Yup. That’s what we need around here. More bean salad recipes!
No?
Well then, what would you like? Tell me what you’d like to see more of on my blog.
I’m listening! (While eating bean salad.)
Yes, this is what I’m doing right now. I had a good cry, and I do mean good, have chosen not to publish my most recent thoughts because I am not sure sharing them will help anything (though writing them sure was therapeutic), read my Bible on my phone because, well, it was handy, and now I’m doing this. While one of my bestest friends plays with my kids because she knew today has been really hard for me. Laying on a bed. Possibly drooling. Not thinking about the pressures of this life or about any of my family’s worries. Letting go. Sleeping.
Or, at least I will be as soon as I publish this.
I wrote something.
And now I’m sitting on it. Not sure if and when to publish it. Maybe soon. Maybe never. Stuff is heavy for me and the kids lately, that’s for sure. And that’s why I haven’t been blogging. Or, at least, why I haven’t been publishing what I’ve been blogging. I’m not sure if I can. But I wanted you to know I am still alive and kicking. Well, even if I am only kicking because I’m being dragged kicking and screaming somewhere I don’t want to go.
Oh dear, I’d better stop writing or I’ll again have a long thing I can’t or won’t publish. So there.
I wrote something.
I fasted yesterday. But today I’m eating. Did I mention that?
Could hardly finish up my two eggs for breakfast and feel stuffed after a cup of bean and avocado salad for lunch!
I’m done with my 8 Day Challenge for a while now and I’m just using my metabolism boosting supplements and vitamins daily with a zig zag eating plan to keep losing weight. I feel great!
Well, I didn’t feel so hot earlier this morning when I tried running while pushing my youngest three in a jogging stroller. I’m trying to look for ways to work out closer to home, without the gym, with my children. And that was definitely one way to get ‘er done. It was hard!
This is going to be dinner:
Sprouted red quinoa with golden raisins and sliced almonds. Yum.
I had to call the police at 6:45 this morning. Turns out that the bicycle thievery was not an isolated incident. Too bad, really.
The kids and I are planning a few trips. One is coming up soon. We are excited.
Marriage things are not going according to plan. To say the least. I have been singing I Need Thee Every Hour constantly for a few days. In my sadness there is more room for Jesus to bring me joy.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. And if it’s not wonderful, just choose to make it wonderful anyway.
Do you remember my problem? Er, one of them.
With MST (Many Small Teeth) I’m responsible for keeping clean, it has long been hard for me to get them all perfectly clean, especially when the owner of those teeth is wriggling all around the bathroom.
But our problems, er…at least that one, have been solved!
I got each of the kids a Spinbrush. In the colored space above the on and off button, I painted each of their initials onto the Spinbrush with silver nailpolish. All five toothbrushes (I keep mine elsewhere, thankyouverymuch) sit on our bathroom countertop.Â
Each night and each morning, each child (Okay, Flurry gets help.) is responsible to brush their own teeth for as long as their Spinbrush spins its way through one cycle. They think this is fun, because kids think doing anything with a battery operated anything is fun.
Then, because ain’t no way my kids can do it perfectly yet by themselves, I brush their teeth again with their Spinbrush for another entire cycle.
Man, the sugarbugs (that’s what we call plaque buildup) are gone, even on their back molars, even up by their gums. With bright shining faces (and an organized bathroom because I’m not going to lie, that is important to me and I love that the Spinbrushes can stand up on their own on the counter!), we face the day.
With our best foot…
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and spent a day at the races
but first the MSC did stretch
so no cramps they would catch
while they ran and made silly faces.
The kids started to gain momentum
as we sang the National Anthem
and with brats as our fuel
we and some friends from school
ran some races while looking so handsome.
Never in my life have I seen racers so cute
with striped pants and oversized shirts to boot
Small Fry ran her heart out
as her name we did shout
and she earned herself some shiny gold loot.
Along with a friend from Kindergarten class
Nuggey ran and kicked some major, er, grass
though we try not to keep score
’twas hard to ignore
the Nugster came in third and not last!
When Stellan’s turn finally came
he flashed a thumbs up and pushed through the pain
Stellan made it look easy
all peachy and breezy
with joy he waited his turn a gold medal to claim.
My first born always the overachiever
turned his skeptic Mama into a believer
for the day before
Big Mac said he’d run no more
I understood and believed him but should have done neither!
We had a great day
Stellan told the man, “No, spell my name this way!”
and we even met Ronald
McDonald
“No way!”
When the races were over we talked and looked for water in a cup
Small Fry by her friend’s strong arms was picked up
we instead found some Gatorade
the parents sat in the shade
and I said, “What a great day at the races…
…yup, yup!”
All of these children have been on my blog before.
Major, major props to the first person who can find which three old posts they’re in.
And if you don’t like games, just enjoy the smiles.
Have a great day!
To say that, at least on an earthly level, things aren’t looking so hot in the relationship department over here would be an understatement. It’s ugly in these parts. But the worse things seem to seem, the more I cling to this:
Right now, it’s really all I have: the knowledge that somehow, God is going to weave this whole mess into something good, for His glory. I can’t see it yet, as I’m beneath the tapestry, looking at all the colored fibers going this way and that. It makes no sense to my eyes and is all messy and awful from here. But God is looking at my life, and at the kids’ lives, and at my husband’s life, from above. God sees the pattern in the tapestry that He is causing all these ugly, crisscrossed lines to make.
So, I trust Him. Cling to Him. And wait. Wait to see what He’s making out of this mess.
