Friday January 27, 2012

Today's Good Things:
Bible & journal
My husband went to work early so he could have the afternoon off for a family date night!
Packed a "healthy" dinner for us to eat out

Today's Not So Good Things:
Junk food at lunch & dinner
No exercise
A lot of hard attitudes to work with around here today

Today's Food Choices:
Breakfast: whole english muffin with pb, decaf black coffee
Snack: 2-3oz cheddar cheese, 6 sesame crackers
Lunch: 3/4-1cup ranch beans w/ turkey, carrot sticks, corn dog w/ mustard *sigh*
Snack: diet soday, 1 package pb crackers
Dinner: pb sandwich w/ ww bread, carrot sticks, pickle spears, cheese stick, bag of snack size chips, 1 mini sized butterfinger, water

Today we took our second son out to pick his birthday gift. We had to go to Maine to a favorite sporting goods store for him to pick out the perfect Indiana Jones hat.  He was adorable finding just the right one.  We had a good time and I enjoyed the long drive after a hard day working with children who were struggling with grumpiness and disobedience.  It always feels like such a nice break when everyone is strapped in and we can just drive.

This is probably very tacky, but we brought our packed picnic dinner into the mall food court and ate it there.  We figured it was better than sitting in the van, and it was. We also were planning to get some exercise by walking the mall. But, once we were there a bit, I just couldn't do it.  Keeping track of littles that hadn't napped was tricky enough at the store we had been in. Walking around a busy mall tending them and working to keep my boys eyes in the right places, well, just the thought of it made me tired. We headed back home and I'm glad we did. I got in some laundry duty while my husband played UNO with the girlies.  Now everyone is settling in to bed and I feel exhausted.  It's weird because I did so little today by way of activity, but I am definitely worn out.

Off to look over our new budget and keep working on ways to chip away at it. I'm so thankful for my husband's new employment. It's giving us many ways to watch the Lord work and trust him to fill in the gaps where our income has shrunk. ;)