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Another view from my mums house. Simon took this picture on Christmas Eve.
Today was a good day.
No major upsets, no arguments (well almost none) and children who were strangely pleasant...
Schools seems to have been fine, as there were no "such and such did so and so"s.
They did their chores without me having to ask and the younger even emptied the dishwasher without complaint.
We prepared our food together and after lunch they sat down and did their homework.
(I did check their necks to see whether there were strange markings or any evidence of tampering.)
We (well mainly I) have decided to change our eating habits today. Actually I decided that yesterday but I implemented the changes today. My older daughter is having a real problem with over-eating. Unfortunately she inherited that from my fathers side of the family. So we, I did consult the girls, decided that it was time to go on a family diet or rather a "healthy eating regime" as my younger daughter put it.
I have made a weekly plan for meals and one for snacks. Food-wise I am going to reduce the fat to a minimum (as cutting fat altogether is wrong because the body will think that it needs to hang on to the fat in the body as there is no more coming) and fill the plate with vegetables. Rather than having a side of veg there will now be a side dish of rice or potato and the occasional slice of lean meat. We will have one "normal" meal a week, that the girls can choose but other than that we will stick to the plan.
Fortunately I have kids who will eat almost every veg and fruit going, raw or cooked even the real exotic ones!
For breakfast there will me Yogurt with some Muesli and a Grapefruit.
The snack plan is as follows:
There are five slots for each of us and a list to pick from: Carrots, Oranges, Celery Sticks, Apples, Grapes, Grapefruit and whatever other fruit or veg has been bought in fresh that week.
Each of us can pick when and what they want, but no more than 2 from each category (of course the grapes will have to be handled differently, maybe counted?) until our five slots for the day are used up.
My younger one fears that she will fade into nothingness but I did assure her that there were still plenty of calories left in the food we are going to eat for her not to disappear like the Cheshire cat.

The older had her first violin lesson after the holidays and she did surprisingly well for not having practised at all.
She was taught the first and the second finger today and already has some small pieces she has to learn until next Monday. This is only her 4th ever lesson. They are always on Mondays for 22.5 minutes! She is learning very fast and her teacher said that she has talent. All I have to do now is convince her not to be so lazy and practise more.
I so wish I had a piano again. I used to play when I was younger and I really enjoyed it but unfortunately, laziness runs in our family and I did not keep up with it.
Now, I really don't have the money to buy a piano nor do I know where I would put it in our small flat (although if I moved some stuff around....)

Tomorrow we are going to clean the car, providing it isn't pouring down with rain.

Oh and no, I haven't made that phone call yet. It is on my to do list first thing in the morning. I even wrote it into my calendar!!! Along with a number of other things which I have thus far avoided to do...

I speak to Simon on the phone every day. He has a rate where he can call me for free. Sometimes we only say hi and good night but most times we talk for at least 30 minutes. We have talked all through the night before...
Usually he tells me about his day and work, I tell him about my day and the kids and then the conversation drifts of into one direction or another.
You see, whenever I see or read something interesting, strange or funny I think "I ought to tell Simon about this", which I do and we then discuss it or not as the case may be. I can talk to him about absolutely everything. There are no taboos, nothing he doesn't want to talk about and certainly nothing where he is "too much of a man to even consider such a topic" (like tampons and mascara and such things).
And we have great discussions, though sometimes a tad heated!
Tonight I read to him from a website I had discovered today http://www.mistupid.com and we were both nearly wetting ourselves with laughter. I haven't laughed this hard in , ...I don't remember how long.
Simon says (no pun intended) that hearing me laugh is the most beautiful thing in the world. I haven't been doing it much lately.
Things just get on top of me and I sort of forget to be happy.
Strange, I know but that is what happens.

Oh and I am now officially LOST.
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