It's been a great few days.

I'm so happy the audit is done and I can refocus my attention on what matters to me: My family. I am able to spend time with each child individually; Ian when I pick him up (because Roo naps then) and then Roo when Ian goes on the computer after dinner. I make sure he and I do something "fun and educational", like yesterday's project which consisted of getting a calender and marking all the important days. We marked each holiday and discussed them, and then for family birthdays we put a picture of each person on the calander. He loved it!

My diet is going well. I've gotten compliements from my MIL, from people I work with and, it might be unrelated to my weightloss, but I was feeling pretty good yesterday because someone hit on me while I was dropping Ian off. I didn't get what was happening (I guess I'm out of practice?) until he, after about 5 minutes of talking about his daughter and his divorce, he said, "Oh, I just saw your wedding ring. I guess I won't hit on you anymore." I was a bit uncomfortable, but then I decided to take it as a compliment and not try to justify it/mininmize it as I usually would by thinking things like, "Oh, he's just lonely," or, "He wasn't really hiting on you. Why would he?" I enjoyed it for what it was.

I didn't quite reach my goal for this weekend with regard to my studies, but I got close. I did, however, manage to spend some quality time with my family on Saturday (we went to the zoo and had a blast), and then Saturday night I spent working. Today I dropped Ian and Roo off, went to get a solidarity cup of coffee, and then went to Church. The sermon was a-m-a-z-i-n-g and I left there feeling inspired and refreshed, just as I usually do.

Roo napped for a while this afternoon so I got to nap a bit too, and then I read some of the Bible. I am enjoying the 'story' it portrays, but I have a question: If God instructed Abraham to count the stars in the heavens, then why do people say that counting stars is bad luck?

<goes off to Google>

Now that my traveling is over (until April) and the audit is done, I can now breathe and take a few moments for myself! I took today off so I could spend the day with my kids and we had a great time. I discovered something that makes Roo laugh, and Ian and I did some math in his "workbook" that blew me away. (How is it that a 5-year-old (who just turned 5 in November, I might add) can do addition, subtraction, double-digit addidition with substitution... He is so amazing to me!)

I'm ready for a weekend of not worrying about anything, not working, and not feeling guilty that I've been ignoring my babies. Tomorrow I plan to ohhh and ahhh all over the kids, and then on Sunday Ian has a surprise trip to the Fair with Sean's aunt and Roo goes to my MIL's house for the morning. I get to go have a cup of coffee ALONE and go to Church. I may even get to read a chapter of my book undisturbed! I can't even remember what that's like.

I have a goal in mind for this weekend of what I want to accoplish in my studies. I'm so far behind now that I'm really going to have to bust #ss!