Progress continues and other stuff

Just got back from weight loss class -- down 4.6 more for a total of 32.2. In 5.5 weeks, so that's pretty good! (although I do like those 6 and 7 pound weeks better!) Everything is going good with it. In fact, my health educator gave me the "go ahead" to start entrees. A couple of people in the class started them already. I'm going to wait one more week (mostly b/c I had already bought my shakes and didn't want to stand in line again) and then have one entree every day. Yippee! Lasagna, pasta and chili, here I come! (all in portion controlled low fat little packages, of course.)

Tomorrow is the last day of school before our fall break. We aren't going out of town because we travelled enough over the summer to last for awhile. We're just going to hang out, I will continue to exercise and to work (I've been trying to increase my working time) while the kids play, ride bikes and have playdates and we'll work in some swimming, beach time, museums, movies and the like. We're re-doing Jacob and Michela's bedrooms, so that's a good project, and we have some cleaning out to do of the garage, playroom, etc. A huge project is going to be to go through all of the various photographs that we just have in boxes and organize them. That will take HOURS. We need photographs for the Bar Mitzvah slide show, etc., and I want to get back into scrapbooking. So, don't be surprised if you get a whole envelope of pictures of your kids from the last several years!

I also want to make sure everyone does a lot of reading and some extra writing, Harrison is doing a science fair project for extra credit and some extra credit social studies projects and Jacob and Michela are taking a writing workshop with some of their friends. I may sign them all up for a 3 day cooking class as well and it's also the Jewish holidays.

Please send good thoughts to my sister and brother in law (Nicole and Darren) and their kids. They live in Houston and have been uprooted due to Hurricane Ike. Their house is fine and they are fine, but they have no power so they were at a hotel and are now at my inlaws, but it's been hard, Darren needs to get back to work, the kids want to get back to school since it had just started and they love it, and I think Nicole has had enough and really wants to get back into their normal routine.

Lastly, I LOVE my new laptop computer. It has so many neat programs and I've been spending time getting up to speed on how to use them, organizing files and so forth.