It's a really beautiful spring day today. It is very breezy and just warm enough to be perfectly comfortable. Even though I have a gigantic stack of papers to grade, I've been relaxing and enjoying the day of rest the way I believe God intended. Yes, I have been lounging in bed with Puck, Tio and Kate watching movies and scribbling in my journal. Alice and Scout are under the bed, but come up occaisionally to lick our faces and say hello. Every now and then they go out the hall to wrestle where we won't fuss at them to be quite. The windows of our bedroom are open and the breeze is pouring in with the sunlight. Right now Puck is snoring away at a nap and I have just put a load of laundry in the wash. It's pretty much heavenly.

I'm thinking of taking Scout for a walk in the neighborhood. We both need one.

I have been working on losing weight with Weight Watchers since the first of the year. Back about five years or so ago I lost 40lbs with ww, and did so relatively quickly. Then, all at once, I changed jobs, Puck had a major orthopaedic surgery and I had to have my gall bladder out (because of the fast weight loss). Shortly thereafter I broke my ankle. All that combined was more than I could hold in my head at once and I fell off the wagon. Since then I have tried starting back many times but have always quit, usually in week 2. Well, this time I'm sticking to it for the long haul. It's slower going than it was the first time because I get side tracked here and there, but I refuse to quit. So far I have lost 19.4 pounds. This week I will be journaling everything and doing some walking to see if I can lose more than 1/2 a pound in a week...