Hi Holly How long will your recovery be after your op? What a mixture of emotions you must be feeling... how many foster children do you have? I can imagine it must be a very difficult time for them and you. We used to foster babies - different problems to deal with. I'm not sure I would know how to care adequatley for the experiences children have been through. I admire you. Is it your birthday coming up? Ruth

Carla, I don't handle the outside lights and decoration thing to well. So I keep things simple. I admire the folks that can hang the thousands of lights and put up all the lawn ornaments!! Did you ever think in a million years that you would have the clothing problem at the other end of the spectrum?? I remember how hard it was to find clothes before and as a size 10 it's a breeze to buy clothes. Wow, a 0 to a 2, you are just a tiny thing!! Diane

I think I am doing ok for the most part. It is crazy busy at work right now which I am not use to. For some reason December is always really slow.. well not this year. I am running calls everyday, writing reports and just staying so busy I dont have time to look up. As far as home.. its christmas and in the christmas light district that means at least 5000 lights up on the house you gotta maintain. blow ups that need to stay up, yard art that cant blow over. the list goes on, not to mention the christmas shopping, time with grandparents and regular life issues that arise. In the fore front is I AM FREEZING. i have never been this cold in my life. I bought some silk undergarments which are helping a lot but still.. I AM FREEZING. remember when you wore shorts and had the ac on during the winter cause you were hot.. OMG.. I have become a hot tea addict just to stay warm.. As far as wls and all that goes.. I am doing really well. I have maintained 120 now for a few months and am starting to get the hang of it.. well trying to. I dont eat enough I know but I am trying to get it up. Clothes shopping is terrible now. I use to love going but now nothing fits me. According to my waist size i am a zero to 2. there are not many people that small so there are not that many clothes for me. I cant buy in certain areas and have actually gone to the girl department to find things. yikes. Bt I like the way my body feels at this weight and will keep it here at least for a while. So that is how I am doing. glad to see everyone is still alive and doing ok. Carla

Looks like the holiday season has everyone running crazy! I am stressed. It partly the holidays, brings back lots of memories..good and bad. I get to missing my family.. my mom and dad, who are no longer here, and I miss the good ole days when my sister and I were little and life was not complicated. It seems I mourn those lost years every year at this time. The other stressor (the more major one) is work. I'm burnt out, don't have anything left to give and I have been trying to get my boss to help me move to another job (unfortunately it's the way things are done at my job). So after 5 months of waiting on him, I have gone out and found myself two other opportunities. I presented them to him this week and well, the meeting was.... interesting. I actually have other managers right now working with him to make one of the opportunities happen. To me it almost doesn't matter which one, both has growth potential and both opportunities would mean (hopefully) I would never work for this clown again. We meet again on Wednesday and I hope he can commit to one of the opportunities. In the mean time, mainly yesterday, I found myself stress eating. Today is another day.. a day I get to spend with my family and a day to push work thoughts out of my head. So I am taking my son to the movies to see the new Chipmunk movie. I think it's more for me than him, but he said he wants to go Y'all have a great weekend! Diasne

I've posted some new pictures in my albums and also written a blog on what is continuing to happen 17 months out of surgery.