When I started blogging nearly a year ago, I was on a mission. I was going to lose weight and get my life back on track. Boy was I in for a rude awakening! My life got way off track, but I learned a few things about myself along the way.
1. I am a really good multi-tasker. We had planted a big garden in the summer and right when my tomatoes came in and were ready to can, our house sold. We had to be out in two weeks. The week we were to move out, my uncle passed away suddenly. It was a horrible thing for my father (who lost his favorite brother). I remember grieving and sobbing as I was putting up my tomatoes and packing up my kitchen at the same time. What a stressful time! But how good the Lord was when a few days after the funeral, there were seven men at my door with trucks and trailers to load up our house and move us.
2. After very eventful teen years with my parents where I swore I would never move back home, the reverse happened and they moved in with me. The shock of the house fire and the fact that my parents didn't have house insurance was so hard on them. People were so generous to them and just gave and gave. They were with us for 6 weeks and it was such a blessing! My children got precious grandparent time early in the morning and late in the evening. I cooked meals for my family every day. I put my love into those meals as day after day we worked on the house to restore it back to a livable space. I thank God for that time with my parents. Family really is all that is left at the end of the day. Cherish it and never take it for granted.
3. I really have learned a lot about eating healthy. I started the year with weight watchers. I really loved it at first, but over time it became monotonous as it seemed the same ideas were recycled over and over. I thought I was eating right when I heated up those little microwave dinners and ate my 100 calorie packs. How wrong I was! Do you realize how much crap is in that stuff? Ingredients I can't even pronounce and I was eating it like it was going out of style. I have since become familiar with real food and have decided that this is the path I want my family to take. I met a new friend, a wonderful lady who has been teaching me all about grinding grains, baking fresh bread, eating more organic real food. I am so thankful God put her in my life, I feel like she came into it at just the right time! I have also been reading a good book called Nourishing Traditions. Check it out!
Learning new things is hard. We get set in our ways, comfortable, familiar and we don't want to change. But I have learned change is good. I have moved twice this year, it was stressful but we learned to be patient with each other when we couldn't remember which box the toothpaste was in or where we stored the blender! We are in a tiny little apartment that on most days is fine, but give us rain and cold weather where the kids can't go outside and I feel like my walls are closing in on me. I pray a lot on those days. And occasionally scream! But God is good and that's been the biggest lesson I have learned, He really does care for me. Little 'ol plain me, who is nobody and no one. Thank you Lord!
