Hello, Sunshine!! I have missed you!!!

Happy Saturday, Fishies.

I woke up a little late today, but very rested. Which is great because I haven't been getting much sleep lately. I have meds for that, but I refuse to take them. It was nice to finally feel like I got an adequate amount of sleep for a normal person. AND THE SUN IS OUT!! It rained all week!!! How wonderful!!!

Today has turned out pretty fabulous so far. Besides the lovely sun rays I discovered when opening the blinds, I enjoyed other things!! I spent the morning with the kids, who are appropriately worn out by all the playing with the dog, jumping on the bed, going to McDonald's and playing more for two hours. McDonald's could have been a nightmare because I absentmindedly left my wallet in the bathroom with a LOT of cash in it. And by a lot of cash I don't mean, EXTRA cash. I mean cash I cashed from a check from my parents that I needed to pay my bills with and would have been completely SCREWED without. Someone turned it in. All cash in tact. All credit cards that I just replaced from the loss of my wallet two months ago in London. Seriously, it would have been bad. And someone turned it in and left no way for me to thank them.....Wow!!

Now I have Bailey in the bathtub because I am going to do her hair and give her a manicure/pedicure. Nothin says lovin' like some self love. Wow, that might be the wisest thing I've heard all week. And it came from me!! HA!!!

So I'm going to make her hair soft and fluffy and I hve a new outfit for her and I'm going to do her nails like my little nail kit that I just bought and stick her little toesies in the little gel toe separator thing and give her the most princessly makeover ever. Doesn't that sound wonderful? I was inspired by the last group at Renfrew yesterday where Robyn, one of the therapists, scrapped the normal agenda and let us do mani/pedi's and listen to Ipods instead. That was following the lunch session of "monkey in the middle" that suddenly broke out with a bread roll with the therapist the pitiful monkey in the middle and Cindy and Amy lobbing it like a football. I never thought in a thousand years I would see something go down like that at Renfrew. Quite entertaining.

Today the kids go back with their dads after the long week and I will again find myself filling up the empty spaces. I have some painting to do; Amy has commissioned me to paint her a Paris-themed painting. That should take a good amount of the time.

I guess the major challenge for the weekend will be eating everything I'm supposed to eat outside of program and meeting the appropriate exchanges. I really struggle with that over weekends. Okay, let's be honest. There are opportunities for me to be tempted to restrict any time I am alone, anxious and when someone isn't watching me. I cannot do that. Especially now that I'm weighing more than I am required to.
Being too thin is like having too much money in your bank account. :) I have to be strong to fight the temptation!!! GRR!! :)

No need to agonize about that - - I have a mani-pedi to do, my princess has splashed all of the water out of the tub and is ready for her stylist.

Tah Tah For Now!! Happy Saturday!!

ATW2TM!!!!!!!!

SNN