Monday, Monday

Good morning or should I say good evening?  I haven't been to bed yet.
I'll be back later.
Have a great day.
Margaret
Happy 4th of July to my American OFFers!!  

Good Morning Margaret,
I woke up around an hour ago, in pain again.  My therapist wants me to find a Mindfulness Meditation group in the area, where I can learn meditation for pain management. 

Monday has me going to Sesame Place with my grandchildren in the late afternoon/evening for their parade and fireworks.  We will get on some rides too. 

Mom is due in on Tuesday, so I have some tidying to do as well.  I also have to finish sewing on the snaps I took off over the weekend. 

Hugs,
Trish

I so believe in meditation  -  not sure what "mindful" meditation is, but I like the sound of it.  I learned to meditate years ago and rely on it to ground me when all hell breaks lose.  I really need to get into the practise of meditating every day as it is so beneficial for so many things.
Have fun with the g-children.
Margaret 

Hi Margaret and all my OFF family to follow:

I really need to get to bed; I never did get my nap yesterday afternoon, so I was dragging all night at work. Don't know how I made it through the night. Did six pages and proofed several more. I was really sleep-editing. I brought some of my blueberry muffins into work, but only I had one and one other person had one. So I still have 16 muffins left. Oh well, more for me.

Nothing else going on ... I'll work again later tonight. Can't think much now. I'll come back, later, hopefully after I sleep.

Happy 4th!   (couldn't find fireworks).

Eileen  -  I would have loved to have one of your blueberry muffins.  I used to eat them often; however, I haven't had one since WLS!

I have a WLS-friendly recipe. A woman I met in support group right after I had my surgery seven years ago wrote a cookbook (I don't think it's available anymore) and one of the best things it has are bread recipes made for gastric bypass patients. One is the blueberry muffin recipes; there's also zucchini bread, apple muffins, apple bread ... all of them are made with half whole wheat flour, no or low fat (applesauce is substituted) and Splenda. And protein powder. So they have extra protein. I love to bake (even though it kills my back and knees, so I enjoy making these recipes. My coworkers in Michigan loved them, too, and then I'd tell them they were also good for them ... they were surprised.

Hey Eileen,

Any chance you can share some of those recipes, I adapt things frequently, but it is through trial and error that I get there, maybe some of those recipes can help me find suitable adaptions without the trial part of things. . .  I did adapt and make a wonderful banana, walnuts and raisin bread, made with w/w flour, bananas, nuts raisins, applesauce and splenda, oh and have come up with my version of toll house cookies, their a decent sub, though I don't like cookies enough to make them all that often.

Sure, I'll post some separately. I've posted these before. I wish the cookbook was still available, but Grand Health Partners (formerly MMPC) no longer carries it. Don't know if it's still in print anywhere. Too bad ... it is a good cookbook, and I don't cook that often, but I do like to bake.

Hi Margaret and all others,

      I'm very sleepy but can't go to sleep until I take my multivitamin in 20 minutes. Using the time to drink the last of my fluid for the day.

    Nothing planned for tomorrow. AZ is not allowing fireworks by individuals due to the risk of more fires.

     It was much cooler in AZ (90 degrees and a bit of wind.) Thought it was going to rain, but it didn't. Even heard thunder. Still waiting for the summer Monsoon to start. Southern AZ has been in drought conditions for at least 10. We need rain so much. I think we have been in Drought for over 10 years,
   As ever,,, Mag   Have a happy 4th of July       

I`ve never been to Arizona, but I hear that it`s a nice place.  One of my cousins purchased a vacation property there.  I don`t think that I would like the heat.  Try to stay cool!
Margaret
We had two big thunder storms here on the weekend  -  always interesting with two, big, scardy-cat German shepherds.    They both tried to get into bed with me  -  all 180 lbs. of them
Margaret