so little energy to do it!

Hi all! I hope you're off to a fine start this new year! I'm still in "holiday mode" as I don't go back to school until tomorrow...YIKES! I go back to school tomorrow! The stack of papers I brought home to grade over break are still NOT done. Shame on me!

Much going on around here that needs "taking charge," not the least of which is myself. I was doing so well with my healthy eating/weightloss until fall then just totaly got off track and gained 10 of the 15 pounds that I had lost back. I'll be joining Jo on the "New You" thread for that!

DD17 will graduate this May. She is finishing up her Girl Scout Gold award this winter, has a trip to Florida with the band in March the then will be going to Europe in June for 17 days. (Spain, France, Monaco, Italy!) I can't believe it's that time already! Our "little one" will turn 13 at the end of February, too. Gosh that happened fast!

Being at work full-time work has had much less negative impact on our family life than I had feared. I think my "part-time" transition last year helped. We've worked out most of the kinks for getting the basics handled. With everyone pitching in, most of what needs done gets done and we just work around the rest!

My first (next) official take-charge project will be undoing the holiday decor. That's planned for this week-end. I suppose I could have done it this past week, but it just felt "too soon." I like to leave things up until 12th Night. After that, I think we're going to take a long, hard look at what is still hiding in the dungeon (read: basement.) I certainly need an inventory of the food shelves and it's time to rotate through some of our water stores, too. I have grand visions of keeping an up-to-date and ongoing inventory of the food in storage, the pantry and the freezer....Yeah...like that's gonna happen!

Oops, there's the beeper for my chicken. I need to go finish up dinner.

Love to all,
Lenora