Her name means “Life Brings Joy” and she definitely does.

So long 2yo hello 3yo! We LOVE you to the moon and back.
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Progress! The heel is turned, the gusset done and now I am just working straight until I have 5″ done. Maybe I can post the finished project next week along with a newly cast on project. I finished the Persian Pickle Club. It was a short book but good. Now I am onto another Patricia Sprinkle book. This one is a mystery. I haven’t gotten very far into it yet. Again she has me intrigued just enough to keep me reading even though it moves slowly.

Now for my weekly Weight Watchers Weigh In.
Drumroll please!!!!!!!!!!!!

2lbs gone and my measurements went down! Definitely better than last week. I am hoping for at least a 1lb this week but will take more should that happen.

The sock is still where it was last week. One row of the heel flap done with 20 more to go. Soooo not feeling the knitting these days which really bums me out.
I am however on my 3rd book of the summer and that is an amazing thing! I haven’t read this much in a long time. I think if I could read and knit at the same time that would be awesome. The book I am reading is actually a re-read. I first read this 9 years ago when I was making quilt tops for my oldest two girls. It’s a good quick read and since it has been so long since I read it it is practically all new to me. It is set in depression era Kansas and is centered around the lives of the women of a local quilting bee. A story of how they help each other get through the hard times and how they protect each other as well.

Now onto my weekly weight watchers check in.

EVERYTHING stayed the same.

“You did then what you knew how to do. When you knew better, you did better.” Maya Angelou

Friday’s Daughter is the second Patricia Sprinkle book for me this summer. I read The Remember Box first. I am enjoying the book so far, although it is a bit slow. However, like the first book she has me hooked enough that I want to see how things turn out for the characters of the book.

I am “secretly knitting” slipper socks for all of the little girls. I have to knit in the open so I have told them that I am knitting for another mom. They should be surprised when they find them in their stockings. I bought the yarn(peace fleece) to knit sweaters but when it arrived it was just too itchy. With a thin sock on under the slipper sock the itchiness should not be a problem. This is my second pair. With one more to go I am hoping to knit the last pair two at a time. It will be a new knitting skill and I am excited to learn.

Ok, Weight Watchers weigh in:

1lb lost and my mini goal reached! I set another mini goal and hope to meet it even sooner than I did this last one.

All of my measurements stayed the same.

I was on vacation last week so I missed a weigh in report. I stayed they same while on vacation.

Last night was Zumba, tonight is my 5mile walk with friends, and tomorrow night is Zumba again. I hope to get a bike ride in on the weekend. I am shooting for at least a 2lb loss this week. We shall see!

coming out of the bedroom to hear your husband reloading the dishwasher after he unloaded it.

knowing that he will get up and head out to work in the blazing heat so I can stay home with our girls.

knowing that even if he has a bad day my girls will never know it by the way he interacts with them.

is the man I have been married to for almost 16 years and who has had my heart for almost 18years.

1. Hair Cut
2. Finish living room
3. Make list for pet sitters
4.Mail Netflix movies
5. Finish packing lists
6. Wash, dry and put away 2loads of clothes
7. Charge camera battery
8. Take out hamburger for supper
9. Get buns from freezer
10. Help Emi practice piano
11. Call MIL to see if she still has a working keyboard
12. Pick up some groceries for the pet sitters
13. Dust pictures in the living room
14. Zumba!

Thankfully my very appreciated mother’s helper comes today. The little girls love her and she is so great with them. So this means I have no excuse for this list to not get completed.

While I was on break I joined Weight Watchers. I was slowly falling into a depression because of my weight. I had 2yo baby weight and then some that needed to be gone. So I joined online. I have been checking in weekly on Facebook but I want to track it here as well.

This week:
4lbs down
1″ from my waist
.75″ from my thighs
all other measurements stayed the same.

I have lost a total of 16lbs. 5.25″ from my waist, 3″ from my hips, .5″ from my arms and 3.25″ from my thighs.

I reached my goal of 15lbs gone before I went on vacation. It is amazing how much better I feel after just a 16lb loss! I still have a least 33lbs to go. I had almost 50 that needed to be gone.

I am taking Zumba two nights a week. Tonight I hike with some mama friends and I will work abs on my recovery days.

I will be taking my bike on our vacation and I have found one Zumba class to take while I am there. If I don’t stay going I will get out of my routine. I don’t want to fight to get back just as my metabolism is starting to really pick up.

I am not alone in my weight loss. My cousin, who is also on of my best friends, is also doing Weight Watchers. We may be miles apart but we talk frequently and text each other encouragements and reminders everyday. I think she has lost 20lbs so far.