monday morning....

Emily Anne, my oldest child. Wait, no longer a child, is she? I can't be old enough to have a 28 year old, yet I do. Anyhoo, she was interviewed at the Labor Day Youth conference at church....read the article on www.brunstad.org

So Mirielle has a job now, Joseph is working construction, Aaron has a new job....it is getting a teeny tiny bit lonely around here:)

My knee feels SO much better this morning, I took one naproxen last night. Yesterday's pain was the most I have had with this knee, and it sort of depressed me a little bit. But the nature of this type of arthritis is that it peaks and wanes, depending on activity level, the weather, whatever. I had to realize that just because it was killing me yesterday didn't mean it had progressed to that level and was going to stay there. When I woke up this morning and it felt so much better, I wanted to jump up and down, but it isn't THAT much better, so I refrained.



Camille and Charlotte Claire, waiting for the bus this morning.

This morning I had pumpkin spice coffee. I loves it. What I really would rather have: pumpkin muffins. But alas, I cannot. I took a trip to the small city up north this morning with Mirielle, stopped in the grocery store, and lo and behold, there were 6-packs of pumpkin spice donuts for one dollar. Yeah, I got a few packages. No, I did not have one. I am going to let the kids have one with a cup of milk for after school snack, I shall not have one. blah, I hate loving stuff.

I did get some healthy stuff, of course. We shall be having turkey/beef meatballs for dinner, with sauce from our garden, mine with green beans instead of pasta. We will also have a salad with green peppers from out garden, and cucumbers from the store.

Eat healthy, exercise. It is my life. I have to do it. I can't not do it. I need to stay in love with it. Or fall back in love with it. I have to baby this knee for a bit, but still, I have to fit that exercise in. And stay away from the breads and cookies and snacks and donuts.

And, speaking of things I can't eat anymore, I have to make lots of cupcakes. The youth kids are having an Israel feast at church, to talk about fundraising for their projected trip there. I am making the cupcakes. They have to be done tomorrow night, so I had better get busy....or at least start thinking about them.