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We left Monday morning to drive 9-1/2 hours to Thibodaux, Louisiana

to visit our relatives/good friends, Murray and John. We got there about 5:00 in time to relax before a wonderful dinner and great conversation.

I can’t say enough about our visit. It was so good to hug their necks and have two full days to enjoy them. They always offer to take us all kinds of places, but we wanted a relaxing visit to catch up on what’s been happening without a huge schedule to follow. Our time with them was perfect, though never long enough. We drove back Thursday, getting home about 6:00 in the evening.

I came home with goodies – some beautiful earrings from a shop called Old Estate (I think), though our relatives call it “Jerome’s” because they know not only the owner, but the whole family. My husband chose the earrings, so I love to wear them, knowing they were hand picked.

I also came home with things that have been in the family for years. I’ll treasure these, finding each a place to live in our home.

We made a shovel bird (our version of a bird feeder with personality), since Murray has a gorgeous court yard type of garden lovingly tended by Robin, whom we met. She’s a lovely person, taking good care of their yard and all the plants. The shovel bird was new, so even though it had bird seed in the shovel part, no birds were using it. I figured the paint and polyurethane smell, plus its being new in the garden, made it unattractive to the wonderful variety of birds they have. Murray texted me while we were on our way home, saying, “A bird is in the shovel bird!” :0)

Murray and John are watching sugar, too, and introduced us to many things that made my sweet husband start to believe that avoiding sugar doesn’t have to be the end of the world! We found

• ICE – flavored water. It has zero carbs, zero sugar and comes in many flavors. We got some of these at Walmart today.
• sugar free apple pie – we’ll look for one the next time we grocery shop
• sugar free candy
• OUTSHINE frozen fruit bars – taste like wonderful popsicles – we found these at a local grocery store

In my own efforts to get the lard off, I’m reading a lot of information on the paleo form of low carb eating. I downloaded and printed a bunch of information and will plow through it this weekend. I’m trying to get my body’s attention, since it seems to have gotten used to my regular efforts and I’ve been on quite a plateau.

We’re pigging out the rest of the weekend and will get serious Monday morning.

Happy vacation to us! We couldn’t have had a better time.

I hope that you had a great week, too.