Food Report
B-oatmeal and small amount of eggs
L-cheese quesadillas and a mango
S-zone bar and peanuts
D-spaghetti and meat sauce/ raisins

After eating horribly since I got here, I sat down last night with my sister and planned out our meals for the week. I went grocery shopping today and I feel much better now that I have a plan in place. A few times I was tempted to eat something off plan, but remembered the plan AND reminded myself that I wasn't really hungry because I'd already had my last meal.

I feel so fat and I know I've gained even more since I've been here. I think I truly look awful.
But I'm just focusing on eating healthy, exercising and taking care of myself. The rest will take care of itself.

Exercise Report
I got my Turbo Jam dvds in the mail the other day. I did the Learn and Burn yesterday and then did the 20 min. workout today. It is so fun!!!! I love it! So glad I decided to get it, even though it was pricey :bigeyes2:
I also did Windsor Pilates 20 min workout today.

Other thoughts
I love being here with my family, but the kids are having a hard time. Carter in particular seems to be so fussy and crabby and that's just not like him. I think he's having a hard time getting used to being in a new place. But he's driving me CRAZY!! He's very clingy and he keeps hurting himself and silly ways. I think it's just getting used to being here. But tonight he pulled on the high chair and it fell over on top of him. Poor baby. It's an old high chair that we borrowed from someone. He keeps falling and bumping his head on things too. I just don't know what to do with him.
And Collin is quite the handful right now. He has hardly taken any naps, so he's been crabby. He lays down for a nap, but doesn't go to sleep. He's just too excited to be here and it's probably hard to take a nap in new place.
But today he was just so exhausted that he finally did go to sleep, but after a huge power struggle and major meltdown. Ugh!
I had many moments where I wondered if this trip is worth all this headache. I hope they get adjusted soon as we have 2 more weeks here.

The reunion picnic Saturday:
It was much better than the Friday night dinner that I wrote about the other day. I felt much more relaxed and it was a more relaxed setting. My friend has a house right on the lake in Indiana. So we hung out there and bbq-ed. I visited with many people I haven't seen in 15 years and I even got to see 2 teachers that were just wonderful.
One difference was that I decided not to focus on myself and I tried to focus on other people-just learning about them and what they've been doing and all. Once I stopped worrying about myself, I was more at ease. A good lesson to learn.
The only bad thing was that my boys were tired and crabby. I would be having a great conversation with someone and I would have to leave to attend to one of the kids.
I don't mean to sound so whiny about my kids, but it was frustrating to keep getting interrupted.
Yesterday was the same way. We went to my uncle's for a pool party/get together. There were lots of family there that I haven't seen since the winter or longer. But I kept getting interrupted--mostly by crabby Carter.
My mom just kept reminding me that it's the age my kids are at and that it will get better.
Usually I really try to savor as much as I can with my kids. I usually love the ages that they're at-especailly Carter's age. But I must say, the last few days have not been fun with them.
Okay, enough complaining.