Living Up to Our Name

We're back in the full swing of activities, so we're living up to our name the BUSY Boarnet's. It's been hectic around here with dance starting back up (Jacob dances mondays, tuesdays, one hour on wed, thursdays and saturdays. Michela just on mondays, tuesdays and thursdays), hebrew school starting (sundays for all three kids, wednesdays for Jacob and Michela, Tuesdays for Harrison), soccer (practice mondays for Michela, mondays and wednesdays for Harrison, then games for both on saturdays), youth band (for all three sunday after hebrew school), etc. It's hard to keep it all straight, much less get to it all!

Harrison was going to play fall baseball, as he usually does to keep his skills up, but he's decided to take a break from baseball and try water polo instead. It's a smart move in my opinion. Although he plays rec soccer and basketball in addition to baseball, water polo is an excellent sport for high school and he may decide he likes it. Plus, fall baseball games are on sundays and it just makes our sundays so hectic with hebrew school and youth band and many of the games conflict with hebrew school anyway. This way they can go to hebrew school and youth band from 10:30 to 1:30, then we can have family time in the afternoon to do things like go to the beach, go to a museum, etc. It's much better. Esp since our saturdays are crazy with two soccer games and all of Jacob's dance.

Marlon is out of town this whole week (Monday to friday) which always makes things tougher because I don't have anyone to help get the kids everywhere they need to be. For example, Jacob and Michela had dance monday and then had to come with me to Harrison's soccer game, so they had to do their homework and eat at the soccer field. It works, but it's better when there's two of us here so they could have stayed home. I can't even fathom how my divorced friends handle it. But the ones I'm thinking of only have one child, so at least they don't have to juggle multiple activities.

I've been enjoying the new Beverly Hills 90210. That was my all time favorite show back then. I watched the 2 hr season premiere that I taped this afternoon while I sorted laundry and then watched tonight's episode live. So far I don't think the show is as good as the original, but it's entertaining enough to watch.

There are so many things on my "to do" list that I'm feeling very overwhelmed. You know I get that way sometimes. I'm so far behind on work, household stuff, Bar Mitzvah planning, etc. But at least Jacob and Michela's bday party is planned and taken care of.

I'm heading up a new Middle School Task Force committee at school to design and implement ways to enhance the extra curricular and social aspects of our middle school. We are a small middle school (being K-8) which has definite advantages but some disadvantages. The committee members have a TON of energy, enthusiasm and ideas and I'm looking forward to working with them.

The diet is going well. I haven't gone out of the box at all, even when I picked up burgers and fries for the kids at In and Out and had to drive with them sitting next to me on the front seat while I took them home! I've been around food and preparing food more than most people on the program so I'm proud of how I can just "tune it out." It just goes to show that when I'm eating again, I don't have to eat everything in sight. :) I'm still retaining some water in my ankles, though, so I'm worried about what the scale will say in two days. My dr. said fluid retention from salt takes awhile (like a couple of weeks) to go away and be patient. I'm drowning in all the water I'm drinking, I'm swimming a ton and I'm putting my feet up like they suggested. Short of hanging upside down (which I may actually try tomorrow!) there isn't much else I can do. If I have a week where I don't lose anything again, I swear I'll take a sledgehammer to that stupid scale!

Ok, well, gotta go now. More on Thursday after my group!