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118.4 - not bad after eating and drinking so strangely last night. I couldn't eat much though.

Christmas Day is here. Only about 4 hours of sleep for no good reason. I was worrying about those darn osteoporosis shots I have to have on Tuesday and couldn't settle my mind down. I planned the picture below while lying awake.

We leave at about 11 to drive to DD's home. It is a 2.5 hour drive. DS should be there when we arrive and eldest DSD shortly thereafter. Justice is coming though we will put him in the bedroom when the toddler is there (Justice doesn't like small children much). DD expects 14 people with most of them being her in-laws. Another 4 from our side will come later for dessert. It will be packed as it is a very small house but DD is very excited. We stay over at a dog friendly hotel about 15 minutes away from their house. We will have breakfast with DD and DS tomorrow morning before DS returns to Maine and we return to Cape Cod for 3 nights.

Have a Candy Cane Caring Christmas!

ETA: We actually have a small amount of snow on the ground from last night for a white Christmas (the snow in this picture was AI generated - it was originally a picture of Justice on the beach).

Greetings all

In spire of predictions the sun is out in full today. The weatherman was forecasting doom and gloom and terrible rain and wind and power outages but it did not happen here. At least not yet. There are some outages south of here and flooding but we seem to be exempt. A couple of miles makes a big difference.

So I feel like I am on the downside of this cold which is great. Today's plan is some cooking and wrapping. Last night was peculiar because DH had promised to pick up his friend from the airport. Flight was supposed to get in a 10;30 but it was more like 1 am. I went to bed and let him deal with it. This is the friend who is very tech challenged and his initial flight got canceled and DH had to walk him through making changes. DH sits and monitors the United flight app and could tell that Jerry's plane was still in so cal and not close to Reno. So funny.

Hey my new pillows are here!

CC so thrilled to hear that your dad is chipper. Priceless. But yeah, heat to 75 is not good. And agreed, AC to 75 is way different than heat to 75. Glad to hear you have that porch. You are brave to face a big box store today.

Chinese food sounds good Liz. Always fun to choose dishes to share. We don't have much good asian food in our backwater town. Wish we did. Peps is right - west coast does asian food best.

Paula having all your family sounds fun. Wishing you no more drama. Dinner sounds great.

199 is sneaking right up Peps.

Well time to get moving and cooking.

Diane S

Sounds like it will be a lovely Christmas Eve for your family! Your meal sounds better to me than Chinese LOL.

200.8 (quiet little happy dance today)

Must get moving! There is plenty to do today, but I did want to check in with everyone and say Merry, Merry!

CC, so glad to read your dad is doing so much better. What a great gift! I bet you are absolutely thrilled you made the trip to Michigan!

Love Chinese food! But I will admit, I have not been impressed with Chinese cuisine on the east coast or in the midwest. Same with Mexican on the east coast. Just not the same. Come to the west for those foods.

Hope you all enjoy your families and to the moms, I wish the time with your kiddos is all you hope it to be!

Happy Christmas Eve!

I like Chinese but we don't have it too often. We pick sushi more often if Asian cuisine is to be had.

Hope you get a good Justice walk in Liz!

No weight until we get back to FL. Like Liz, I have been pretty steady so I'm not too worried about. I stopped tracking calories and macros right around the time I had my PS. It feels freeing not to have to track and still maintain nicely. I know I'm not getting in the protein I did before but overall think my nutrition is pretty good.

DSD is coming this afternoon, a day later but she will stay with us. I got permission for the cat to stay here too. Thankfully the owner was willing to make an exception to his rules for us!

Making pasta tonight with red meat sauce and chicken Alfredo, garlic bread and Caesar salad, easy and will feed a crowd. We will decorate Christmas cookies tonight and the kids may go out to the bar for Karaoke night.

The dogs are still a bit anxious in their new surrounds and were up and down throughout the night! I'm feeling nappy right now but not sure if I will get one in or not. DSD and DC1 will both get here around 2, DS2 is up and socializing and DS3 is sleeping since he stays up most of the night (his norm), I ran into him eating chips at 2 am and woke to an almost empty box of Swiss rolls. The kid likes to snack!

Hope you all have a great Holiday!