Here we are once again, I am been very slack on this updating thing...I tend to forget that I need to do this every now and again...but I will endeavour to try better.

I have finally found the job of my dreams, working with a beautiful 4 year old boy, who have the most gorgeous eyes that melt your heart, and who has autism. He is one of the most intriguing children I have had the pleasure of working with, and I am looking forward to the rest if the year with him.

Now this is what I won for 2nd prize in an Easter raffle, the Thursday night before Good Friday...

and the beginning of my spiral down wards and the scales up wards again...and to make things worse..... I don't like chocolate......

I have decided to do a personal challenge

"Mish's Mission" ...

lose 9kgs in 11 weeks....

23rd April to the 9th July....which is the school term here in the west.

I am looking forward to seeing how close I can get to the 120kg mark on those scales by then.

Okay what a wake up call,

this is such a horrible picture, and being black and white on newspaper doesn't help...

but it has reinforced me to continue this journey....

I'm hoping that the next time I get to be in the paper it will be as a Page 3 girl.... :)

Okay this is my baby, Cassie, she is the result of her mum, Bonnie, a Golden Cocker Spaniel and her hard working dad Diesel, an jet black Alphen Dale kelpie. She was born on Doyles first birthday and is as loyal as can be. She is 8 now and she is so so gentle, unless you aren't meant to be in my back yard...she will let you in, but wont let you out, until we tell her its okay. She would protect us with her life I'm sure. I had to leave her with my mum and dad for 4 month until we found a rental place that would allow us to have her...they spoilt her something rotten, but the day she came home, we realised that she made our family complete.

Okay this trouble maker is Jess, she's just 2 years old, and belongs to Emily.....but I am the one that does the growling..loll. She is meant to be a Dalmation cross with a Labrador, but I'm thinking not...but shes cute...when she is a sleep...

This is Delta, Lana's cat. We got her at the age of 2 days, as her mum died from complications after she gave birth to 3 little kittens. I fed her with an eye dropper for the first 3 weeks of her life, every 3 hours. She was such a character, she would act like a chimp at times bouncing and running around the house. We lost her on the 25th January 2007 at the age of 5 years.

This is the latest addition to our family, Bella, who belongs to Doyle. As Doyle feels a little over run by females, we did think that we had picked out a male bunny, but no he is a she, so he is still out numbered 6-1

Okay, so it has been a little while since I came and done an update on here. Well its been a funny sort of year in my weigh loss journey. I stuck to the program, okay maybe not 100% of the time, but I was real really good, (apart from the odd Jimmy Beam) and a little bit of yo-yoing, I lost a total of 7.9kgs....to say that I was a little disappointed would be a lie, I was really peeved, but I haven't given up. I have a few medical problems that have hampered the journey, but with the support of my forum friends, I have continued to stay on track.

Having completed my Certificate 3 in Teachers Assistant, I decided that I would go back to study and complete my Certificate 4 in Special Needs. So I went back to TAFE in July. Wow, 41 and back to study....it was great to have to use my brain again. I completed it in December. I continued to work part time and play mum.

Since January things have been a little rough in my house, we had car trouble juswt after christmas,we lost our darling 5 year old cat, we also lost a close family friend to an accident. This really knocked us for a six, she was such a beautiful young lady, taken way to soon.

Well that is just about it, Lana and Doyle are back at school, involved in their Girl Guides and Cubs, getting ready for the 100 years of Boy Scouts Anniversary. Emily is doing the daughter thing and giving me a hard time and she keeps on my toes.

I have just realised that since Christmas I have lost almost 3kgs so maybe 2007 is my year...

Wow this taking me way out of my comfort zone.

Having my photo taken is big, but putting it on here is so much more

This is Emily and myself waiting in the Melbourne Airport, after flying from Perth at 5am W.A time, for our boarding call, to start our holiday in Tassie for two weeks, in July 2004. I was the same weight in this photo as I was the day I joined weight watchers on the 6th December 2005

This is us at one of the many beautiful water falls in Tassie. I can still feel the pain in my thighs from walking the trail to this awsome sight.

Port Arthur, wow what a scense of history, you can feel it all around you. I can remember Emily saying to me, (she was starting to roll her eyes at me when I told her something about a building or sight that we had been to) "Wow mum, just think, this is what the convicts had to deal with when they first came here" I think it made all that she had learnt at school real.

Well a single gal has to have some romance on holidays doesn't she...lol

This poster was given to me to keep me motivated

This is my first angel, Emily 18, above her friend Bec. Emily is one of the most beautiful, caring and loving people that I know. She has supported me all the way through this journey.

And this is my second angel, Lana 9, she is warm, loving and so much like her big sister they could have been twins if not for the 10 years age gap. She is here with her adoptive nana, as her Oma lives 3 hours away.

Here is the man in my life, Doyle 7.5, wearing the hat in the sand pit with his cousin Callum. He was the surprise packet of the family, being only 14 months younger than Lana, and totally unplanned, so much for thinking I just had the flu. He is a little ball of energy, cheeky, but is so very lovable.

Shannon Nolls, wow, what a night!!!
He came to town the week I got my 5kg bookmark and Lana's 9th birthday, so we all went. Lana got her handbag signed, Emily got a kiss and a hug from him and Doyle went to sleep (big party animal he is).

What a way to celebrate.

Well it is week 13 and I have just had my 41st birthday. I have always thought that I would be a fit and healthy person when I turned 40.

That didn't happen, so I am making a promise to myself that I will be by the time I turn 45. I had a weigh in on my birthday this week and was happy to be able to say that I lost 1kg....which brings it to 6.1 kgs, a little less than I wanted, but it is going down, and is roughly 2kgs a month...so it's all good.

For my birthday, my darling daughter and my adoptive daughter took me out for tea....they had blind folded me and took me to one of the best restrants in town....it was so so nice, and we had a table on the beach, lots of stars out and the lights on the water was awsome. I am starting to notice that some of my clothes are getting loose and that they are fitting better.

Have you ever tryed to find a pair of bathers at the end of the summer season, yeah right...unless you pay out heaps you aren't going to get a pair....but I need some and I took a gamble on a pair that was 2 sizes smaller than the ones I had (that were falling apart) and OMG, they fitted....was such a boost to the ego..gotta love that aqua aerobics class.

Hi, Wow this is all very new to me..... Please let me tell you a bit about myself. I am a single mum of 3 beautiful children, Emily-18, my self appointed coach and gym partener, Lana -9 and my surprise packet, Doyle -7.5 years old.I call him my surprise because not only because he wasn't expected, but you never know what he's going to do next.

I have been with Weight Watchers for nearly 10 weeks now, joined on the 6th December 2005 with a starting weight of 133.9kg's and at 10 weeks into the programm I have lost 4.1kg's. I haven't lost sight of the reason that I started this journey. I decided that I didn't want to be a mum that stands on the side lines and watch my kids, I want to be in there with them....I am always involved in what ever they do, but I want to be able to play soccer, netball and kick the footy with them.

I am a Teachers Assistant, love working with the kids that need that little (or a lot) bit more help. My kids are the greatest joys of my life and the are the biggest support to me. We have been on our own for 7 years, though my eldest has lived with her father while going to high school, (two youngest ones have a different father) as I lived in a tiny country town before moving in February 2005 and that was when she has came home to live with us.