Peacans in the Cemetery

I am simply amazed at how long it is taking to organized & scan pictures. Between work, end of school year activities, and working on the graduation video I have had no time to post.

Giving honor and glory to God, I have been freaking out from time to time, "how will we get everything done?" It was very stressful at work on top of the stress I have been putting on myself with this graduation and the fact that I did not get to bed until after 1:00 am the night (morning) before, I just sat in my office and started to cry. Then I read a post from Sneaky Momma and God reminded me to be still know that I am God. Later I read a devotion online where God was telling me to invite Him with me in every task I do, I stopped what I was doing and prayed at that very moment. A little later I started to calm down and what seemed impossible became possible.

I thought I was too busy to stop and pray, but then I realized I was too busy NOT to stop and pray . This morning I received the follow email that I thought was cute and wanted to share with you. Have a great and glorious weekend - and remember - invite God in all your tasks.

I'd like to share an email I received this morning:

On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of site, and began dividing the nuts. "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me," said on of the boys. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.

Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough he heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me." He just knew what it was, so he jumped back on his bike and rode off.

Now just around the bend he met an old man with a cane hobbling along. "Come here quick," said the boy, "you won't believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up souls."

The man said "Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk." When the boy insisted though the man hobbled to the cemetery. Standing by the fence they heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me..."the old man whispered, "boy you've been tellin' the truth. Let's see if we can see the Lord." Shaking with fear they peered through the fence, yet, they were still unable to see anything.

The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord. At last they heard, "One for you, one for me. That's ll, now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done."

They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the boy on the bike!

Author Unkown

Healthy you challenge check in

Can you believe it, a week has come and gone. I have had both scale and non-scale victories.

My scale victory is a loss of 2 pounds. I was very surprised to see the release of 2 more pounds, I haven't counted points sense my nieces graduation last week. But it may be due to my non-scale victories, I am doing a lot better waiting until I am truly hungry and not over eating.

I will have to get back to counting points, I seem to be getting a little off track and I don't want to gain what I've lost. This next couple of weeks will be a test of my stress eating. My dd17 graduates the first weekend in June and I'm feeling more stress then I thought I would. Life will always deal us challenges and I need to learn to deal with those challenges as they present them self. My challenge for this week - work on finding other outlets for stress instead of eating.

In addition to working on the stress eating I also want to work on drinking more water. That habit as well has been slipping.

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What does HE want you to read?

Hello...don't you just love it when the beginning of the week falls on a Tuesday. The only thing better is when the last day of the work week ends on a Thursday.

I just got done reading Dawn's latest post over at Dawn's Cottage Corner about over thinking. Do you ever do that? I don't over think in general near as much as my hubs however when it comes to my blog I think I do. I have the same problem Dawn has, I'll start a post and think who would really be interested in blah, blah, blah? So as it goes I don't post for a while.

This made me think about why I started my blog to begin with, my goal is to bring the name and love of Jesus Christ to those who do not know him, to share his sense of humor and compassion and to remind all of us that even when it doesn't feel like it - WE ARE NEVER ALONE. It's not about what I want others to read but what HE wants others to read.

With that said:

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend and were able to spend some time reflecting and reminiscing about those who have gone on before us and gave thanks for those who have lost their life to give us our freedom.

Yesterday I went back home and met up with some family. We went out to the cemeteries to put out flowers and to do just that - reminisce. We had a few tears shed but they were tears of love not sorrow. Then we had lunch together before we had to head back home.

Other then that my entire weekend was spent working on a video for my dd17 who graduates on June 6th. If I had a penny for every picture I took over her life time there would be NO worry about paying for college :) Going through photo albums, scanning pictures, organizing those pictures, going through cd's of pictures - I never want to see another picture again. Ok, that was just the sleepy side talking. I have enjoyed going through the pictures of her past and comparing those pictures to the women she has become.

And GET this...my hubs is putting together a scrap book for her. I saw his first page last night - he did a great job. I also have to give my hubs more kuddos: he has painted the family room, taken up the carpet in said family room, moved a 1000 lb piano (3Xs) plus the rest of the furniture in that room, taken down wall paper in the kitchen that was hung with glue that had a vow never to separate from the wall and repainted those walls. Let's give him a hand - I knew I married him for some reason :)

Go forth and have a GREAT day.

Sheryl

Take time out to giggle

Two cannibals were sitting around the campfire talking. One of the cannibals said, "You know, I just don't like my brother-in-law."To which the other replied, "Then just eat the noodles." - Ed Buckner.

A young mother was standing outside a mall holding her six-month-old baby and her sister's three-month-old baby.Two elderly women approached the mother. "Are they twins?" one asked."No, they're three months apart.""My! You sure had them close together." - Morgan.

Visiting the psych ward, a man asked how doctors decide to institutionalize a patient."Well," the director said, "we fill a bathtub, then offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient, and ask him to empty the tub.""I get it," the visitor said. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's the biggest.""No," the director said. "A normal person would pull the plug." - Josh Roberts.

I was a percussion major when I was in college, and during a rehearsal of the student orchestra, my section kept making mistakes."When you're too dumb to play anything," the professor conducting us sneered, "they give you a couple of sticks, put you in the back, and call you a percussionist."A friend next to me whispered, "And if you're too dumb to hang on to both sticks, they take one away, put you in the front, and call you a conductor." - Jim Lopardo.

Healthy you challenge check in

I hope you had a great week last week. Let's just get down to business, drum roll please.............I lost 1.5 pounds.

I swear I am a professional dieter, I know what I should be doing but don't, why is that? I know that a healthy amount to lose is 1-2 pounds a week and my loss for this last week fits right in. But I was so disappointed.

Note to self: Don't weigh in during the middle of the week. I had lost 2.5 pounds 1/2 way through my week but that's not what it ended up at the end of the week and I think that may be part of the reason I was disappointed. I wanted so bad to go out to Burger King or McDonald's for a breakfast sandwich and just say to heck with this weight loss thing. But I persevered, ate my oatmeal and stopped thinking about fast food. That was a huge non-scale victory for me.

To be honest I'm having a hard time staying committed. What? I can only handle eating healthy for two weeks?

With God's help I am coming to this conclusion, life is life and it will have it's ups and downs. I can not let food control my life and I can't avoid life because of food. This weekend my niece graduated, there was the open house and dinner out with friends we hadn't seen for a long time. I didn't obsessed with counting points and if I should eat it or not I just tried to make the best decision with what I had. We'll see what the scale says Saturday morning.

Please pray for me for the next couple of weeks. I have come to realize the my emotional eating is no where in control at this point. I'm am a huge stress eater. My daughter graduates on June 6th and I am starting to stress out and worry that everything won't be ready, (my definition of ready anyhow). I just don't want to gain what I've lost because of stupidity.

Here's to a healthy week ahead for all of us.

Sheryl