WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2017

Kate UK

Cityjane - If your food posioning symptoms don't go away fairly quickly, you should see a doctor. I had something similar that lasted three days. I thought it was passed, but came back a few days later. Turns out it was salmonella poisoning. Waiting to see the doctor, I had allowed a nice colony to develop.

I had my first evening out since starting the MFP regime - no loss, but no gain. I was very happy.

Morning ladies: well what was gonna be a quiet day turned into a cooking marathon. Dear fiends of ours are going through a terrible terrible time, their youngest is safe now in a hospital (second suicide attempt) and that is just the start of their challenges. I knew something was up when I didn't hear from them. My friend loves to cook and eat, but I heard through the grapevine she is is just overwhelmed. I decided to set them up with a week's worth of meals for freezer or fridge. Spinach lasagna, chicken soup, lentil soup, broccoli salad and a pound cake. I overcompensated I know but I didn't know what else to do. I deliver it later today. I don't know words to say to this beautiful family but I can feed them. The list of the challenges facing them is extensive- parents with Alzheimer's, elderly parent being moved, one kid in college and one suffering from depression and my friend has to schedule a hysterectomy soon (she had to postpone it) for fibroids. Overwhelming challenges, I hope I can just hug her and give her a moments peace. Send out your prayers and strength for this special family. NYKAREN

KathyB394 wrote: »

HELP!!!!!!!

Ok lady's (and gents if there are any with us). I asked this question in another group and no-one answered me.....

Do most of you follow the macros that MFP sets for you or do you adjust. I am trying to limit my carbs but NFL has my carbs at 200+ (Not sure of exact amount without looking). I try to keep it below 100 but not sure if that is best.....i have also heard that if you eat the recommended macros that everything works together and you lose faster.....any advise is appreciated!

I don't follow MPF macros either.
I do best losing weight on low carb, high protein and fat. I look at the pie chart on the home page to keep on track. Approximately 35%-40% each of protein and fat and the rest carbs.

Chris in MA

NY Karen ~ What a great friend you are.

Lisa ~ Your tapestry is outstanding. I know it took a lot of work.

Stormy here today...Thunderstorms and possible tornados.

Carol in GA

Chris Is this your new profile pic? You look great! NYKAREN

klanders30 wrote: »

Chris Is this your new profile pic? You look great! NYKAREN

Yup, taken on my 60th birthday in July.
Thanks so much for the compliment. It means so much, especially since I refused to have my picture taken for so many years because I hated the way I looked.

Chris in MA

Good morning everyone! Happy Sunday! Hopped on and read yesterday morning, but didn't comment. I got my errands run, and my house cleaned, then went over to my DOS's new house he is renting (in our town!) and helped him unload the U-Haul. My DH went to his old place, rented the truck on the way and helped him load everything in. It took them HOURS, due to both of them being perfectionists! LOL! They kept taking things out of the truck and putting them back in to "fit better". I still am laughing at that. They are two peas in a pod, and when they work together on something like this it takes FOREVER! When I got to my DOS's house he wanted us to unload an item and put it together, unload another- put that together...I looked at him and said "You have me for an hour today." So we unloaded everything, put it all in the chosen rooms, I helped him put his bed together and I called it good. It took 55 minutes exactly. He was happy for the help and content to do the rest himself. I DID come home and make beef stroganoff for dinner and brought a large portion of it to him. So now he has beef stroganoff and beer in his fridge!
ANNNND...the sun came out yesterday! ANNNNND...it was out all day long! ANNNNNNND...the temps were in the mid to high 50s! So unusual for January in Michigan; but if we aren't going to have a snowy winter, it can get as warm and sunny as it wants. I will take it.
I love all of you ladies and I admire the hard work and hard choices we have all had to make in our lives to become the people we have become. Strong women with many voices and opinions on everything. I appreciate and value each of your opinions, but I love the fact that we agree to disagree and keep this thread "hot point" free. When it comes to politics and religion, my home is a "no fly" zone. My DH and I have ALWAYS been on the opposite side of everything. We learned very quickly to not discuss certain things. This past year has been like walking through a mine field. The tv/news has been off more than normal. (Which is actually a good thing). Anyway, I try not to get into "it" with people on facebook, but that is where I park my soapbox. My posts are intelligent and humorous, and I am very good at alienating myself from my friends and family! IF you are interested in getting to know me better or would like to see how fast we can go from friends to frenemies, please friend me on facebook. (some exaggeration here; I am really not that bad)
New girls- Welcome! This is a great group of ladies and I am sure you will find the support and answers to questions, along with a bond that you get from women all struggling with the same or similar life issues. (food, family, friends, illness, aging, work, etc) We cover pretty much everything. Please sign your post with a name with which you would prefer we use, and remember to book mark our page. At the end of the month, our fearless leader Barbie will take us into the next month with a link in her final post for January.
Pip- LOVE the pics! Amazon knows how to party! Is that Floyd with the remote on his head? Is he a service dog? Have you trained him to carry of tray of beverages, yet?
Heather- Oh no! I hope you feel better! Get your rest and hopefully you can salvage the last few days of your trip. Your pictures, so far, have been just beautiful! Brought back many good memories for me!
Re, Yvonne, Lisa, Cheri, and the rest of you ladies from Texas- I will be making two trips to your lovely state in March. The first will be whenever my grandbaby is born (around the 14th) and we will be staying only for one night (two full days hopefully). Then we have planned to drive down the last of March/first week of April to spend a week with DD and her DH and new baby. They live in Burleson, but both work in Fort Worth. This will be our first trip to Texas and although I would love to meet up with any of you, I will probably hold off until another visit. I hope to travel down again in the summer on my own; so that will be a better time to meet up with some of you.
Cheri- I really enjoyed your vacation pics! I have never been to Disney. Maybe now that the grandchildren are starting to arrive, I will be going with them?! Did your bag make it back to you, yet?
Lisa- Love your T-shirt quilt. The colors really look great together. Just wondering, which T-shirt have you had the longest and what is it for?
Sherry-Wow! What a life adventure you have been having!! But, (arm in the air) power on, sista! You do what needs to be done and stay safe! Sending prayers, hugs, and strength to you!
NY Karen- So sorry to hear of your friend's son! Ugh! Just tears at the heart! Sending hugs to you and them as you all are confronted with this young man's pain. You are a great friend for helping to care for them as they care for their son and other family members. I am sure they will appreciate those meals!
Kate- your robin visit reminds me of something that happened to me earlier this week. I had just gotten the kids down for nap, one afternoon, and I was sitting at the kitchen table, when a flash of blue caught my eye. I looked out the window and saw a blue bird fluttering around on the ground in the new neighbor's yard. It has been unusually warm here in Michigan, and the ground is soft, so I thought he must be poking around for a bug or grub in the grass. But I still couldn't get over the fact that there was a blue bird in Michigan in January! Maybe a blue jay? I decided to put my glasses on to get a better look at it. Glasses on. It ended up being a blue flag from the water department. LOL! Oh well, it WAS a pretty color blue and it made me think of spring!
Well ladies, time marches on. I have decided to spend some time this weekend "tweaking" my schedule for my daycare children's day. I have three little boys (three year olds) that are having a hard time with personal space/boundaries during "free play". SO...I have decided to give them more structured play time. That doesn't mean they will be sitting, it just means more time with the play/activity being led by me. These three boys are not naughty by themselves; but as a group, the pack mentality takes over and they become very physical and aggressive towards each other and the littler ones. Going to make up a plan and head to the library for some children's music, and movement dvds (yoga, tai chi, dance, etc.). I will also be making some new sensory bins and objects. ttfn Love and hugs to all! xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)

Marni/AK: Your snow pictures are lovely. We've jus seen the end of this snow storm and have clear sidewalks and roads for now. YAY! Last week our neighborhood looked al lot like your photos.

Margaret: I am so sorry you are in pain. I hope that your knee pain eases on its own, but if not, the doctor is a good plan. :flowerforyou:

Kim: Good days are worthy of celebration. Yay!

Kate UK: Our robins don't appear until later in the spring. Maybe yours are basking in the sunshine to the south of you. :flowerforyou:

Chris in MA: Your new photo is lovely! You're lucky to have a mall where you can walk in bad weather. The nearest one to us is a nasty commute away. :bigsmile:


My word document this morning is giving me fits. It keeps changing fonts and font sizes. I am ticked. :grumble:


Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison

Lisa in West Texas, pm me about RV living and details. We are considering this.

Rita in CT

KJLaMore wrote: »

Sarah- Spanakopita?! Where do you live? I am coming over! Love that stuff! Enjoy your time with your daughter!

I live in Ontario, Canada and you are most welcome, dinner is at 6:00
Sarah

Hey, Rita... Actually wrote down a lot of it in my old blog https://goingmobileusa.wordpress.com. if you start from the oldest and work through to the last, you'll get a good picture of the whole process. Don't hesitate to message me any questions.

Lisa

Margaret – Like I said; 5th graders take a lot of the stance their parents do when it comes to ‘history’. Yeah, the 2 famous generals were Robert E. Lee (for the South) and Ulysses Grant (for the North). If they had been encouraged by their parents to look up 10 facts about both; and, then decide (on their own) which man was greater and why (a lot would have come away with ‘thinking’ their general won), depending on whether they are from the South or North. Kids no longer understand about ‘debates’ and why it is important to ‘have the facts to defend’ your position’ and also ‘how to be able to argue about it by learning all they can about the other side of the argument’. Each one won their share of battles; but, the North had a better trained military. The South had young boys whose only experience in shooting a gun was to go ‘hunting’ to provide meat for their family. The North had much larger cities and therefore their army was powerful; while the South was mostly a rural area, depending on crops as their main source of income/trade. The South's army was a 'rag tag' group of famers defending their way of life. A great historical marker/location is in Andersonville (outside of Americus, GA) which was a ‘Confederate civil war stockade and cemetery’. The cemetery is still open for people of certain ‘rank’ in life to be buried there. My boss, a Federal Magistrate is buried there. My Pop and Mimi are both interred in Marietta, GA at their National Cemetery (because he had served in the military). Like Arlington … it was a cemetery for people of high military and government service and honor. There are conservative Democrats; and, there are liberal Republics; and, their ideologies have changed; some not letting go of the parties' former stances.

I'm sure the whole truth is more complex than two parties switching their main ideologies, but what is the truth?

Our boys were hunting for sheds when they were a lot younger on some land DH was hunting through a hunting club. They found a cast iron ball about the size of a golf ball with striations on it; it had to be some sort of Civil War ammunition. If it had been shot out of a gun/musket, it definitely would have caused some major damage or death for sure. One of the guys would go and look and he found a pair of glasses that appeared to have been of that era.

My parents’ home had been a Confederate Clinic/Hospital during the Civil War; and, they took down the gas lanterns in the house and hid them underneath the porch rather than to have the Northern Union soldiers steal them. They did not burn the house down because of that. When we moved into the house about the time I was 4-years-old the lanterns were found (after I came out from underneath the house with a 25lb cast iron grill) that I found up by the inside house foundation and the porch foundation. When I told my Daddy where I found it, he sent the son of our maid up there to try to find out what I was talking about – ‘the hole in the wall’. He came out with the first of two lanterns and the 5 globes that went to them, all wrapped up in sheets. To surprise my Mother, he sent them off to have them polished and wire for electricity. We had 11’ ceilings in the house and they hung down exactly where they needed to in order to provide light in the foyer and dining room.
I still have the grill which I use as a hot plate by my stove. Strange thing is that as a child I played underneath our house and that of the widow next door who I always called, ‘that girl next door’ … she was in her late 80’s/early 90’s. Today, you could not find me ‘underneath’ any house before of my Arachnophobia.

Lenora

General Meade was in charge at Gettysburg for the Union. General Robert E. Lee the Southern Fores. The Civil War and the reasons it began and its outcome I agree with you are complex. The union did stop the advance of the southern troops at Gettysburg had they not the outcome might have been quite different. Regardless it is a very sad chapter of our history. I have tremendous respect for General Lee and his sacrifice for his cause was tremendous. I wanted to say that because often what is considered the losing side in history does not get its proper acknowledgement. The north also had many factories to produce the goods they needed to fight the war that the south did not. The reason we have Memorial Day is because of The Civil War. The southern women made sure flowers were placed on graves of their fallen soldiers on what was called Decoration Day. Those in the north also followed suit. It eventually became Memorial Day.

As you can tell I love history. I agree with you Lenora that students need more exposure to all of the facts so they can see a larger picture as to what happened. Hard to do when we live in the world of sound bites and tweets. Again my concern is students are making up Fake History. There interpretations did not fit with basic facts of what happened.

Also as a teacher I want students to be given the most accurate information available so they can build their knowledge on that information. I am also aware that as our knowledge progresses and new facts come to light we sometimes need to go back and rethink what we believed to be true. It is that process we truly help students learn to think for themselves.

I once took a class where we looked at a piece of art from the perspective of an art dealer, a buyer, the artist, and a collector. It was fascinating how the work of art was viewed by each.

Lenora I love your family story of their place in the history of the Civil War. What a wonderful way to incorporate pieces of history into your home. DH loves Civil War history. He asks where was your childhood home? Is it a private residence or is it a museum today?

Margaret