Healthier You Challenge

I'm not sure when the last time was I checked in, my oldest daughter graduated on June 6th and everything seamed to revolved around that. But here I am, ready to start anew.

I weigh in on Saturdays, this week I gained 3.5 pounds.

With the stress of graduation I made a bad choice - I had stopped counting points but did try to make healthy choices (sometimes). I stopped exercising on a regular basis, not that I was on a real regular basis any how.

As I reflect on the last three weeks I realized I didn't plan for my health. Didn't make sure I had healthy food choices on hand. Didn't plan/schedule in regular exercise. If I don't take care of me who will?

No more excuses-plan of action:

• Plan my breakfast, lunch, and daytime snacks. I like to have dinner with my family so I will use portion control for that meal.
• I will exercise for at least 15-30 minutes a day realizing it doesn't have to be done all in one shot.
• Get back on the water wagon.
• Joined a summer challenge over at Get Fit After 40

So with that said - here's to a great week.

Sheryl

Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 19th Wedding Anniversary
Happy Anniversary Honey!

Today marks the 19th year we have committed ourselves to each other.

Through these last 19 years we have been through a lot of life's experiences together and there is no one else I would rather have and still am taking that ride with.

We've been through the birth of two wonderful daughters, the lose of three grandparents, three parents, two cousins and made three moves (one out of town). We've watch our daughters grow up into beautiful young women with one of them graduating this year, spreading her wings and beginning a new chapter in her life.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24

And that is what we've done, we have become one, feeling each others excitement and sorrows.



We chose to use wedding rings to signify our love and commitment to each other. A ring has neither a beginning nor an end. Our love for each other may have had a beginning but like the ring there is no end. I love you so much. With every day, every trial, every mountain top experience that love for you only gets stronger and deeper.

God has blessed me with an absolutely wonderful life mate and two wonderful children with that life mate. You are my husband, lover and best friend. There is no one in this world that I would rather spend my life with.

Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate. Mark 10:9

Small treasures

I love the "Men in Black" movies. They're a great no brainer that fill the void when you want to watch something and there's nothing on tv. I didn't realize the first movie came out in 1997 which could be why I have been having a hard time finding it.

Last Wednesday we had one child at cheer camp and the other one working. With no kids to worry about we were a couple of leisure. After work we ran to the store together to pick up a few items. For whatever reason we just started wondering around the store and ended up back by the movies. I decided to see if they had MIB 1 or 2 in stock. They didn't have the movies but it was the beginning of the hunt.

With no plans for that evening we went out and enjoyed a peaceful dinner, just the two of us. Then we hit a couple of video stores, I wasn't picky, I would be happy with used movies. No luck with the first two stores, on the 3rd video store I found the 2nd movie for $14.99. Wasn't thrilled with the price but I decided to buy it.

Now I'm wondering if I'll be able to find the first one. My husband reminds me that Best Buys is just down the street.

Yea! not only do I find the first movie but they also have the second movie - both for $9.99 each. I decide to buy both for $20 (new) and return my used one.

I take my find to the register, she rings up my purchases and say, "$8.54."

I asked her if she rang up both of them. She said yes, they were on sale for $3.99 - EACH.

So I got both movies-new-for 1/2 the price I paid for the one used one.

Now how cool is that????

What cool finds have you found?

Sheryl

The Tea Cup

Once again an email has been forwarded to me that I just must share. My only wish is that I could give credit to the author but alas - no name.

Love this story or not, you will not be able to have tea in a tea cup again with out thinking of this post.

Hhere was a couple who took a trip to England to shop in a beautiful antique store to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. They both like antiques and pottery, and especially teacups. Spotting an exceptional cup the asked, "May we see that? We've never seen a cup quite so beautiful."

As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the teacup spoke, "You don't understand. I have not always been a teacup. There was a time when I was just a lump of red clay. My master took me and rolled me pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled, "Don't do that." "I don't like it!" "Let me alone", but he only smiled and gently said: "Not yet!"

Then WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was made to suit himself and then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the door. "Help! Get me out of here!" I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head from side to side, "Not yet."

When I thought I couldn't bear it another minute the door opened, he carefully took me out and pout me on the shelf, and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good! "Ah, this is much better," I thought. But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag, "Oh, please stop it, Stop it," I cried. He only shook his head and said, "Not yet."

Then suddenly he puts me back in to the oven. Only it was not like the first one. this was twice as hot and I just knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried, I was convinced I would never make it. I was ready to give up. Just then the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf where I colled and waited and waited, wondering "What's he going to do to me next?"

An hour later he handed me a mirror and said, "Look at yourself," and I did. I said, "That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful, I'm beautiful!!!"

Quietly he spoke: "I want you to remember," then he said "I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and patted, but had I just left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I know it hurt and it was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened. You would not have had any color in your life. If I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't have survived for long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. Now you are what I had in mind when I first began with you."

The moral of this story is this: God knows what He's doing for each of us. He is the potter and we are His clay. He will mold us and make us and expose us to just enough pressures of just the right kinds that we may be made into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing and perfect will.

So when life seems hard and you are being pounded and patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your world seems to be spinning out of control; when you feel like you are ina fiery furnace of trials; when life seems to "stink", try this:

Brew a cup of your favorite tea in your prettiest tea cup, sit down and think on this stoiry and then have a little talk with the Potter.

Riddle Time Answer

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You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then you eat the outside and throw away in inside.

What did you just eat?

An ear of corn.