good news!

I promised at least a Tuesday update.  I had dreams that my first day with Alyssa and Franklin off to school would go much smoother… but alas, the day is wrapping up and I JUST sat down long enough to give you my results.

Can I get a drum roll…….

 

 

down -4.4 this week for a total of -5.2!!!

 

YES!!  I did good, I lost 4.4 this week!  So today at my meeting I got my star for my first 5 pound loss!!!  Woo Hooo!  The funny thing is that I was hoping to just not gain.  I had a fun weekend with the family in Williamsburg and I did track… well up to my second glass of wine Saturday night while we were playing “signs” with our teens.  I did track after that but it just didn’t seem to matter as much 😦

So I am really happy for that success!!  What I take with me for my concerns over my heavy feelings that attached themselves to me on Saturday… after one glass of wine I need to hide the bottle, mainly because EVERYTHING looks, tastes and smells YUMMY with a bit too much wine!  So maybe I will wait until I get my next milestone star to celebrate with ONE glass of wine with a friend… cuz Frank don’t hold with no wine drinking and I don’t hold up to temptation that well!

One other thing I am proud of myself for is the way I have curbed my “mindless eating”.  I have started chopping up a bell pepper, or carrots or rinsing some grapes or cherries and setting them at the dinner table.  Once I finish with my serving I reallllly and truly am not hungry but I sit there and eat while the husband and kids finish up or while we chat… so with the option of getting in a veggie or fruit serving I am saved from needless points!  I LOVE POWER FOODS!!

I do know that in the future you may not be requested to give me a drum roll, I may not get a star and I may need a “death knell” instead … nonetheless I feel I have truly started my weight loss journey and am so thankful for all of the outpouring of support and love from everyone!  I cannot say THANK YOU enough for all of the comments and prayers everyone left, here on WordPress as well as on my Facebook!!

Love you all so much!!

Now enough about my weight!  I would like to close this blog with a pic of my two “babies” going off for the first day of school!  It was weird to have two less smiles in the shot.  It was weird to have two faces still around after the van drove off.  Both Alyssa and Franklin came home with smiles and lots of info to share.  I have already done my homework and they theirs.  Senior and sophomore year here we come!!

Off to school!

 

Love and Hugs,

Latte

 

 

 

 

getting into the groove

Summer is nearly over.

The running around of summer… not quite.

When I got out of bed this morning my intent was to start getting back into my school year routine. Get all my ducks in a row and get motivated to get moving… now I am wanting to crawl back into bed and hide. I was sitting sipping my coffee and a certain young lady saunters over and we get to talking. I found out that we have a little different idea about what we should be doing during these last precious moments of summer.

The kids and I have different thoughts in regards to what the last few weeks of summer should be. I think I need to start back to a schedule and get focused on what this school year will hold for us. The kids are thinking they need to squeeze the very last drop of summer out of the days that are slipping past them.

What does that mean…

it means that I need to:
do school shopping
arrange all of the appointments we need to have done before we are fighting with school schedules…
it means I am tired (just thinking about it all) and I want to hide away with my family and just enjoy the calm before the storm

it means the kids want to:
go to the beach,
have sleepovers,
watch movies,
stay up late,
sleep in later,
run around my back yard conducting “science experiments”,
go to Busch Gardens,
go camping,
go shopping for everything BUT school paper,

it means
ultimately…
I will not be hiding away in my house.
I will be jumping into the school year AND finishing up the summer at the same time…

Hugs,
Latte

get it in my head

I have to get it in my head that I have a working computer! Not JUST a working computer … but a really nice one with lots of bells and whistles! I finally broke down and got a nice chair to make it comfy to get on the computer and maybe entice me to sit a while!

I have avoided my computer for so long … just so I don’t get depressed or even angry and start chucking random computer parts out the back door… well I have avoided it for so long that it is now going to take some hard work to get back into my regular computer habits!, Like BLOGGING… like FACEBOOK (okay I am only good at Facebook when I am avoiding life in general)… like working on my ETSY store! Ooh yeah and the yarn council finally completed the new crochet manual so I can finish my certification process!!

So my plan is to actually do what I have been saying and get back to working on “Puter” … and yes my sweet “Puter” does have a nice metallic, gun metal kinda surface… the name is also derived from the fact my kids, when they were little, used to ask if they could get on the “Puter” and play with their pets… what are the names of those stuffed animals that you buy and they come with a code so you can build them a house and feed them, and pet them, and name them?

At any rate … I say this as I am about to disappear again… GO CAMP IDLEWILD! Maybe my girls or Frank can guest blog for me… HA! Nadine did guest blog but she never did start her own.

For today I am proud to say I have gotten on “Puter”, blogged, and yes I have even checked my Facebook!

I want to leave you with a thought to get into your head:
As you go about your day today look around you for God’s presence. How is HE trying to show you just how amazing He is? What do you see around you that confirms His presence and causes you to acknowledge how worthy of your praise HE is? Grab that thought (or thoughts) and mull over them as you drift off to sleep tonight. I will blog more about that (Lord willing tomorrow) so give it a try… just put some God affirming moments in your pocket during your day today and pull them out tonight when the world is stilled around you!

Love,
Latte