So, last weekend I drove my daughter and three of her friends from AZ to CA to go to the Revolve Tour along with my neice who lives in CA. Revolve Tour is a Women of Faith conference for teens. This is was our second year in a row going to the conference and we've already purchased our tickets for next year. I highly recommend it. One of the things I always look forward to is seeing Natalie Grant live in concert. That girl can really sing! We picked up her Relentless CD at the conference and I can't stop listening to it. Some of her songs really speak to my "Tomorrow is another day" motto like the song "Let Go". I think everyone loves Natalie Grant at the Revolve Tour, but what the girls really look forward to is seeing Hawk Nelson. It's amazing just sitting in the quietness at my kitchen computer with my dishwasher whirring in the background, I can still hear the screams of those crazy girls at the conference for Hawk Nelson. My ears have still not recovered.
Another one of my favorites right now is JJ & Dave Heller's digitally released CD called Painted Red. We listened to it on the drive all the way out to CA. LOVE IT! This CD is available to YOU free of charge for a limited time by visiting JJHeller.com. Check it out. While you're there, look at JJ's "baby bump" isn't it cute! Our family's connection with the Hellers is a blog for another day. For now, I'll just say that it has to do with our backyard and a couple of stalkers...us :-)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Yesterday my good friend Valerie and I were talking about our seize-the-day attitude. Her motto is "Today is not my tomorrow", mine is "Tomorrow is another day". It reminded me of the verse from Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own".
I mentioned in my profile that I am a bodybugg user. For those of you who do not know what that is; a bodybugg is a monitoring device that you wear that tracks how many steps you take in a day and how many calories you are burning. I have an account online that I download that information to and record the calories that I am eating as well. To lose weight the idea is very simple. You have to burn more calories than you eat. Each day I have a goal to burn 1000 more calories than I eat. I have a little display (looks like a watch) or I can go online and see where I am with my goal at anytime. What I like about my bodybugg is ONE: It is working; I lost more than 8 pounds in my first 3 weeks, and TWO: I feel like I am accomplishing something every day. Not only for myself as I burn calories and lose weight, but for my husband and family since I burn a bunch of calories by making myself busy around the house; vacuuming, doing laundry, dishes, making beds, etc. Sitting in front of the TV...not so much.
I made the decision to make this weight loss program only positive. If there's a day where I don't meet my goal, or I decide I want to have seconds on dinner or a brownie for dessert, I'm not going to beat myself up. It's not worth it. Tomorrow is another day. If I don't meet my goal today, I'll just try again tomorrow to meet it. I'm motivated and I'm positive about actually meeting my weight goal for the first time in my life. So why be negative and beat myself up about it? Tomorrow is another day. I start fresh with my 1000 calorie goal.
I'm off to walk now. I generally burn over 400 calories walking about 3 miles.
Live for today....nothing positive can come from worrying about tomorrow.
I mentioned in my profile that I am a bodybugg user. For those of you who do not know what that is; a bodybugg is a monitoring device that you wear that tracks how many steps you take in a day and how many calories you are burning. I have an account online that I download that information to and record the calories that I am eating as well. To lose weight the idea is very simple. You have to burn more calories than you eat. Each day I have a goal to burn 1000 more calories than I eat. I have a little display (looks like a watch) or I can go online and see where I am with my goal at anytime. What I like about my bodybugg is ONE: It is working; I lost more than 8 pounds in my first 3 weeks, and TWO: I feel like I am accomplishing something every day. Not only for myself as I burn calories and lose weight, but for my husband and family since I burn a bunch of calories by making myself busy around the house; vacuuming, doing laundry, dishes, making beds, etc. Sitting in front of the TV...not so much.
I made the decision to make this weight loss program only positive. If there's a day where I don't meet my goal, or I decide I want to have seconds on dinner or a brownie for dessert, I'm not going to beat myself up. It's not worth it. Tomorrow is another day. If I don't meet my goal today, I'll just try again tomorrow to meet it. I'm motivated and I'm positive about actually meeting my weight goal for the first time in my life. So why be negative and beat myself up about it? Tomorrow is another day. I start fresh with my 1000 calorie goal.
I'm off to walk now. I generally burn over 400 calories walking about 3 miles.
Live for today....nothing positive can come from worrying about tomorrow.
Monday, October 13, 2008
New at blogging, but not at expressing myself
So, this might be the most dangerous thing for me yet; to be able to just write whatever's on my mind at any time.
I used to write a monthly church newsletter which rarely had any other articles submitted by anyone but me. It was a great way to share my love for God and what He has taught me and/or what He was doing in my life. Since I stopped writing that newsletter, I've written a few family newsletters to let our friends and family know what's up, but it's been a little while since I've done that and now that I've discovered "blogging", I don't think there will be any way to stop me from sharing. Of course I'll definitely have to keep my TMI filter in mind so that I don't share too much. Even if noone reads my blog, I still think it's pretty cool. My kids and even my husband have Face Book and My Space pages, but this is like the journal that I always said I needed to start, but never got around to.
Anyway, I'm not always a very good time manager so I'm praying that I haven't created a monster and won't be blogging 24/7 and shirking my responsibilities. With that in mind, that's all for now.
I used to write a monthly church newsletter which rarely had any other articles submitted by anyone but me. It was a great way to share my love for God and what He has taught me and/or what He was doing in my life. Since I stopped writing that newsletter, I've written a few family newsletters to let our friends and family know what's up, but it's been a little while since I've done that and now that I've discovered "blogging", I don't think there will be any way to stop me from sharing. Of course I'll definitely have to keep my TMI filter in mind so that I don't share too much. Even if noone reads my blog, I still think it's pretty cool. My kids and even my husband have Face Book and My Space pages, but this is like the journal that I always said I needed to start, but never got around to.
Anyway, I'm not always a very good time manager so I'm praying that I haven't created a monster and won't be blogging 24/7 and shirking my responsibilities. With that in mind, that's all for now.
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