Happy Birthday Elliott!!!!

Well today is my darlings birthday. And what does he want for his birthday cake??? Well as usual he wants a Pavlova. He loves them. At one stage I was making a 12 egg Pavlova 3 times a week all with whipped cream and strawberries. So since he is being a sweetie and trying to watch his waistline and watch his points he asked me to make it as low point as possible.

So I whipped up 12 eggwhites with some Splenda and folded in a bit of cornflour. 1 Point so far
Then after it was cooked I covered it with Low Fat Fruche 2.5 points, 3.5 points so far.
This is where we really lashed out. I crumbled some Flake and sprinkled over it. 6.5 points for the whole Pavlova.

I stuck a single candle in it and everyone was very happy. WOOHOO I even had some as a treat.

I haven't been in the mood to write in my journal the last few days. I have been having problems with my Step Daughters. I should have expected it but I completely let it slip my mind. You see they go to their Mums in the morning so a couple of days before they go home they really play up. And boy do I mean play up. Between DSD2 and me it was WW3. But, I can happily say I won and I am now the owner of some pretty decent toys (until she settles down and realises I mean business). And DSD2 now knows what it is like to sit on a chair for 9 hours. Yes, 9 hours. I felt like going to the chocolates I keep here as treats and eat them all but I refrained from eating at all. I got online and posted in a few forums and basically just chilled out. There is no Super Nanny here but I think she learnt her lesson. She gave me a hug and appoligised.

When Elliott got home and I was able to settle myself down I had something to eat. I was sooooo proud of myself as this was the most stressed I had been in the 5 weeks I have been doing WW. I think the thing that actually kept me going and not throw the towel in and pig out was that I had weighed in early in the morning and even took a picture of my weight. I had now lost 10.9kg in 5 weeks. Late last night Ell came out and handed me 10kg off his weights. I burst into tears. I couldn't believe I had been carrying around that much weight. I am still struggling with my knees and here I am 10.9kg lighter.

So I really thought today DSD2 would be good. But I was wrong AGAIN. I asked them to be quiet in the lounge room this morning as Sebastian was trying to sleep but they kept him awake all morning. He finally got to sleep just after 12pm. They both played up so they lost their cooking activity. They are both sick with the croup and Sebastian has it as well. I have an ear ache too :( But I expect them to be naughty to a degree. Two girls, 7 & 9, sick, trying to do the same thing with the same pen etc, sharing goes out the window. But we will go on.

We are having a Garage Sale on the weekend. Oh what fun. Finally I might get my house back. We have only just moved here and have run out of room. We moved towns so my left over stock from my business needs to be sold as well. So it is EVERYWHERE and I hate it. I feel totally useless as I cant lift things around etc so it gets left to poor Elliott who has lots of pain from a car accident a couple of years back. Good pair we make lol.

Well I guess I have made up for my absence.

Take care and stay focused.