I am officially six months out from surgery and down 55 lbs. I have been stuck at the loss for about 3 weeks. I know that I need to exercise. I am just trying to find the time...I know that is a tired excuse. However, when I look at my days, I truly wonder...where to find the time. I am doing the blog during my late lunch. I get up at 6:00 to cook breakfast before sending my children off to school. I work from 7:00 to 3:00. At 3:00, I start dinner for my twins who just started middle school. They eat, do a little homework before going out the door to take my daughter to swimming and my son to wrestling. Then, I pick up the 2 high school students and run them home to eat. By this time we are looking at 6 to 6:30 ish. I make sure they have dinner before going back out the door to pick up the 2 middle school students again. When that is all said and done...I am home by 8 in the evening...minus the nights that the 2 in high school have their swim meet or wrestling match. Then, comes the weekend..swim meet on Saturday and wrestling on Sunday for the youth sports. Of course this is in addition to all of the house work and cleaning. I quess I can just say.....I can't wait until the winter sport season is over. We are all going to take a break and just go to the YMCA together. I know I could get up in the morning. However, I get up twice during the night to put wood on the fire that heats our home....especially after last months $500 electric bill (used the electric heat instead of wood...big mistake).

However, I do have so much to be thankful for.....we had a snow day. I went to bed at 7:30. I woke up to find that my children had cleaned the downstairs. It was spotless. There was not one dirty dish left in the sink. Now anyone with children knows that is a true miracle. As they see how busy I am, they have all really stepped up to the plate to help out.

My husband who has been working out of town....is coming home this weekend. Yeah!!!!! He is always so appreciative and does everything when he is home.

And....I feel better than I have felt in years. It amazes me how much more energy I have with the 55 lb weight loss. I cannot imagine if my husband had to work out of town before my lapband. I don't think I could have done what I have this winter.

Oh well.....I am thankful for this blog. Instead of rewarding myself with food ....for all of my hard work. I just vented and feel so much better!!!!!