This Weekend

Friday was a most excellent day. Dave and I finally got to celebrate our seventh wedding anniversary. The kids stayed for Lunch Bunch and it was Dave's off Friday, so we had 5 whole hours together! We had a great date. We hung out at home for a little bit, and then we went out for brunch and went to a movie. Not just any movie, but Fireproof. We have just wanted to hug and hold hands all weekend after seeing that movie. It really reminded us of how grateful we are for our marriage and how it is something entirely worthwhile and worth fighting for. We are so blessed to have each other! For any married couple, or anyone that intends to get married someday, or really just anyone and everyone, I think it is an important movie to see. And, on a less important note, the brunch was excellent. Harbor City Diner is one of our favorite places and the only place I have found that seems to understand what "well-done scrambled eggs" means. The waitress actually writes it down and I never get nasty wet eggs. And I love their home fries! I don't know why I do, because I really think that they just scrape all the stuff that falls out of all the omelettes off the grill and into the home fries! Like this time I had sausage, mushrooms, green peppers and onions in my home fries!

Then I got to go out to eat with my friend Amanda, and we had a very nice time! Then I got to go scrapbooking (it was just party day for me!). I got to scrapbooking, pulled my stuff out and sort of stared out it for a half-hour, feeling completely uninspired! So I just left and went to my Mom's and spent the night pricing stuff with her and my niece, JoJo. (For those of you who don't know, I only have one niece, Justine and JoJo are one and the same. I refer to her as JoJo most of the time and Justine the other half. Jonathan could not say Justine so he named her JoJo and it has just stuck!)

The next morning, Saturday, we had our annual garage sale! It has been our sixth consecutive year! The first year, 2003, Jonathan was only about a month old, if that even. He was all bundled up because we had a little cold snap that November! It's a tradition, but a big pain in the rear, and every year, I say, why do we do this to ourselves? It is totally exhausting! And this year was a record low for us moneywise. We just did not have the customers we usually do! Is the recession affecting garage sale sales also? Part of it was that my heart just was not in it this year. I guess because we were both sick all week (well, I was actually sick for almost two weeks).
I sort of left most of my stuff bundled up in bags and barely priced anything. Jonathan walked around pricing stuff for us during the sale! He came up and he said, I am just putting 2 dollars on everything, Mama! (He was actually putting 20 dollars on everything... Whoops!)

Today (Sunday) was a good day at church. Everything went really well, and I was glad to be back. I missed being there when I was sick last week. Then we went to my Mom's for lunch, made some lemon bars, and hung out there until it was time to go the baptism. We have never attended a New Hope baptism, and it was pretty awesome! Now we are back home and I just made banana bread with an improvised recipe (we'll have to see how that goes!) Anna just smacked me in the eye with a notebook and it really hurts! I am thinking she mostly just hurt my eyelid, but my actual eye hurts too. What is it around here lately???

Something else... I went back to Weight Watchers on Saturday. I am the same weight I've been since the spring of this year, and I am tired of not feeling good about myself.
I am feeling pretty good about getting back on track. I know I can be successful with the program, because I have been in the past. After both the kids were born I lost the baby weight, plus some! I have also successfully maintained a significant weight loss on Weight Watchers before (about 30 pounds, which even though I never reached their goal weight for me, I liked the weight I was at and it was relatively easy for me to maintain). At the very least, I am going to fight to maintain my current weight through the holidays. I would like to lose, though, of course.

Dave just fought off a nest of hornets in the backyard. He was cleaning the pool when he discovered it on Anna's window. Right now, he is trying to look online to figure out what sort of wasp it is, but he just told me he keeps getting stuff about how to co-habitate with them. We want to know how to destroy them, not live with them! Anna and Jonathan are both rioting for dinner! I had better go figure out what's on the menu.