Saturday December 19th: Angela's birthday and I am sad that I cannot share it with her but grateful that I got to share some of it with her electronically. How my heart breaks thinking about them all going hungry - that is not what life should be like, especially for the children. However, I am proud of them all for following their beliefs and convictions.
This evening we helped out at the radio station for a couple of hours while Al was doing the ball game - them we went and spent a couple of hours with Al and Merle at their lovely log home.
We took a couple of photos of the quilt that I made for Judy's baby and sent them to her by email. What a wonderful world we live in that we can share with our families even when so far apart!
Sunday December 20th 2009 : Not feeling so good this morning but got prettied up and went to Church. The Cantata was amazing and we were thrilled that Charles Bott was back there with us - as we were leaving the sanctuary, he asked us how long we had been married and explained that he is always so overawed with the love that radiates from us, saying that we always have a look that shouts out "I am in love" - this is a great spirit lifter for us as wee have been conciously working on improving our marriage. Yes, we ARE in love and we are determined to make our life and marriage inspiring and meaningful.
Still feeling a bit under the weather this afternoon so we decided to rent a couple of movies from Redbox and chill out before the challenge of work hits hard again tomorrow.
I am struggling with the fact that I so quickly put on a couple of pounds of extra weight overnight in spite of the fact that I try to eat very wisely - we managed to be extra good a Church this morning, passing over the wonderful looking cookies and limiting ourselves to the awesome fresh fruit only. This led me to crave more fruit and I know that I have not been eating enough fruit and veggies lately so we made a trip to the store to get more fruit on the way home - that is all that I feel like eating today.
Monday December 21st:
Today's adventure was a continuing journey of working on my personality traits and getting my weight back under control. Tomorrow I must weigh in and I am nervous because I weighed in heavier again today in spite of really keep my eating habits under control yesterday - lots of fruit and veg. Work was tough today but I am beginning to feel that I am catching up finally - I ate healthily and started the day with a good workout on my exercise bike. There was a bit of a struggle lunch time during our visit to mom but thankfully I controlled myself better than usual.
Our marriage is growing, blossoming from the additional work, and we are enjoying our togetherness
Tuesday December 22nd:
Feeling great today and able to enjoy the frosty whiteness that is all around. Looking from our office window, we see what looks like a huge Christmas card all around us - a frozen haze builds ice crystals on everything that doesn't move. Oh it is one of those dreaded days where I need to go and weigh in for the month - I have been so careful for the last few days but still my weight just seems to keep climbing. Can't deny it, it must be all that Thanksgiving and vacation food catching up on me. OK so I put on another 6 tenths of a pound when I weighed in tonight and I did not eat carefully tonight.
It has been a good day, my workload is easing somewhat as I have finally caught up on all the Analysis projects for November. It is such a pleasure working with Gerald as we are both again happy to be in each other's company, we respect and appreciate each other and seem to have stopped feeling hurt and abused. Yes - life IS good and it is funny that the more you think of someone else and want to make them happy, the happier you become yourself.
I am enjoying this Christmas time and am looking forward to the big family get-together that always happens at Renae's house - we always seem to spend 8, 9, 10 or more hours together on these festive occasions and wonder where the day and evening went. Yes it is difficult not having our own immediate family around but this cousin family of our certainly goes a long way to making up for it.
