Update on the newspaper

So we walked all over the neighborhood yesterday, delivering the kid's newspaper. While a few people brushed them off with excuses like "I only give money to my church" most of the neighbors were pretty nice and very impressed that the kids cared enough to raise money for a charity. They raised over $300!! And they haven't even given out all the papers yet. The owner of one of the businesses that agreed to advertise (the other being our local Starbucks) looked at the newspaper and started complaining about the size and visibility of her ad. Remember, we're talking about a five page little paper, written by two ten year olds and an eleven year old, raising money for charity!!! The ads were hand-drawn. And, here, this woman is griping and criticizing them because her ad wasn't big enough! Finally, she remembered herself, and told the girls how proud of them she was, but still...

Diet To Go is going pretty well so far. The food isn't too bad, and it's nice not to have to think about it. My husband isn't enjoying it quite as much because a) he usually doesn't have to think about food anyway, since I make it, and b) he keeps missing lunch because he's busy, which really doesn't work when your breakfast and dinner are pre-packaged to contain only around 1000 calories. According to my Wii, I've lost about 8 pounds, which is pretty typical for a first week of dieting. It will be interesting to see what happens the next few weeks. Lunch today was the first time the meal included a dessert (unless you count that canned peaches in pudding thing that I had the other day). It was a brownie. I didn't have especially high expectations from a diet pre-packaged brownie, but it was fantastic!!! Rich and chewy and gooey and chocolatey! It was almost too heavy to finish! Wow, I may just have to switch a few meals to that one next week!