Aw Man!!!!

Before Christmas I went to the doctor for my annual exam. You girls know how fun that is!! Anyway, as part of it they drew some blood to check my cholesterol. I called yesterday to get the results and dang it, my cholesterol is high!! How can that be?? I am not THAT old, I am not overweight, I don't eat fast food much, I like to run and try to make it to the gym some. I don't exactly have a sedentary desk job. What's the deal!!!

Hmmm could it be that I don't excercise with enough "regularity" or could it be that the food I do consume, though not "fast food" is still not exactly what we would call healthy. My diet would gross out even the modestly health conscious person. I could live on toast and cereal, maybe it's the butter I put on my toast! I know what it is: eggs, I love eggs for breakfast!

So yesterday I had to go to the grocery store to restock the pantry and fridge. Well if it wasn't the healthiest grocery trip to Walmart I have ever had!! Now that is no easy task, the people at Walmart looked at me really funny when I was stopped in the aisle actually reading a label!!! Gasp!

health+walmart=not exactly

But I managed to find some stuff to at least try to start eating healthier. I did all right yesterday til we went out for pizza for dinner! My pizza eating ability is known from here to Atlanta (I can hear the hearty laugh of our friend Gary in Atlanta right now if he were to read this!)

Ok so I am gonna try, I already had some sort of cereal called "Uncle Sam" for breakfast. It's supposedly full of fiber, flaxseed, oats etc. I think they just scrape the side of a tree into the box. The banana helped it down some. I kept thinking "how long til this tastes good to me?" I missed my Lucky Charms!

Well, you know I don't like to lose so I am thinking of it as a competition, how many points can I drop!!

Happy New Year! Happy New eating for me! I guess I gotta find a race to run in the spring, something to make me get up in the mornings and run!!

Merry Christmas!

I hope you are all enjoying a restful holiday season! I know I am! I finished work on Friday saying goodbye to 22 sweet children, praying they would have a safe and blessed Christmas. I look forward to seeing them in the new year! Now I am having a great time just being with my 2 favorite kids in the world, sleeping in, hanging out and playing. It's funny how quickly I can fall right back into lazy summer type habits! It's a gift.

We celebrated Christmas with my side of the family on Sunday night. It was a crazy blast. Lots of food and gifts wrapped in a blanket of noise and laughter, tied together with a ribbon of love. I had a "moment" as my children were giving their hugs goodbye to their grandparents and great grandmother. I was just standing at the door holding back silly tears, thinking how incredibly blessed my children are to have these people in their lives. They don't understand it now, but I hope one day they do.

I think they will.

Now my sweet man is off for a few days and we have some more celebrating to do, enjoying the season together, reflecting on the most incredible truth I have ever heard.

And the angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

Merry Christmas

The Christmas Crazies

Yep, it arrived this week. You can feel it in the air, and hear it in the air. It's a different kind of advent and no I am NOT celebrating it.

It's the Christmas Crazies!!

The whole school has it and my class caught it this week.

There is only one cure: Christmas break! Oh please let it come quickly!