Oh yes, I get those days too! I seem to get a day right at the beginning of my period where I feel like a bottomless pit. I can eat anything and everything and nothing fills me up! I also get really hungry after I have a big workout day ... I've been doing long runs on the weekends, last weekend was 7.50 miles. And the whole day after that run I was starving!!! Maybe it's because you're exercising more now at the gym? --Deanna

Yay - I'm still walking...just don't ask me to get up off the floor without rolling over and NOT using my stomach muscles tonight hehe. I really enjoyed the class - before the class started the trainer said 'you look very nervous'...I AM very nervous!!!! But I kept up mostly - there were a few exercises I couldn't do (yet!), but I was pleased with hwo well I did. The others make it all look so easy, but I relaxed a bit when the trainer said that they'd been coming two years! But the best bit of all (and this is sooo mean of me) is that I wasn't the biggest in the class!! Woohoo!!!

I do not know about ya'll but I would like to know what happened to my world. I finally finished with my taxes and they were filed by 6 pm tuesday, this was the worse most difficult year to date. I have a second photoshoot in Tomball Texas for Jasmine's 5 year old class (she is a private school teacher there for St Anne's Catholic School (she moved from Montana to Texas in March 2008) today I had cub scouts at 6:30 pm, tuesday night, it was is Den Photos (and I am the Photographer) Erik's Den has run-ons (telling knock knock jokes) and Magnus' Den has Cheers. Erik graduated from wolf to bear, he got 1 gold and 5 silver arrow points for completing 60 electives beyond the requirements. it has been a busy year. I had a volunteer appreciation breakfast yesterday morning, got there on my bike 2 miles (dh had the car) and found out that it is the 16th of NEXT MONTH. Then I had my annual well woman in the after noon (they added an EKG to the list of tests that they run. I didnt have the car, so I pedaled... all the way there (6.5 miles) still have to get an ultrasound to check my cervix for cervical cancer and a mamogram to flatten what is left of the girls EVEN MORE!! my bp was 112/72 and my heart rate was 72, my weight was a little up there, 149.5 if you subtract off for clothes a special client shoot after that at Vintage Park in the Evening. that took 1.5 hours and I was EXHAUSTED by that point. went grocery shopping and picked up a turkey and sweet potato dinner since dh made spaghetti. the boys have scout fair on Saturday, we are in the middle of Chess Tournament and Erik is undefeated so far... even against 5th graders. he is skilled, but more effectively he is extremely confident player and is very intimidating (he would scare the crap out of me which is method of playing). We recently went to a cubscout pack camp out at Brazos Bend State Park, went to the astronomy observatory, and next is the 'wolf' graduation and mother pinning ceremony tonight. They are already signed up for camp for June. which falls immediately after. Swimming Team. Erik and Magnus both made the competition swimming team from the neighboring subdivision. They are now part of the Spring Creek Forest Sharks. they have practice 5 days a week for 1/2 -3/4 of an hour, and competition on Saturdays. My photography business is still trudging along. but I seriously do not know how I find time to brush my teeth in the morning. out dishwasher went out in February, same weekend as the dryer, I have been to home depot and lowes, but can not find what I want, so we are washing by hand, and hanging to dry on the clothes line in the back yard. good news is that our power bill dropped $50 from same month last year, even with the price hike, so we are really probably saving closer to $75 with the economizing. http://www.barefootsmiles.com I am drinking more coffee than ever, and my heart is constantly racing with the stress. Erik's best friend spent the night monday night, his mom went in the hospital this tuesday morning for a hysterectomy, I fell asleep watching New Amsterdam on Replay. There are just not enough hours in the day. The grandbaby, http://www.jordanjasonmiles.com is just getting so big, I can not believe it. I am constantly amazed at how fast it goes. his daddy is finishing up training in Missouri for the Marine Corp, his mom and his aunt are sharing a house in Tomball, Texas. Kat

I've just read on another board that we DO malabsorb things like protein etc, but DON'T malabsorb fats and sugars. What do you think? Fact or internet myth?

Hey Jean good to see you. How did the move go? Are you all settled yet, and the new shop up and running? Would love to hear updates