I have to share the good news today. No, not just that my 4 girls are off to school at last, but this:
Ten lbs. gone, just 12.5 lbs more to go till my goal!
Love your quote, Jill! And a bigand
for your great 10k time! You DID rock it!
Enjoy the first day of school today!
It is the first day of school for DS, too. He is a freshman. I think he is ready as he got up voluntarily at 4:45 a.m. This will be the only time this year.
Jill -- great job on the race!!
Thanks!
thanks all for the compliments....my dress and my oldest DD dress both came from Goodwill
I have to share the good news today. No, not just that my 4 girls are off to school at last, but this:
Ten lbs. gone, just 12.5 lbs more to go till my goal!
Have a great day!
Hope I can get the basics done by then... and then I can get more detailed on them for Pirate Night on the Disney cruise! Man I will be disappointed if they switch the short cruises to the Pixar Party before then... I think it's just the 7-day Alaskan cruise. Not that a Pixar Party wouldn't be a blast, but a sad day for a costumer bringing the wrong costume.
Oh i love steampunk! In fact I'm incorporating a little into my costume. This is the jacket and the little octopus is going on the back just above the godet where there would've been two buttons. The jacket looks much better and more fitted on a person but that's the gist. Anyone know where you can get a cheap poet type shirt? Preferably cheap and thin as this is actually upholstery pleather and is going to be stifling!
Sometimes when I want to feel better, I think "meh, I'm only 2 stone too much..." But I can never seem to keep the conversion from coming into my head 
4.5 is GREAT!!
I will probably end up doing some cleaning, some laundry, some exercise, and then reward myself with some scrapping time and maybe even a little reading time! 
and I think partially 
. Especially when her calculus professor told them to expect to study at least 8 hours a week outside of class! This is on top of a 50 minute class 3 x week plus a 2 hour lab once a week! Um, hello?? She isn't a math major and she has other classes to study for as well! I guess I am forgetting how much studying there was in college (or perhaps I just never did that much studying ). But I'm sure she will do great. Her work study is going well so far (she was offered a "premium" work study job as a writing tutor that pays over minimum wage!!) and she has figured out already that she only needs to work 4 hrs a week to fulfill her max work study time, so that shouldn't be too hard.
LISA -- have fun at Disneyland!!!
tried to upload some photos from our cruise but only got one successfully.
DD - Paige; DD - Taylor; me; DH - Preston
Good morning friends! DS is off for the first day of 10th grade today and I am home alone! I have the whole day to myself to do whatever I want! I'm almost paralyzed with the possibilities!!
I hope you are all doing well. I know that August is a WASH for me as far as participating here, but I promise to step it up in September. I've missed chatting with you all daily and hearing about your victories and about your struggles. I miss hearing from the newbies! This is truly the most un-involved I've been with a WISH challenge in all of the years I've been active and I really miss it. But real life had to be attended to, of course.
DD is doing GREAT at school! She had her first day of classes yesterday and is partially
She has also managed to get to the pool every day it has been open so far, plus got in some walking and running when she can't swim. I think she is off to a great start taking care of herself (which is what I worried about most). I can't believe she has been gone for a week already!
Okay.... enough rambling here about me and my kids. Time to enjoy my day to myself. I will do a short bit of circuit training for exercise, then do a thorough scrubbing of my bathroom, make beds, and then it will be "me" time! Scrapping table, I know you've missed me, but here I come!!................P
How I envy you the ability to stay home, even if it is spent working your butt off every day. I know the Wonder Mutt would love the company! 
BUT, we are full BL swing here at work and I plan on winning this baby this time around. No second place for me! As racing season is ramping up, that should definitely help too. 
I'll be jumping back on the bandwagon for September which somehow is only 2 days away??!!?? Where the heck did the summer go????? 
Scrapping?? Oh yeah, that room full of stuff that's been collecting dust for WAY too long now!
I do realize how VERY lucky I am. I have only worked part-time per diem since the kids were born..... various at-home jobs when they were little and then in the school system once they were both in school all day. And then this summer I added my job with WW into the mix. But even with all of that, it still leaves me with some days at home (although it will be fewer and fewer as the school year ramps up). It has allowed me some wonderful advantages like a VERY flexible schedule. I have never missed a child's activity/event/game/meet unless it conflicted with the other child's schedule and I've been home with them for every school vacation. I can say "no" to my school job if I am too busy, not feeling well, or whatever. I don't love the job, but I love the flexibility, so I will be keeping the job for now.
That being said, we gave up lots of luxuries so that I could be home more. And I've always tried to make it "pay" being at home by making sure we didn't have to resort to convenience foods and/or fast foods, shopping sales, growing my own veggies, cutting coupons, hitting the thrift store.... lots of things I probably wouldn't have time to do if I was working full-time.
Like Pam, I've been super absent and haven't checked in nearly as much as I should have. It has shown up on the scale too!
