Hot July Daybook
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Thanking God…
for sunshine
for my patient husband
for A/C (oh my, yes)
for a miraculous two days of eating only when hungry and not having blood sugar crashes (much)…thank you, God.
Praying…
oh, just for the whole world? So many needs… sometimes I think my heart is simultaneously too big and too small for all the individual prayer requests. It breaks.
Pondering…
~a Fitbit but I think I’ve decided against it. Ask me again tomorrow. I waffle daily.
~school plans for next year, still in pondering but not yet creating stage.
~Facebook. Such a love/hate relationship right now. I know it will blow over, until the next big “hot button” issue comes out and my feed explodes with half truths and anger again. Makes me so sad.
~which dining room table to get. I think I’ve decided I’m not a Real Furniture person and that an Ikea table that will be beaten up suits me just fine. Our table is our ONLY table so it gets used quite a bit. I don’t want something I have to pamper. At all. But now I’m indecisive about colors because we are going to fix up our kitchen/dining space. I thought for a long time I wanted one thing, now I’m thinking something brighter will suit our small space better. But white cabinets with six kids makes me shiver, LOL, and I don’t like light colored wood for cabinets.
Listening…
clinking of spoons on cereal bowls (snack)
some classical music my children put on
friendly chatter (put this one on thankful, too — happy voices are so much nicer than the continual snark of late)
Reading…
Becoming Myself: Embracing God’s Dream of You by Stasi Eldridge
A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live by Emily Freeman (can I say, wow?!)
Creating…
I don’t think I’m yet at the creating stage with anything right now. Lots of thinking and imagining. Very soon may hit “purchase” to get a few things rolling.
Learning…
what I (we) can live without. Three bags of clothes and two boxes of books/toys left last week. This week I have at least 2 more bags growing and another box of toys/books. Every time I say “that’s it, I’ve decluttered everything I’m willing to give up” I find another 1000 things that can go…
Eating…
when I’m hungry! Today was harder. I think I need to graze constantly on good foods for awhile to regulate my blood sugar. Or something. Anyway, I’m happy the scale is down a few pounds. (ugh shortly after I wrote that I weighed myself again and was even more than when I started. I think my scale is broken. 😉
A peek into our week…
A parting quote…
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” – J.R.R. Tolkein
3 thoughts on “Hot July Daybook”
We need to replace our IKEA kitchen table…and I always hate making new decisions and changes. I need to redo my cabinets and thought I would do white, and now am waffling.
I have a FitBit One that I got for my birthday. It is gratifying to keep track of your activity…I keep my info private. I originally wanted a wristband, but when I read about the strange rashes it causes, this version as more appealing. Less contact with skin.
The scale….the enemy. More exercise will make it go higher, though. I have the low blood sugar problems, also, and grazing with protein is better, but I forget to eat!
I think as a mom, it’s easy to waffle with white cabinets. 🙂 They are so pretty though.
Thanks for letting me know about the rashes from the fitbit. I had not read that anywhere, and that is *definitely* something to take into account here. I do want one that counts stair climbing though – haven’t read into any of them enough to remember which does what. But I think half of my exercise is climbing stairs in this house and darn it, I want that counted, LOL.
Yes, it counts stairs, and even steep hills are counted as stairs, which is nice.
It has all the capability….time, alarm, sleep monitor, etc.
It was the Force which was recalled http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/21/tech/gaming-gadgets/fitbit-force-recall/