Hellooooo!!! :-)

I'm still alive!!

It's been a busy few weeks. I won't bore you with all the details, but in a nutshell... my 14-yr old nephew and 21-yr old niece stayed with us for almost a week b/c of a family emergency, we dug ourselves out of two major snowstorms (30 inches for blizzard #1, 18 inches for blizzard #2), I missed a week of work b/c of snow and other person business...

personal business such as... WE HAVE A BABY BOY!!!! :-) Well, he's not actually with us, he's still in Korea and won't be home with us until this summer... but we were matched and we accepted the referral!! He just turned 6 months old and has the cutest chubbiest cheeks and I can't wait to get my little hands on him!!

Once we officially accept the referral (lots more paperwork and papers to be notarized) I'll share pics of our Samuel. :-)

We are naming him Samuel because the name means "God hears" and God heard our (and our friends' and our family's and many strangers on the internet's) prayers and answered them. God is good!! All the time!! :-D

Plus one of the most famous infertiles in the Bible is Hannah and when God blessed her with a child she committed him to God and named him Samuel b/c God heard her prayers too.

anyway, so we've been busy busy busy!!

I'm back at work now but am totally swamped with work so I haven't had much time to keep up with my blog. (it's bad that I usually update my blog at work, I know...)

As for WW... YAY for Shana that you're almost to your 5% mark!! That is so awesome!!! You can do it, girl!!!!!

Our weekly work meetings are over now and I'm on my own. I'm finding that not attending meetings means I'm slacking off more. I haven't eaten strictly within my points the last couple of weeks, but I haven't gone nuts either. I still weigh myself every morning and I've been fluctuating between 122.2 and 122.6 pounds for the last couple of weeks, so I'm not complaining! I guess my current consumption rate is good for maintaining, but if I want to take off the last few pounds, I'll have to bite the bullet and start monitoring more closely again.

anyway, I'm off to NJ again this weekend to visit my friend who is recovering from surgery. I will probably not be eating as cleanly as I would like to, but I'll try to be good!

oh, and I also started exercising... at last!! I'm alternating 30-Day Shred workouts with treadmill runs. I've only done it for 4 days though so I'm not patting myself on the back just yet.

My running class starts in 3 weeks though! eeek!!

Hope everyone has been well!!