Easter Already?!

It is so strange to see a posted date and realize that a month has past since my last blog. I must confess that I got caught up in facebook and it is very suited to we "short attention" types. So much has happened since my last blog. I will attempt to catch up.
Spring break, which I was so looking forward to is already two weeks behind me. It was a lot of fun. My sister-in-law, Lynn rode up with me to Chipley, and stayed there to visit with her mom, while I went on up to Dothan, AL to visit with my daughter-in-law, Abby. She was there with her mom on their spring break, visiting "Aunt Pam". It was definitely a "girls week" which included lots of shopping and eating out and road tripping!
It was interesting getting in touch with Jenny's (Abby's mom) and Pam's family background. I got to see where Pam and Jenny grew up, went to school...etc. Dothan is quite a town! I even got to meet three "mature" aunts and uncles over a wonderful fish dinner at a "mom and pop" restaurant with authentic southern food. The aunts and uncles were great folks, and I enjoyed hearing their stories. It rained the whole time we were up there, even flooded dangerously in places, but God kept us safe through it all.
Lynn and I had quite an adventure on the way up. We got to talking and enjoying ourselves so much, we missed the turn-off for I-10. This only dawned on me when we saw the "Welcome to Georgia" sign. Then I didn't count on getting stuck in a traffic jam through road construction outside of Tallahassee, which wouldn't have been so bad if we weren't "yellow lighting" on the gas gauge, and having to go to the bathroom, really badly! What seemed like an eternity probably only lasted an hour or so, but once again providential grace brought us safely to a gas station, "whew"!
It has been exciting to stay on track with the diet and exercise, (even on spring break). Abby was kind enough to get up in the mornings with me and do the "work-out" I had on dvd. It probably would have been too embarrassing doing it alone. She's a great gal! To date I've lost about 18 lbs. and Joe has lost 20. I am planning to "fall off the wagon" when we take our cruise in mid May. I'll push myself harder with this mindset, the more I lose between now and then, the less I'll feel bad about what I'm sure to gain on the cruise. "Pre-meditated gluttony!"
So much for now my faithful blogger reader. I hope you have a blessed Easter. My next blog will probably tell of the pain involved in turning 49! "Ouch!"