150 Club...care to join???

[Worfiedoodles]

But here's our plan...
Trip 1- England/Ireland
Trip 2- Holland/Austria/Switz/Germany/France
Trip 3- Italy
Trip 4- China/Japan

Tara

Tara, this all sounds fabulous! You certainly don't have to convince me this is a great idea. Not only will your kids get the benefit of history, they will also learn about travelling, other cultures -- all around it sounds terrific. I wish I had your imagination and vision to decide to see all those places.

Both of my degrees are in history, and I firmly believe that the analytical skills I have attained are rooted in an appreciation for studying the complex patterns that have shaped human life (there's my minor in anthropology asking for recognition, as well).

We also plan to travel to more places, both in and outside of the U.S. We are waiting until my ds7 is older, because I don't think he would appreciate it yet. With the foundation you have laid with your curriculum, I'm sure all the travel will be very memorable for your children.

We actually hope to "start small" in a couple of years, with a trip to DC. I'm there every summer for a conference, and I always have time to visit a few museums. Unfortunately, I always see miserable children and parents dragging from exhibit to exhibit. They are exhausted, miserable and bored (I know that now you think I'm going to argue with you, but I'm actually making your point). They are exhausted because they haven't planned well for 90 degree weather and humidity. They are miserable because they are touring in the heat of the afternoon, and they are determined to get to every museum on the Mall. They are bored because they haven't done any preparation, and don't appreciate what they are seeing unless it's the Hope Diamond.

Gee, does this sound like a family who hasn't prepared to go to Disney?! You are so many steps ahead! You obviously will plan to accommodate the weather of the season locally, you know that it's better to not see every attraction and end up exhausted, and your kids will have an appreciation for everything they see because they have studied it.

My ds asked to see the U.S.S. Constitution last weekend (about a 15 minute trip for us), and my dh wanted to just put him off. I agreed in principle (it's hot and it's tourist season), but I definitely want to take him in September. You have inspired me to get some books about the ship on his level and help him learn about it, so he really will be excited when we go. Thanks!

Maria

 

[westjones]

But here's our plan...
Trip 1- England/Ireland
Trip 2- Holland/Austria/Switz/Germany/France
Trip 3- Italy
Trip 4- China/Japan
Tara

This sounds so wonderful! You are doing a great job incorporating travel into homeschooling! BTW, I have a homeschool travel yahoo group that I moderate. It isn't real active, but the people who do post are pretty helpful. I got involved in this group while we were still homeschooling. That was our dream.....to travel with our kids as part of our homeschool lessons.....alas.......I just spent 4 hours over the past two days getting them registered and oriented at the middle school.

Seriously, though, one of my DDs and I just do not work well together, and our relationship is much better now that we are not together all the time. My other DD, we could be best friends. I know they are twins, but they are very different kids!

As for my diet.....we went clothes shopping for school at the mall and I discovered Jelly Belly Jelly Beans at the candy store.......has NOT been a good food day, BUT tomorrow is another day (and the jelly beans are gone.....I can't believe I forgot the girls now have braces and they can no longer eat Jelly Beans! That left them all for me and DH!

Debra

 

[chrismiss56]

Tara - LOVE THE PLANS - Do you need a baggage handler? Hoping to get to Ireland and England soon. And back to Italy. I have relatives in Germany and Austria so have visited a couple of times. Austria is one of my favorites!!

Debra - Honestly you have done so well that the Jelly Bellys were a reward I hope you enjoyed them...........

Maria - What type of career do you have? DD21 is getting her degree in History and Psych with a minor in Spanish. She is hoping to go onto to grad school for history. In a perfect fantasy world she would like to work at the Smithsonian in DC.....

I admire you ladies who homeschooled - I could never have the courage to do it. Did you get any formal training or support group for it? What made you decide to keep your kids at home? Was there ever an issue with socialization? I am fascinated by this concept. Very rare in the area where we live and the one family that I know who homeschooled all their children were "behind" when they put them in high school so in this case homeschooling did not benefit. Didn't know that family well enough to ask about it.

Off to make dinner in between sneezing and blowing my nose........ugh......sounds gross

Have a Magical Disney Day!!
Linda

 

[lmhall2000]

Maria! Ha!!!! Washington D.C. is saved for when mine are grown! That place overwhelms ME! I like to go to a place and see "most" of it so I don't have to return (exc. being Disney...it's just too much fun at all ages to miss the novelty of it all)...well D.C. is just so loaded with SOO much history and artifacts that I think we'd have to take 5 separate trips to do it justice. I think when we do hit D.C. we'll do a 2 week tour starting in Philadelphia, then going to Boston, and circle around to Williamsburg and only hit 2 museums at D.C....there's just no way to do it all there. Just focusing on the museums dealing with the 1700's and let that be that...space and flight and all that will just have to wait!

We're very gentle travelers...we spend more time at parks having picnics than running in and out of tourist spots...a typical day for us is hitting the museum early in the morning...packing a picnic lunch and people watching or just meeting the locals and having the kids make friends in a new place. A neat thing about London is you can actually request a home that has children your ages and get to stay in their "extra rooms" but live with them as if it's your home...I think that would be neat to see how a family lives in central London...they'd know all the "ins" and outs of locals and could really make lasting relationships...

Debra..my kids are still at the age where their mom is a saint! But, I'll have a bowl of fun when they're all teenagers at the same time!!! eeek! I bet your daughters will benefit from getting a new perspective and it's good for them to have new experiences (I've had several friends who said their children respected them so much more after going to school and realizing all their mom actually did for them) I'd love to check out your yahoo group...send me a link! I've actually contacted a few "home-edders" in London about house-swapping...I think that would be cool, too! We'll be finishing up WW2 this year and seeing the sites of where London was bombed and all that will be amazing..we take so much for granted being protected by that ocean.

The great thing about jelly beans is NO FAT!!! So look at it that way! I'm unlucky in that jelly beans hold no value for me because they're not loaded with fat AND sugar....give me a big fat brownie anyday! I did okay today...did have a cheat of Lorna Doone shortbread cookies from a vending machine...the girls gym class went long and I was STARVING!!! Note to self, never allow yourself to get caught out with change and no options for good foods..keep peanuts in your purse! Honestly, that vending machine had NOTHING that was good! No pretzels or chex or anything...had a salad for lunch and a piece of homemade bread for dinner...I'm bloated from TOM and can't bring myself to eat much tonight. That's a change!

Anyone else notice the last day of your period that your appetite is not there?

Day four of walking tomorrow..I think I've created a habit guys!!! I don't even dread it any more...I LOOK FORWARD TO IT!!!

Tara

 

[westjones]

I admire you ladies who homeschooled - I could never have the courage to do it. Did you get any formal training or support group for it? What made you decide to keep your kids at home? Was there ever an issue with socialization? I am fascinated by this concept. Very rare in the area where we live and the one family that I know who homeschooled all their children were "behind" when they put them in high school so in this case homeschooling did not benefit. Didn't know that family well enough to ask about it.

Linda

Well, Linda, we gave up homeschooling 9 months ago, but we homeschooled K-the start of 5th grade.

What gave me the courage, well to be honest I was never afraid to homeschool. I loved the idea of having more time with my girls. I knew they would be my only children, so I wanted to make the most of our time together.

The other reason we wanted to homeschool is so we could travel and not be tied to a school schedule. My girls have been so many places here in the U.S. (and a few outside the U.S. as well). I envy their childhood!

Did I have formal training? No, not for teaching children. I taught at a University (Ball State) for the school of business before I quit to homeschool them (they still have a vague memory of visiting my classroom one night when I was teaching, but that seems so long ago). I have an MBA and DH has a PhD, but to be honest, these things did not prepare us to 'teach' our children. That is why I picked a video school for us to use (we used A Beka and then the last two years we used BJ Academy videos). With the videos the teacher explains everything and gives the assignments, I just had to grade them and help them with what they didn't know.

As for being behind at school, that wasn't a problem at all. In fact, it helped that my kids were ahead of the school because that made the work less difficult for them as they got use to the 'being in school' situation.

As for socialization, my kids are VERY social. They love being with other kids. I started a homeschool Girl Scout troop and those girls were as tight as sisters, and we did SO much (took them to Chicago to the American Girl Place one time, that was such a memory! We camped, we went swiming, we did sleepovers, we went to Disney on Ice, we did so much, that I can't even go over it all!). They also have a co-op group that they could do classes with other homeschoolers. My girls also had friends at church and in our neighborhood (there are kids around their age up and down our street and they spend a lot of time outside with the other kids). So social time was never a problem.

My girls and I will both say we loved our years together. They decided (and DH and I agreed) that they wanted to experience school. Yesterday was registration and they were so nervous they were asking if they could homeschool again, but after going to the school and seeing friends there, they are excited about starting next week.

For the elementary years, I wouldn't trade our time together for anything. The only reason I see for them going to school now is they want to be 'part' of the school like the other kids in our area they know. They want to be on the basketball team and in the swing choir and the dance team and hang out at lunch with their buddies.

I will say that I am not quite as comfortable teaching middle and high school, like I was with grade school, so it all worked out (so far).

But if I were to have another child, I would homeschool grade school again. Those years for us were great! We have just reached a new stage in our lives and they want some 'space' (and I am fine with that).

Debra

 

[westjones]

Debra..my kids are still at the age where their mom is a saint! But, I'll have a bowl of fun when they're all teenagers at the same time!!! eeek! I bet your daughters will benefit from getting a new perspective and it's good for them to have new experiences (I've had several friends who said their children respected them so much more after going to school and realizing all their mom actually did for them) I'd love to check out your yahoo group...send me a link! I've actually contacted a few "home-edders" in London about house-swapping...I think that would be cool, too! We'll be finishing up WW2 this year and seeing the sites of where London was bombed and all that will be amazing..we take so much for granted being protected by that ocean.
Tara

Tara,
Here is the link to the group I moderate for Homeschool Travel:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschool_travel/

It is a quiet group most of the time, but very friendly and helpful and will get a little chatty from time to time, but not overwhelming by any means!

My kids are realizing more and more what I did for them. They LOVE telling others they were homeschooled . They have been told by kids at school that they have over protective parents, and they tell me that makes them feel SO good. They like knowing that I am watching over them VERY carefully even though they are venturing out a bit more from our little homeschool (side note, my screenname westjones comes from the name of our homeschool: The West Jones Academy --in Indiana a homeschool is considered a private school, so we named our school the first year, and that is how I got my screen name ).

Your trip to England sounds SO good! I hope we get a trip report!

Debra

 

[RF536]

All this talk about travel sound like a lot of fun. Unfortunately our travel plans do not include leaving the US any time soon. I rarely went on vacation growing up, while DH's family took a 4-6 week vacation every summer. His Mom would find out what the kids would be learning the following year, and plan the vacation around that. I hope that as the kids grow, we are able to take yearly trips and see most if not all the the US since there is so little I have seen.

This week is going fairly well eating wise, the only set back is the TOM is due here any day and I am always very hungry for 2-3 days before hand. Exercise is not going as well, I think I will spend this week focusing on my eating and than add exercise next week.

This is another camping weekend for us. We are going to the Grand Haven area and camping with my parents. We will also be taking the kids on a sand dune ride. The kids always think it is so neat when they wake up in the morining and my Mom and Dad are in the trailer with us.


Regina

 

[lmhall2000]

Regina! I LOVE LOVE LOVE camping...so far in almost 13 years of marriage I've coaxed my husband into about 4 camping trips...but he loved each one, I'm hoping we can do more of it this fall...it's just tooo hot here in AL to camp during the summer...I love Fall and Spring camping. Let us know how it goes!!! And you'll get plenty of hiking opp's so enjoy the great outdoors and wear good walking shoes!

Debra! Oh, how I so agree about being certified to homeschool...I know families with high school educations that do a far more advanced version of homeschooling than I can imagine at this stage! I have my bachelor's in sciences (pre-med)...so I took a hodge podge of all sciences/labs/math courses and feel confident teaching those but homeschooling for us has turned out not to be about how we do it as why we do it. When I first started out I had a different perspective of what "schooling" at home should look like...I essentially was trying to put my experience with education into my home. I had all the work sheets/learning centers/manipulatives all set up and looking cool...but now on our 5th year I realize that we're not doing 'school' at home...we're just loving to learn.
We school 6 weeks on and one week off Jan-Dec. We spend about 3 hours a day doing our work...the only seat work we do is math and grammar (meaning worksheet style)...we have an art teacher that comes in once a week and teaches at our home with 3 other families children...I teach Latin once a week with 2 other families...we do history, Chemistry, poetry, reading, Bible....we don't do reading comprehension sheets, we just read great books off of good lists then talk about them and the characters and create our own books...each child creates a book for that school year....last year my son had a 10 chapter book he illustrated and I narrated....we use those books to showcase their language skills and creativity and compare them year to year. It's a very gentle approach and when they get excited about a book we're reading for example "My Side of the Mountain" and want to see what it's like to live off the land....then we'll take a few days and try to find things we saw in the books. We make chicken mummies while studying Ancient Egypt, we made a castle with sugar blocks while studying medieval...we tried to paint like Da Vinci for the Renaissance and Monet for the Impressionists....we started out homeschooling for my son's health...terrible asthma...and now we homeschool because we enjoy it so much and can get so much more out of our lives....they have time to be children and they have time to volunteer for community service projects without feeling strapped for free time. Socialization is the last of my worries...they play with their friends almost daily and make friends wherever they go. Between all the extracurricular activities..the homeschool groups here have holiday parties and field trips weekly if you want to participate.
I was one of those who thought homeschoolers were a fringe sect out there...NEVER even thought of doing it...but circumstances made me check it out and it's completely different than anything I could have imagined...and it's different across the board. It's not all bluebirds singing and fair flowers growing, it is hard work...but I had my time to work in the corporate sector...it trained me to be very organized and efficient....but if my kitchen sink isn't clean by school time...it just waits for me. And if it's a beautiful day out we may just pack up our books and head to a park with a quilt and have school outside or just skip school for that day. I have 220 school days in our calendar so we have about 40 days to play with like that. We get our work done in a year's time but we're very flexible about it.

Okay, I used to be in sales, so you know I've got that salesman in me that could try and sell homeschooling to anyone...but I'm here to LOSE THIS WEIGHT!!! And I tell you, making exercise and good eating habits is just as important as any subject matter our kids will learn in school...I can see a big difference in my son with his football practices...he's seen me stick to this marathon walking and I do feel better for it...but he also saw me make homemade fudge topping for ice cream last night...yes, I skipped dinner and had that! UGH! It was my last day of TOM so I sent him off with a bang. I'm using the next two days before weigh in to drink my water and flush that chocolate out!

Man, this walking everyday is really revving up my appetite!!! I know I'm burning more calories but I need to be taking less in to reap the rewards of fitting into that dress! So let's kick it team!!! I WANT TO SEE THE 160's!!!!!

Tara

 

[lajones81]

Good morning!

My body is crazy! I thought it would take me a couple of weeks to get back onto a school schedule, but it took less than a week. That works for me, though! In the summer, I usually go to bed around 1am...I have way to much fun! LOL! Most of my friends are other teachers so it's wonderful in the summer that we can all get together, which is very rare during the school year.

Anyways, yesterday I woke up at 6am and thought that I should just get started at school. I got there about 7am and left about 6pm! Yes, I know it was a long day, but if school were to have started today I would be ready. I'm taking the rest of the week off and will go back next week to start my lesson plans. However, I'll readily admit that I still want my summer!

As for exercise, I am counting my cleaning because I cannot tell you how many stairs I've climbed, how many steps I took in the building, etc. Our building has a basement (where I teach) and a first and second floor. It was originally a one-room schoolhouse back in the day, but has (of course) since been expanded. So to get from point A (my room in the back of the school) to point B (the office in the front of the school) takes you a good five minutes. Also, to get from my room to the gym and music classrooms takes you about 7-10 minutes. Let's just say that all this cleaning will be good practice for when school starts!

Oh, I think someone asked when I start back...I go back for teacher institute 8/22 and 8/23, the kids come for meet your teacher day on 8/24, and school officially starts on 8/25. I got my class list and am excited as I've been told I have a nice group of kids. I'm still too new in the school to know a lot of the families, but I'll have my first sibling this year! Woo hoo! It will be interesting for sure!

Well, I'm starving for some deliscious, fresh summer fruit! Yum, yum!

Have a great day everyone!

Lisa

 

[westjones]

I was one of those who thought homeschoolers were a fringe sect out there...NEVER even thought of doing it...but circumstances made me check it out and it's completely different than anything I could have imagined...and it's different across the board. It's not all bluebirds singing and fair flowers growing, it is hard work...but I had my time to work in the corporate sector...it trained me to be very organized and efficient....but if my kitchen sink isn't clean by school time...it just waits for me.
Tara

Tara,
You sound like my 'twin'! I also spent a LOT of years in the corporate world (putting DH through grad school, and my company paid for my MBA--over $20,000....so that really worked out). I only taught at the university after my girls were born and I became a stay at home mom (I taught part time while DH came home at lunch to watch them or I taught evening classes). So I had my time in business suits and traveling to meetings here and there and well, as much as I liked it (and I did), I wanted a quieter life for us once we had the kids.

ANYWAY, you are also right that we are here to talk about losing weight. If anyone else is interested in learning more about homeschooling or talking to other DIS Board members who are homeschooling, there is a new thread that is very active that you should check out. They are TRYING to get a special board just for DIS Homeschoolers, so feel free to jump on the thread and keep it active (the Mods are looking into getting a new board for this topic). Here is the link to the homeschool thread:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=840970&page=1&pp=15

As for 'dieting' and losing weight, the Jelly Belly Jelly Beans didn't seem to hurt me too much from yesterday. No weight gain today, so I skated by that one! We are probably going out to eat tomorrow night, so I am going to try very hard to be good today and tomorrow.

Hope everyone is having a great week! I am SO proud of all of you who exercise! I keep telling myself I will do that once the girls go back to school, but we will see (I really HATE exercise, or should I say, I really HATE getting sweaty! So I am going to try walking and hope that it isn't too bad).

Have a great day everyone!
Debra

 

[chrismiss56]

Morning all.........

Well the scale has been kinder since Spain Have lost 2 1/2 lbs......probably helps that I am drinking my water, back on a regular eating schedule and have a bad bad cold. Going to the doctor this morning - pretty sure this is a sinus infection - drugs are a wonderful thing when you feel this way

Thanks for the education on home schooling.........fascinating.........but with older kids not something I will be pursuing

Lisa - Sounds like you got your exercise in!! I asked my girlfriend who lives in Long Grove where your school is and she couldn't tell me. Are you right in town where the craft stores are?

Regina - I hear you - TOM will be here next week in time for Disney World double UGH!! Hopefully the pixie dust will make it a good week.

Just focusing on pushing the liquids and getting lots of rest. This cold is really knocking me for a loop...........

To all have a GREAT Thursday..........keep moving and losing.

Wonder how Kathy is doing? Does anyone know when she was having surgery?

Have a magical Disney day!!
Linda

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Hi!

For those of you scratching your heads at that title, it's a variation of my favorite movie at the JFK Library, "The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days that Shaped a President". Now, my situation is of course not that dire, but I do need a rude awakening because in 13 days, I will be fitting my behind in an airplane seat.

Every time we have out of town visitors, we take them to the JFK Library. So, I have seen this film many times. For those of you not alive at the time (me, too!), or not familiar with it, a synopsis (and apologies for any errors). U.S. military photos of Cuba revealed that Soviet missiles had been placed in Cuba, putting them in shouting distance of Florida. Since this was definitely perceived as a threat, JFK had some decisions to make. With lots of help from brother Bobby and his staff, he told Kruschev (that would be the leader of the USSR at the time), that he needed to remove those missiles, or we would basically point something really big at them or even, well, take Cuba. Khruschev said no. We said no back. And, finally when we were really going to have to act, Khruschev blinked, and the world was safe for democracy.

JFK earned his stripes in the area of U.S. foreign policy, and that was the end of overt Soviet aggression right off of U.S. borders.

So, I too have 13 days left before my vacation. I had a sobering visit to the scale this morning, and I realized that it's now or never if I want to weigh less before we go.

Day1: Problem identified. Maria realizes that time is truly running out. She vows to drink all the water and more, treadmill daily, and continue the no eating after 8 p.m. rule. Also, actually count the points each day -- yep, all the points. Not just the ones I'd like to remember.

Stay tuned for Day2: We need a master plan to get through this!

I am really impressed by all of you that homeschool. I think it's fascinating, and you should all be proud of your efforts on behalf of your children.

Lisa -- you are a cleaning whirling dervish! Forgive me, I've forgotten what grade you teach. I hope they are young enough that they think you know everything

Tara -- I am so proud of you for all that walking! Exercise makes me hungry, too! I decided that even if it's so hot all I can do is walk, I'm getting on the treadmill every day until we leave. I just have to. You are my inspiration. If you can do it at 4:30 in the morning, I can do it at 4:30 in the afternoon! I will be married 13 years next May, it's an odd number to say, isn't it?

Regina -- My parents idea of vacation when I was a kid was to check out every historical site in the great state of Missouri. We camped all over. I even earned "camping" patches from the Missouri Department of Conservation because we stayed in so many state parks and I did all the requisite activities.

Linda -- My career has involved administration and advancement for government and non-profit agencies. While I was in grad school I worked for the Illinois Police Training Board, creating their newsletter and working on federal funding applications. Then I started fresh out of grad school with the City of St. Louis in historic preservation. After that I ran a CDC (community development corporation) which focused on neighborhood development. When we moved to Boston I worked for the Girl Scouts, recruiting and training leaders, and running fundraising campaigns. I left that position and began managing government contracts at an organization which provided housing and re-entry services for ex-offenders, MR (mentally retarded) individuals, and youth in the custody of the Commonwealth. Then I worked as their associate director of development, and finally I have come to be in charge of acquisition and retention of government funding for the largest homeless services agency in New England. My work does not relate directly to "history", but I do an awful lot of analysis and writing. My agency has programs that provide every service imaginable to the homeless, and I work on funding most of them, including building affordable housing. I'm very lucky in that I genuinely love my work, and find it challenging. My MA is actually in Public History, which is what your dd should look into if she wants to work for the Smithsonian. Public History includes historic preservation, archives, oral history, museum studies, etc. Since I turned out to be good at the writing, acquiring funding aspect(trust me,even if you are teaching you can't work in a "historical" field without it), I've pretty much run with it. It might not look like the most logical progression, but I'm so happy I ended up where I am! Working in a non-profit provides me with incredible flexibility, and well, I guess I've rambled more than enough! I'd be happy to answer any questions your daughter has about Public History, just pm me.

O.k., that's more than eough for now...

 

[westjones]

So, I too have 13 days left before my vacation. I had a sobering visit to the scale this morning, and I realized that it's now or never if I want to weigh less before we go.

Maria,
Glad you are so motivated! Good Luck sticking to it over the next 13 days. I am a big believer in setting smaller goals along the way (if I had looked at the 60 pounds I needed to lose back on January 1st, I would have been overwhelmed and just given up, but someone on the WISH board came up with the idea to have 5 pound per month challenges, and for the past 7 months I have only be focused on that challenge....hoping to see 5 pounds gone by the end of the month, and that has worked for me--everyone has to find what works for them).

You can do it! Just promise to stick to it for the next 13 days! It isn't that long, and you will be surprised how good you feel once you do it!

Good Luck!
Debra

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Hi Linda!

I hope you feel better soon! Just keep drinking and get plenty of rest. I'll have TOM next week too, so I can commiserate. Take any and all drugs offered to you! Medical science is a wonderful thing.

 

[lmhall2000]

Just heard we have a contract offer on the house...no details yet...contract being delivered....no do I celebrate with food or do I just fall to my knees and pray this works out!!!

Kathy's surgery is today...let's be praying and sending good vibes her way!!!1

Tara

 

[westjones]

I was SO excited last night, but couldn't post because DD was on my computer all evening (both girls are into that new Virtual Magic Kingdom online game thing).

ANYWAY.....I found 100 Calorie a Bag Microwave Kettle Corn Popcorn!!!! I have been using the 100 calorie a bag butter flavored popcorn for my evening snack, but NOW they have it with the Kettle Corn flavor and it was GOOD! Just wanted to pass this along in case anyone else is enjoying those 100 calorie bag snacks!

Debra

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Just heard we have a contract offer on the house...no details yet...contract being delivered....no do I celebrate with food or do I just fall to my knees and pray this works out!!!

Kathy's surgery is today...let's be praying and sending good vibes her way!!!1

Tara

Two very worthy endeavors, and you both have my prayers! I suggest saving the feast for after closing...that's stressful enough you will have earned it! (Yes, I know this entire process has been ridiculously stressful, just trying to encourage you!)

 

[westjones]

Morning all.........

Well the scale has been kinder since Spain Have lost 2 1/2 lbs......probably helps that I am drinking my water, back on a regular eating schedule and have a bad bad cold. Going to the doctor this morning - pretty sure this is a sinus infection - drugs are a wonderful thing when you feel this way
Linda

I tend to get these too and they are awful! Get your prescription and get some rest. I usually takes me a couple of days to feel better once I start on the perscription. Take care of yourself.
Debra

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I was SO excited last night, but couldn't post because DD was on my computer all evening (both girls are into that new Virtual Magic Kingdom online game thing).

ANYWAY.....I found 100 Calorie a Bag Microwave Kettle Corn Popcorn!!!! I have been using the 100 calorie a bag butter flavored popcorn for my evening snack, but NOW they have it with the Kettle Corn flavor and it was GOOD! Just wanted to pass this along in case anyone else is enjoying those 100 calorie bag snacks!

Debra

Remember the Seinfeld episode about being "sponge worthy"? Well this is definitely newsworthy! I will be checking out the popcorn aisle. Gotta love the 100 calorie snacks. I'm hooked on those shortbread cookies!

 

[westjones]

Just heard we have a contract offer on the house...no details yet...contract being delivered....no do I celebrate with food or do I just fall to my knees and pray this works out!!!

Tara

I would say to start with prayer and then when you actually close on the house give a prayer of thanks and go out to eat to celebrate!

I so glad this is coming to a close for you. We have only been through it once, and I know I was so relieved once we closed on our old house.

I bet this is going to be a really good day for you!

Debra