Wrapped up

Amy -- sorry Izzy is sick! But good for you on the soup, parking and trainer!

I've been wrapped up with my life and my relatives and my holiday doings. Both literally and figuratively. Took a walk as a family Friday. That was nice. Today we went to lunch and got our Tofurky. Then came home and Paul cleaned the savannah monitor's tank and then worked on his dulcimer. I got laundry shuttling again and worked on cleaning more of the garage. Julia bopped around "helping" each of us. I found ssome nail decal stickers I got for my niece ages ago and let Julia put on the "hearts" theme set. Her tiny fingers are still so small those tiny nail stickers are too big!

I'm soooo close to being done with the Christmas shopping that I'm practically jumping for joy at every moment because it means I'm not going to be all stressed out during the weekends in December. I can just spend those shopping and decorating the house for my kid. I was starting to wrap the kid stuff and I got half done. I was checking my shopping list for purchases for the grandparents.Getting there.

Got through the BBQ for MIL's birthday reasonably well. Not great -- def. need to bring enough vegan food for TWO meals rather than just one.

Gearing up for Thanksgiving at MIL's now -- so I got a Tofurky Feast and plan on making roasted potatoes and lemon broccoli to go with it. It's going ot be 11 people I think. Granny Jones, Julia and I are the only veggie people so the Tofurky covers us well enough and then the sides to share will all ought to be ok. But I'm going to stick some PB&J in the car just in case. I'm not going ot risk runnign out of food like at the BBQ and then diving into the nearest place that sells fries so I wouldn't go beser k with low blood sugar.

5 AM and I am up way late given I have church inthe morning and then a tea party in the afternoon.

Quickie

Quickie as I nurse and then get back to sleep...

Amy -- WTG! Glad you are settling in at the new place and banging out the workouts. Wahoo!

Me? I've pulled out ye olde food log. Cracking down. In what is left of November, I have 6 things to attend. Which averages out to some party shindig every third day. I love the friends and family bit. I loathe the food bit. I don't even want to think about our December schedule.

Because while in normal non-holiday season occassions, I'm willing to loosen up to lacto-ovo veg if there are no vegan choices to be had, in my experience holdiay food for vegetarians = dairy bonanza.

And sorry to be blunt about it, but I don't much fancy gorging on cheese, cream, butter, et al every other turn.

Am I goddess yet?

So on Sat. my new friend Kym and I got together at her house to practice belly dancing again.

Although I haven't been writing about it, that's what I've been doing the last two weeks. Snake arms, washing machine hips, wrist circles, shimmies, and all that other stuff.

We both wore white T-shirts and Kym lent me a black skirt, a coin belt, a veil and the Goddess Workout on tape in case I wanted to view it before we went on Sunday.(intro to bellydance thing)

Paul and Julia had a good time watching us jiggle around and gosh, does it ever get HOT!

Sunday morning was a bit crazed because apart from having to dance, there were a few cases of crossed wires but in the end they got sorted out. Someone else covered while I had to be practicing in the morning and then perorming with Kym and right after we finished I dashed off to do Sunday school in the nursery.

It was partially planned and partially imrpovised since the dancers never got to actually practice in the church with the drummers until 30 min before going on but we managed ok. Got a lot of compliments from other people at coffee hour later so I suppose we put a good face in it despite feeling a bit wacky behind the scenes.

My favorite part of the whole thing other than getting to make a spectacle of myself was dancing down the aisle and seeing Julia pop up with her happy face yelling "Mommy dance!" and trying to dance along with me.

I took Paul to a park he hadn't bene to for lunch as a surprise. He said he enjoyed it and we'll do it again some other time.

That night we had to go to some Yougn Adult thing and after heather came over to hang out for a bit. That was nice.

Things on the family front are a bit strange. The holiday pressure building. Not so nice.

Work this morning was really cute. Evan got a little anxious when Mom left but he settled down with me pretty fast and he and Julai made me laugh interacting over playdough. Those two are buddies and it's funn watching them sort out problems like who gets what cookie cutter and who gets to drink the juice from Evan's lunchbox.

This week -- back to gym walks. No more bellydancing performaces to practice for.

Though I've learned that as an alternative workout, I could get into this bellydancing thing. :)