Jay-Z

Trey Songz

Me and Collin

The Virginia Beach Interdenominational Choir

Bishop Barnett Karl Thoroughgood

RaJazz

Maury High School Gospel Choir

Michol Marie

Tomorrow’s Image Barber Shop

Charles, Theressa and Bob

Jeff and Theressa
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Tanya, Theressa, Kristin, Cherrese, and Yolanda

Theressa, Kristin and Collin

Theressa, Kristin and Tanya

Anthony Sutton and Daughter

Cherrese and Cocoa Butter

Anthony Hairston

Just let Collin be Collin!!

Played in the snow with Collin and Messha

Collin making snow creme

Made a Fire!!!

Cooked a Pot of Beef Soup

Chillin with Meesha

You know I look forward to Wednesdays, because I get a chance to do what I love and that’s reading to your babies with Reading & Succeeding with Theressa. Let me tell you, I know half of your secrets because your children tell me. What I love most about children is that they are brutally honest. If they did not like the story, they tell me and if they think that I look nice they tell me that too. I love to hear that most of all.

One time a first grader tried to mack me. For real!!! He first offered to help me pack up my books when I was leaving and I told him thank you, but I can do it. He then offered me a piece of gum. Now what is he doing with gum in school? I told him thank you, but no thank you. He then offered me a dollar. I was like no thank you. Then as I was leaving the class, he slipped me a piece of paper and told me if I needed anything just call him. I just took the piece of paper startled. When I got in the hallway, that little boy had his name and number on that piece of paper. I thought to myself that little first grader tried to hit on me.

Well you know what I wanted to do, go back in that class and ask that little boy who yo daddy? Cause if you are this smooth your daddy must be on point and wanted his daddy. For real dough!! Shoot!!!
But back to your beautiful, smart and talented children, they bring me so much joy when I visit their classes on Wednesdays. They know the importance of reading and they aspire to be so many things and I tell them that they can be whatever they want to be, but they have to know how to read!! Thank you for trusting me in the lives of your children. It is indeed an honor.

Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a great holiday. I truly enjoyed my vacation. The children and I spent a couple of days at Great Wolf Lodge. I even got on a couple of water rides. I screamed like somebody was taking my fried chicken off my plate!!! But it was fun. I spent the rest of the time in the hot tub, while the children enjoyed the water rides. The rest of my vacation I just watched Lifetime television, ate a lot of food and enjoyed some great bottles of red wine.

Now it’s a new year and once again my resolution is to lose weight. My stomach and my twins (yall know what I mean by twins right?) are now very close friends. The have been hanging out a lot lately. I want to break up the friendship. My stomach needs to go back in and the twins well at this age they are just going to continue to hang around. Hell I’m learning to do tricks with them!!! Tricks like…. Naw…. I won’t tell.

Anyway I had to get rid of all my size 8 clothes over the holiday cause they were squeezing the life out of me. I would look like I was ready to pop like the Pillsbury dough boy. But when somebody would touch my stomach, that shiggity did not make me laugh, I wanted to fight!!! So my goal is to lose 30 pounds by June. I know you may be thinking Theressa how much do you weigh? None of your…… well I am now in a size 10 and honestly, I weigh 160 pounds. I have not weighed this much since I was pregnant and the children are teenagers, so I don’t have an excuse except that food and wine are so good!! All the time!!! And all the time food and wine are good!!

A lot of you may say Theressa your weight, that’s nothing. See I have to be comfortable for me. I am not knocking you if you are a size 10 or if you are 160 pounds, maybe that works for you, but it just doesn’t work for me!!! So my first goal is to take a break from my usual glass of red wine in the evening. Okay you know me, my glasses of red wine in the evening. This is a tough one, because this is something I look forward to, so now I just drink water with my dinner, but I put my water in a wine glass and sip on it!!!

Oh yeah and last night I started working out with the new Denise Austin Boot Camp Video. I was sweating bullets two minutes into the video. Collin and my dog Meesha just kept staring at me like I was crazy. Later on Collin said that I really did look crazy trying to keep up with the video. I told him I was going to show him what crazy really looked like if he didn’t go upstairs and go to bed. After he went upstairs, I cussed so much at that video, I had to ask God, the television, and the video to forgive me. I drank a bottle and half of water and still had 18 minutes to go. Mind you the video is only 20 minutes. Afterward I sat down on the couch sweaty, my hair had gone back to Africa, because my perm left, and I was sweating in places that I can’t even mention.

I’m still a little sore but guess what, I’m going to pop that tape right back in tonight and look crazy jumping around till I jump some of this weight off. I do understand that I’m older so it’s going to take a little longer for the weight to fall off, but I am not going to give up!!! Let me know if this is your New Year’s resolution as well and some of your tips that you are using to accomplish your weight lost goal.

Peace and no meat!!! Well fried meat anyway!!!