With my weight plateau still lingering around, I have raised the bar on my Health Challenge.  I am now walking each day at work and once on the weekend at home.  I need to keep going.  I have lots 13…

“My mother helped me with my homework!”

This is what got me here. Here with this resolution:   homework.  Homework is one of the things that made me start thinking about quality time with the children. I began to subconsciously (or unconsciously!)…

I have lost 13 pounds.  My blood sugar levels had dropped.  I am walking more now.  I am feeling better.  The problem is I have not lost any weight these past two weeks.  I am still determined to lose another…

Back track to Chicago… Much to the children’s glee, we visited the Apple Computer store on Michigan Avenue.  It is bustling with smiley faced people, both employees and shoppers, everybody in that darn place is happy! We spent over an hour…

Not sure if you remember I was the caregiver for my mom for 10 years and a year ago she went to stay with my sister.  Well my sister’s personal situation changed and my mom is home.  She is 87 and…

Last time I wrote about the difficulty in writing both in truth and in love.  This week we are going to discuss the implications of doing such and how to handle various negative responses when the person you are communicating to…

Being selected for this challenge, has really put me under a great deal of pressure to act on my goal on a regular basis.  I am so glad to be part of this, it has really caused me to consider serioulsy this goal and really…

Well I had my annual physical today and I feel fabulous……………  The official weight loss is 10lbs.  I was smiling during my entire visit. The easiest thing to discuss in your  physical is your weight.  This time when he asked what are you…

I have reached the lucky 13 pound level.  I have shed 13 unwanted pounds.  I still have 37 pounds to go.  Writing this blog each week keeps me focused on my challenge.

My sugar levels went up a little this…

I have now had a real honest to goodness opportunity to bond with my children: we went on spring break vacation together (and survived!)First of all, I did not allow them to bring their Nintendo DS’s and it wasn’t just…