rush off to church to get coffee hour set up!  The food was a big hit.

home to do some house cleaning (just bare bones this week) and then off to circuit city with both DD to get digital cameras - Julia for Christmas, Anna bought hers with her own money - a red Nikon is on sale for only $99.  Julia is very excited but has to wait until Christmas!

Then came home to do my walk - definitely getting cold out there!  and then some work on computer.

Yummy sirloin tips for dinner and then Julia & I made pumpkin cranberry muffins after dinner - she loved the ones I made yesterday so we made more.

Nice picture of "God's Smile" that someone sent me in an email.  Cool, huh?

did lots of baking today - getting ready for church tomorrow (coffee hour & breakfast in AM for adult ed class) and some early baking for our Holiday Fair next Saturday.  We have both a cookie walk & a baked goods table - made easy cookies (doctored up choc cake mix with while choc chips) and pumpkin cranberry bread (8 mini loaves and 24 minimuffins that we kept for home).  Lots of walking around the kitchen gave me lots of steps!

Then did my usual walk - gathering up slugs & worms for Mr T our turtle (still balmy enough today for them to be out after rain).

Came home to more baking....and still had energy (barely) to go to production of Arsenic & Old Lace at the high school.  Fell into bed exhausted.

Picture is outside of my church - small New England Style church.

Well I am pretty consistent with regular lifestyle steps when I am feeling sick. 

another blah step day.  It is my Dad's 73rd birthday though!  Happy Birthday Dad!

Mom & Dad in picture!

a little better with steps.  still no energy to supplement with a walk...

yet another bad step day....blah

okay am definitely still recovering from my cold and having a very busy week.  Am not posting until Sunday 11/16 this whole weeks worth of steps!  Just collapsed after dinner most nights and was asleep by 9 PM. 

A GOOD step day!  Morning walk, church in AM then home to clean house (that takes a lot of steps) with some grocery shopping in the PM. 

Picture is from my DD Anna's 17th birthday party!

Feeling sick but went for morning walk (to get some fresh air before it started raining again & to collect food for Mr T the turtle).  Then corrected papers & such until 11:30 and then just blobbed out!  Read the new people magazine, watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy with my DD, drank lots of tea & OJ. 

Drove Julia to second soccer game of the day and while she was warming up went to the local Hallmark store - they are having their Christmas Open House and they had a cute snowglobe at half price today & tomorrow only.  So I picked that up & some thanksgiving cards to send.

am going to try to march to bring up step count for today....yah!  marched around while watching a nicholodean movie with Julia in the PM - the i.Carly movie.  Cute, some funny lines.  Made my goal, yippee!

low step day.  Not feeling well.  Was at work but am fighting a cold and it seems to be settling in my chest.  yuck.

after work - whirlwind of app'ts & activities - 2:30 eye doctor for myself & DD Anna (both of us have no change in prescription, yeah!) then chiro appt and then GS "sup & sing" which I got mixed up on the time - thought it started at 6:00 but really it started at 5:30 oops!  But made it in time for the sing!  It was fun but disorganized.  Then home to early bedtime after some reading (new Goodhousekeeping mag - boy those magazine pile up!).

photo - Halloween night - DD Julia, DH Phil * Julia's friend - Phil was "crossing guard" for Halloween!

Just remember I was too tired to do the extra marching to make it to 11K.  Am going to bed early these days to fight off a cold.  got a flu shot today!  and attended a potluck supper & bingo fundraiser for school in the PM.

photo - my crazy DD Julia on Halloween!  She is such a fun happy kid!

sadly when I post a few days later I don't remember what I did on that day!  It's a struggle to get my steps because I am so busy and it is dark when I get home.  am trying to march etc.  But now am also coming down with a cold.  yuck!

Was in a fabulous mood today!  I've been politically depressed for 8 years now and feel some hope after today. 

photo is from my DD Annas voice workshop (getting ready for benefit concert) - she's first on the right I believe...

professional development day today at work.  had a nice lunch at panera bread with math dept.  feeling like I'm coming down with a cold.

did a 30 minute afternoon walk.  beautiful out today.

pic - is fun little sign we saw in corn maze back in October

bad step day.  lots of sitting at work.  took a 20 minute walk in dark at night to bring it up but didn't get enough!  oh well.

today is my dear Anna's 17th birthday.  photo is of an earlier birthday of hers!!!

morning walk

church today - visit from Bishop.  Our choir sang "Joy in the Morning" I think it sounded good!  our director was happy.

Anna's 17th bday is Monday so we had family party for her today.  Fun, nice visiting with everyone - we are all so busy we don't get together.

my cutie anna blowing raspberries as a baby!

morning walk.....errands day and sorted (finally) all my older DD senior class photos - we give them as Christmas gifts (they are very expensive so we justify the expense that way).

another silly sign from the corn maze!

halloween!  would've gotten more steps but DH took Julia out trick or treating. I sat with neighbor Joanne & visited while drinking a bit of wine!  that was fun anyhow.

got a lot of "lifestyle steps" in but then took a short 25 minute walk around the block to get over goal (and to listen to my book!!).

busy at work.  everyone is healthy at my house again.

more halloween humor!

Didn't think I would get my steps today!  but after bringing Julia to soccer, turns out I could not attend a girl scout training meeting (long story) so I had an hour to kill so walked around a block in the center of town 5 times to bring my steps up!  yeah!  it was cold but I was very entertained by the book on tape "the Host" - scifi.  It gets me out walking!

halloween math cartoon!

another low step day.  Just no time to squeeze in a walk!  But did get to bed early.  And got up early for morning weights.

starting WW again at school, try to get back on track for holidays and forces me to socialize with some folks at school which I never have time for!

photo is from email that I got about a woman who hand feeds hummingbirds!  checked it out on snopes.com and it is a true story - check it out on http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hummingbirds.asp