I'm Back, Again....

Well, we are back from Charleston. 2 nights was too short to spend there, but we had fun. It was so good to see my sister and my 2 sweet nieces. The 4 girls all had a great time. I brought one of my teen-age BBall players with me to help and she was great. It was good just to have another pair of hands. And, she watched the girls for a couple of hours one night so my sister and I could go out to eat and catch up. That was really nice. We went to Isle of Palms one day and we went to the pool the next. The girls were happy and exhausted! I don't get to see my sister as much as I would like to, so it was nice. As always, leaving Charleston made me sad, but I am sure we will go again soon. I won a girls week-end there with some of my friends when we all played our husbands in Mexican Train Dominoes, so we will do that in the Fall, sometime. This week-end we are going to the lake (without our girls) and some friends are coming with us. I will miss the girls, but I haven't been away from them in several weeks for more than a few hours, so this week-end I am planning on sleeping in and just doing a whole lot of nothing. I will hopefully be refreshed for them and ready to play when I come back. They are staying with Aunt Libby, so they are going to have a blast. She wants to come get them tonight instead of tommorrow, and Brian doesn't get in from Pennsylvania until tommorrow, so I am not going to know what to do with myself all alone tonight. I think it will have something to do with the TV and a bubble bath. (That is, if I can get the house cleaned, get unpacked from Charleston, and get packed for the lake before tonight!) I am going to try to plan some fun things for the girls next week since school is starting, soon. I need to spend some quality time with them instead of focusing on all I need to get done here. My to-do list will never get done, but my girls will grow up when I'm not paying attention, so I am going to try to make next week all about them. We will see how it goes. I am going to join the gym when school starts, so that should be interesting. I want to lose 20 pounds and that will be a challenge. I love to eat and I love sweets. I need to go be hypnotized or something. For now, I am trying to drink Carnation Instant Breakfasts for breakfast and lunch with a small snack in between. I am also switching to one caffienated drink a day and I am going to diet sodas (yuck). Oh, the fun after we turn 30......