OT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLA
WOW!!! I've spent the weekend with a group of very dear friends, laughing and dancing and laughing some more - it was a really awesome way to spend a birthday! But what a fabulous surprise now that I'm back home and online! (Bailey's out with a friend, lucky me...)
Thank you Paul, for thinking of me and posting - I LOVE YOU! 
And thank you everyone who shared a greeting with me! I'm forever amazed by the friendships this whole WLS journey has brought me!
Wednesday night at PNC, as we introduced ourselves to the group, it was suggested we share something we're thankful for. My head wasn't quite in the game yet, so because of the frigid temps, I said I was thankful for my mukluks!
What I SHOULD have said was - I'm thankful for having been obese. 'Cuz I have met some of the most WONDERFUL PEOPLE EVER on this journey, and I can't even put to words how much every one of you means to me! Had I been a skinny minnie all my life, God would not have brought you into it. So yes, I'm thankful I was obese! And even MORE thankful that I'm not anymore, and that I get to share in YOUR journies, too!
GROUP HUG!!!! 
Imperfect does not = unsuccessful
