By September

Memorial Day weekend we went camping again. We went to a place we had never been before.  They had a pool and cabins.  We did not stay at the cabins but CJ and her friend Chanassy had a lot of fun playing in the pool.  I had a lot of work to do and at the pool they had internet so that is where I parked myself and the girls did not mind.  This was the second year that Chanassy has been able to come with us camping.  She is such a great kid and does not complain about anything, even when we had her try fish tacos for dinner.  She gets alone so well with CJ and they did not fight at all.  We still think that we need a bigger camper with 2 kids beds in it for the girls. 

CJ has been enjoying going to Claire’s.  They get to play afterschool and Brittney has been good about sending me fun pictures of them.  She also has been able to go to field day at CJ’s school and take pictures and video of CJ for me so that I do not have to miss anything able to last year in Elementary school.

This year I was not going to take the High holy days off of work because work has been so crazy and I did not want to get more behind.  But CJ really wanted to go and she wanted to get on the bema and say prayers.  Sometimes there are things that are more important than work and I have forgotten that several times this school year. 

This year CJ wanted to try to run for Student Council President.  We got her poster paper and printed off pictures.  Her dad helped her with the posters because he is just more creative than I am.  CJ was not totally into trying to get them colored and finished.  She just wanted to take them to school.  But we had her finish coloring them.  I was very proud of her for wanting to run and it was a good lesson in that not everyone can get the job that they want.  You have to work for things and sometime you still do not get it.  She did not win the election but she gave it a good try.

This year I keep making all these promises to CJ that we will do this or we will do that but I run out of time because I have been working so much.  So I have been trying to just set aside time for just her and I.  One of those times we made Macaroons.   Every since the American Girl Grace came out CJ has been obsessed with Macaroons. It got worse when Ellie and Montse took her to a Macaroon shop in Savannah.. Her dad then bought her a book on making Macaroons. They are really not easy to make, they tasted good but did not look that pretty.  So now I am obsessed with try to make them right.  Jay and CJ are happy because they love to eat all the mistake Macaroons.

At the beginning of the year Jay and I started the health life style change and by September we were still walking and eating right during the weekdays.  As work got bad it was hard to find the time to walk but we still did.  We had lost a total of 109 pounds between the both of us and neither of us fit in any of our old clothes.  We had fun going though our closets and getting rid of clothes.  We had 4 bags of clothes to give away.