Been a While

It has been a while since I posted. I have been a busy bee these last few weeks.We have had C's birthday and party, doctor appointments, work, C's softball, PTA, school starting, EVERYTHING.

I will start with C's birthday since it happened first. She turned 6 this year. It is so weird to think that I am 25 with a 6 year old. She is absolutely the reason I do everything that I do. I cannot imagine my life without her in it. She had a joint party with her cousin J. He turned 5 only three days after C turned 6. He is also one of the lights of my life. We went to a rec center in town and had a bounce house party. It was great. My sister got cookie cake, I made confetti cupcakes from scratch and NOT diet friendly LOL and we had lots of fun. The grown-ups played basketball and dodge ball while the kids ran around playing and jumping. We were all worn out. SUCCESS!!!



The next Monday, the kids started school. C is in first grade and absolutely LOVES her Teacher, Mrs. I. Mrs. I is so cute...she is young and fun and LOVES all of those kiddos. The first day of school, C was supposed to walk home with the daughters of the woman that is keeping her after school. C and the girls couldn't find each other, so C decided she would walk home....she told me later that she knew how to get to Miss J's house from our house so she wanted to walk from there. Genius idea, just wrong time to use it LOL.

I had my final appointments with the dietitian, doctor, psych eval, nutrition and emotional wellness class for the surgery. Now all that is left is the approval from the insurance company. I was a little nervous about the psych eval. I am an emotional mess when it comes to my weight. Part of me is confident and knows that I look good, the other part of me just wants to curl up in a ball and cry until I am thin. I was scared that I wouldn't pass the psych eval because of those emotions. Instead, I was told that was completely normal. Lots of people deal with these same things. That made me happy in a way...happy that I am not crazy LOL

In the nutrition class we went over all of the diet phases that I will go through. WOW. I am so glad that they made us detailed binders. That is going to take a lot of the guess work out of things. I am excited that I chose a surgeon that has a comprehensive team that has a therapist, dietitian, surgeon, insurance specialists, everything...under one roof. I really feel like they are setting me up for success. I cannot lose if I do what they tell me. I have friends that have had the surgery and I will use some of their tricks and tips, but I will always go to my doctor to double check those. I just don't want to do anything wrong. I want to get healthy and be a fun Mom.

I will get there eventually....sooner than later :)