Body Clutter Resources!

I have been reacquainting myself with some great recipes and ideas for
losing weight.

You may or may not have heard of The Fly Lady, she has a great system
for cleaning/organizing your life/home. But she also developed a
weight loss type program for herself and has shared it with everyone! Her friend came up with menus to go along with the plan too! They have a book out that you can buy also.

You can read more about it at:

http://www.flylady.net/ Just scroll down a bit to the "Body
Clutter" Section. There are links to her new resources as well as a
link to the Body Clutter Menu Mailers (which I highly recommend--the
recipes are delicious!) and has added some new free downloads to do a "contract" for losing your Body Clutter and one for tracking your daily
"stats"--many things we don't normally think about tracking that do
affect our weight loss! It is called the Body Clutter Investigator. I
am going to start using this to help me track what I am/am not doing
each day!

Here is the link to the Body Clutter Menu Mailer:
http://www.savingdinner.com/menu_mailer/body_clutter_menu_mailer.html

Here is a link to more info about Body Clutter by Fly Lady!
http://www.flylady.net/pages/body_clutter_main.asp

Here is the link to all her menu mailers:
http://www.savingdinner.com/menu_mailer/subscribe_to_menu_mailer.html


Plus, if you look around, you will see that she has a variety of other
menus items like freezer cooking, etc. plus lots of tips!

I hope you enjoy checking out these resources! They are great!

Happy 9th Birthday!

My youngest daughter celebrated her 9th birthday in June with a friend party and a family party.

She had a lot of fun and was blessed with many items she had requested. What fun is to be had when you have little girls in the house!

Daughter you are a blessing from the Lord. Always our helpful, encouraging little one. You have had a heart for the Lord since your were tiny. You have always been verbally sharing encouraging words to everyone around you. You tend to want to lead and direct, which will serve you well as you learn to do so with continued patience and love. You are changing before our eyes from a little girl to a young lady.

May God continue to lead you in His ways all your days! God bless you our "pure, babbling brook"!

Never Enough Time!

I have been feeling slightly overwhelmed lately with all the "to-do's" I have on my list that I never seem to quite finish! I seem to go through phases where I am "on top" of that list and other times where I just can't seem to keep up! If only time would stop for about 2 weeks for me to get caught up....so I think to myself!

I am really working this week to get my outside job responsibilities caught up while I am also beginning to work on detail planning for the kid's school lessons for the rest of the summer and into the fall. I want to try to have things more laid out (in addition to our unit work which I always plan out) so they can become more responsible for completing their oen work each week. Especially for my two older kids, they need to realize that school isn't over until the work for the day is done! Even if that means working into the evening and missing out on "free time". I know that if we are consistent with this tactic, they will reap the benefits of being a more disciplined student and they will be able to make progress much more quickly.

To help me with this very detailed planning, I am using The Full-Year Notebook System by Julie Anderson. I have my own way of planning in general and for our KONOS Units (which is posted on www.konoskarats.com under Resources) but I am going to try out this method also to see if the more detailed layout will help us all to stay on track better despite all our activities and responsibilities that will start back up in the Fall. It is going to require some time before we start to really lay everything out, but after the work will come the reward of plans to follow and no excuses to take unnecessary breaks during the year!

You can read more about her system at: www.full-year-notebooks.com

Although I like the flexibility of being able to do what we want, when we want, as the kids are getting older we need more structure to make sure they cover the basics they need before graduating along with all the extracurricular/enrichment activities we are involved in.

I will try to give an update on my progress as I work through this system!

The Lord is faithful and I know He blesses the time we spend getting our life in order...it only allows us more time with Him!!

"The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation." Psalm 118:14 KJV

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24 KJV

Update on life....

I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted! How time flies when you are busy!

As a follow up to my post about Healthy Eating/Weight Loss tips, I can say that it does help--just doing some of the tips. I lost several pounds and started feeling better as I made a point to follow what my friend suggested.

Unfortunately, this past week has been crazy and I have been staying up way too late! It won't change tonight as we have Bible Study and are always up late!

We have been busy trying to finish up various topics with school and enjoy some summer time fun with friends. It has been a busy but good couple of weeks.

In the midst of the fun and work, my grandmother because ill with pneumonia for the second time in 2 months. It caused her body to begin shutting down this time and she passed away on Wednesday evening. I will be doing a separate post about her shortly.

So, we are all still here, plugging along and trying to enjoy each other as we do so!

Have a blessed weekend!