1. I have a confession to make . . . I've started thinking about school in the fall. 😬 We got the kids' school supply lists this week, and when I noticed sales on markers and crayons and notebooks while I was grocery shopping, I started checking things off the list. We found out who Levi's teacher will be, and I got the staff in-service date on my calendar. We start a week later than most of the public schools, but that's still only a month away! The girls have both said they're looking forward to the first week, when they get to see their friends again, and everything is new and exciting. But they know they'll be sick of it after the first week. Haha. Levi is not looking forward to it at all. I'm mostly ready, but wish it didn't mean the death of summer. Are summers getting shorter, or is that just me?
2. Ever since Soccer Camp, I've been really convicted that I have to do something about my physical fitness - or lack thereof. It is unreasonable that I was so incredibly sore from 3 hours a night of being on my feet. My back pain is out of control again, and I'm at the highest weight I've ever been. (I'm actually only a few pounds away from what I was 9 months pregnant with Lucy!) But I really really hate dieting. And I'm really really bad at it. I want to exercise, but my body can't handle it. It boggles my mind that Justin can just go for a quick 3 mile run without feeling like his lungs are going to expel themselves from his body, his legs are going to crumble, or his spine is going to snap. Doesn't everyone feel excruciating pain while exercising? I'm beginning to realize that most people don't. And while I'd love to blame it on my dad's hereditary heart condition, I've been tested and cleared, so apparently I'm just overweight and out of shape. Dangit. Point being: I decided to start walking on the treadmill. I'm not doing Couch to 5K like I've tried a few times before, because it's too hard for me and I give up immediately. Instead, I'm just going to walk. I started last week, only 20 minutes a day, at such a low pace that my kids literally laughed at me when they heard the number. I did it four days last week and didn't die, so I bumped it up to five days this week, pushed myself to 25 minutes a day, and even upped the speed a little bit. I'm not dieting. I'm not working so hard that my throat hurts from sucking in breath. But my muscles are sore and I can already tell I'm making progress. My goal is to eventually be able to jog a little, ultimately to lose weight, and maybe even enjoy some of those exercise-induced endorphins I keep hearing about. I have friends who swear by exercise to ward off depression, and I'm still aiming to get off my meds completely, so I hope it'll have the same effect on me. Oh, and I did decide to stop buying Dr Pepper to have in the house. That doesn't stop me from drinking it when we go out to eat, but I'm not drinking multiple cans a day. Baby steps.
3. One incentive I have for walking on the treadmill is listening to an audiobook. Last week, I happened to stumble across
Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry on the library app. Since seeing her at the Gospel Coalition, I've been wanting to read her books. Listening to them on audio wasn't really on my radar, since I usually like to highlight and underline non-fiction. But this one was read by JHP herself, and I really enjoyed it. It was actually my second 5-star book of the year. This is the review I left on Goodreads:
Part memoir, part exhortation, this is a profoundly honest declaration of God's goodness and his power to draw sinners to himself and change them to be more like him. While JHP's story is one of choosing God over homosexuality, the call to daily die to self is applicable to all believers struggling with all kinds of sin. Her tone is both encouraging and unflinching, not making excuses, but calling believers to endurance by the power of the Spirit. At times both humorous and heartbreaking, JHP's story is a testament to God's grace and an invitation to find it for yourself.
4. On a much less Spiritual note . . . I won a facebook contest this week! My favorite store, Daily Deals, asked for comments on a post about what you love to buy from their store. I commented, was randomly selected, and won $50 in store credit!!
Later that day, Niki told me the Mega Millions lottery was over $1 billion, so I decided to test my lucky streak and buy a few tickets. Spoiler alert: I didn't win. Haha. But apparently one ticket did win and someone just made $1.3 billion overnight. Can you even imagine? We were talking about it at dinner tonight. I think I'd give a million dollars to each of my siblings/parents/nephews. I'd cover whatever our church needs for the new building project, start a scholarship fund so kids can go to ACS for free, and of course buy myself a new house, car, boobs, the works. Beyond that, though, I wouldn't even know what to spend it on. I can't fathom that much money. And it's probably wise that I don't dwell on it too much. When I tried to reel it in at dinner tonight and say, "But we're so thankful for what we have. We don't need that kind of money," the girls said, "It's just fun to think about." Levi honestly piped up, "It's not really that fun. It just makes me sad that we don't have lots of money." Lol. I feel that.
5. Last year during the girls' sleepover, Justin and I took Levi mini golfing. The girls were so mad when they found out we went without them. Neither of them has ever been, so I took them (and Levi) last night. The weather was perfect, it wasn't crowded so I didn't feel like we had to rush, the kids all got along and had fun, and we even ran into Brandy and Nova toward the end!
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| We are all very bad golfers, and we spent a lot of time fishing balls out of the water features. |
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| Hole in one! |
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| #winner! |
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| Of course we had to hit the arcade on our way out. |
6. I don't feel like coming up with one more, but I have a few more pictures and a lot of memes to make up for it . . .
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