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Come visit me over my other blog. Beginning April 1st, I’ll be posting everything in one place! I hate to leave HomeschoolBlogger. The community here is so wonderful but I’m looking forward to moving in to my new place and making it home. I’ll be popping back over here to visit friends though. Hope to see you soon!
I’ve been contemplating moving this blog for sometime. I actually had to set a deadline of 100 posts because I could see that it was going to take forever for me to decide. Well I hit 100 posts yesterday.
I have another blog over at Blogger which was my original blog. It was only designed to be inspirational in nature and I planned to update it every blue moon. Then I realized that I had more to say that more directly tied into my daily life so I started one over here at HomeschoolBlogger. I love it here and I love the community but frankly as I blog more, Blogger is just so much easier to use.
Right now, I’m trying to decide if I’m going to still maintain an "inspirational blog" and a "daily blog" over at Blogger or combine them and just let it all hang out in one place.
Anyway, why am I saying this? I guess I’m trying to see if anyone can give me a reason why I shouldn’t leave the homeschool blog here? I’m open if there is something I’m overlooking.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions on the possible move/possible merger.
Thanks in advance….
and I’m addicted to sugar.
I’ve been fighting an uphill/downhill battle with my diet and exercise since the holidays and it dawned on me yesterday that what’s been occurring is more than meets the eye. It’s been a slippery slope as it relates to my resolve. What had gotten so easy before the holidays has become increasingly more difficult to manage. My exercise is good but my diet is ALL OVER THE PLACE. My main problem. SUGAR….
I checked out addiction at www.dictionary.com and this is what I found for a definition: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.
Let’s see…eating sugar is a habit. I always need something sweet to end a meal, even if it is only a mint. I hit lows and will eat healthy things like veggies, and protein to stave the specific hunger, but nothing besides an Oreo will do the trick. And let’s be real. You can’t just eat one. I’d gotten a $50 gift certificate to Starbucks for Christmas that has led me to believe that, since it was free, frequent drive-bys were OK. I would throw in the Milk Chocolate Graham Crackers just because.
What about "cessation causes severe trauma". Well, let’s just say that I’ve detoxed before. The first couple of days is MADNESS. I’m crabby, I get headaches, and just overall feel like something isn’t right. If I’m not loopy, that sounds like drug rehab. Truth be told, I’ve probably had my share of the shakes…
I’ve been fighting this Romans 7 battle for my whole life and I’m SO tired of it. Granted, I’ve been losing weight gradually but my true desire is not to be double-minded about my commitment to nutrition and health. Sugar makes me double-minded.
I can decide NOT to have any cake….until my sister orders some. So, my response?…I’ll just have one bite. You know where that leads….TO DESTRUCTION!
I have self-control in more than a few areas of my life but when it comes to sugar, I’m just a basketcase.
I’ve been studying Romans in my BSF class and chapter 12 hit me like a ton of bricks.
Romans 12:1-2 (New International Version)On Living SacrificesTherefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. |
My body doesn’t belong to me.
Some people trash their bodies with alcohol, some with drugs, some with tobacco. Trashing with sugar (or overeating) does not put me in some higher class.
So…I’m a sugar addict. I’m probably a carb addict too but one thing at a time.
From what I understand, an addict always has to go through a period of withdrawal and once habit-free will always have to know their limitations. For the rest of their lives, they will have to choose to be addiction-free.
I’m committed to going 7 days without refined sugar. I might stretch it to 14 days and then to 21 but right now I can’t think that far. I’m avoiding "sweets", allowing myself natural sweetener on occasion (honey in tea for example). No oreos, no ice cream, no brownies, no sweet tea, no candy bars, no chocolate chip cookies (Lord help me), no Starbucks, etc.. None of these things I’m consume everday now but the problem is that when I know I SHOULDN’T eat them. I STILL DO.
So no sugar…even if I burn 600 calories at the gym.
Anybody want to join me?
One thing that is always heavy on my heart is making available to other Moms the resources that I happen upon that bless me.
The link below holds a great resource for Moms. I can’t always go out of town to attend a conference but I can get online! There are quite a few online conference calls that I’ve participated in from Marilyn Moll’s Urban Homemaker and I always learn something.
Here’s the link for the conference call.
Click on Mar 15, 2007 – Marilyn with Lori and Lisa
I took a few notes for my own benefit. I’d like to share. Be sure to come back and leave a comment here on the blog if you listen and are blessed!
When you are training your children in obedience there is an acronym to help you and your kids remember what obedience really is: CRIJ – Completely Respectfully Immediately Joyfully (sparkle in your eyes)
Obedience isn’t just an action but it is an attitude of the heart. Our concern for our children should be the heart. Not just the behavior.
Require your children to get their chores done before breakfast. The Bible says if you don’t work you don’t eat. There is value in work. The first thing to do when your children have obedience issues is to give them additional WORK.
The most important job of a mother of young children is to be at home. Many a mother is burnt out and frazzled because she is attempting to balance more than she is designed to handle. The church many times even subtly puts pressure on mothers to minister in the church, running programs and such. However, the most important ministry of a young mother is the ministry to her children. Every need does NOT constitute a ministry.
The key to doing a good job in your home is to BE AT HOME! Many SAHMs are not at home very often.
Interested in Gardening? – Take a look at the gardening book by Elliott Coleman (didn’t get the name), Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew, or Cinderblock Gardening (author not mentioned).
Know that however you may insecure in your abilities as a wife and a mother, there are other people like you! Keep trodding along. God will lead you to the people and places that you need in order to be all that he has created you to be!
Chrystal in TX