Grandmommy's 100th Birthday

Today Grandmommy would have been 100. I wonder if she is having a party in heaven. I'm sure that if she was still alive she would have no idea it was even her birthday. She would just want to go home and be wondering where her purse was. I really hope that she is having the best birthday ever with Jesus!!! Well, that's all I have to say today.

Diet

I have been on this diet since February 1st. I haven't been perfect but pretty darn close!!! Up until now, I have realized that I am losing weight in my fingers, yep my fingers!!! That was my probem area!!! Now today, someone actually has said that they think my face is getting smaller. YIPEEE!!! Maybe this is finally starting to work. I need to lose some of these chins!!!! I realize that it took a long time for this weight to come on and it is going to take a long time for it to come off!!! It was a lot more fun going on than it is coming off though. Wish me luck.

Katie's Prom Outfit

Katie wants to go to her Junior Prom. She has expressed this for months and has also expressed that she is NOT wearing a dress, she wants to wear a tuxedo. I'll bet you know how happy I was about this one!!!!! I did my usual let me think about it routine, hoping that she would come to her senses but not this time!!! She continued that she wanted to wear a tuxedo - she wanted to go the prom and NOT in a dress. Why couldn't I understand and on and on and on!!!! Finally, I told her that tuxedos are made for men and it would be very difficult to fit her. I explained that she would look awful in a men's tuxedo and that women's tuxedo's are made for little people! Then and this was hard to do in the first place, I talked her into a women's pant suit. Well the day comes when we set up the schedule for shopping - I have been dreading the pant suit shopping for about 5 weeks already and now we have made a date. I realize that I have absolutely no idea where to take her shopping so the day before we were to go shopping, I talked to a lady at my office to find out where she would suggest we go. She says City Place and then she told me that she had a black and white long dress that would be a perfect tuxedo dress. She asked if I wanted it? She told me that someone had given it to her and she wanted to give it to Katie. I told her I didn't think Katie would go for it, but I would try.

Well, the next day, my friend brings in the dress, it is a strapless (really pretty) black and white satin dress. It is very pretty!!! I put it in the back of my car and I go to Katie's school to pick her up. On Wednesdays she attends a club (a club of people like her), so I pick her up from school. Well, it just so happens that she has asked me to take a friend of hers home on that day - so she and her friend get in the car. Almost immediately, Katie asks what is in the backseat, I tell her it is a prom dress. She says "NO WAY" - the girl says, why don't you try it, it is pretty!!! This goes on for a few minutes, I keep my mouth shut!!! Katie agrees to try it on and we take it home and it FITS!!! It looks really good on her!!! But NO WAY - She has her heart set on a pant suit now so off we go (Katie and I) to City Place to find her a pant suit.

After trying on several pant suits for approximately 2 hours - one after the other - this shirt, that shirt, this jacket, that jacket on and on and on!!!! (This is what hell is like) Each one looking worse than the last and I could hear my checkbook clinging, she looks at me and says "Mommy, I think I looked the best in that dress!!!" Well, my eyes brighten up and I realize I need to be calm. If I look too excited, if I act like it is my idea, then there is no way that she will go for the dress. I say, yep, the dress looked the best on you! So we bought a black strapless bra and a jacket because she is not sure of the strappless part of the dress and we went home. Katie will now wear a dress to the prom.

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