New Day

Well I'm glad to report I kept my promise from last week! I went to play poker with my friends and had a great time! I also promised I would walk. I did! It was much easier going down the hill from my house than it was on the way home back up the hill! But I did it. Tomorrow starts a new day. I have packed my lunch from home every day this week. My goal is to stop eating school lunches. Apparently they are not as healthy as they claim to be. I have either eaten a school lunch or stopped at WaWa on the way to school. So that's out now. Tonight, Sue is making her famous and also so delicious meatloaf, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, and deviled eggs. This is our final meal, after this we will be watching what we eat very closely. We went to the grocery store, got all sorts of very healthy options for our meals. We got a new melon. Galia...ever heard of it? So good. It is a hybrid melon from Israel. It tastes very much like cantaloupe. It is very sweet and best served cold.  We got lettuce so we could make lettuce sandwiches instead of bread.

School (Masters Program) has been stressing me lately. I have a big paper due this Monday. I have an online computer class with modules due all the time. I need to get my taxes done, plan a birthday party, get ready for my Art show, and I feel like I am sinking. So, what I find that I am doing is just putting it all off. Instead of doing school work, I am blogging right now, will be playing stupid Candy Crush or Matching with Friends or tending to my lovely farm animals on Farmville 2 later. I play these games because they tend to numb my brain and they do not require my thinking on my part. I promised my self I would sit down and work on at least one module for this computer class. So as soon as I'm done here I need to get to work. Maybe I'll sneak in one round of Candy Crush before I start, you know, to relax my brain!!

I mentioned planning a birthday party. Lilly will be One year old on April 3. So the problem comes in because that day falls on a Wednesday. The weekend before her birthday is Easter weekend. The weekend after her birthday is my All County Art Show, all day from 10:00 to 5:00!! So I need to figured out when and where we will have her party.  Speaking of Lilly, she saw a nutritionist the other day. She is eating more calories for her age than she needs however she is also as active as a three year old. So the plan is to add more calories to her daily diet. She is very healthy and small. Its ok. Brittany is the best mother around!! She is doing everything perfectly right for Lilly. Lilly is very lucky to have Brittany for her mommy. I love them both so much. I got to spend the entire weekend with them and I enjoyed every second of it and cried when they went home. I miss them both every day. Enough said.

Back to school. If anyone reading this, other than my school family, would like to donate food to our school food pantry, we could really use it. I am in charge of our food pantry. We send home back packs of food for the weekends to our families in need. Many of our students do not have much to eat over the weekends, some of them don't eat again until Monday morning when breakfast is served at school. So the Encore team developed a back pack program that allows them to have meals over the weekends. We have provided turkeys and bags of food forThanksgiving and hams and foods at Christmas. We would like to have hams for Easter. Our pantry is running low now. We have reached out to several local businesses and churches and many of them are trying to provide help. If you would like to donate or know of an organization that would like to help out please contact me at beckettk5@hotmail.com.

Supper smells sooooo good. I can not wait to eat!! Because the weight loss starts tomorrow!!
Hopefully you will see less of me soon!!

Buenas Noches,
KK