So..... it's been 5 weeks today since we found out Scott is healed. It's amazing and unexpected, but we are starting to feel "normal" again. I had my doubts, but life does feel a little lighter. I will say Scott's energy is back some. A few Saturdays we had our first 'cool' front. It was absolutely beautiful around here, so we spontaneously jumped in the car and drove to one of our favorite beach restaurants with our 2 daughters and 2 grandkids and ate a nice lunch.
Here is the view from our table....so pretty :)
Anywho... I told you I would update you on my summer goals I listed on May 24. I think I did okay. Accountability is everything in my world. Knowing I had listed these goals on my blog, made me think about them much more. I've never kept a New Year's resolution for more than a few weeks, so I usually fail at things like this, but here goes. I'm just going to give a brief description of how I did on each one...
Soul Restoration II online class/Do Art... I loved taking this class, however, I still have a bit to do on it. Here is one thing I did in the class. It won't make sense to you, but it does to me...this board is actually covered in glitter and quite sparkly.
One great part of the class was setting goals, and writing a plan of how you were going to accomplish that goal. One I wrote down, was to clean my closet. As I was thinking how to accomplish this, guess what??? I went directly into my closet, and cleaned it out! It only took about 30 minutes and it was all done! So much procrastination had been going on about that, and it was so quick and easy. That same scenario happened a few times with my goals as long as they were small.
I have yet to set the BIG ONES.
Writing Class...I took the writing class. It was a 6 week beginner course, and I learned so much. I still have my final exam to write. Here I go again, procrastinating!
Fun with grandkids/Time with youngest daughter Lexi... I didn't do this as much as I would've liked, but we did have some special moments...
A project my granddaughter and I made... so fun.
We also took some impromptu trips to the beach and did lots of shopping at Lexi's favorite hang out...The Mall!
Scott and I also had some fun on our 30th anniversary.
This is titled, The Way We Were.
Meet with the Lord daily... I failed at this in the way I was imagining. Of course there was daily prayer, but not daily devotions. Still working on the 'daily' aspect of that goal.
Homemaking...I am so sorry to say, I did not get my Book Nook done yet. We are in the process of gathering what we want for it, so when we get in there and do it, it will be a simple day's project. Can't wait to show you.
Eat better...For the most part, we are eating much better, but I will admit we got into a bad habit of eating out over the summer...a lot. I did lose 4 of the 5 pounds. That last pound is here to stay unless I starve myself...not doing it. I also said I wanted to get a menu plan of 15 go-to meals. Ten down, five to go.
I also said I was breaking away from blogging and Facebook. Breaking away from blogging was fine, but I replaced it with making YouTubes. That is really fun. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that, or my blog. We'll see. YouTubes are so quick and easy, although I've quit posting them here on my blog... maybe I'll pop a few of them on here over the weekend.
As far as Facebook, I only joined in the first place, because Lexi wanted to join. Getting off Facebook cold turkey was the BEST thing I ever did. For me, it is SO fun, but a huge time sucker. I started back recently. I 'dislike' the new format, and I hate the way every company and product wants you to go through facebook to join or like them or get coupons or whatever. This is SO calcualted...so forced. I hope companies figure out how annoying this is to some people. Do I want everyone to know I 'like' certain things? The whole thing has gotten WAY out of control. I went to join Pinterest, and it wanted me to go through Facebook or Twitter.
WHY MUST I GO THROUGH THESE APPS???
Ok, enough of my rant. I am trying to decide what to do about this... I fear Facebook is going to really, truly becoming one of those things you almost can't live without...like a computer is now. I see so many potential problems for the future...it blows the mind, especially for my kids...did I say enough of my rant??? So that's it folks, it's an optional, free, service, yes, but don't be so sure it's as harmless as it seems. I'm still on it and I love it, but...
So that's it. I had to tweak this post a bit because it was written 2 weeks ago. My new goal is to clean up our diet around here, even more than we have... this is phase 2. Phase 1 wasn't that bad, so onto the next!
Scott is able to go off all his prescriptions (except one) in January (happy dance). We got them all out last night, and counted out each pill, so we would know if he had enough to finish out Dec, so we could cancel all refills. As we went through each Rx one by one, I would google it to remind us what it was for, and the side effects. I was once again overwhelmed by what's been going into his body (you know they say if the cancer doesn't kill you, the treatment will). No less than 4 of the pills cause weight gain and insomnia... I was wondering why he doesn't sleep! All this to say, we are going even further into healthy eating. I watched a few documentaries on Netflix the other day on the American diet... scared me to death! So as he goes off each pill, and replaces it with tons of fruits and veggies, we hope his body heals itself the rest of the way. Cancer was NOT fun, and we hope to never go down this road again... and I believe 100% what we put in our mouths can help/hurt your chances of disease. As we incorporate/eliminate different things from our diet, I'll let you know how it goes. Years of eating habits are hard to break, but not impossible :) We are doing this in increments...it's the only way. A few steps at a time I think works better than full-on overnight change.
So that's it for today. Watch for a couple of fun YouTubes over the weekend, if you are interested.
~Teri
P.S. Thank you a zillion times for all the wonderful, heartfelt comments from my last post! It meant a lot.
