The Picture on the left was me exactly one year ago.  The one on the right was yesterday.  I was shocked when I was looking at old pictures and came across some of me and my friends at the Heritage Hill tour LAST year.  I looked very large.  I've never been one to really focus on my looks but I don't like the way I looked at all.  I always used to be "the skinny one" and I could eat and eat and eat and not gain weight.  Of course that was about 10-15 years ago.  And I had the willpower NOT to eat things when I knew I shouldn't.  I'm a completely different person now.  Now I eat to make myself feel better and when I'm just bored.  Those are the things I have to work on.  The thing that was so irritating was when I went off of my meds and the weight practically fell off.  I can't believe a medication can do that to someone.   

 We watched Evan Almighty last night.  Ben actually liked it.  It was hard to explain to him that Morgan Freeman isn't REALLY God but just an actor pretending to be God on the movie.  When he first saw him say he was God he got all quiet and I could tell he was trying to process that.  So I quickly explained to him that he's only God on the movie and not in real life.   It was a cute movie I guess.  Not something I would buy to watch again though.  I think I liked Bruce Almighty better.

Mike saw a house he wanted to buy the other day.  It's an old farmhouse and it is probably about 10 miles from where we are now (if that).  He drove out there with Ben and came back with a walnut.  He seemed to think that was a sign that it was meant to be because our old house had walnut trees (which I hated by the way because they are MESSY).  He also told me it was a mirror image of the old house (not a good thing...that was not a cute house).  So I humored him and called the real estate guy and then drove out there to see it myself.  It was nothing like our old house other than it was white.  And it needed quite a bit of work...new roof etc.  When I got home the real estate guy called back and told me it was already sold and they were asking $140,000 with an acre of land or $180,000 with 4 acres.  That is more than Mike wanted to pay for it anyway so I don't have to worry about it.  I think it's funny that Mike wants to move back into the "country" when HE'S the one who was so bent on moving closer to the city.  I'm fine where we are.  I don't always like it with the sirens and whatnot but at least we are exactly between my parents and we're near his family.  I can't imagine moving further away from everyone.  If anything I want to move North and closer to my mom.  But since he works in Holland he wants to move West and closer to that area.  So I think we need to stay put.  It's not the ideal place to live but for what he wants to pay I think we're pretty well off.

The photography group is going pretty well.  A lot of people don't show up for the meetings so it's actually a smaller group which is fine.  We're going to the nature center Sunday afternoon for pictures and then on the 20th we're going to Frederik Meijer Gardens for our first "big" outting.  I'm excited for that. 

I feel so busy but I can't really think of what's going on.  Other than that group and Handbells and Outreach I don't do much (other than driving the kids to school and back 3 times a day).  Nicole is spending a lot of time with Sydney now that Sydney is doing GEMS with her.  Nicole's grandma also told her she's welcome anytime to come up with Nicole so now Nicole thinks that means every time.   I'm not sure that's what she had in mind. 

I'm sleepy today.  I'm actually going to bed 'on time' but I just can't seem to get any energy.  I probably need to eat something special like seafoam (just kidding mom!)