Holly Jolly

Has it really been almost 3 weeks since I posted last? Yikes. The holiday season just seems to make time go by even faster than ever. Life in suburbia continues on for us. I think I have the holiday shopping done but always feel as though I could just get one more perfect gift for that last person. Neither Gary nor I had any must have's this holiday season and so it creates a rather boring Christmas morning opening our gifts to each other, but given the economy best not to waste money on high priced gifts that we are not sure we can use anyway.

I think our best gift would be a house. One that would be in our ideal price range, near my parents or big enough to have an in law as part of it and still in our town preferably not on Main Street, but on a nice little side road less traveled. Really it's all I want and we have been looking for close to 4 years for a gem of this sort. Most of what comes to us is either too high priced, on a main street or just far enough away from my parents that I don't want to give up the across the yard distance that we have now. I realize that my expectations are a bit high, but it's hard to give up the grandparents next door and probably equally as hard for them to think of us leaving.

Today is the last day of daycare for the girls before the holidays. The daycare closes from December 23 through January 5th to let the workers have their time off at the holidays. I think it's nice really. So today is my last day of work before the holidays as well. For the most part I think I was already gone last week when all the snow hit. It was not a fun ride into work today and I am going to leave to head home shortly given the current attendance in work today is probably less than half the workforce. Plus everyone I need to talk to is out probably with their cars buried under a foot of frozen snow until Wednesday when the temps make it up above freezing or sub arctic chill level that we have now. Brrrr..

Oh and for those of you on the edge of your seats with my WW news, I lost 1/2 pound two weeks ago breaking my old plateau and putting me on a new one last week when I stayed the same and probably again tomorrow night when I go back. I am not too discouraged despite only having lost about 14 pounds since I started this journey back in freaking August. I haven't been giving it my all that it deserves with counting every morsel and getting my butt into exercise mode as needed. But at the same time at least I didn't gain the 7-10 that some people do gain in the holiday season. If I can maintain this week and next I think I will be happy. Plus WW came out with a new program which is actually a spin on the old one that has eliminated the Core Plan but combined it with the flex plan. Obviously I have to read my materials better from last week, this is just the gist of it, I haven't read it all thoroughly enough to report how it works.

In case I don't get to post again before the big day since my posting skills have obviously been slacking lately, I wish you all the merriest and joyous holidays. May your stockings be full, your presents wrapped in time and your preparations all well appreciated. I hope to catch you again before the new year ascends.