Chocolate!!

 

Happy Easter! Don't you just love my teddy bear dressed up as a duck? He's adorable and I think I want him around all year and not just at Easter. I do like Easter but we don't really do much. However, when I was a kid Easter was almost as good as Christmas. Yes this was about Easter eggs, obviously, but not just that. 40+ years ago things were just different. Firstly, the eggs. The best bit was having to crack the chocolate shell open to get to the Smarties or Buttons inside. We don't have that now, alas. I might be wrong but you could pretty much only get Smarties or Buttons eggs, not like now when you can get virtually any brand/chocolate bar ever invented. I think my mum always made a lamb for dinner (though sometimes it was a turkey bought and frozen as an extra at Christmas. This was equally as nice). We painted eggs, we boiled eggs with onion skins or beetroot to colour the shells. We rolled eggs down a hill. There was simnel cake and lots of hot cross buns. I might be exaggerating but I reckon we also made Easter bonnets! My mum would blow eggs (hole in the top and bottom of a raw egg, blow the egg out of the shell, quick wash then fill the shell with chocolate). Mum also had chocolate egg moulds so she could make her own. And with the school break and long bank holidays it was fab. And I'm pretty sure the sun always came out at Easter when I was a kid. Apart from buying chocolate eggs and hot cross buns I'm afraid I now do nothing Easter-like at all. Maybe because the children are all grown, I'm not sure.

I have had a serious talk to myself. My massive dilemma about whether I should even try to lose weight has, possibly, been resolved. I put my big brave pants on and weighed myself. Even though I've been eating with gay abandon recently I have not put weight on. The fact I've stayed the same was really good news and made me happy. So what I've done is to not only write down the pros and cons of losing weight but I gave each pro and con a score. This then gave me a more accurate reading of how I felt about each option. To diet or not to diet, this is the question. So I'm dieting. I'm not promising anything but I will truly try to lose a stone. And then we'll see.

Libby is doing well. Her symptoms are stable and she's still happy! 

What we are not changing we are choosing.