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Monday, September 08, 2003

Every homeschooling mom's dream day

We have just had a monumental day in school. I have to make record of the fact that my 7-year-old jiggly, wiggly, energetic little boy did all his work quickly and correctly, without one single moan, whine, or complaint. This is indeed a red-letter day.


C also did her preschool things nicely and well. But she is young enough to actually be excited about school every day (I remember the days when my son was like that!) so that is more common.



On other topics: I am tired of weighing myself. I want to just throw my scale through the window. It just says the SAME STUPID -15 WEIGHT every time I step on it. It must be the scale's fault, right? I keep swearing I will only weigh on Thursdays, which is the weigh-in day for one of my weight loss online support groups. But I go past the scale every time I use the bathroom and the lure is just too great (hmm! maybe I will have miraculously lost two pounds in the past hour!). But if I only weighed once a week and I saw no progress at all after a whole week, I would be at risk of totally derailing myself with discouragement. This way it's a daily challenge -- "I will whip that rebellious scale into submission and make it show me a lower weight tomorrow!" I have been so good and careful. It's not fair. T is also losing weight -- he has lost about the same percentage of his goal as I have, and he's already breaking out his next-size-down jeans. Which is appealing, but I can't help being a wee bit jealous of the obviousness of his success. What am I doing wrong?


Still and all, it's better to be staying at -15 than to be going back up -- so I will keep working at it, even if all I ever do is maintain the same loss. And sooner or later I will have to lose more -- I have confidence in my scientific methods. ;-)

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