GARY ~ THAT'S FANTABULOUS NEWS ABOUT NICOLE'S DAD ...

^ THE PRAYERS WILL CONTINUE ^ ... ROSEBUD

I've been reading some of the old posts to find out who Nicole's dad is. Then I thought I would just ask. Hope he continues to improve. God is good. Eating is a little better after falling off the wagon with the ice cream social my Dh put on. Oh well. Life goes on.

Thank you all ~ still good news today.

Carol ~ Nicole is my son Ryan's wife, her dad is Jeff.

Be back tonight or in the morning.

I'm trying to kill my flesh. I hope you guys know what that means. It's fighting back like a cat under a water hose. I'm fighting it but it makes me tired. Clearly, overeating is tied into my self control issues.

PRAYERS LORI! OMG....I am so sorry, this is really hard on everyone for sure. I pray our Father eases the burdens all are carring in Jesus name.

I will be back soon!

HI GALS ~

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Labor Day and an end to summer.

The kids will be here soon, a little family BBQ, around 15 people, small for us. Really hot here today so we will BBQ outside but stay inside playing board games and just visiting I imagine. Too hot right now for our usual shuffleboard, bocce ball, basketball games.

My dauhghter got to swim with the leopard sharks yesterday off the coast, she was so excited when she called me about it!

My weight continues to go down a little at a time, still eating pretty darn good and exercising a ton. Angie and I have done the 3 1/2 mile round trip to Starbucks with the dogs the last two days. And I have also added miles both days on my treadmill. Down to 187 this morning

Nicole's dad is still improving in small amounts, still on schedule to come home this week if there are no setbacks. Thanks again for the prayers. He has a long way to go. She will update me in about an hour when my son and her get here from their beach party.

Angie and I went to church Saturday night that way we could get home right before the USC game and then do our walk Sunday morning before it got too hot. She was out this morning running before 6am, doing 3 miles before we went. The 3 1/2 miles with me, Reba and Rylee was her "cool down".

Well I will check in a bit later...enjoy your last gasp of summer Gals!

HI EVERYONE ~ Sounds like some of you had an eventful and somewhat fun holiday weekend. Ours was much more subdued; we just went up to our site to do some more prep and this afternoon, we planted six more of twelve trees.

The whole south side now has a long row of hybrid poplars for shade; we planted one blue spruce right dab in the front yard (later, we will add more there). The north side is lined with a variety of pines and furs; I think it's gonna be pretty nice. Tomorrow morning, we will be meeting my DAD up there, and planting a few more trees, if DH feels up to it; and the last load of soil for this year will be brought in tomorrow as well.

The weather has been pretty nice for us thankfully; but, unfortunatley, I just had to catch another nasty flu bug; could hardly sleep last night for coughing, so we finally got up at dawn. I think we will sleep better tonight (probably from exhaustion ~ LOL).

LORI ~ sorry some things didn't go well at your celebration; I'm sure in time, your parents will get over it. These are your kids and there grand-kiddies, so they can learn to love them; just gently explain that they have special needs; and require a little extra love and patience! Do you have any young nieces who can help you out at future family events?

GARY ~ glad Jeff (Nicole's DAD) is doing better (^ PRAYING ^ for a speedy recovery with improvement each day). You are losing that weight pretty fast; you seem to be particularly motivated lately; what's your secret???

CAROL ~ one step in front of the other; the key is to keep on going! One dessert day will not ruin the whole month or year, right?

STEPHR ~ to our Christian Encourager's thread; I know you mean that you are trying to subdue your flesh, or to discipline it, so-to-speak. I am getting much better at it these days; eating balanced, healthy, whole foods and snacks every day. Practice makes Perfect, they say ...

We will be busy this week; the weather is co-operating perfectly. Take good care everyone; HI TO EVERYBODY ELSE; your fellow encourager ROSEBUD ^ PRAYERS ^ going up ^ for all! ^

I had an uneventful weekend. I got a few things accomplished but with being a bit under the weather I had naps every afternoon. I feel a lot better today, of course. I have to go to work!!

We're doing some work in our basement. We built an extra room for my niece to stay in and are now just finishing the outside of the room. I have to paint it soon and cannot decide what colours to use.

I ate terribly over the weekend. It wasn't so much the quantity but the quality. Now it's back to salads again. I probably won't be recording a loss this week.

Gary: You are doing amazing! It's so nice that you and Angie can do this together. My DH has been out riding his bike when he can. We need to enjoy this weather as long as we can.

Praise God for Nicole's dad!!

Lori: I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Sometimes it's hard for people (even family) to understand that special needs kids don't handle change or surprises very well. I'm sorry that your parents took it so badly. My dad couldn't stand having kids around him that were noisy or busy. It was so hard to take our active kids to see him. I know on a very small level what you sent through.

I see I have run out of time again. Hopefully I'll have time to come here again tonight.

Have a great day!

Lori, Having 10 kids I can feel your pain. Most of mine are grown now so they have passed that stage. The youngest is 17....the only one still at home. My mom was an only child and my dad had one sis so they couldn't quite understand it all. Both are gone now and I sure do miss them. Wilma, I'm glad to here someone else takes naps. Seems like I'm always tired.

Hi! My name is Dala and this is my first post on this thread. I was so excited to find a thread like this! I've been off and on of 3FC for a while now, but never really posted much. Praise the Lord that He cares for the things we care about - even our weight and losing it! He is in everything we do!

I am doing well! sort of on a plateau no loss for a few days now... but hope to start dropping again soon. get under 250, anyway.. had good weekend, new camper all set up ... I worked Fri and sat. but was off sun and worked Mon afternoon so had part of the weekend to relax...
E.Z.- Awesome news!!!! Jeff out of coma, and recognizing people, prayers he continues to improve... DD swimming with sharks! I luv snorkling with marine life, but am quite happy i haven't encountered any sharks... Your doing great with your workouts and continued weightloss... sounds like you had a good holiday..
Rosebud- Thanks! Sure pray your soon over the flu and feeling so much better... Hope you had a nice weekend ! Good girl staying on plan, I agree luv marine life.. enjoy snorkling often on vaction..
Steph- prayers for renewed strength and will power, if you slip, just jump back on, you'll get there...
Mom to 5- wow! prayers for you parents... I say relax and take time to enjoy life now - you don't have to be average size to enjoy snorkling but then again thats me... pray everything works out with mom dad and kids!!!
Wilma- sorry to hear your a little under the weather, prayers soon feeling great, as far as poor quality.. you'll get it back together, your out inspiration...
Dala- Welcome! come back and post and let us know how your doing!!!
well gotta run, early day tom... class at work... take care!