Birthday Girl

Little Summer had been sooooo looking forward to this day, her 5th birthday party. All her pre-schools friends were invited and 14 of the 18 invited came along with their parents. Her Dad and his partner came, Micheal (her mum’s partner) and his 2 daughters came, and of course I was there. Hubby bowed out, too noisy for him!!!

Little Miss was so excited but a little overwhelmed with all the attention being focused on her. 

It was held at the Beach Volleyball centre which is also home to lots of Inflatables, about 10 bouncies to play on. Ohhh my the kids had the best time. Boys and girls running and playing in every direction.

 And she nearly cried when it came to the cake, look how overwhelmed she was. She so loved it. Didn’t mummy do an awesome job, she made it and decorated it herself.

Today she wore her crown and Birthday Girl badge to school and took cupcakes for everyone including her teachers. 

This is my brother and I taken at Rays funeral. 

I’m still coming to terms with the news he gave me on his 73rd birthday back in February. Rod has been diagnosed with dementia. I believe it is early onset but I’m not sure. So not only was reeling from Ron, then Ray then now this with Rod. 

And then the other day one of our close radio friends passed away. Tex and hubby have been talking many years on the radio. We stayed with him at his house on our travels over on the East Coast and caught up with him at a Hamfest in Ohio when we travelled to America and Canada. 

Getting old is sux 🫤

I’ll say goodnight with a report of a 800g loss on the demon scales this morning. 

Emotions

 Emotions play a huge part of my weight gains and of course my losses. Since I’ve started back on ww I have noticed a pattern. One week I have a good loss and the following week I have a gain or just a small loss. This week I had a 300g gain. I’ve done nothing much different to usual…except Friday after 7 long weeks we were able to say a final goodbye to my cousin Ray. It was a tough day and my eating was a little off. Anyways, I still managed to stay within my points. This week I’m trying to cut out snacks, sweet and salty popcorn has been my friend ALL this week with me eating 2 snack bags a day, sometimes 3 😳😳

My favourite pick of Ray. It was taken at my Mum’s 80th birthday. These 2 had the same wicked sense of humour. I think the pic above shows that. 

I know I’m going the miss the old bugga…we had a great bond. I’m going to miss the unexpected visits, the phone calls and him. Life is just not fair sometimes. He got sent to do his job and never came back. I just hope that his family get compensated for the loss his life, it should have NEVER happened. 

Anyways on to another week. Hope I get a loss next week…only 2 months before we pack up and head off on our trek. 

Back Pain

 Another week gone. 

Been a slow week exercise wise, last Monday was the last day I walked. Have had a lot of back spasms, very painful at times.

I was in a car accident when I was a teenager and received quite a severe back injury. Every now and then it flares up and causes me grief….this is the worst it has been in a long time.

I’ve also got a jaw ache, don’t know if they are related at all, but if pain persists I will be getting it checked out. 

Went up and saw our friends the other day, we are joining them for the trek. Now to work out the permits to travel through indigenous land and start the planning. It’s quite exciting, been a long time since we’ve done this type of trek. 

Kylee has managed to get kids into before school care so they have been sorted. She is also going to take personal leave from her bakers job while we away. William is having a lot of anxiety issues with her working nights, so she needs to be around whilst we gone. He has already asked me if we coming back… poor lil lad. 

Right, weigh in day. A loss of 800g.

Another week gone

 

Another week has just flown by…I can’t believe how quickly it has gone. They do say the older you get the quicker the time goes by and gee I’m finding that to be true.

Had friends out over the weekend. We asked them out as our fig trees are overloaded and we know how much they enjoy fresh fruit. We’ve already made jam and dried so many of them. While they were here they said they were off exploring in May and asked us to join them on the trek. It’s a trek we’ve wanted to do so we’ve been trying to figure out if we can go. Our daughter relies on us so much with the grandies so she is now trying to sort out alternatives for them. Hate doing it to her, and feel a little guilty doing so but it is our time now and if we don’t do it this time we may not have the chance again. Other friends asked us in 2018 to do this trek but it was 3 weeks after we returned from our America/Canada/London trip and I couldn’t get the time off work. 

Anyways, I’m hoping that we can manage to do it. A lot of planning to be done and travel permits to be sought out and got.

And hopefully I can lose a bit more weight and be more comfortable travelling. 

No weight lost on last weigh in, actually I had a 300g gain. Don’t know why, I planned and tracked but still it happened. Moving on and hopefully this week it will turn itself around. 

Time to move, a work day for me and a few things have to be done before I head out the door.