So far, so good. I decided to give up sugar starting Friday, but I didn’t plan to really curtail my eating until Monday. So I had a bit too many pieces of home-made whole grain, no sugar added bread yesterday. But, despite that, my weight didn’t go up. But yesterday I also updated four more weeks of menus, including all my favorite dinners, and alternating amongst several different lunches, but having the same basic breakfast – oatmeal and fruit. So I was excited to start on them today. It is almost bedtime and I’ve stayed on the menu perfectly today. We had barbequed pulled pork on a diet bun for supper and looked forward to that all afternoon as it was roasting and we were inside working on taxes. Dad was ready to eat it about 4:00, but I made him (and myself) wait until at least 5:00. It tasted every bit as good as it smelled.

Something funny and totally off the subject. I’ve been reading a book entitled Coop (as in chicken coop not co-op), by Michael Perry, that author from New Auburn. It is a stitch, if you get a chance to read it. But he was telling about his daughter who is about 7 years old and being homeschooled. She has exactly the same problem you guys did with “Is that a city, a state, or a country?” He relates one whole conversation in a very cute and amusing way, but it sounds EXACTLY like conversations we had many times in the car. It must be a homeschooling problem! Be forewarned, Amy!