Surprise!

I know. I know.

Once again, I've failed to post my weekly update on the challenge on time. But thankfully, this week it is not because of a discouraging number on the scale. In fact, I was feeling great last week, and I just knew I would see a good number on the scale!

And guess what, I did! I lost 1.7 kilograms this week, which is totally awesome! However, I'm psyching myself into thinking that it's just too good to be true and my number next week will be worse. Just goes to show that you should not trust your emotions. I swear every week I'm either really positive or really negative. Maybe I should get this under control. But once again, I am going to push forward no matter what my emotions tell me. Sure, a nap sounds better than a run, but I will definitely feel a heck of a lot better after a run.

Anyways, all that to tell you the real reason I am so late in writing this post. You see, Teaven and I have been keeping a secret (and before I go any further, no, I'm not pregnant) from my family. We were planning on continuing to keep this secret, but certain things have happened that made us feel it was the wisest decision to tell them now.

And, they were shocked!

What's the secret, you ask? Well..... Teaven and I will be boarding a plane on December 8 to head back to Texas for good. We're going home and could not be more thrilled about it. PLUS.. We get to spend Christmas with our family, which makes it that much sweeter.

At first, we were hesitant to tell my family. I mean, we'd been keeping this secret since May, and the prospect of showing up at my parents' front door unannounced was sooo appealing. Can you imagine their faces? But now that we've told them, I feel good about it. I can now blog about all the things we are experiencing as we are working towards another big move. I don't imagine the cultural transition being as easy as one would think (but that's for another post).

So, now you know. My 8-week challenge doesn't end in time for my mom to send me a box for Christmas. It ends in time for me to fly to America and going shopping in all those wonderful stores I've so greatly missed for a year and a half.

Only 6 weeks left in the challenge! Can you believe it? That means I'll be in Texas in 7 weeks.

Here's how we told my family: