However, we know that they are great kids and will find some good friends of their own. I had no idea marriage and motherhood were anywhere NEAR as challenging as they are - I guess because my own dear Mum did such a good job of making it look easy! 
but that is NOT the way to go. I need to remember my new favorite proverb: DISCIPLINE WEIGHS OUNCES BUT REGRET WEIGHS TONS!
Today was the girls' first day at their new school, and I am so pleased to say that it went very well! Both girls introduced me to some of their new friends when I came by to pick them up at the end of the day. *phew!* glad that first day is behind us... Very nice indeed.
A very exciting thing happened in the bathroom today! LOL Well, on the scale, anyway. For the first time in...? I know it is not the first time ever, but I suspect it may be the first time since I was in my teens, the scale - ever so briefly - rested on 149 lbs!! Granted it did land on 150, but it has not so much as paused below 150 in decades! This is very pleasant for me 
Tomorrow I will go to WW and likely they will tell me that I have hit "goal" at 150 and need to maintain it in order to get my lifetime status. However, I have no intention of maintaining it, as I fully want to see the scale ZOOOOOOM down through the 140s! 
Okay, so weigh in did not go well this week. I STUPIDLY drank a cup of coffee and ate my regular bran cereal (you can probably guess why I did both of these things, as they are related!!!) and then weighed in HEAVIER than I did last week! GRRRRR... this in spite of tracking all my food this week and working out daily - including at the crack of dawn this a.m. OH I AM SO ANNOYED!
Er...well...who should decide to drop by for her monthly visit this afternoon but AUNT FLOW...sheesh. I guess that explains my weight gain from this morning.
147 lbs!!! 147 lbs!!!
Well, here we are back at 150 again! *sigh* oh well, at least part of it was worth it - I went on a whirlwind tour of our local "wine country" (we live in the Napa Valley of Canada) and visited 11 wineries in 1.5 days! THAT'S A LOTTA WINE! 
but I have no one to blame other than myself. I will say that I am totally enjoying being 150 lbs and a size 5/6. I like what I see in the mirror! I like sweating excessively during workouts and seeing my body continue to reshape itself (my own brother did not recognize me last week, for pete's sake! ), even though the scale is not reflecting as much as I want. Here, here! Great advice, Lady. 
Hi Margaret! Thanks for stopping by with such great advice on moving. *sigh* It appears that we will be staying put until May, as the housing market has gone soft here after a few years of climbing ridiculously. That is great news for us in that we will be able to purchase at a lower price; but since our buying is dependent upon my Mom's selling, things are rather sticky at the moment. So we will just stay here until our lease runs out in May, then if we can't purchase we will move to another rental, but closer to our daughters' school. 
So I won't bother to weigh myself for a good few days. I did my full workout (and then some) today, in spite of feeling tired and crampy. YAY ME!!
It is SO gorgeous today! Absolutely beautiful, sunny and warm. So after doing all of my abs work indoors and getting in a good 6,000 steps, I took it outside and R*A*N* like a sonofgun
okay, I must have looked like I was dying, because people were STARING! lol It was a good change in my routine, anyway. I was in a pretty good sweat by the time I got home, so I was pushing pretty hard, all right. If the weather holds I will aim to do more outdoor running, soaking up the vitamin D while I still can. It was very, very scary. I was still shaking today thinking how close we came to losing her over something so simple. At work I mentioned it to the receptionist, and she said her grandfather choked to death in a restaurant in Germany! Then she told one of the other gals what had happened to us, and that gal said that over the summer her daughter was working at a restaurant and one of the waitresses started to choke. Typically for a female, she excused herself to the rest room...and they found her there on the floor several minutes later. She was just 27 - and she did not make it.
