I  love to have boiled eggs handy for a snack. I also love celery with a bit of peanut butter and a few cranberries. I keep fruit on the counter...some fresh and some dried plus some nuts. I have raised garden bed now and the bounty is coming soon. Fresh green, yellow and red peppers, zucchini, jalepenos, radishes, carrots, and some melons. We are very spoiled in the Central Valley of CA when it comes to fruit and vegetables. We have fruit stands everywhere with things that have just been picked. 

Yvonne,

Your weatherman sounds like our weatherman...says rain and it's sunny; says sunny and it's rainy...go figure.  

Enjoy your evening.  

Hi Ladies,

I'm still at my brother's.  It's cold and dreary out. The weatherman got the weather wrong for the weekend. At least my SIL had some warmer clothes and jacket for me to wear.

I have to take two friends to Dr's appt tomorrow so I will have a lot of running to do.

Just waiting on supper and some good dessert.

Everyone have a good evening.

Love and hugs,

Yvonne

Kathy,

my friend had the sleeve and loves it and has actually lost all the weight she set out to lose. I've known people who have had the gastric bypass who could eat anything and some like me who cannot eat sweets or pasta and others who can eat sweets and all kinds of pasta and bread. The key is sticking to your plan and what has worked for you. There have been previous folks post right after surgery that they cannot eat sweets but they continued trying until one day, they were able to eat them...I can eat chips like there's not tomorrow but I know that eating chips can pile the pounds on me so I don't every buy them and if I do, I get pretzels because they have less fats. From time-to-time, I do take a bite of a cookie or something but just a little bite.  I think it helps me that I am lactose intolerant and have been my entire life but since WLS it is much worse. I can eat cottage cheese and a few bites of cheese but milk not ever a good idea. 

You are doing so great and you are just going to do better and better. You'll see. 

I'm back.

Well, I was up late, working on Lincoln's bedspread.  I'm not at the halfway point, and really need to get serious about finishing it.

I am so disappointed about something I ordered for Frankie's birthday.  I had hoped it would be delivered in time for his big day, like by Tuesday, but it won't be.  Well, he and I are going to spend the day together tomorrow, and I'll take him out for lunch, and we'll go shopping for a gift.

In the meantime, I have to blitz my living room and kitchen, so we can hang out here a little too.  Colleen has a ton of stuff to do tomorrow.

Izzy has a soccer game this afternoon, and it looks like rain.  Yuck.

Colleen called me upset last night.  She was apologizing because there is no way she can celebrate Mothers Day with me next weekend.  It's the end of the semester, she has paperwork to grade for both her classes, portfolios to evaluate for her student teachers, a class she's taking, to finish for her teaching certification in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and resumes to send out, all this week.  She was afraid I'd be upset not celebrating ON Mothers Day. I assured her that I don't mind celebrating later, that Mothers Day is just a date on the calendar, AND, Chris and I celebrated it one year in June.  I remember what the end of Spring semester was like.  I also remember how Mom would purposely try to make me feel bad if I didn't do it exactly the way she wanted me to do it, on that day.  Same for Mom's birthday, with is in the first week in September.  I never want to hurt my kids that way.  She was so relieved.

Kathy, sound like you got a good walk in yesterday.  See, you are doing it.

Hugs,

Trish