Good Friday morning all!!! Crunch,crunch, crunch......really enjoying my celery. Thanks! Thanks for the accolades! I hope I didn't jinx myself for posting it here since I have at least 10Lbs to go.... I have 4 5LB bags of sugar on my counter to remind me of how much I have lost.......... Marci, I had no idea this child was so bad that she needed intervention. Wow, sorry you have had to deal with that but I am glad it's you because she might not get the care she needs otherwise. I hope things go well and I hope you get some rest this weekend. Losing sleep over it is not good for you. Are you able to do some yoga to help you unwind in the evening? Just a few minutes of breathing exercises and a few relaxing postures may help you sleep better. Try these breathing exercises: 2-to-1 breathing This breathing pattern relaxes the body by subtly stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system, thereby inducing a state of relaxation. As you lie in bed, gently slow down the rate of exhalation until you exhale for twice as long as you inhale. You can coax a longer exhalation by contracting the abdomen slightly. Dont try to fill or empty or empty the lungs completely you are simply changing the rhythm of your breath. In the beginning it may help to count to six on the exhalation and three on the inhalation, or four on the exhalation and two on the inhalation (or any other 2-to 1 ratio you find comfortable). Focus on the smoothness and evenness of your breath, gradually eliminating any jerks and pauses. Counting Breaths Using the effortless 2-to-1 pattern described above, lie in bed and pay close attention to you breath. It should flow smoothly, evenly, and continuously. When the pattern is well established, take: * 8 breaths lying on your back * 16 breaths lying on your right side * 32 breaths lying on your left side Very few people complete this exercise. Sweet dreams! Try the 8 poses in the link below. I do the child's pose each night and it helps immensely. Raeanne, I know I can't do anything about it. Ommmmmmmmm but I want to find a comfortable place with her. I know it will all work out just the way it's supposed to! Beside, alot can happen in 9 months!! Maddie, you should try those breathing exercises and yoga poses too Sister! Night sounds very like very painful reading to me. Let us know how it is. I am glad you are writing the note.......it will help you go through the grieving process. BJ, thanks for your words of support. You sisters are all great! Besh, I know, I AM such a loser! Have you watched the Biggest Loser? IT's a great show. Today I am leaving at noon to go to the ride/drive that I host in my town of Hancock, NH for my driving club. It's going to be a splendid weekend which is great. Unfortunately, due to drought, the foliage is mediocre at best right now. Plus we haven't had a hard frost yet which is an essential ingredient to fall color. Sweet Pea will be styling as her cart is back from repair and actually looks brand new! It's much lighter than the old cart which we've had to use so she will be very happy with the lighter load. If I don't get a chance to check in again............I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe weekend.

Hey its me again, funny how this group works you sound exactly like me with everything you say.My son is in 1st grade and he had been a little mischeivious lately at school and thats real hard on me im trying to deal with losing my husband and at the same time im trying to go on with life like everyone expects us to.I know exactly how you feel with the baby because my daughter is only 7 months now and im not the same with her as I was my son.When I was pregnant with her I couldnt be happier I always wanted a little girl ,but now I dont do the baby stuff either all I do is feed her and wish she would go to sleep I cant handle the crying it makes me crazy its like I have no patients anymore.I went to talk to james van praag he is a medium, he made me feel better about a few things.I think alot about my husbands accident and wonder if he felt any pain or if it was not his fault there was a jeep that his motorcycle hit and I always wonder if it was them playing games and accidentally hit my husband and made him lose control. he always drove very careful thats why I wonder , but james made me feel better he said my husband spirit left his body before the accident happened so he felt no pain.I asked him if my daughter will ever know her daddy he said they already have a special relationship they play together all the time when she stares in the corner of the cieling he is playing with her. he also said that all the wierd things happening around my house is my husband trying to tell me he is ok."and there has been alot of things happen".so he took alot of my worries away now I just wish someone could take my pain away. hang in there and if you ever get a chance to go see a medium go see one they really help you feel better. if you believe.I am so sorry for all the pain you feel because I know your missing your everything but he is with you, please believe that. your always in my thoughts. xoxo...tracy

I wonder if christina ended up liking her home, or, if once it was done she slightly shuddered. It does seem to suit her personality, but over time I do think tastes change and her style doesn't lend it self to modification very well.

Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes American - Scientist December 3, 1842 - March 30, 1911 New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. Ellen Swallow Richards If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. Ellen Swallow Richards The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health? Ellen Swallow Richards We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not. Ellen Swallow Richards You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. Ellen Swallow Richards Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy. Ellen Swallow Richards If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection. Ellen Swallow Richards Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. Ellen Swallow Richards I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. Ellen Swallow Richards Anna Freud Quotes Austrian - Psychologist December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982 We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. Anna Freud We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. Anna Freud If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. Anna Freud Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself. Anna Freud I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. Anna Freud We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. Anna Freud Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present. Anna Freud It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. Anna Freud My different personalities leave me in peace now. Anna Freud Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? Anna Freud How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me. Anna Freud I am no longer afraid to say anything. Anna Freud Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. Anna Freud What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. Anna Freud Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? Anna Freud Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. Anna Freud If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me. Anna Freud Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. Anna Freud Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost. Anna Freud How can one know anything at all about people? Anna Freud Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter! Anna Freud I am glad that I do not have any children. Anna Freud A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. Anna Freud Kate O'Brien Quotes Irish - Novelist December 3, 1897 - August 13, 1974 If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny. Kate O'Brien I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings. Kate O'Brien It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells. Kate O'Brien Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. Kate O'Brien Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get. Kate O'Brien A laugh is a terrible weapon. Kate O'Brien If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked. Kate O'Brien My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews. Kate O'Brien John Doar Quotes American - Lawyer December 3, 1921 - November 11, 2014 I always felt that, through it all, there was a really strong, forward, positive, constructive accomplishment by the American people during that period, if you consider that during the period from 1954 to 1965, this country broke through the caste system. John Doar Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal. John Doar You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks. John Doar I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote. John Doar To me, success is seeing that justice is done. John Doar For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work. John Doar Ozzy Osbourne Quotes English - Musician Born: December 3, 1948 I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl. Ozzy Osbourne Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most. Ozzy Osbourne Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus. Ozzy Osbourne Rock music is not meant to be perfect. Ozzy Osbourne Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people. Ozzy Osbourne I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day. Ozzy Osbourne I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots. Ozzy Osbourne I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them. Ozzy Osbourne All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? Ozzy Osbourne It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes. Ozzy Osbourne I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff. Ozzy Osbourne I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about. Ozzy Osbourne To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory. Ozzy Osbourne I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice. Ozzy Osbourne You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world. Ozzy Osbourne When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. Ozzy Osbourne Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! Ozzy Osbourne MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough. Ozzy Osbourne They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars. Ozzy Osbourne What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by. Ozzy Osbourne I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister. Ozzy Osbourne I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing. Ozzy Osbourne I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night. Ozzy Osbourne I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted. Ozzy Osbourne L.A.'s not a good place to grow old. Ozzy Osbourne I can't do anything in moderation. Ozzy Osbourne I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor. Ozzy Osbourne I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues. Ozzy Osbourne What is the world coming to? Ozzy Osbourne Francesca Lia Block Quotes American - Author Born: December 3, 1962 Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic. Francesca Lia Block Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating. Francesca Lia Block I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word. Francesca Lia Block It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages. Francesca Lia Block I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence. Francesca Lia Block I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one. Francesca Lia Block Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love. Francesca Lia Block