Holiday Catch Up

Sorry I haven't been around much.  Holidays have been busy, busy, busy, but a lot of fun.  My daughters said this was the "best Christmas ever" and while I think a big part of it is materialistic (they both got Droids this year and a ton of other stuff), I'd like to think that part of it comes from a more emotional place.  This is the first year they bought each other birthday AND Christmas presents.  They both have holiday birthdays - one is Nov 28 and the other Dec 22 - (great planning, huh) so they usually just give each other one gift.  Then they both went in together and bought Dave and I a present.  All with their own money. 

Our Christmas day is always so relaxing.  Dave and I made a decision when the kids were little that on Christmas we would stay in our pjs all day, let the girls play with their stuff and not go anywhere.  We schedule Christmas with my family the week after Christmas day and Dave's family is out of town and we don't get along with them so we don't have to worry about that side.  We were hoping for a white Christmas and while there were a few flurries, nothing too exciting.  We did get snow the day after, but we went to a football party so it was a little slippery getting home.  However, it still wasn't enough to cause any real problems.  Plus it was worth braving the weather to hang out with fellow Ravens fans to watch them beat the Browns.  I am so excited that we've made the playoffs. 

New Years was fun.  We went out for the first time in a few years.  A friend of a my brother and sister-in-law had a party and it was nice because it was both adults and kids.  They had Wii upstairs for the kids to play (and some of the adults joined in after a few drinks) and they have a nice finished basement with a bar, flat screen tv behind the bar and a big living room area.  We didn't know anybody except for my brother and sister-in-law, but everybody was really friendly.  They set off fireworks at midnight and then we went back in to do some more drinking and we all sang to the songs they were playing.  I wasn't feeling so great when I got home because I made the mistake of too much drinking and not enough eating, but actually felt okay today. 

I'm not sure what my word for 2011 is going to be yet.  I need to think about it some more before I commit.  We got our daughters memberships to our gym so hopefully working out will be a family affair.  I definitely need to start kicking in the exercise and get more serious about working my band.  I only have 6 months before Summer and I have quite a ways to go.  I know I won't be to goal by Summer, but I'm hoping to at least be in the low 200s. 

I have my next appointment with my surgeon on the 12th and as of right now I have not lost any weight.  I hadn't lost any weight at my last weigh in either and ended up getting .2 taken out of my band instead of the fill I was expecting.  I'm really going to start tracking what I eat this next week and how long it takes me to get hungry so I can have all the details when I see my doc. 

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and here's to making 2011 one of the best years yet.