To catch up on my news...
I can't really remember May. There were two birthdays, Brads and Kaida's. Each was celebrated with family and friends and involved eating so they were great parties. May was rainy and dreary as I recall.
June was dreary too, but there were a few sunny nice days. In June I was diagnosed with Diabetes. This was a life changing event for me. I changed my eating habits, and began taking daily doses of medication to lower blood sugar. I had been feeling kinda crumby all winter, with a lot of fatigue and blurring of vision, and the most alarming thing was that I started losing weight for no reason at all. Yep, all signs of diabetes. Anyway, as the meds took over, and my choices in food improved, the fatigue started to leave me. With more energy, I felt a lot more like being active. This too, helped to lower the blood sugars. So, all in all, I am doing well and feeling so much better than before.
 |
| Declan's First July 1st Parade |
July was a sunny hot wonderful month. It started with the July 1 parade in Ft. Q. which my family always enjoys. Kenzie was on the Credit Union float and was adorable. Kaida didn't go, as she doesn't like people who dress up as cute animals - like the Fat Cat. Once that Fat Cat went by she was able to relax and enjoy grabbing the candy that was tossed on the street. We had family pics taken that day, and Murray and I didn't look horrendous in all of them - we were well pleased. I took 6 days off work, which works out to three weeks when you are part time. I weeded, walked, swam, visted, had grandchildren stay over and just generally enjoyed my "staycation". It wasn't all sweetness and light though and there are certain people who will recall only too well the wrath of Auntie Janet on the warpath at 8:00 in the morning...but lets not go THERE.
 |
| Two of the reasons I am trying to stay healthy. |
And here we are near the end of August. Another great month weather wise and another great month of good health - unless you count that I have an incurable progressive disease of course. But, I continue to loose weight and I am finally back to the weight I was after I had my first child. I am hoping to hit prebaby weight, and it will only have taken me 30 plus years to do it. We went to a family due for an aunt who is 95 (and a half) years old this weekend. It was so great to reconnect with people I haven't seen since I was 13 or so. And imagine how wonderful it was for Murray to sit in a hall full of only my relatives, he knew 3 or 4 of them, for an entire day. What a good sport. We stayed at the Bear Claw Casino and Hotel overnight, and that was fun too. Funny, Murray seemed to like that better.
And so, you are all caught up on what I have been doing. Anyway, Donna Caruso has advised me to become more disiplined with my writing and do some every day. This is my first effort at self discipline. Stay tuned to see how long I can keep it up.
/bye
