A sick salad and sick kids...AGAIN

I was back to 142 on the scale today - 10 pounds down!  I am very happy to be able to say that now - can you tell?  (pssst...I've lost ten pounds!)

In other news, I got to hang out with my friend, Jill, last night.  After hitting a couple of stores for odds and ends, I stopped at Red Robin to get a basic salad to take back to her house while we watched American Idol.  I ordered their new southwest salad with avacado slices, black beans, and corn but had to ask that they leave the chicken and cheese off (sad day!).  We got back to Jill's house, and what I found inside my salad was GROSS.  I could not believe what they gave me, and I was so disappointed, because I typically LOVE Red Robin.  The three avacado slices were rotten with little brown spots all over them, the lettuce was mostly iceberg with some romaine thrown in, and the lettuce looked old and was slightly brown around the edges.  I was able to pick out the avacado and most of the bad lettuce, but seriously?  They didn't even take money off since I asked for no chicken, so I paid $9.51 for a nasty, rotten salad with NO chicken?!  I was so annoyed!  I chickened out and didn't call to complain, but I still might if I get up the nerve.  I just couldn't believe what they gave me for the money I paid, and I had to wait almost 15 minutes for the stinkin' thing!  Give me a break!  So, I'm finding out this diet is hard to maintain while eating out - at least here in the midwest burbs.

Meanwhile, I now have sick kids for the fourth or fifth time in the last 3 1/2 months, and I am ready for winter to be officially over and warm weather to arrive!  Christian came down with a fever and a cough over the past day and a half, and Keira now has a cough.  Thankfully, Keira seems fine other than her cough which is mostly at night.  Christian's fever is gone today, but he sounds pretty bad with a cough, some sneezing and the sniffles.  Carter just seems tired, but the kids are all over him all the time, so I'm praying he gets some good immunities from breastfeeding so he doesn't get sick again.  He's probably been sick more than he's been healthy in the first four months of his little life!  Poor boy!