Woooohoooo!!!

just wanted to post my great weigh-in this week...i'm down another 4.8lbs and i am at 47.6lbs total, which might as well be 50........i feel great and am actually looking forward to going on vacation this week and staying on program the best i can without jenny craig foods...i will have a loss when i return on 7/3 to jenny craig after being gone 2 weeks...grilled fish, grilled chix, lots of veggies, salads and fruit....i will stay on program and i will do GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!when i come back i will be down at least 50lbs....1/2 way to my goal and even closer to getting ready to become preggers again...need to be down at least 70-75 total before we start trying....i really want to be a somewhat healthy weight this time...get off bp meds and have a good healthy pregnancy (although we didn't really have any problems last time except i gained 35lbs and got up to 260lbs by the time i delivered - i guess i would call that a problem, ha-ha)

not this time...i will be very much under 200 and aim to stay under the whole time i'm preggers.....no need to gain weight since i'll still have some to spare for the baby....

anyway, just wanted to rejoice in my loss...tried on my 24 shorts tonight....holy crap are they big....going to take some pics on july 3rd at jenny craig to show my loss in print.....keep me going....

pictures...

how can it be so hard to keep up with pictures??? i realized yesterday that i have not printed or put into albums one picture since nicholas' 1st birthday in sept 05....almost 9 months ago....holy crap...i have tons of pics in my computer but just have not sat down and sorted through them and sent them out for printing....i must must must do this before the middle of july...set a goal and stick to it.....

New words....

everyday i am amazed by the number of words my kid knows....he will say a word and it takes me a minute to comprehend that he just said something new....saturday we went to lily's prek graduation at a high school auditorium...needless to say, nicholas did not want to sit through the whole ceremony...we let him run up and down the stairs in the dark auditorium....mike chased after him one time when he got to the top and over to the other side....he grabbed him as he went down a row....as he was carrying him back to where we had the stroller, nicholas was yelling/crying out, "myshoe, myshoe" we thought he was saying "juice, juice" since he had been running for so long he must be thirsty...as mike got closer i realized i could see a socked foot and that he was saying, "i lost my shoe, my shoe, my shoe." what a smart friggin kid...mike took him back to the row and there it was stuck in between one of the seats and the next row....what a silly kid....he knew what was up and he tried sooo hard to tell us...thank goodness mommy "speaks" kid language or who knows what would have happened to the missing shoe....i just keep listening and my heart hurts and my eyes tear each time i hear him say a new word....i love it....i think i love it more than watching him sleep....

Friends

i have been in florida for almost 10 years now and am very happy i have been able to expand my circle of friends since i had nicholas.....i joined a mom's group from yahoo of local moms when nicholas was about 2 1/2 months old....one of the members was a neighbor of mine and invited me to join this group called Angelplay....as the last 18 months have passed many members have come and gone and i haven't really had a chance to get to know them....a few have left the area with their families for new starts....some have left because they never felt like they belonged....some have left due to conflict......and the core few that i call my friends have stuck around.....i'm very fortunate to have Brooke, Kara, Deborah and Melissa in my life....i wish i talked to kelly more since we have boys the same age, but she doesn't seem to be around much....i feel like some of the mom's just don't know how to make time for their friends.....i'm always open to meeting new people and would love to expand my circe more....get to know some more great women that i can call friends...this group that i am in has been a life saver for me since i have family here but no friends from work since i work in a small office, no friends from when i was a teacher (lost contact with them all except one who i catch up with every 6 months or so).....i guess the point of my post is to say that i am very happy i found this group of great women and i know that i consider them all friends.....