It is finally here! Summer has hit our household. At least, it has kind of hit our household. B has football practice every morning, A is working, David is in the office working 4 days a week, and I am working from home. It doesn’t matter, though, because my official state of mind is:
I say that a little tongue in cheek because the weather and illnesses have kinda kept us from being able to be at the lake much yet, but the few times we have been out have been fabulous.
We do have some big summer plans this year. Most of them revolve around football and track stuff for B. He has multiple camps and is working on qualifying for the AAU Junior Olympics in his field events. A is staying busy taking summer classes and working quite a bit. David got invited to a concert in South Carolina recently to help celebrate EMS Week as the final event in a week long celebration of EMS in South Carolina and I was really thankful to be able to go with him to attend that. He was invited because he is the representative for South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee for the NAEMT Board. I have been plugging along with creating things for work, building some new classes, and trying to work ahead for some things for fall and even spring to hopefully have the best semester ever.
In weight loss news, I hit Onederland last week. If you don’t know what that is, here’s a little picture that may help:
I have been in the 1s for size in clothing for a few months, but it was really exciting last week to finally see the number on the scale hit that number for the first time in over 20 years. I haven’t really taken a ton of pictures, not that I don’t want to – I just don’t think about it because of avoiding pictures for so long. But I thought I would post a couple that I have taken.
It’s funny that I don’t really see a difference until i look at pictures. I think it speaks a lot to how our mind plays tricks on us. I feel a huge difference, especially since my gallbladder came out.
Overall, the whole family has been plugging along and trying to steal time to sped with each other as it becomes available. We are walking that road right now of knowing that B is only here for a couple of more years of high school and A is entering her senior year of college. David and I aren’t super sure what empty-nesting will look like, but we are sure that it is coming down the road quickly. Right now, we are just enjoying what we are able to do together and taking everything day by day. There have been a lot of changes in the past year and we do our best to navigate those as gracefully as possible.
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