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Midweek Thoughts

Posted renewme on March 11th, 2009 | Filed under General

Doing well on plan this week.  Have tracked everything so far.  All 2 days! 

Even though I didn’t really want to I got out and walked through the neighborhood after the boys got on the bus yesterday morning.  It was only for about 25 min. and I figure about 1 activity point, but it’s more than I have been doing. 

Today it is sunny but much colder, and I don’t want to go walk!  I want spring!  Maybe I will dust off a workout dvd to do instead.

Kids are on spring break next week.  We will be spending a few days in hometown.  Will I be able to stay on track?  I need a plan because we will be staying at my parents and my mother is notorious for  having junk on hand.

Our house is much lighter today because we spent the weekend working with the kiddos on cleaning out their rooms.   A lot of stuff went into the trash, but some is in the basement now awaiting the neighborhood garage sale.  It amazing how much more willing my kids are to part with their possessions if the promise of money it attached! :)  Now I need to go through my own room……and the office…..and eventually the basement storage.  There are some boxes of things from when we moved 1 1/2 years ago that have never been unpacked.

We have so much stuff!  I’ve been feeling the need to simplify.  I spend so much time shuffling papers and toys and other things around this house.  And so much of it hardly ever gets used. 

I’ve felt a longing or desire recently to help those less fortunate, not only those in the US in situations because of the economy, but in other countries where things are so much worse.  It breaks my heart to think of it.  That’s one reason I’ve decided that once I reach my WW lifetime goal and can attend for free, I’m going to take the fee I’ve been paying and sponor a child through an organization such as World Vision or Compassion International.