I have survived. I have persevered. We are pressed but not crushed, right? Sigh. The last three weeks have been rough. Three weeks ago was J's second birthday. A week and a day ago we started schooling. Five days ago was our ten year anniversary. And yesterday was D's first birthday! All of these things took quite a toll on my emotions. But God is so good and His grace is sufficient. I'm in awe of how we have come through the last three weeks so well. : ) I was not without tears, but it has been astoundingly minimal. The morning of our anniversary I cried quite a bit. But I cried off and on leading up to D's birthday enough that yesterday wasn't terribly sad. School is trying but encouraging at the same time. I will have grace with myself and not expect perfection and I will not let others' opinions of our choices and results bring me down in regards to what God has lead us to do for now. It's a continual prayer for me. Things should calm quite a bit for the next couple of months. Meanwhile, as seen in the photo, yesterday I got into my size 6s!! I'm about two pounds away from my pre-babies weight! EEEEE!! I'm so excited. I found a movie ticket in the pocket that was from Valentine's Day 2010! So that means that I haven't fit into these jeans in two and a half years! Since I was early pregnant with J! Mainly this has been from a lack of wheat and processed sugar. Not a diet, we just don't eat much of that anymore. I mainly use honey for sweetening goodies. I eat a ton of coconut oil and homemade peanut butter! So we eat lots of good-for-you fats. I'm not starving at all, I eat a lot! I just eat a lot of meat, veggies, fruit, and eggs. I don't even buy bread for the house anymore. Although it is a goal for me to get around to figuring out how to make soaked sprouted bread from the wheat berries Robert bought me. Anyway, I run a few times a week too. But while I've lost the weight and fat, I'm pretty weak still. I gotta get on toning up! That is my next goal! ; ) I have withdrawn from facebook for a time. I don't know how long, it's nothing major, just needing to focus on the kids more. But I have had a couple of friends wishing that weebly had the option of subscribing. It has the option of an RSS feed, but I don't know a whole lot about that. I have decided that I will try to start sending out emails with a link to my latest blog when I type up a new one. That way it will be sort of like subscribing. I can easily create a group of email addresses of people interested. I will automatically put family and close friends in the group. If you are interested in this please get your email address to me and I will add you! Basically, if you are reading this because you clicked on the link in an email from me, then you are already added! : )
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Melissa
8/21/2012 07:17:33 am
LOVE the post. Thank you for including me. Miss you
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Cynthia Walters
9/5/2012 04:00:28 am
Please add me to your email list ([email protected]). I recently realized that I haven't seen you on facebook lately, and came to check your blog ... have spent the past 30 min catching up! Love hearing about how things are going in your life, and pray for you and Robert and the kids during this deployment.
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Lindsay
9/12/2012 01:32:58 pm
Please add me to your list! I love to keep up with your family! :)
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Lindsey
9/14/2012 01:48:19 am
Gotcha, girl!
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