Monday, July 18, 2011

The beard is history!

I was gunning for the beard a year ago, and I've reached my goal. I was gradually losing weight, less than a pound a month, in order to get the husband to honor his commitment to shave his beard once I reached my wedding weight. I reached that number a few months back, took some time to make sure I would stay here, and I am thrilled to report that the husband has dusted off the razor and shaved it all off. He did it a little at a time, over the course of a few days, just as he did when the boy was born. The girl has never seen him like this, and the boy doesn't remember... so it's been fun.

You might ask, "Now what?"

I'm aiming for about 10 more pounds, which will be early high school weight! And the husband? He can't grow that beard back until he's halfway to HIS wedding weight. Love this!

Friday, July 15, 2011

The end of a magical era

The boy asked if we could go to the midnight showing of Harry Potter when it released in the US. That was this morning. I wanted to go for various reasons, including the fact that it was a cool thing to do for the last movie of such an amazing series. The girl would not be left out, so the last frontier was to convince the husband. He falls asleep at 9pm, so this took much convincing. He wanted to go on Sunday morning, our normal family movie time after an IHOP breakfast. We finally got him, after much drama.

The movie was great. But the husband fell asleep for most of it.