Back Online, (sort of)

...it's been a hectic week, to say the least. I haven't done much but the minutia of moving since my hiatus began. I'm still not finished with every detail. The internet cable is alive, but I need to rearrange some cables and wires to improve the setup. For now I'm sitting in a chair with my laptop plugged into a very short cable modem and I'm charging it from an outlet across the room. LOL!!! But it works for now.
The new apartment is a bit smaller, but it feels more like a house than a dungeon. Our last apartment felt like a cave, because of it's lack of natural light and it's location at the very bottom of a long hill which we had to climb to go to the parking lot or take out the garbage. To bring home the groceries, well, we practically needed a small mule to get that chore accomplished. Now we can bring in the groceries without whining and moaning about it, because the car is parked right next to our apartment. *WHEW* big sigh of relief over that.
I'm smelling the chicken thighs and purple potatoes I have roasting in the oven, to feed my hungry gang. All three of my men love that. I want to stir-fry some organic broccoli, cauliflower and carrots for them as well. I will have an organic spinach and artichoke salad with cannelini beans and organic lemon juice. I feel like I'm losing weight without trying very hard, since I gave up cheese and nuts. Those two items were my greatest obstacles. I had a good handle on all of that before I got pregnant, but at the beginning of the second trimester I was placed on short-term disability and my husband was laid off so I had to rely heavily on the WIC checks I got for my protein, which was all cheese, peanut butter, non-organic milk and eggs. I still believe WIC was a huge contributing factor to my need for gall bladder surgery seven months after the kids were born. I don't know that it was worth it in the long run. I would have been better off eating lentil soup and flat bread every day.