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she is turning 1!!!!!  how is it that a year can pass so quickly? I have spent every day with her watching her grow — and it feels like i literally watched her grow!!  inches, pounds, personality, if you sit really still for a few moments, you can see the change — very sad and at the same time, so exciting!!

She still doesn’t have a single tooth — kinda fun trying to feed her enough, ’cause she is as hungry as a one year old, just can’t EAT like a one year old.

She still isn’t walking — this one i am not upset about — their little personalities change so drastically when they start walking, i just wanted to enjoy her as a baby for as long as possible. 

She is still a shrimp — yeah, not on the growth charts — she is wearing (finally) 6-9month old clothing and some of it is just too big — when she starts walking, people will turn in shock ’cause she will look like a 6 month old walking.  Shrimp….  but cute, don’t you think??

so, that is my excitement for the week — i hope.

I am gonna try to really revamp the exercising regime — i am tired of seeing flabby arms shake when i wave — surely, i can have muscles there instead of wiggles, right??!!  Right??!!  please!!!!   well, that is my hope and goal — but it won’t come without a lot of WORK!!  So, starting today (’cause i didn’t start yesterday like i had wanted, or last week, or…..)  anyway, i am gonna really work the weights — you WILL be hearing me complain for the next few weeks……  yippee???

k,   have a great Monday — always think of it as the first day of a new week filled with promise instead of the drudgery that is common thinking now-a-days….. 

 ”This is MY day to pamper myself, a time to replenish and renew.”  “You can’t give anything away if your own tank is empty.”   (Barbara Johnson Daily Spashes of Joy)

Oh my…… has anyone else read this series yet by Stephanie Meyer????  these books are awesome!!!

k, yes, that is where i have been lately — my sister dropped off books 2-4 on Saturday and I couldn’t put them down — took up my computer time…. plus, some other time….

Yes, i read all 4 books in 6 days…..   

Anyway, the movie is coming soon, so READ the book!!!

just thought i would let you know i didn’t fall off the edge of the earth — or get devoured — or anything else…. just reading….

love you all, have a great rest of the week!!!

TOP 10 PREDICTIONS NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION

1. The Bible will still have all the answers.

ISN’T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL?!!!!

I got this in an email and it was a nice reminder — I tend to worry about so many things.  I just have to remember constantly that God is STILL in control… even when things “look” bad or scary — there is always a purpose.  Sometimes that purpose is to draw us closer to Him, sometimes, to snip off little branches that we don’t need growing, sometimes the lessons we learned will aid someone else.

Think about Him today and what He has done and will continue doing in our lives, in our various journeys, and in our hearts.

love you all — have a greatly blessed day full of promise!!

i wrote one yesterday, but just couldn’t put it out there…..

this site is anonymous, but, it’s just too scary to put some things out there.  maybe someday i’ll have the courage to post it, but not today  — it was about my eating habits.

after reading it, i do have to wonder if i have anorexic tendencies — my sisters always accused me of being so, but i always swore i wasnt.  i want to get to a good weight for me, not too skinny — been there and it wasn’t pretty — just a good healthy weight….

and that is about as far as i wanna go on that one….. 

so, my boys got called to be in a group of kids for a movie they are filming here in NM — it is their first “extra” job ever, so it should be fun — an experience if nothing else.  Guess it will be all day Friday…. my 11 yo has been asking to be in a movie, and the almost 9 yo has the personality of a movie star….  i don’t know where these kids came from!!  probably switched at birth — oh wait, they were born at home…. hmmmmmm

need to finish the job i started this early morning — deep cleaning my pantry — as soon as this baby is done nursing….. so, catch ya all later!!!

“Gather your loved ones around you and tell them they’re loved.  Watch them get stronger as your words sink in!”  (Barbara Johnson Daily Splashes of Joy)

{{{{{sigh}}}}  …so  i decided to post a blog and then make myself get to work….

how DOES my house get to be SO messy SO quickly????  ok, yeah, i could blame it on the kids (and often do…) BUT, bottom line — we ALL just came in the house and threw things on the floor as we entered, rushed around, left again, came home, threw things on the floor, rushed around, left again….. so, i guess, today needs to be CLEAN THE HOUSE day, darn it!!!   

You know, people hear you have a bunch of kids and then they say, “Oh, yeah, that lady on tv with a million kids is so organized…..”  Yeah, well I am NOT that lady!!!! i love organization but procrastination is so much more fun….

ALSO need to get to the store and get my 30# bag of green chili and get it roasted — any of you guys out there in buddyslim land that HAS NOT tasted our NM green chili dishes — you need to get out here and try it!!!!!   Yummmmmmmm — plus it is considered a fruit and is HIGH in vit C , low in calories….. SOOOOOO you can eat a bunch and {{other than the burning mouth…..}} it is awesome!!!  My latest fav lunch is wrapping one slice of swiss cheese around a bunch of green chili and a few secs in the zapper to melt the cheese….. yummmmyyyyy!!!

so, anyway, i need to get some more….

also, hubby wants me to make an appt for my 5yo girl — she can’t seem to kick a bladder infection….. the child just can’t seem to drink enough water and she HATES cranberry juice…. guess, we’re gonna have to get more drastic….. she has never had an antibiotic in her life…. so, maybe its time.    {{{{another sigh}}}}   kinda funny for me to have a hubby in med school — i have always avoided drs (and Rx) like the plague….. (yes, even tho i have had a bunch of kids — always went to midwives and then just stayed home!!)

kids schooling needs to get back on track…. dad has had them doing all sorts of other things before the rains came — now the horses are back in our field, hay is up, more seed planted — just gotta buckle down to books again.

State Fair is going on this week and the kids all want to go — we don’t do the rides, just displays and shows…. most important in their eyes is, the dairy building sells HUGE cotton candy cone/thingies for cheap…… the only time they ever get the stuff…. lovely…..

Found out that when MY attitude is better, my husband doesn’t seem to have as many faults….. hmmmmmm, we had a great weekend.

Like someone else said…… this morning came too early…. i am tired — more like lazy….

also procrastinating yet again,

must -get-off- and - get-to - work…..

bye all

“May your day be fashioned with joy, sprinkled with dreams, and touched by the miracle of love.”   (Barbara Johnson, Splashes of Joy)

nope, that one is fat too…… hmmmm

ha ha, i am not used to drama — have always stayed away from it, so, i am gonna stay away from this one too and hopefully it will soon pass.  High school is done….. time to be grown ups.

So, am turning the other cheek, smiling, moving on, loving my buddies and trying to stay on track. ….           mostly b/c……. the “cheeks” are still chubby and i need continued work; partly b/c i enjoy blogging and want to continue doing so;  and b/c i enjoy reading of other’s struggles that are similiar to mine and rejoicing with them when they succeed!!!!

so YIPPPPEEEEEE for buddyslimmers who support each other!!! 

love you and hope the best for you today!!!

OHHHHHH, and just some news other than dieting stuff……

my baby daughter was healed of her skin problem!!!! praise the Lord!!! i never blogged about it but prayed with a friend here and wanted to give you all the great report.

Sometimes when you pray — God may be answering a prayer request that you didn’t even know existed — so, keep on praying, keep on supporting, keep on encouraging!!!

First, thank you all that commented on my blog that was “just for me”  it DOES make you feel good to know that people care!!!  it sounded so stupid after writing that it was discouraging to not get comments, but i chose to not erase it and was blessed by all of you because of it!! thank you. 

Chrisie has gotten me thinking about the fruits of the spirit, so i have been looking at them again and again (thank you Chrisie!!!!!) 

love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.

kinda seems like some are repeats, but, they’re not! they are a bit different — some about attitudes, some about actions - -but it all starts with LOVE.  Paul says in another passage, that we can have all the “Gifts” but if we don’t have LOVE than we are nothing more than a noisy gong or clanging cymbal.  — i don’t know about you, but i have 9 kids, noisy gongs and clanging cymbals get on my last nerve!!!!! 

everything we do, say, or act upon should be led by love — sounds so easy until you read the “love chapter”  1 Corinthians 13 — love doesn’t fret?? love doesn’t take account wrong done to it?? love always is ready to believe the best of every person??? love is never jealous  and does not display itself haughtily???

how is it even possible to show love?? i don’t think i do most of those things — i am quick to judge, quick to envy, quick to revenge, quick to worry.  

it is so simple and yet the living of it is SOOOOO hard!!!  

Lord, help me to REALLY love those around me today, following all that You have said love truly is.  Help me to respond with kindness, help me to bear up under everything that comes today, help me to endure with hope and without weakening because YOU are my strength.  Help me most of all to be patient today — i realize that by praying for patience, i am also praying for testing of that patience — bear me up, keep me strong.  Show me how to love.    IN JESUS’ NAME!!!!!

this turned into something i had not initially started — i had not intended this to be a sermon — but just reminders for ME!!!!!

i just need to keep writing.  I have discovered that writing helps clear my mind for the things i need to do — and not get bogged down with the stuff that is unneccessary.

I get bogged down a lot so i need to figure out what is important — writing seems to do that for me….. so this blog is about nothing in particular, it is just for me.

Sometimes i get discouraged b/c noone reads/comments on my blogs — this is silly!!! it really doesn’t matter if i am “popular” or have the most popular post! what matters is that i am sticking to my goals, getting healthier by exercising and eating right.  So, no more feeling sorry for myself!  sheesh, that sounded so stupid….

my kids are going all over the place - -soccer, dance, football, taekwondo.  It is seeming harder to be together as a family.  I need to make sure that when they ARE home, we spend time together and laugh.  Meal times must be fun and healthy, i want my kids to have fond memories of HOME not just the stuff they did.

Hubby is getting stressed again with school — don’t know how i can help except i need to have the home as a non-stress place.  Before going to soccer practice today, we need to have the house straightened so when he comes home he can feel relaxed and able to study — no clutter!!

k, off to the store, little jobs, clean house, school kids, soccer practice and whatever else comes up this day — not too much!!!  happy smiles everyone!

This is {still} the day that the Lord has made, i will {continually} rejoice and be glad in it!!!

i think i may have lost a pound in the last 2 days!!  i’ll see if it sticks, before i log it….

here is my “workout” schedule for Sat and Sun — come on down to <<HOT>> New Mexico and I’ll help you lose weight!!! ha ha

Saturday: 

• Rise at 6am after dreaming about the first soccer games all night. 
• Get to the soccer field at 8:30 and set up goals (after running around the field trying to find the pieces parts that are missing…)
• Coach/ref the under 6 girls team for 45 minutes (run around their small size field with them showing them how to play the game)
• Run to the next field to start warming up the 10-13 yo boys team.   Coach standing in the hot sun for 1 hour yelling as loudly as you can b/c they can’t hear what you are saying on the other side of the field.  Heart is pumping wildly b/c you see them make mistakes and then SCORE!!!!!   Yippeeee!!!!!!   we won our first game!!!
• Quickly run other son to his game — luckily don’t have to ref or coach….
• eat a quick lunch of homemade-lots of vegies sub sandwich slice.
• Stay on the field in the heat until 3:30 in the afternoon
• Get home and realize the hay is baled and the barn didn’t get cleaned out/prepared for the hay — SOOOOOO get on grundgy clothes and start clearing out all the old hay particles, dirt, leaves and donkey doo (b/c she can open gates, got in to eat and left her signature…)  This finally gets done at 7pm.

Sunday:

• Get up early to go to church and work the projector.
• Get home and realize it is gonna rain and we MUST get the hay off the field.
• carry pallets to the other barn to stack the hay on.  Realize that the wind is WARM and the sun is really hot even though it is SUPPOSED to rain.
• lift bales of hay onto the trailer until you have ~60 on the trailer
• throw bales OFF the trailer onto wheel barrows to cart into the barn
• get bales OFF the wheel barrows and stacked into barn — see storm clouds move in which cool things off  but that get your heart racing knowing you must step it up a bit.
• Do this process 3 times until it is 8pm and your beatiful daughter is making supper so you can just take a shower and eat.  AND realize that the hay is off the field and safe in the barns and it DIDN’T rain!!!!!  yay!!

I think i have to add that i sneezed a zillion times b/c i am allergic to hay — that HAS to count for additional exercise…..

Anyway, there is another field that should be baled in the next few days….. wanna come help???

ok, i did have my husband, 17 yo son and his friend helping with this process…. Gosh, boys are strong and full of energy!!!

look how excited he is!! These picts aren’t great, they were captured from the video we did — i think i was shaking worse than he was!!

My other son proposed on Sunday at church!! it was SOOOOO sweet.  We had an engagement dinner at my house with his fiance’s parents and siblings, his “real” mom and my husband’s mom.  It was a great time!

I lost a few more pounds…. guess soccer is doing it for me!!! yay!  just a few more to goal then i just need to firm up….. alot…..   i need to do weights on my off soccer days and focus on my arms.  

i strained a muscle or ligament somewhere around my hip joint on Saturday trying to race… MUST warm up first, i am getting too old to just run!

k, better go, housework and husband is calling…..

have a great day!!