Its always so long in between posts on here. What's happened since my last entry? Weight Watcher's was a FAIL for me. Because of me. I didn't really work it. Chris' mom DID work it and lost like 35-42 lbs (can't remember exact number but I'm SUPER proud of her!).  I've lost 7lbs total since then doing my own thing exercising and tracking food intake on loseit.com. Another 33 to go.

     My life as a mother is getting better everyday. I notice that by previous posts my readers would see I was incredibly NOT ready for motherhood. But as she's getting older (she'll be 3 on Nov 17 this year), she's becoming more interesting and I'm falling more and more in love with her sweet, smart little self. As of a couple weeks ago, I can finally say,"I'm glad I'm a mother," and mean it. Yes, I have tons of regrets, things I missed out on in life, things that will have to come later or not at all, but I love our little girl and I wouldn't give her up for anything. :)

     I quit my job as an Internet Assessor with LionBridge to spend more time with her. I was spending 90% of my waking hours online sitting in front of a computer, and it really wasn't working out as she's an active little girl and needs attention and play/learning time with Mommy.

     Chris' job at TVA is going well. I'm so proud of him for doing his best at moving us up in the world. :) Buying a house is on the horizon, hopefully in the next year after paying some debts off. 

     Had some good news a couple days ago. My dad worked at Mckee for 13 years, before I was born and up until I was almost 8 when we moved to Indiana. 6 months after my mom and dad got married, he had an accident on the job. He was working on a machine that had huge rollers with a 2 inch clearance in between, and the managers didn't want them turning off the machines to clean the cookie crumbs/dust that accumulated during the shift. So he was getting that off and his arm got caught in the rollers and pulled it in all the way up to his shoulder, then proceeded to eat through his arm down to the muscle/bone. He says he was screaming at the top of his lungs and no one could hear him for a while, but finally someone came around and turned the machine off. Anyway, the point of my story is, my dad had to get blood transfusions at the hospital cause he'd lost so much. This was back when they only knew about Hepatitis A and B.  So they didn't know to check blood donations for Hep C. And Daddy got it. Only he didn't find out til 20 years later when he went to donate blood himself. He went through treatment and was declared Hep C free around 5 years ago.

     Then last year he went in to get a checkup and they retested him. And told him he still had it. He was devastated and started making plans to go through another round of treatment, which included maybe having to take a few months off work. But a couple days ago he called me. He'd just gotten out of the doctor's office where they had told him the test was wrong, and he was and had been FREE of Hep C the whole time since the original treatment! :) Soooo happy :)

     Anyway, that's a smidgeon of my life right now. Hope you all are having a good day :)