Sat.

10:40 am

I dropped off Child #2 this morning for her IB testing and she told me "Dont come back till 12:30 Mom, you're just making me crazy." Huh. Crazy? Me? Nahhhh. I was gonna stay but she gave me the bums rush and well, I had Avery with me and I was sure he didnt want to sit in an empty cafeteria for 4.5 hours. So, I came home. Good thing is, I got my Art essay finished. I should do some Stats just to get ahead but I'm afraid my brain just announced that I should feel lucky that it allowed me to get the Art paper done. HA!

I read other blogs (duh) and this post ( Big Girl in a Big City: Responding to "This is My Confession") could have been written by me. Its so true and even now my relationship with food is hard. Read it, it is truely insiteful and real.

6:14 pm

Picked up Child #2 at 12:30.  I had planned to take them to the gym and get in some good old working out to pass the time. She looks at me and says "Mom I want a purse." Those big doe-eyes, her soft innocent smile and to seal the deal she reaches over and brushes a hair out of my face.  DAMN. Uh, okay. What kind of purse do you want? Without hesitation she says "Let's go to the Hallmark store." I know exactly the purses she's thinking of and I don't wanna just scream NO (which is my first response). So I say nothing and we go to the mall. We find the "right size" Vera Wang purse in the Hallmark store and she looks at the tag. SHRIEK! That was her and I both. THIRTY BUCKS. HA! I turned to her and said "I love you honey but you are 10." She understood and we left.  We hit every store in the mall and found nothing until we hit the last store on the way out. Aeropostal. Big boxes line the back of the store, its a sale. Ooooooo......a purse box, what luck!  Sure enough she finds one she likes, right color, right size! $3.99!!! My kind of purse! SOLD! She's happy, I'm happy, we leave the mall. We work out, hit Wal-Mart for some chicken and haul it home. Dinner was made in those Zip-Lok steam bags (LOVE THEM!) took me 8 minutes to make chicken and peppers in one and 4 minutes for the zuke and squash in the other. MAGIC! I decided against chicken since at the mall I indulged ( 4 Chick-Fil-A nuggets and 5 waffle fries which HURRRRRT for about 45 minutes, stupid chicken.) Had a bean burrito with avacado, salsa and lettuce.

Joe called me today andI can tell he's stressed because of his Mom.  She is declining quickly and he realizes what is coming. He's leaving on Monday and should be home by Tuesday.

My face has broken out this last week. I thought it was related to my period but I dont think so now.  I had bad acne before the surgery and it completely cleared up after. I guess it was a pipe dream that it would stay clear forever. My hair continues to fall out but I'm noticing new growth on top, little prickles about an inch long that stick straight up. Everyday is a struggle because I want to cut it all off so bad, its thin and looks aweful. Anyway, I gotta run. Tata.