Grateful for the good things in my life. Pix Included

Our van is in the shop for some major repairs, but my hubbie wanted to make sure that I got my workout. Our housekeeper dropped Ed and I off at the gym, but it was Ed to made sure that I got home...and much more.

After I spent one hour swimming and a few minutes in the spa and sauna, it was time to head home. Ed suggested that we stop at Denny's for lunch, but all I kept thinking was, "How much do I weigh right now?" I just knew that the scale was going to be good to me today; but it wouldn't show me as good of a number, if I stopped for lunch first.

How do I know that I am married to a 'very special man', because he fully understood my thinking and came up with a solution. We were 3 long blocks away from our home, when we left the 24 Hour Fitness gym. Ed push me all that way home in my wheelchair, just so I could get dried off, weighed in and redressed to go to lunch. Then, he pushed me all the way back to the Denny's which is right across the shopping center from the gym.

After a nice lunch with leftovers for tonight, Ed began the second trip home. This time he decided to cut across the 4 lane Jess Ranch Parkway that leads to our senior, gated community. There is no marked crosswalk in that section of the Parkway, and the nearest marked insection was a block away in the wrong direction. So, Ed just pushed my wheelchair right into the road.

This is where things got interesting. There were no cars coming from the left and only 2 cars heading our way from the right. That's when I realized that one of them had lights on top. Yep. It was a local police patrol car.

We were in the middle of the road, when the voice over the loud speaker said, "I'm going to let you go this time; but the next time, go to the intersection to cross." Ed gave the policeman a thumbs up and pointed at his passenger in the wheelchair, like this was my idea. Later, he said to me as we were going down the sidewalk to our home, "How would he explain giving a ticket to an old man, pushing an old lady in her wheelchair across the street. Are they going to take away my pedestrian license?"

The rest of my day has been spent dealing with oversized clothes again. I just got a mail order containing some size large tops. It was definitely time to purge the closet again of all 2X tank tops and oversized blouses that I bought in the spring to replace my old 4X blouses.

I have one blouse that I really love in a size 22, but I know that it is now way too big for me. I didn't want to part with it. Then, it hit me..."Order it again in a smaller size." I got on the phone with Roamans, 'cause that's where I got it. After some searching, the young man on the phone found my blouse. He told me that size large (my current size) is a 16 in their catalog. Good news. They had my favorite blouse in a 16 ON SALE; so, I took it one step further. I ordered one in size 16 and one more in a size 14 as well. That 14 can stay in my closet for a little while. I know that I will be wearing it before long. To make things even better, I got a new parka for FREE. They had a special in the newest catalog..."Buy anything...and get the bright purple, winter parka for FREE." This was truly a great day.

I am so grateful today...for a great hubbie, a sweet housekeeper, a kind police man, a helpful young man on the phone, a free parka and...I even lost 0.4 pounds today. Yes, I am blessed. How about you? Are you grateful for something or someone today?

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By the way, here is my most recent comparison photo. The 2 photos on the right were taken by Ed, when we got home from lunch. That is one of my new size large tops that arrived this morning.



Here is another interesting photo. This shows my size 4X blouse with my size large tee shirt on top.



This photo shows my size 32 pants with my current size 16 pants on top. Yep. I am really shrinking.