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MOTIVATING MONDAY

In light of recent circumstances I must make a point to stay motivated.  My goal is to stay
 focused on staying on track with my  4fs. .  Taking care of Mom.  Growing closer in my relationships with new friends, my brother and family most of all with Christ.  With out a closer relationship with Him nothing else matters.  
This week I am staying motivated to stay with my spark people goals.  Walking 20 minutes three x a this and 20 minutes on the WII fit daily.  Today I am with home with Mom.  I am going to walk and do the WI fit super hula hoop.  Burns lots of calories.  
My fun thing to do is pull out some fall decorations and put them up.  
My friendly thing to do is give my neighbor the name of the exterminator. I am going to make some pumpkin cookies for small group tonight.  Don't worry they look fairly healthy.  If they are good I will post the recipe.
My fast thing to do is just do it.  

Morning Musings

Things just became way easier because Mom had decided she like the veggie crumbles.  I reintroduced her to them in spaghetti last week.  She asked me to make my chili with them.  Woohoo.  I went to the store and wouldn't you know they don't have any.  That was the icing on the cake.  That was the worst trip to wal-mart I have ever had. That is a whole other adventure all together. I digress.  I made my chili and everyone loved it Brianna ate two bowls and we just used saltines and a sprinkling of cheddar cheese..  YUM.  I warned Bri that we are trying two new recipes this week.  She groaned.  I made it more exciting by telling they are recipes from Columbia.  I will let you know how it goes.

Adventure To a Healthy Body part 2

Weigh in 162 pounds.
Joined a runn/walk team on spark people
Planned and shopped for food plan this week.
Probably would have been down two more pounds if I hadnt have eaten the extra on Thursday because I was going to clean a house (needed the fuel) but she canceled., and drank more water Thursday and Friday. I will take six pounds in one week.

Coptic Christian 'Mama Maggie' Nominated for 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

Coptic Christian 'Mama Maggie' Nominated for 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

Creating Community

This is so important.  We can create community in so many ways.  Social Media has changed the way we do .....well just about everything. You can get a better job if you have a linked in.  Then recruiters started using twitter, then they moved to pinterest and now they are entering the Facebook zone.  Dont forget about You Tube.  

What we need to remember is we have to have community with people that we can touch.  Christian believers need each other to stand strong.   

The Moment that Changed the World: September 11th

This Picture speaks for itself.  It was the moment that changed the world.  I remember the day it happend.  I know excatly what I was doing.  I was working at National Health Care.  I was a Unit Secretary on the non-skilled unit. It was always quiet nothing much changed.  We had a PA that day checking on the Residences.  She came down and said something about a bombing. I had no clue what she was talking about.  She said I can not  believe you dont know what I am talking about. It is allover the news.  So I went down to the break room.  That was the moment that I realized the world would never be the same.

 At the time my sister-in-law,Kristen, was working on the top floor in one of the tallest building in Dallas. In all my selfishness in that moment All I could think about was if it could happen in New York and they could get to the Pentagon they could have a plan to hit that Building.  I called her and left her a message.  I never heard from her but I figured my brother would call me if something happened and I would see it on the news.  I then prayed( I know I should have done that first) and God gave me a peace.  There was no peace for many for a long time to come.

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Rembembering Adventures

 Feburary 9 Moving is an adventure you can make it what you want.  Over the next month I will be sharing some old adventures.  I want to take them out and examine them and look at what  I learned from them and what I can apply for future.  To make the future fruitful.  To Make it Flexible.  To make it Friendly.  To make it Focused. To Make it Fun.  Each post will have one of these in mind.

My Blog

The purpose of my blog is to share some adventures.  I looked up how to make your blog better.  There is so much out there.  So many rules and maybe someday I will apply all of them. Ok maybe some.  Right now I want to keep it small.  Just sharing my life one snippet at a time and I hope you will share some of your life with me.  Creating community is the purpose of a blog right.  Many people create a blog to increase their real estate, nothing wrong with that.  My blog will do that for me.  That is not why I started it.

Adventure to a healthy body

September 8, 2012
I am now heavier than I have been in years.  My clothes don't fit.  I feel tired all the time and I can feel the unhealthy state of my body with every move I make. I am making some changes.  I am going to start with the Zumba 5 day express diet. Kind of.  It has to much meat for me but it will work for the rest of us.  I will just let morning star or boca fill that piece.    Everyone in my family is going on it I am just not going to tell them.  I am just going to do all the cooking.  I filled the fridge full of easy to fix veggies and meat for Mom and Brianna.  Just thinking about how good I am going to feel has me excited.  I will clean houses this week.  Adding this to my everyday routine will be enough added physical activities if I make every movement count.  I will not blog about this everyday.  I will check in with you at the end of the week.  The weekend being a whole other adventure all together. We are going to Austin for the first official College Visit. Wow.  I know God has some huge things in store for me.  I will let you know over the weekend what happens.  There may be some quest posts this week so keep an eye out and I have book reviews scheduled to publish this week.