In the last couple of weeks, I've really been feeling like blogging and writing. Today, I had to finish writing an essay for my pastor's book. He's been waiting for a couple of days for it. I finally got it done and remembered how much I love to write! It is such a release for my thoughts and emotions and at the same time helps me to process what I'm really feeling.
So, I think I'm going to start doing some blogging again!
Today my mind is full of so much and I want to post a thousand status updates on my Facebook but I have way too much to do and I thought maybe I'll just post them in a note. So here it is an ode to the random, steady stream of thoughts that are going on in my head...
Did you know I have two sets of abs...a set of abs under that I'm sure look like a six pack and a set of abs on top that are shaped a bit like reeses peanut butter cups, brownies, soda...you get the picture. My friend calls them her "pie abs" - mine are just sugar abs. I dropped sugar two weeks ago. I've had two cokes in two weeks when I was drinking soda daily for a couple of months and have eaten 75% less refined sugar then I did. Suddenly, my "pie abs" are fading and I have three distinct lines forming on my stomach. I think those might be my real abs. Maybe teaching 6 Jazzercise classes a week is going to pay off. However...I plan on getting pregnant again so maybe I should just go find my peanut butter cups and soda...Nahhhh, I feel better without them. I'm actually not craving them anymore. In fact, we have had brownies and ice-cream in the house since Saturday and I've had three brownies and a small bit of ice-cream. WOAH! Yes, that is amazing to me. And what's more amazing is they didn't taste as good as normal and I'm not thinking about them at least half of my day.
It really is about breaking the taste in order to break the craving. The first week was hard, I felt sick as if I had the flu but am feeling much better now! Plus, I've already lost a couple of pounds. I will say though I'm not a pound tracker. I don't have a scale. I measure how I feel on how I make it through my workout, how my summer shorts fit (they've been tight!) and how I feel. If I'm eating well, working out and enjoying my food, I feel good. I'm not anti-scale, I just know in my case that I have a lot of muscle and the scale and those graphs are not always accurate as to how healthy I truly am.
Charis totally cracked me up today! I heard her and Aden fighting and she was yelling "I have a schedule to keep, I have meetings to go to. I must get ready." What on earth?! Then a little while later, Aden comes running down with tears streaming down his face "Mommy, Charis is going to a meeting and I'm not in her schedule cause I want to play doggies!" My kids are so awesome!
A little while later, Aden came upstairs in his black converse, blue socks and whitie tighties asking for ice-cream. For lunch. And since I am the ultimate cool mom, I said yes :o)
Have I mentioned I'm turning into a hippie? Well, maybe not but it feels like it in my own little world. I eat chick peas now! That surely makes me a hippie, right?! And I have a garden. It might not be completely thriving but it's doing o-k. Plus, I'm homeschooling my daughter! Only hippies homeschool, right?! Haha...just kidding!! I adore hippies. In the beginning of the year I remember complaining to my friends that I felt "bad" about having so much peace in my life. A lot of time to just be. Time to rest, time to cook, time to hang with friends. Why on earth did I feel bad? I think maybe because we had so much chaos in life before that I felt chaos was the norm but I had some wonderful friends who looked at me and said "Are you kidding me? Shut-up!! Enjoy this time of rest because your life is going to get much busier!" So, I did and now life is much busier!
Owen juggles 4 jobs, I have my own Jazzercise business and am doing two online study programs. One is almost done! I'm getting ready to homeschool. We do the worship ministry together and have been working on recording. Plus, I want to get pregnant again and adopt, pursue photography and dance! Then no to In the midst of all the change and busyness, I'm finding myself though. I'm finding more peace then ever and am finding that the friends that I have are priceless. Life is beautiful. It's a journey that is full of curves and growth if we allow it to be that but it's still beautiful and it's what we make it. I'm trying to make my target one that is focused on the good, focused on the beautiful and focused on where my strength lies. My arrows are getting straighter and I'm getting closer.
Now, I'm off to play doggies with a little boy that is barking ferociously and a little girl that is wanting to be my "trainer"
Have a beautiful day!!
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