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Naperville Moms’ Network Launch Event
Monday, December 7th, 2009
If you’re a Mom in the Naperville area, come check out the
Naperville Moms Network
Getting a new start
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
New months make for nice re-boots of the brain and life:
- I’m getting a new blog design, a la Laura at Radical Mama.
- I’m rejoining the Home Sanctuary Company Girls
- I’m reading my brand new copy of “Get Thin, Stay Thin” (previously Thin Again)
- I’m seriously contemplating merging my SCOH blog with this one to become a more unified me everywhere I am.
Weigh In #4 – Tales from the Scales
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Since I rebooted my challenge last week (can anyone say DO OVER!!), I am down 3 lbs! Since I have about 77 to go, I’m going to claim these 3 lbs as a victory even if it is just Christmas weight! LOL! I’m also excited about the challenge extension!
Happy New Year!!
Read details of my Thin Within journey at Sweet Child of His.
Am I Unwilling?
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
There’s a lot going in my head today. Super introspective, which is nothing new, but some of the things I’m reading and meditating on, are resonating strongly within me.
Heidi wrote, in Part 4 of her testimony on her blog:
Shame is dangerous. It causes us to isolate, to hide, and furthers our sin/shame patterns. have you found that to be true? I know now that if I have been hiding out at home and not getting out to see people as often, to evaluate my life…what is going on. Am I caught again in a shame cycle?
From Part 5:
In my arrogance and pride, I refused to see what God was saying. I even tried participating in online support groups, but these experiences, too, were cold–devoid of heart for me. My heart was rock solid—frozen…HARD. I wanted God to snap me out of it, but He was calling me to live according to the truth that He had already revealed to me. He had done so much for me…and yet I continued to insist that He do more. I was not yet willing to make the hard choices.
I don’t think I could write what I’ve been going through for the past couple of months any better than this:
- …hiding out at home and not getting out to see people as often…
- …I wanted God to snap me out of it…I continued to insist that He do more…
Yes, welcome to Lundie’s life. **sigh**
The good news is – God can take me exactly where I am, exactly as I am and make some good. He just needs my cooperation…my permission…my willingness.
Weigh In #3 – Tales from the Scales
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Ok, I’m still in the game, but really am starting over (yes, after two whole weeks!). Christmas plus hormones = really bad combination. Catch you next week!
The ticker will change – but for today it says 80 lbs to go.
Weigh In #2 – Tales from the Scales
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Up one to 208. As much as I would love to blame the gain on cyclical bloating (which is true), I know that I have not been eating as I intended. I’m fighting some seasonal blues and my self-comfort has been in the candy and hot cocoa that fills this season.
And, as much as I was sorely tempted to just remove myself from the challenge and stop posting about it, here I am.
Thank you to all the really nice people who stopped by to encourage me in this challenge!
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Should read “1 lb. gained – 78 to go!”
Observations
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
One of the things that I am doing as part Thin Within is practicing what they call “Observation and Correction”. I have written about this before. I have read it many times. I have tried to think the way I *should* about things. Mostly, it didn’t work for me much in the past.
I think part of the reason for this is that my observations were hasty “yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I’m totally wrong and bad and I *promise* I will do better next time” sort of observations. Defensive, guilty, embarrassed, humiliated, wanting to move on kind of observations.
This time I want to try to do some detached, practical, “let’s see what we can do different” kind of observations.
Over the past two or three days, I can see that several of my overeating behaviors are directly tied to work, and to TV. It seems that if I am going to do either of these things, I feed the overwhelming urge to eat. And even more recently, I have started watching TV episodes on my second monitor while I work…which is a double whammy!!
Now, I could try to just say, “I’m going to go cold turkey” and not watch TV, and not work (LOL!) but that doesn’t seem to be the right thought. I can’t just stop doing things that put me in eating moods or I would never visit my relatives again either!! So, correction. What needs to be corrected? Are there any plans or approaches that can rewire my brain when it comes to food and stressful or recreational situations?
Hm.
Who do I follow?
Monday, September 17th, 2007
I recently had another dethroning of one of my idols. I have the tendency to look for people who have what I want and idolize them. A fitter body, a cleaner house, a more faithful devotional life.
One by one, my idols have fallen out of my grace. It’s no fault of their own. They are after all, just human. God is just letting me see their humanity, sometimes in rather painful ways, in order to get my attention. You see, He’s the one I’m supposed to be following. He does not want to share my focus. He is a jealous God.
The hard part for me of course is that I like rules. I like the freedom of feeling like all will be well if I just follow the “rules” provided by [insert guru of your choice here]. I want to be guaranteed that if I do A, B and C, I will be rewarded with X, Y, and Z. But I am learning that life is not like that. At least not in the tangible. God does give promises, but what he promises is not about things or activities or circumstances. It’s about His presence, His protection, His control.
So, I am once again seeking to fill a recently vacated position of leadership in my life. I know God is the only candidate, but I’m going to have to adapt the position to suit.
Poverty has not been my experience, but God has allowed in the lives of each of us some sort of loss, the withdrawal of something we valued, in order that we may learn to offer ourselves a little more willingly, to allow the touch of death on one more thing we have clutched so tightly, and thus know fullness and freedom and joy that much sooner. We’re not naturally inclined to love God and seek His Kingdom. Trouble may help to incline us – that is, it may tip us over, put some pressure on us, lean us in the right direction.
- Elisabeth Elliot, in Keep a Quiet Heart, p. 39
One Thousand Gifts – Part 60
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
- 462. That I have been blessed with the desire to continue my exercise regimen even though the deadline for the challenge has passed.
- 463. Being reminded that being grateful is as much a part of obedience as not sinning.
- 464. Being thought of as nice.
- 465. Having the ability to choose my actions.
- 466. Renewed connection with some old TW Friends via their new forum.
- 467. A very full week.
- 468. My mom being willing to come and help me out even though she’s as busy as I am!!
- 469. Plans for coffee and conversation with a dear friend.
- 470. A cozy bed waiting for me as soon as I finish this list for tonight.
Hey, I’m nice! And so are they…
Friday, August 31st, 2007
[Ok, this is a really cool way to end a day (or actually...start one...it's after midnight). I was starting to write this post about my friend Janice awarding me the award below, and then I checked my email and found that my friend Kerry, at and baby makes four, also awarded me the same! So, because it's late, I'm going to leave the beginning of the post, and continue down at the bottom. Thanks to both of you!!]
Janice, from 5 Minutes For Mom, just gave me this really cool award!
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Janice and Susan (her twin sister) run this really awesome site, 5 Minutes For Mom, which is the parent site for Faith Lifts, the site I have been helping with for the past few months.
I honestly don’t know where this button or award originated, but here’s the story:
“This award is for those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration. Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world. Once you’ve been awarded please pass on to five others whom you feel are deserving of this award”.
So, here are my five (the first five that came to mind, but I know a lot of really nice bloggers out there!):
[ETA: I'm going to mention 10, but some of them are return mentions and don't really need to trigger any sort of feedback loop!]
- Amy S – Journey to Kazakhstan – A dear friend of mine who is journaling her journey through international adoption.
- Shannon – Your Memories Quilted – Another IRL friend who is just starting out in the blogging world, sharing her love of quilting, stitching, and her family.
- Tamera – Join Me On My Journey – A blogosphere friend. I found her blog on a wander and was so inspired with her writing that I knew we had to have her at Faith Lifts!
- Amy M – Mums The Wurd/LadyBug Picnic – A mommy IRL friend from the pregnant days, who is now a busy SAHM, raising a cutie pie, and running a review blog
- Kerry – and baby makes four – A mommy friend IRL, with two adorable little boys. Honorable mention.
- Mike – Something About Parenting – A daddy blogger and creative photographer. (Sorry the award is so frilly!)
- Janice & Susan – 5 Minutes For Mom – Honorable mention. Right back at ya gals! May you find the child care you need before you double the population in your home!!
- Heather – Especially Heather - The girl who brought me into the Faith Lifts and MOG communities with her humor and morning chats. In the few short months I’ve known her, her life has spun around in circles, and thanks to God, she has landed on her feet.
- Laura – The Joyful Mom – Though she tends to be the more silent partner in the Heather/Laura web ventures (they co-founded Faith Lifts and MOG), Laura’s creativity and passion inspire me to be more responsive to my family’s needs.
- Lynn – Spiritually Unequal Marriage – Another friend via the blogosphere, Lynn has covered me in prayer more times than I can count. The best kind of friend you can have!
Ok, that about sums it up. Thank you again for the kind thoughts and please, spread it around!
Blessings.