WALKED A MILE AT THE FOOTBALL FIELD on Sunday's gorgeous February day. I did it. I walked a mile within 30 minutes. I haven't walked a mile since February 1st, but today was different. If I can, I'll walk each day outside while temps are in the 50s and 60s. This week is suppose to be this way.
Plans for the week includes another Vitamin B12 shot. Walking at the park. Celebrating two grandsons' birthdays. A night of baby sitting. Laundry and the start of organizing the fridge. Take it a little at a time. This is all I can do with health issues. Chores as I go. Being gone from HOME sometimes is a priority which means my energy must go toward activities away from HOME. When I am HOME, I have to rest.
JUST THE WAY IT TIS. Accepting this lack of energy and still having to get simple task completed is difficult for me. There has to be a workable solution. Pacing myself and extending myself GRACE doesn't come easy. I have to surrender to the truth and that is, I am human with limited energy. I never was designed to do everything. Without labeling myself as being LAZY, I have to be reasonable and realistic. I cannot keep up with anyone else. I am to dance to the tune I hear.
I break the day up into units. Every daylight hour I attempt to get something done from waking until bedtime. In the mornings, after I groom, I put a load of laundry in the machine then put the clean dishes away that are in the drying rack. At present we do not have a dish washer. Let me take that back. We have two dishwashers, my husband and myself. grins. We do not have a mechanical one in the COTTAGE. Until we redo the KITCHEN, we probably won't.
Bedding taken care of. Then I sit, take my morning meds. While I'm waiting for the 30 minutes before eating and drinking Breakfast, I do paperwork and read. Looking over the calendar is a must. Filling out cards, writing letters or writing checks for bills, blogging, reading takes place. Then I make a HOT LEMON WATER to sip on while I continue to do paperwork or read and study. Check on laundry. Figure my day out and what I'd like to get done or need to get done. When the weather turns off nicer, I'll work a morning walk in. I think walking to the Post Office would be included in the walk so I would need to walk downtown and HOME meaning I would have walked a mile altogether.
After walking, I have to cool off and rest a bit. Brunch/Lunch happens and then clean-up. More laundry. Chore of some kind. Decide on Supper menu. If I'm not out and about running errands, then I take some time in the afternoon to rest. More laundry. Supper prep and clean-up. Time for TV. Prayers and bedtime.
This is not in concrete so I must be flexible. I'd like to walk in the mornings and again in the late afternoon after the weather warms up. Later when the temps are too hot, I'll have to switch out the times I walk in the Summertime. Early mornings and early evenings. If I have a small garden this Summer, I'll have to take into consideration when I can tend to it. A Priority is the walking for health reasons.
Not having much energy dictates what gets done. Pacing myself must be part of a workable solution. Eating nutritionally dense foods must be a part of my workable solution. Getting out of the house and getting fresh air must be a part of this solution. Stress mustn't rule the roost. Trusting God that all will work out must be a part of having less stress and more contentment. Amen.
Praying for her and family. She knows the Lord and is ready to go to heaven.
Shall see.
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