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| My paper beads: Oriental Trading Catalog and Blue Sparkle Nail Polish |
Last night was super fun. Had breakfast sandwiches for dinner, and “J” came home around 6:30 and reheated a pizza. Then he watched the kids while I hosted MNI Craft Night. We had 8 moms show up and my friend “E” taught us to make paper beads with magazines, toothpicks and nail polish, they turned out beautiful! We had so much fun chatting and snacking we kept it all going until the last guest left at 12:00am! I was a little tired today, but it was totally worth it.
Today I decided to give myself another try, and despite my TOM, I hopped on the Wii to see where I was. To my complete surprise, I had lost 3.3 lbs since Tuesday. I had a feeling that I was retaining water, and now here is proof. So my timing was bad for the Biggest Loser Competition, but the great news is that I reached my second goal and am under 160 lbs! I have lost 18 lbs. in the last 8 ½ weeks! So happy, but decided to continue to go and I reset my goal to go down to 155, which is only 4.8 lbs away. I am still feeling really good, honestly much better than I did on Tuesday. Not that I was sad to lose BL, but because I was disappointed to be heading the wrong direction! BTW, I have to say I am so proud of our BL group, we are all losers!
So the Rugrats were supposed to have a park day today, but as the day has turned out snowy, we moved the event to the mall to walk and let the kids play. So we did a quick 1 ½ laps, let the kids play, then we headed to the food court. After lunch we let the kids visit the Easter Bunny. “P” and “V” were thrilled and hugged the bunny like crazy. I heard both kids tell the EB that he was the best bunny in the whole wide world. Super-cute. Then we did another lap to McDonald’s where the kids and I got a cone, yum!
She explained it was the treasure map to the Easter Bunny. She then traced the way to the Bunny and then told me that the thing that I had assumed was a sign, was actually the shovel. You know, so she could dig up the bunny. It was a buried treasure map! Just thought that sounded really morbid and funny.
Anyway, I bid farewell to the friends I wouldn’t be seeing until after Ireland, and then we headed home in a blizzard. Then at half way home, it was cloudy, but certainly not as extreme as the south of town! Now we are home, the kids fell asleep in the car so I transferred them to bed and I am going to relax this afternoon, then pick up where I left off packing. Trying to empty the fridge so we may go out to dinner, we will see!
Hey girlie,
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