Hello! Hope this day finds everyone doing extremely well. Things here are challenging but good and joyful.  We are a staff of 9 and we only have 5 in today and three of us had to be in court this morning. So, once again, everyone is playing musical chairs.  But, I went to the Y this morning and exercised while listening to Toby Mac-Portable sounds-and spent time with the Lord so God is good (all the time).

I started my Lord’s Table Bible study again today. DH ordered it for me. I have done it on-line but wanted to do it in book form so I could have it for reference.  Today was about why we try to be healthy. The reason for anything we do, even being healthy/losing weight, should be to bring glory to God. (I Cor. 10:31). Let me tell you that has not been my reason in the past but I’m striving for it to be my reason now and in the future. It was hard to look at some of my past reasons but I’m letting it go and focusing on the right now.

I did 30 minutes on the elliptical this morning. Tomorrow, I guess-b/c I have to-I’ll start working on the weight machines. Can you feel my excitement?  I have to do the machines b/c the circuit room is MIA. I walked in Thursday set on doing my 30 minutes in the circuit room and all the stuff was gone! I asked when it would be back and was told that “something” was going back in the room but they weren’t sure what. I politely informed them that I NEED MY CIRCUIT ROOM BACK!!  So, since I have no resistance machines; weight machines it will be: UGH!

Youngest DD’s play, er-the high school chorus play is this weekend. DH and I will probably come from Nashville straight to the theater. We are looking forward to a weekend of being just the two of us. We’ve told the girls not to call unless the house was on fire or someone was  bleeding profusely.  Of course, we will call DD Friday to see how the play went but after that; we are off limits. DH and I are talking about going to the Hermitage-Andrew Jackson’s home but I also told him I would be perfectly content to lounge around the hotel the whole time; just do nothing but be together. We’re taking some landscaping books and will be talking about those plans which we hope to start on a small scale sometime this year. So, lots of good stuff coming up.

Oh, just for the record: I totally plan on having a small piece of sister-in-law’s bday cake, which I made, and some ice-cream when we go over there tonight! No food is illegal but all food in moderation.

I read the best quote today: “I have a great diet: you can eat anything you want but only with fat naked people”. Sometimes, you just gotta laugh.