July

July is a great month here at Camp BOY! the boys are loving Summer TJ had his 9th birthday and after me freaking out and thinking it was going to be a replay of 2yrs ago when 1 boy showed up, it wasn't it went well!!! we had 3 boys show up, 1 with a little Brotehr which works well because TJ has little brothers, so at one point I had 8 boys in my house all trying to win Mario cart while they dried off.
Games went well, boys were happy, and all sugared up evenly. I'm still surviving. I did well too this week. I find Birthdays and celebrations a struggle for the quest to get my butt smaller but this one worked I'm down 1.2lbs this week and my loss is now totaling 36.4lbs. I'm happy about that, not so happy about the length of time it has taken to get there but part of me thinks the more time I spend working on this more more practise I'll h ave in living like this, healthier and happier.
This week our city painted more lines and signage! we now have bike lanes! YAY!!!! this is totally a great thing because before this week you felt like you were going to get squished between the cars and the road, the cars and the sidewalks or the people waggling fingers at you were going to find a way to get you back for being on the sidewalk. Sometimes the people are less threatening then the cars, kind of like bigger is more dangerous, but smaller would be less harm? A waggling finger doesn't hurt like smooshage. Yes I just made that word up! smooshage, I like it!
Today we're off to look up something to do, because Trips to the Grocerystore are only SO exciting before you have a munitiny and my helpers want only to go down the crap food aisle. I went on my own lastnight and bought the groceries, it was peaceful and I didn't have to say" nooooooooo" or "put that back" or "What happens if someone finds you but doesn't find me...hmmmmmm?" I send them on missions but now the store is changing it's lay out so JUST when I have them to the point of knowing fruits, TP, Meat, eggs, BREAD, the store moves it!. I will surely lose them all, and that's a different kind of vacation isn't it?
BTW where dooooo kids put all the food they eat? They are eating us out of house and home and still hungry? Where does it go? I can't eat what they eat and still look healthy but they can pack it away? it must be sliding down the back yard on the slides and running away from me in the grocerystore?