a three pound deck chair & emergency wrapping

You know that expression…"like a deck chair off the titanic"? Well, my deck chair was 3 pounds this week upon weigh in at Weight Watchers. So three pounds the first week wasn’t bad (Beth beat me by .6 pounds- ugh) and it’s at least some progress. Trying to be so good and it’s so hard. So. hard. But I’m doing it. And checking in here can only help keep me on track.

We had an emergency on the wrapping front tonight. Jack needed one of his school text books covered. And really, I’m no good at that at all. Which really is surprising with all my craftiness of scrapbooking, right? But wrapping things is not within the realm of my craftiness- presents, books, etc. They come out all lumpy with an excess of paper and crooked. So I called for reinforcements- My mom! All my textbooks in elementary school were always wrapped perfectly with brown paper bags. No tape, just wrapped. And they stuck the whole year. Like a little miracle. So, she wrapped Jack’s book tonight and all was right with the world.