Terrific Tuesday Roll Call!!!!!

 My birthday is on a Friday!!!  I plan to celebrate with you guys that day and have some other plans for that Saturday. 

July 8 people!! Mark your calendars!! I'll come to Philly!! You know me!!!!!!!!! 

Even I would travel to Philly to celebrate your birthday...but I will be only 9 days post-op...bummer.  Maybe next year.  I had such a  great time at Liz's cooking class.  I wish I lived closer to all of you...you guys are the BEST!
Sara

Thank you Lisa!

If you ever need someone to talk to off line about your mom challenges I'm available.  My youngest daughter gave me a hard way to go as a single mom.   She's still a handfull, will be 31 in October and an awesome daughter....

Hugs...Ida

Good morning PA!
Today is tuesday yet again...work, dinner, scouts.  The only new thing is that at our scout meeting tonight Caleb will be receiving some very nice citations for his heroism during our motorcycle accident last September. The scouts denied him their award basically saying he did nothing great...shame on them.  Scouts who have merely called 911 have gotten the award.  He did so much more...he extricated me from under the bike and treated my injuries until the ambulance arrived and he was only 11 years old at the time.  Anyway...I have a citation for him from US Senator Toomey, US Congressman Thompson, our PA Rep, our PA Senator and the Co. Sherriff is coming to the meeting to make him an honorary deputy sherriff... he knows I got one big envelope in the mail for him, but all the rest will be a surprise tonight.  I hope all this hoopla for him makes up for the boy scout council slighting him.  I owe this kid my life, I could have been hit by a car and killed that morning.  I was in black, under a black motorcycle in the middle of the road in the dark & fog...the outcome could have been much worse had he not been there and done all the right things.
Sara

 Way to go Caleb!!   He DEFINITELY deserves a hero's recognition!

You are an amazing advocate for your child!  You are so proud of ALL of his accomplishments and you refuse to let ANYTHING get in the way - he is going to turn into an amazing adult because of the support he receives from you - I only wish some of my students had parents who are as committed to them as you are to him!  Mazel tov to YOU for raising an amazing young man! :)

Lisa & Steffi,
I passed your congrats on to Caleb.  He thought he was getting one letter from a senator.  He got 5 letters/citations.  He was so happy and proud.  It was nice to see that side of him.  Our Sheriff gave him an award he has only given to 5 other actual deputies ever.  It was a distinguished service award and honorary sheriff deputy citation.  That award was Caleb's favorite because he got a sheriff's dept baseball style hat.  Yup - that is his favorite hat now.  He teased I have to respect him because he is "the law".  I only wish the boy scout council would not have denied him.  That still hurts, since scouts who did much less have earned the award & he was not given the chance to.  Oh well - we all have to face disappointments.  I certainly did my best for him.  Which is only fair because he did his best for me.
Thanks again friends!
Sara

Ida Congrats on your daughters engagement! 

Today had me at work on time go figure that one. I was up early watched the news it is so depressing. In work today have a slight headache but after work I am meeting a friend for dinner then heading to Barix for the pre-op meeting.

Yesterday had to take Scoot back to the mechanic since it sounded like I was dragging R2D2 underneath him turns out he needed new brakes. Of course I was like how did it past inspection last week and need new brakes this week. Kevin (mechanic) said hewas question the mechanic that did inspection. Oh well glad I worked a double Saturday cause there went my money.

Once home from Barix tonight thinking early night to bed but need to figure out what I am wearing on Thursday to NYC. ....


Life is Good! 
 

Thank you Beth - she told me the other day she wants to have the wedding either the end of July or August....now to help her pull this together....I'm excited!!!!

Good morinng, PA!  Congratulations, Ida.

I'm at work -- no surprise there.  OA meeting tonight.  My head is still congested with food-related obsessions and it is exhausing me.  I had an episode of impulsive eating, which is making me feel absolutely horrible about myself.  I didn't want to call it a "relapse" or "slip" because of the connotations those words have for me, but if I am going to be totally honest, I cannot deny that I broke my definition of abstinence and then promptly went into denial.  I did tell a couple of people what happened, but not the woman I call with my food plan, and no one in my OA group.  I'm embarrassed and I don't want to have to "start over" -- kind of like counting days of sobriety and having to go back to day 1.  I want to pretend it didn't happen, keep it to myself, learn from it, and not repeat the same mistake again.  But my conscience is telling me that I need to tell on myself to the "right" people, admit the slip, start counting days from there.  But that means I will have to give up my speaking engagement on May 31st because I would not have 30 days of continuance abstinence.  And then I play that game in my head, "Well, the say 30 days of abstinence, not specifically continuous abstinence."  I'm a sick puppy, huh?

Today's plan:
B - bacon/egg/cheese wrap
S - apple
L - turkey and swiss on flatbread with veggies
S - pineapple
D - fish, baked potato, peas
S - 1/2 english muffin with peanut butter.