William Working Hard

William has lost 15 pounds in the last month. He is working so hard at it. He walks twice a day, all by himself, without being prodded and does at least 50 crunches every day. He is becoming much more aware of what he puts in his mouth too. I think that within 6 months at this rate he will be at a good weight and maybe he can start using weights to put some definition in his shape. My son the "Buff Guy". Wouldn't that be something.

Superman is Alive and Well and Living in Enterprise

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Cold weather has come to Alabama. I had to actually put on P.J.s last night. It is 60 degrees out right now and it got down to the low 40's last night. Time for long sleeves and sweaters for me. It took 8 years, but my blood is now thinned to need some coverage when the temperatures drop. I know I won't get any sympathy from all of you who live in the Northern Tundra, but for here it is cold. But I can bet I won't be doing my Christmas shopping in any more that long sleeves or a sweater.

Stay Off the Sidewalks

Well on Tuesday David got his driver's license. What a day. In Alabama they don't do road tests if it is raining. But of course I didn't know that. So we sat for hours hoping and praying that the rain would stop. After it finally stopped we had to wait for the roads to dry. I thought David was going to have a hemorrhage. But the rain finally stopped and the roads finally dried enough to take the test, then the computer went down. Oi Vey. I started to wonder if God was trying to tell me something. But by 11:30 he was a licensed driver. I know that every one of my children have had this time in their life and I know it well. But it never ceases to amaze me how many different urgent reasons there are in the first few days after a child gets his license to drive somewhere. Friends get stranded, teachers think of new supplies that are needed by the next morning, special food is craved, other friends are lonely or afraid and then there is the old stand by, "I just want to get out of the house". Daddy and I give grades as to the creativity of the reasons. We endure this for about 2 weeks until the newness and sheer joy of driving everywhere wears off, then crack down. It will be amazing how things will change from to fun to a chore when I ask for some driving done on my behalf. At least he won't have to pick up his little brother and take him anywhere.

My Son the Rock Star

In honor of his 16th birthday I took pictures of my brand new 16 year old baby boy. My sweet little mop top. I know he looks like "Cousin It" from the Adams Family, but I love him anyway.

Still Nothing Going On

What does One do with these blogs when One does not have an exciting life? I suppose I could make stuff up, but that takes too much energy and I never did learn how to keep my lies straight, so that doesn't sound like the right way to go here.

Daddy is gone again. He is attending some meetings in D.C. I think. He will be able to visit with his good friend Greg from Clifton Springs. It's been so nice for him to keep in touch with his childhood friend. Greg is a retired Army JAG and lives in Alexandria, VA. So often when Bill goes up that way he is able to have dinner with Greg. He is supposed to get home on Friday. Once again I'm in a cleaning frenzy. Somehow my bedroom never gets all the way clean. I make piles and baskets and boxes of things, but never quite get them all put away. Maybe this time I can make a huge dent in them.

Heather called last night and asked me to tell her children about the time I tried to teach Heather how to cook Southern Fried Chicken. It made me smile. As it turned out, last week I had made Fried Chicken twice last week and every time I make it I always think of the calamitous cooking lesson with Heather and I crack up. She and I both took note that after that unfortunate incident I never again attempted to teach my daughters to cook. So with few exceptions, any cooking you learned at my knee was really an accident on my part. Had I actually tried to teach you on purpose, I may have blown up the house or something equally horrible. Be glad your powers of osmosis were good or your husbands would have had to spend the first year of marriage eating PB & Js.

Well David is the big 16 now. Yesterday was rather a disappointment for him. None of his big plans panned out. Bless his heart, he took the time during his whining about how sucky his birthday had been to tell me that it was nothing that I had or had not done for him, but that his friends had all blown him off. He appreciated the fried shrimp and home made french fries I made for him. And the video game he got for the XBox 360. Maybe today will be better. I think he is going to go out to lunch with friends. He is off from school today and tomorrow.

William has lost 12 pounds in the last few weeks. He gets up every morning about 6 and walks around the neighborhood. I managed to get his desire to be thinner to fall into his groove of OCD. So he is very good about it. I've added it to his list of morning routines. Like showering and brushing teeth and changing underwear and socks. I've discovered he can not read a non digital scale or an analog clock. I need to work on that.

Daddy and I went to Kohl's in Dothan on Saturday. It just opened and was full of really really good sales. He got me an early Christmas present of a new George Forman Grill with changeable plates. The last few times we had company for dinner, I noticed that I no longer had any serving bowls so Daddy bought me these really cool bowls I found at Kohl's. They will definitely match anything, won't they.