Yippie

Well I'm done Christmas shopping? How about you? Today we went to Wal mart and finished the stocking stuffers. I'm glad to be done. I just have to take Jon to get something for dad now. Now it's time to wrap things up. That's always a job I don't really like for some reason. We went grocery shopping today and spent the day running around here and there. I did go swimming today again to my water aerobics class. I just love that class, and since the teacher went to a teaching class she learned some new things. I love it even more now that she is pushing us and challenging us even more. I got a new swim suit today in the mail I ordered off EBay. It's size 10 and fit's perfect. My old swim suit was stretched out really bad and I could not wait until spring to get a new one. I weighed in this morning and I am down to 181. That's 110 pounds so far for me. Yippie!!!! I can not tell you or express enough how much better I am feeling these days. I'm almost to my first goal of 169. Who would of thunk it????? In the beginning I was very scared this WLS would not work for me. I was scared and not trusting. And a life time of down talking myself didn't help either. But today I'm just freaking amazed and thrilled to have a fighting chance.

I also had a meeting with family services today on the phone trying to make contact with that little girl I used to read with for 4 years in a row. I blogged about her in Oct. Anyway she is back into foster care away from her family, they live back East. I knew I had to go through the proper channels and get permission to see her again as the state has custody of her at this point in her life. So in the near future I will get a chance to be back in her life to some point. We talked today that maybe I could help tutor her after school in the library. Were going to work that part out here in the near future. Saleena has to earn privileges and I will be one of those things she needs to earn. There trying to teach her life skills such as behavior skills, and anger skills. She has been in foster care for years and was on her way to being adopted. She had several problems after being adopted when she went with her adopted family to the East coast. I'm sure this little girl has been through some shit that not even me knows. So she has some learning and problems to work out. I just want to be a kind, honest, loving person in her life. I will do what ever they need me to do for this little girl as she means a lot to me. She touched my heart years ago. This photo was taken of us several years ago.