Oh blogger where art thou?

Yes, I've been horribly neglectful of my poor blog as of late. Between crappy internet access and preperation to get the kiddos off to school it's been difficult.
Today however was the first day of school and 4 out of 5 kids were shipped off this morning to their respective classes with their shiny new backpacks, cool new shoes and a mix of excitement and nervousness. My daughter had her first day of highschool today which is bittersweet for me. It seems like just yesterday that I was freaking out about her starting middle school (3 yrs ago) and now look, she's already past that and on to highschool. What does that mean to me? In 4 incredibly short years my baby will be headed off to college. Of course the same year that my oldest baby heads off to college my youngest babe will start kindergarten and so it will begin again, but still... To me, highschool signals that we're nearing the end of Bekah's childhood. They all had a good day with new and old friends, navigating their classrooms and meeting new teachers. Myself and Adan on the other hand rejoiced in having some semblance of calm and quiet around the house. With the bluster of having all 5 home for the last 3 or so months I realized today that I've had precious little time to really play and interact with my little guy. He is just the sweetest thing ever. We played cars, blocks, read and glory of all glories we even napped together, ahhhhhh :) I took a crappy cell phone pic of the 3 boys this morning before school but will have to get a better pic tomorrow with my camera. I'll have to get a picture of Bek after school since she leaves before daylight.
On to food~

B - celebratory crappy fast food breakfast of Wendy's bacon, egg and cheese biscuit and hashbrown
L - Campbells light veggie italian soup
Snack - 1 serving wheat thins with 1 wedge laughing cow cheese
D - Lean Cuisine, pasta with chicken and veggies I will however not by it again because it was full of peas and I cannot stand them, ghirardelli raspberry filled dark chocolate
Snack - 1 cup frozen grapes

Exercise - none however I do plan to strap on my shocks and hit the walking trail tomorrow after dropping the kids of at school

I really don't remember if I've talked about this recently so I apologize if I'm repeating, but I'm nearing my goal that I set for myself date wise for weight loss. I wanted to be at goal on my birthday September 16th. I'm now 9 lbs away. I know that there's no way I'll lose 9 lbs in 3 or so weeks. However, I see how far I've come and I'm truly happy. Yes, I still want to reach that initial goal and likely go 10 lbs beyond it but to say that for my official 1st goal that I have less 10 lbs to lose is a pretty cool thing. I've lost 44lbs and am damned proud of myself. I now hope to reach my final goal which is 19 lbs from now by Christmas. What an awesome Christmas present to give myself, no? I think it's attainable. I'm figuring at 1.5 lbs per week that's around 27 lbs so surely I can do 19 lbs. We shall see. Oh, I've reread Memoirs of a Geisha over the last week and am now rereading The Other Boleyn Girl. I adore both books and would recommend them to anyone. Any book that involves some history really intrigues me. Not to mention that it just reaffirms my desire to travel and see all of the places that I read about.
Anyway, I promise to be more attentive to dearest blog and my millions of readers ;)

Til the morrow...