Just got home! We drove all afternoon/evening yesterday and were planning to drive on through the night. We like to drive through the night for our long trips so the kids will sleep. Its really helps. They can watch a few movies, then fall asleep, and then we are there. No fights, not too many stops.
Last night my brother called from Alabama and said that there looked to be major weather issues in SC and NC as far as possible hail and tornado warnings. So we decided to stop at a hotel at the top of NC, still in the mountains.
Glad to be back South thats for sure. The north is so dreary in the winter. YUCK! I hate it up there. Every time we go during the winter I feel like that. No sun, its alwasy so grey and COLD. (Sorry to those of you who live up north and love it, I just am a Souther gal through and through I guess)

Thanks to those of you who sent messages of encouragement. I needed it!
We did have a great time overall with family fellowship. Good time just hanging out and spending time with the family that we love and don't see enough of. Funeral day was a big blur, but after it was over the times were pretty good. We needed that as a family.

My Food
I did not do well. I made some not awful choices the first half on the week, then pretty much downslided from there. Its over. I have to get back on track. I do not want to step on a scale. I couldn't get my computer to work in the hotel room for some reason so I did not log. I think without that accountability I do not do well. I obviously need my logging. However, as we ( my husband and parents and I) discussed today in the car on the way home, this is a life change for me and in the long run how I eat in one stressful week at a funeral will not change anything overall. As long as its an isolated thing. As long as we get back on track with healthy choices and exersize.
I am still very disappointed in myself that I let everything slide. I did not exersize once.
I was so stressed and if I had made myself do it I am sure it would have helped. If I had made myself control my food choices more closely I would feel much better as i am writing this.
I hope that I will continue learning and next time some big stressful event comes around I will stick closer to my new healthy life plan. The last few days were pretty bad. I cannot even imagine the calories as I didn't record and we ate out at restraunts that are not her, or homeade food that I did not make.
I am sure I ate well over 2000 calories per day. 3000 some days??? I am scared to think that. I don't think I was that crazy. But as I said I didn't make any of the food nor were the restraunts chains.