One gold star!

Yes, I earned one for yesterday! I managed to track everything AND get 6 glasses of water in (I know it shouldbe more than that, but let me get the 6 down first!) Let's see if I can keep it up for today.

I am nervous about my trip to Arizona and I have a bad track record with the nerves. They usually push me in the directions of throwing everything to the wind instead of being extra-viligent. Staying OP around my parents is a nightmare for three reasons. One is all the history--I love my parents and they are certainly good parents in most respects. However, parts of my childhood were very, very hard. Secondly, the comments. I still get them from my mother. She says she's trying to help and no matter how much I tell her that she is getting the opposite effect, does she stop. Finally, my mother does not do OP food. Yes, I've tried being in charge of the food--that doesn't work either. My mother has Shongren's sydrome (I think I spelled that right!), and one of the symptoms is extreme dry mouth. My mother's way of handling this is to drown everything in oil, butter or cream. Fine, don't eat that stuff, you say! Oh, but it's sneaky. The last time we were down there, I made noodles--unbeknownst to me (until after I'd eaten it, that is) my mother had added two sticks of butter to it. When I try to explain that doing things like this is hardly helpful and it would have been nice if she had waited until others had dished up before she started "lubing it up", she shoots back with "You just don't know how hard it is when you can't even swallow." So, there it is.

I won't be updating this blog while I'm there--but I probably will update my main blog. I'll check in again on Tuesday--I'm praying I can handle this weekend!