Turkey day is coming!

Is anyone else as excited as I am for Thanksgiving? This weekend, us up here in Canada will celebrate Thanksgiving, and I can't wait.

I have been working hard to eat right, and to lose weight, and its finally paying off. I went from a size 20-22 pants, to a size 16! I feel alot better.

I don't eat alot of meats now. I am putting my focus onto vegetables, and fruit. I'm not a big potato person, or pasta, so I have never had to really worry about carbs too much. I haven't had a glas of Pepsi or anything carbonated in 2 months now. I don't think I have ever felt so good:)

Things here have been really trying, and stressful. Tonight is my final classroom portion of Drivers education, and I'm just about ready to start my in car lessons. Kinda excited for no more late night classes.

The kids have been well, Kallie is finally coming out of her shell, and starting to talk. She says papa, mama, nana, NO (this is a big one), go, where you go?, and a few other small little things.

Tiana has been really pushing the attitude, and we have been quick to snap her out of it. But on the most part, she's been really good, taking care to keep a close watch on her baby sister, and keeping things away from her. Her baby sister wants to do everything she does. Oh, to be small again.

We spoke with recruiting (military) in regards to where in the process Erik's application is, and we found out his medical exam has been cleared, and hes been cleared physically. They are waiting on his papers to return to Fredericton from Ottawa, and we should recieve an offer soon.

The biggest, and hardest thing to go through since my last post, though, has been the passing of a good friend's mom.

Marg Hebert, mother of The Funky Cowboy (Terry) Lost her battle with cancer on September 28th. She was an amazing, generous, and loving woman, and I will never forget her. I know that she is now at peace, watching us from heaven with Albert( the philidelphia cream cheese guy).

Last week was such a hard week, for me personally, going through my own grieving for the loss of a dear friend whom I had only just begun to really get to know, but even harder for me to know that Terry, such an amazing friend of mine, is in so much pain from his loss and there is not a hole lot I could do personally to help. His mom was his best friend, and no one will ever take her place. Her optimism while going through her treatments kept everyone uplifted that she would make it through, but the monster that is cancer claimed her from the world too soon.

So, this week, I have been kinda laying low, staying home, and just.....being. A few sleepless nights so far, with my head being overly stressed about a few different things. Things will sort themselves out though, I am sure.