ThUrSdAy Roll Call

Morning Illinois!!

Hope everyone has a great day today!  I have a lot on my plate (as usual ) today!  Well first I have to say I am so proud of my son Ian.  Last night was his first Confession.  He was nervous but once he came out of the Confessional he was grinning ear to ear and told me in a whisper "I do feel better Mommy!"  Another little milestone met that just reminds me how fast the time is passing me with my babies.

So now for today: we are going to Holy Family Catholic School in Oglesby to check it out.  Possibly sending the boys there next year as we are not comfortable with the changes in our current school that are being shoved through.  Really disappointed that it seems that the Christian spirit has left 'the building' and has been replaced with greed and great hostility.  Not an atmosphere I want my kids in.  Maybe this was what we needed though, the kick in the pants to make a change.  We love our support network at the school but hubby works in Oglesby, we've outgrown our house and we had been waffling between moving or just staying.  Now we are looking at moving.  Being an adult sucks, too many hard decisions!!

After this I have work, then I have to print out a 'walking timeline' for our Cub Scout den meeting tonight, get the craft supplies together, Ian has guitar lessons and then dinner and then the den meeting.  Plus I have 4 baskets of laundry that need to be folded and put away.  I'm already tired just looking at all that needs to be done!

Well I hope everyone has a great day!

Good Morning Carol  and the Illinois Board.

I have a few things to do today, but nothing like your schudule. I am quickly picking up the house, then doing a few errands. DH is sure we are going to get snowed in, so he wants me to go to the store. He is convinced this is going to leave us with 8-12 inches on the ground. I am just as convinced we will get a light dusting and the major stuff will go south. far south.

I also want to go get some paint for the accent wall in the rec room. I did paint it  an orange color, just before Thanksgiving, but I really want it darker, more to the brownish coloring.

Christina, what did the Dr. tell you?

I hope everyone has a great day, stay dry, safe, and warm.

Huggers,

Lisa

Hi Lisa -
You've got mail.

Hugs,
Christina

Me too, if you don't mind.  I am concerned about you!

Good morning Carol and the rest of Illinois!

 

Carol, you are so busy, and I hope you like the school.  That might make your decision easier.  I understand about churches sometimes seeming to be “all about the money" and less about compassion.  I hope you find what you are looking for.

 

I am working today then have to run home, grab the children and back into Rockford for the “preview performance" of The Wizard of Oz tonight.  Call time is 5:30, so I will have to be on the ball.  I HOPE snow does not get in the way!

 

Tomorrow will be the same.  The kids have a show tonight, one tomorrow then two both Saturday and Sunday.  Liv is VERY excited and David is about ready for it to be over.  He told us last night that he figures that he has the most (6) costume changes of all the cast.  I guess that means we will be seeing a lot of him.  I need to get his after show gift ordered.  I am going to get him a t-shirt with “Head Winkie" emblazoned on the back thanks to someone’s suggestion (Carol or Shawn?).  Either way thanks for the great idea.  Liv will probably get the traditional flowers unless I can think of something else.

 

We have tickets for the Saturday afternoon show then Todd and I are working the Saturday evening show.  If anyone from here is attending, look for us.  We should be around the lobby, especially after all shows.

 

I am wondering about Christina’s doctor visit also.  I hope she checks in!

 

Everyone have a fabulous day!!!!

Morning Everyone -

I don't have too much going on.  I have about  2- 3 hrs worth of paperwork to do for the new business then some house cleaning and laundry.  I'm anxious to get my lab work back to compare to Octobers labs.  
Calvin will be coming home from Colorado tomorrow evening.  I'm looking forward to having him back home.  It's just a bit too quiet around here.

Hope everyone has a blessed day!

Christina

Good afternoon IL!  Carol, how was the school?

I have reconnected with my personal trainer and will begin working out with her again.  I'm having the hardest time getting back into the gym habit.  Seeing her again will get me going.

I finally moved past the stall I was at weight-wise.  I lost 4 lbs in one day for a total of 30lbs.  I've been tracking my food, which I hate to do, but it has worked!

Sue

I love, love, love! the new school.  We are definitely transferring the boys to this school for the 10/11 year.  Now the hardest part is dealing with the last 4 months at their current school.  Today the kids were sent home with t-shirts with the new logo on them and were told that they HAD to wear these t-shirts tomorrow to school for Mass and this whole school mixer that is going on all day.  Both schools will be at our school playing games apparently.  I know that the Father is going to have the paper there taking pictures of our kids wearing these shirts in an effort to show 'solidarity' and support for this consolidation.  HOWEVER, a lot of us are NOT in support of this move and feel that it is being shoved upon us with no regard to the effect it is having on us, our kids and most importantly all of our teachers who have been FIRED and told to reapply for their jobs with no promise of getting their job back.  In fact, we won't even know WHO the teachers will be until August.  We won't even know who the principal will be until July!  Top it off they are hiking tuition and even when you register you are not guaranteed a spot in the school, you are 'applying' and they can deny admittance with no reason.  ?????? It is unbelievable.

I called the school and asked if they would get in trouble if they DON'T wear these shirts tomorrow and they won't.  But they were like, well we really want them to....I don't care! I really want our teachers not to be fired! I really DON'T want our class sizes topping out at 30 kids! 

Sorry I am so venting right now.  I probably will have this pasted on the R&R board.

Either way I shouldn't get upset because we made up our minds, and the new school is definitely the atmosphere we have wanted all along.  It reminds us of how the current school USED to be before this whole mess started.  But it still hurts my heart to see my boys school turned into nothing more than an overcrowded money machine for the Father.  And I'm not just being bitter, the Father HAS been directly quoted as saying "It's my building I'll do whatever I want to it". 

So disappointed in that I thought I knew the man to be one way and the reality is so far from that. 

Ok I'm done rambling now!

By the way, I'm starting to learn about tracking my food and it is HARD!  I mean, I'll do it, but man oh man is it hard to remember!  Than and I'm supposed to be tracking all of this water, fiber, and fruit/veggie servings, I'm feeling very overwhelmed with it all.

"By the way, I'm starting to learn about tracking my food and it is HARD!  I mean, I'll do it, but man oh man is it hard to remember!  Than and I'm supposed to be tracking all of this water, fiber, and fruit/veggie servings, I'm feeling very overwhelmed with it all." - Carol

You got that right! It is sooooo hard! I just keep trying to reach up to the next step of this massive climb. I've finally reached the point of having a concept of how many calories each meal and snack should be (pre-op). I'm paying more "attention" to higher fiber, lower carbs, less sugar, more protien, less/better fats --- but, shoo, I am nowhere near able to cite what gram-amounts are supposed to be in each meal/snack. I'm trying for more water each day. I now spend all my "down time" (basically my train rides), entering my meals into the LoseIt! food log program (app) on my new iPod Touch. It's easier than looking up each blessed piece of food in the carb counter reference book. Plus, I have to mention that I really don't like the micro-observation of myself needed to log this stuff. I know I have to, it's just that I'd rather be working on solving other people's problems (like my clients'), not my own.

Still, I won't give up. I figure if I keep re-reading all the nutrition info, I'll eventually understand it. It's like learning a second language. One that I needed to know yesterday!

So, stay with it. We'll get it eventually!

Check my reply to Carol on Thursday's roll call.......