Hi everyone!
I've been busy with a family member visiting. Ds has taken her to lunch today so I have a little time to get some things done. I cleaned the family room and inside/outside patio door, but still need to vacuum. The weather is still beautiful and flowers are popping out all over, only one bush in our yard so far but I see them all over town. It is still cold at night though so we aren't planting yet. We were in the car all day yesterday showing our visitor around and all morning today and I've been having a lot of pain in my upper right abd and back on same side. It has been occurring quite a lot at home today esp when sitting. Another thing to mention to doctor I guess. At least my poor toe is better. The nail is still on and doesn't hurt very much now when touched or walking, but I can tell the nail is still slightly loose. I am getting very stiff esp being in the car so much. I've missed two days now at the gym which hasn't helped. Hope to get back to it next week.
Glynne - I really don't clean house a lot...but do try to do something every day. I keep my tasks on my Google calendar and that helps me keep on track..well, most of the time anyway. I'm very flexible and some days it gets done and other days it doesn't. I guess I need pictures on my fridge too...I say I really don't want to lose my sight or my toes but I still eat too much carb. I don't remember saying that about laying down and praying when I'm stressed and want to eat. Might have been someone else. I did used to go to my room and read my Bible until the need to eat went away. Don't do that often enough but it does work. Sometimes i had to read quite a while though.
which is not a bad thing.
Stress - I honestly don't feel I have a lot of stress in my life any more. That is not to say I have no things that concern me, but I can honestly say I don't worry much any more. I may talk about it with someone and I definitely pray about everything, but I trust that God will work it out in the way that is best. When I was really young (20-early 30s) I used to worry a lot and I couldn't eat! Then later I started to eat when I was stressed. This was when I was raising teenagers and working a stressful job. I gained a lot of my weight at that time. I think sometimes I do still eat emotionally, like when I am hurt or discouraged, so maybe that is stress in a way but not so often anymore, I think it is now mostly just habit and/or gluttony. I don't worry much anymore...I may talk about a problem, but I definitely pray but now I find it easier to trust. That is a good point, Carol Sue, about how eating will not help our problems. Overeating or eating the wrong things just causes me problems.
Glynne - Can you think bout why your dh acts the way he does? If you can, maybe that will help. The last couple days my dh has been acting kinda angry and has hurt me several times by things he says (or yells). I felt like God was saying think about why he is acting this way and I realized that he was probably nervous/uncomfortable about some things he had to do. True he shouldn't blame me etc, but it was his way of getting through the situation. As I thought about this I began to tell him how well he was doing (truth) and did not react to the "mean" statements, and instead was quick to acknowledge that he was right about things (even if I wasn't really to blame) and also acknowledged I should have done some things better. Believe this is NOT the me of the past, but God is working on me.
Well company is back now....talk later. God bless...