What a blessed weekend

Hi Everyone,

We just came back from this beautiful weekend with our "Foster FAmily" here in Bahia.

They just arrived from Germany and thankfully they will stay here until March.

Next weekend, we will have a re-run of course.

To top it all, my brother in law sent me a few pictures of my little niece. She is just so cute!!!!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend

~Kisses and hugs~

Ana Júlia...

... arrived this morning. She is 47 cm / 18.8" and 2,775 kg /6lb.

Mother and daughter are doing great.

My parents are sending me pictures of her only from their cell phones, so the pictures aren't that great, but I will put them in a new photo album!!!

~Hugs ans Kisses~

My niece..

... will be born tomorrow morning Nov. 15th at 7:00 am.

Even if I've been at odds with my sister for the past few years.

I am truly happy for her and her husband. And I am sure Ana Júlia will bring a lot of hapiness and joy to all the family, especially to my grandpa, who is really nervous about her arriving!!!

I will keep you posted!!!

Fabiola

Happy Birthday to Me!!!

Today is my 32^nd birthday!!! I don’t like the day of the week (Monday), so we went out to celebrate yesterday. As I am not a party girl, it was just my husband and I.

We went to this wonderful Italian Restaurant. The food was perfect, the wine delicious and the dessert WOW!!! You can never go wrong with Tiramisu.

Well, I don’t need to say that my diet went down to the drain… but it was for a good reason.

And to top it all... I have a day off today. As I worked in the elections I have one day off…. And of course I saved for my Birthday’s.

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and the week ahead it will be even greater.

~Kisses and Hugs~

I am really proud...

... to announce that I lost 2.2 kg / 4.8 lb.

I decided to antecipated my stop at the drugstore for today. I was really nervous, because I didn't know if I followed all the rules, but I was really glad about it. I know I lost a lot of water, but I ate fairly well and I even had a piece of chocolate on Wednesday because I was feeling really sad, so I treated myself with that.

I will keep doing it the right way and I will get to my goal YUPPIII!!!!!!

~Kisses and Hugs ~

Fabiola

Crazy days at work

My God.... my days at work are becoming busier and busier.

I know this is just a phase, but until Jan 2nd, so many things will happen that I will have to have more energy.

As funny as it sounds, ever since I started my new diet on Sunday, I am feeling better. I guess it was the excess sugar that was making me feel so tired.

I am taking the bus company to go to work and back home. It is safer, cheaper and I can relax during the ride.

The bus is not that confortable, but it is still worth.

Well, my lunch hour is gonne!! I have to go back.

Have a nice week everyone!!!

Fabiola

Facing the truth

Since my grandma had her stroke on August 23^rd, I’ve been eating recklessly. I was conscious about it, but I wasn’t paying any attention.

I woke up today, with this urge to take control of my hunger and food abuse.

While I did the coffee, I went search my Weight Watchers booklets. I tried their diet several times, but I always gave up before the end. My last attempt was in 2004.

I started to follow the week 1 of their program without knowing my real weight right now.

After breakfast, I went for 40 minutes walk and I came back home cover in sweat, because even if it was only 9:00 am, the sun was damm hot.

After that, we went out to buy the Sunday’s paper as well as some flu medicine for my husband. At the drugs store I hit the scale for the first time in so many years and I almost fainted when the number hit it (79,9kg / 175.3 lb). I felt like a looser, but I took control of my diet again and I will loose those 8 Kg / 18lb, which are really overloading me.

But the best part of this, it was that my husband decided to join partially my diet. He said we won’t follow the entire program, but he will be as supportative as he can.

When I was 15 years old, my weight was 98kg / 214lb. So I don’t want that number again. So for the first time in my life I will follow the diet and I will keep posting my weight for you to check the progress!!!!

I hope you are having a great Sunday!!!

~Kisses and Hugs~

Summer is definitely here.

Today was a typical summer day. By eight in the morning, we couldn’t stand in the sun anymore.

I had to run a few errands and the streets were full of people heading to the beach. I wish I could take a walk there… but…..

My husband started his vacation last Monday, and guesses what??? He got this huge, but I mean huge flu. He is sneezing, coughing and his fever; don’t get me started on that….

He is really sensible to any kind of fever. His body fights with the virus with really high fever. His body is not happy with 100/100,5F, it goes up to 103/104, even if it is a simple flu. It drives me crazy. And to top it all, he is really stubborn and he doesn’t like medicines, he only take natural things, like ginger, garlic, lime and honey syrup (made by myself), caramelized sugar with garlic and orange juice…. And other stuff like that.

He is in really bad shape, I hope he gets better soon, after all he deserves his vacation ; )

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.