Courageous Joy

MONDAY – TUESDAY

WHEW. Making a list of goals has a way of making life get very busy. {G}

I’ve been working away on things….Yesterday; I finally got the call that the car dealer had a car big enough for us to borrow while they worked on the van. That took a couple of hours out of my day to drive out and drop the van off. We are now driving an Expedition. Yes, I like it. BUT I think the van has way more power and just about the same gas mileage. This thing SUCKS the gas. Zander calls it the “beautiful car”. I think he’ll be sad when we take it back.

Yesterday I also finished the 28 day program of *8 Minutes in the Morning*. I lost 8.5 inches in that time. I didn’t loose the “guaranteed weight loss” but I DIDN’T follow his food plan either. {g} I began at the beginning again and TODAY I actually managed the crunches!!!! I did 4 or 5 REAL ONES…..so there’s a goal from earlier to mark off. I did a total of 48 but 44 of them were “De’Etta style”……in other words I’m quite sure I led with my neck….and my arms….and my back and anything else that could wiggle and give me momentum….BUT I got my chin up to my knees!!!! I think there is something to this 8 minute thing because I’ve not done any extra work on them since I began this.

We need to work on some of our summer school goals tomorrow. It will be mid-week and we’ve still not accomplished much. WELL – the older boys have…it’s the younger ones who have to wait for ME that haven’t done what they’d like to get done. I am working on the other goals and seeing some progress. Yesterday, I got my produce order in to Heather before LUNCH – yippee! I’m a responsible co-op member. :::snort::: I got the SAGE (co-op I run) email about this month’s splits out and I got the newsletter out. I can’t remember what else we did.

TUESDAY – The day began with a trip to base. I needed to get a pass for the loaner car. I discovered they’d not given me proof of insurance. ARGH. Mike called and had them fax the proof to his office and came and rescued us at the Visitor Center. I picked up my thyroid meds. We went to the BX where I bought a high chair for Stacia and Josiah cashed checks. We met Mike for lunch. When we got home there was a call from Tricia and so we all piled back into the car and drove to the pool. That was one of my goals (go to the pool 3x this week). WELL since it WAS a “play date” with friends that met two goals. We had fun sitting and playing. We came home, took Cy to work and then headed BACK to the pool because Adrienne called and she was going to be there. Heather and Tricia and there families were also there. I THINK THAT MEANS THAT I WENT TO THE POOL 2X TODAY!!!! I only need to go one more time this week. LOL We got home shortly after 8:00 p.m. and had dinner (I’ll have to work on this dinner/pool thing). We all had our variation of pasta. I am reading *the Lazarus Trap* in my free time.

Tomorrow – I must work on some of those other goals…..Now it is time to go pick Josiah up at work – he should be off by 10:30.