My Daughter's Ideas.

 My daughter has a knack for fixing up everything. I really like it but it also makes me feel a bit over the hill. I remember when it was me who had all the creative energy and ideas. Now I sit back and watch the improvements. She just rearranges a bit of this and that achieving a much better result.

I KNOW I look better. Even the southern ladies at church who are masters of the serious poker face cannot help but drop their chins when they see me. In a good way!  I am my daughters best marketer. She needs a business card for makeovers. I am a walking advertisement. People are actually dumbfounded that I can look this good. Which I realize does not say much for what I accomplished or didn't on my own. 

I was thinking about doing a post about makeup. She is so good at it that when she is working on my eyes one can look bigger and brighter than the other. She does that with concealer and highlights. The cool thing is we use some pretty cheap stuff. We aren't on a Lancome budget here.

Now that the house, my wardrobe, my make up and both of us have new hair do's has been accomplished; the next project is our weight.  I said it, I really did without even hacking a line through that dreaded word. No sugar.  WHAT? No sugar. Not any, like not in starch either.

To seal the deal on the sale my little sales girl tells me I can have "sugar free candy" OK. Have you ever eaten sugar free candy? It's delicious really it is. I was eating it wondering why lots of people didn't eat this stuff. My daughter walks by and says, "MOM HOW MUCH OF THAT HAVE YOU EATEN?"
Smack slurp smack, mouth full answers,"dunno maybe sith peeessssis." Daughter smiles, laughs and says "OH NO!!!!" I quit smacking,"whas tho funnnnnie?"

I would soon find out what is NOT tho funny. Sugar free candy and maltitol give most people gas. Not just a little bit of gas. The kind of ripping that country red neck truck drivers like to make jokes about! The hot yellow sulphur cloud of fumes burning your eyes bohiney out kind. My husband went through the living room waving his arms, "OH MY WORD," and glares at the dog. Sometimes our dog being our best friend goes above and beyond the call of duty you know your in trouble when the dog leaves the room.


I purchased a large box of Gas X to go with my daughters "way of eating." Since she does most of the cooking around here and I always want what she makes. I also really like the sugar free candy but NOT 6 pieces ever again not even Gas X can handle that. Being just a little competitive I want to loose some weight for spring too.  But I only want to loose weight, not all my friends and family, and I just got my dog.

How did you spend your weekend? Try anything new?