Louder Than the Voices

 Good Saturday morning!! I am heading a different direction than normal this week, but I promise, we will get back to my normal routine by the end of this.  I did something this week and I am a little hesitant to share, but I have to tell you about it to get to my point.  One of my best friends had a picture on fb recently and it was very clear she had lost a good amount of weight since the last time I had seen her. You all know I am struggling beyond belief right now so I asked her what she was doing. Her answer was Noom. I decided why not. I had been seeing it for some time but figured I was already paying for WW, so how could it be that much different. I have been on it a week, and yes, I have lost about 2 lbs. I am heavy enough that a lot of times, when I start a new "diet" I can lose a lot of weight the first week, but at least half comes back the second week and that just blows it for me. This is different. I have truly ate differently this week and I feel my two po...

 Good Morning Beautiful People! I hope you have had a good week, and if you haven't had a good week, I hope you can still see good in it. Back years ago, when Robert was in high school and we had the high school kids for AWANA, they would come in full of gloom and how bad their day had been. I knew we needed to shift gears before we even started the night. We would play the "5 good things" game. I would make each of them think of 5 good things that happened that week. I have recently started using a planner to help me find more balance in my life. It has taken me FOREVER to come up with this year's word, but I realized I have had it all along, I just wasn't paying attention. Balance IS my word. Anyway, My planner has a section at the end of each week for "Weekly Review", it asks for this week's wins- where I can actually list how many issues I have solved as well as little big things like I managed to workout at least 20 minutes every morning this we...

 To say this has been a long, trying week would be an understatement. I am thankful to God for getting us all through it. A week ago today, as I was making my plans for this week, I was also in contact with my cousin, Jim, whose mom was failing fast. My Aunt, Nancy, was my last living aunt on my mom's side. Wife to my last living uncle, Kenny, my mom's last living sibling. My mom and Kenny have always been very close, they were the two youngest, and when Kenny and Nancy and my mom and dad were younger, they spent a lot of time together. Over the past several years, I would try to take every opportunity I could to let Mom and Kenny see each other, this was usually in the form of trips to wherever Kenny was doing flea markets. So, I felt like I needed to get Mom to Kenny and Nancy's for a bit. I had told Jim on Saturday evening that I was off Wednesday for another function and that I would take Mom that day, he told me he didn't feel like that was soon enough. So Saturday...

 Good morning!      Once again, it has been a long absence and I got a gentle prod from a friend. Don't ever discount who God is using to remind you that our life is supposed to be for His glory. So, it's Saturday morning, a little later than it used to be because I am learning the art of sleeping in, all the way to 6 am on Saturdays! lol.  So many things has happened in the last 2 weeks, it isn't even funny. Many know I had an ulcer on my eye and chipped a tooth. That was kinda minor compared to what happened next, the thing that shook our world for a few days.  We had someone wanting to buy our house. If you know me well at all you know two things about me and this house. 1. I have been totally in love with this house since I was a teenager and stood at the trashcan outside Huck's, that used to be across the street, eating my lunch. 2. Ever since we moved here (our 8th move since we had been married), we both said they would carry us out in pine boxes, th...