me, I felt like a cow so I am implementing the weight watcher program again even thinking about going back to my meetings. not sure. still looking for a job. Nothing came up yet. Trying to talk hubby into selling the business and getting a job for someone but he hasn't made a deicsion yet.

How is everyone doing? What is the update on everyone? Too much to ready back. Hope all is well with everyone! Talk soon, have to find something to make for dinner!

Well I'm glad to see that a few people are around today. I checked in over the weekend and no one had been here!!! It seems like threads go in stages and I guess with summer and people being gone it does tend to get quiet.

I have to meet with the surgeon on Aug. 8th about my hernia. The nurse at my doctors office didn't believe me when I told her I thought I had an umbilical hernia. She said only infants have those. Well I guess I proved her wrong!!! My doctor said I have more then likely always had this but it is just now becoming noticable. Just one more thing to stress about. I don't know what I would do with my time if I didn't have something to stress over!!!!

Karen- Glad your back! Don't be a stranger!

Andrea- WHERE ARE YOU!!!!! I hope you come back soon. I have been checking livejournal and your not there either!!!!!

Val- What a busy weekend!!! How did the court date go????? Remember that it is ok to maintain!!! And it couldn't have been that bad if you didn't gain!! Good luck starting Phase 1 again. I myself couldn't make it past the first few days, so I haven't even tried to do it again.

Kim-Enjoy your trip to the mountains!!! It's nice that you can get away without the kids!!!!!!!! You will come back with a renewed spirit to get back on plan.

I guess I need to go see what is for dinner tonight. Since I have been on vacation I have gotten out of my routine cooking spree on the weekend. Since I start back to work on Monday I guess I know what I will be doing this weekend!!!

Take care and I'll check back in later.