HEAVE HO and AWAY WE GO

ON GOOD FRIDAY, we went toilet hunting for the COTTAGE BATHROOM.  Wanting a tall toilet with elongated seat, we found a nice KOHLER TOILET at HOME DEPOT.  Hubby and I are both close to 6 feet tall with long legs and sitting on a short toilet close to the floor isn't convenient or comfortable.  Better than nothing, but uncomfortable.

They don't give toilets away, do they?  The one we bought had a lowered price to it, but still cost a pretty penny.  Less than what was available on the internet.  This way we could actually see the jewel.

104 pounds!  She weighs 104 pounds.  Managing to get the heavy box off the store shelf onto the rolling cart to check out then rolling it to the car to load into our tiny cruiser, WE MANAGED all on our own at the BIG BOX STORE.  No help required.  Just us.

THEN, we drove to the COTTAGE to unload this BATHROOM treasure without breaking our backs or the toilet.  We did it.  NO PULLED MUSCLES.  

This next week, I believe HUBBY will get the wall behind the toilet covered with bead board then the toilet will be put into place where we are ready to use the throne.  CAN'T WAIT.

I remember a day when you could get a very nice, new toilet for $35.  These days are long gone.  LONG GONE.  You might be able to get a used one from HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, but we wanted a brand new one instead.  Our's was $326 and some change.  

We sat a while after unloading this very important 104 pound object.  It was great to be able to say, "We did it."  Because we did it.  Two old people managed to purchase this much needed heavy object, load her in our little car, transport her across the prairie, unload her and carry her across the yard up some stairs without falling through the old wood porch to get into the house.  Scooting the box through the house was the easiest part.

We did it.  Excitement surged through my body.  Adrenaline rush. Why get excited about a toilet?  A toilet is a necessary part of having a FUNCTIONING BATHROOM.  Getting the new toilet means we are closer to completion when it comes to remodeling.  

CHECK LIST:  A new vanity was purchased and will get installed this month.  The bathroom was gutted.  Mark that off the list.  Muscle and know how were required.  Walls repaired.  Harde backer board bought and laid.  Porcelain tile bought, laid and grouted.  Light fixture and sconces bought.  NOW the new toilet is ready to be installed after the wall behind the toilet area is bead boarded.  Toilet will go in!  We will see about getting new nickel plated feet for the claw foot tub we have had for years.  The area behind where the tub will go will be tiled and grouted.  I'd like to have rosettes and belly band put installed around the window with hammered glass for privacy.  Ceiling painted and new light fixture hung.  

The BATHROOM will be completed to where we have running water and flushing toilets.  This move has been so different from any we have ever done.  I will feel like we have practically built this habitat when said and done.     

I stood in the bedrooms visualizing where the furniture will go and what needs shuffled to make this move forge ahead.  By the end of Sunday, I'm hoping a rose bush will have been dug up and transplanted to her new home.  I bought two petunia plants to put in the front porch urns, so I hope they get repotted.  Daffodils in a pot with four plants needs to go into the ground.  Some dining room boxes will need to be shuffled making room for the Victorian desk's new location.  Relocating the desk to the COTTAGE is a goal for the week to come.  Oh HAPPY DAY...another big piece of furniture will have been moved out of our main house into the COTTAGE making HOME a reality.   

MASTER BEDROOM:  I'll need to clear out the pink bedroom making it ready for the VINTAGE BEDROOM SET to come live there then break down the bed getting ready to be moved.  I can see itinerary my head.  The room has two doors that will be closed up and this will come later.  The main thing is getting the furniture moved over and put in place. 

WE'RE well into the month of APRIL.  Going back and forth between the two places has my head spinning.  Heave ho and away we go.

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I gave the grandkids their Easter trEats that I had made them on Good Friday and "Mister C" wanted his sister's shinny, plastic eggs.  His had small books, a play toy phone and green, stuffed toy dog with no eggs.  He has a temper and let it be known he was disappointed like where's my eggs?  The terrible twos have started at 16 months old.  Whaah.   

Going to watch my littlest grandson hunt Easter eggs today!  This should be great fun.  When Lil Miss was a toddler she hunted eggs on the Court House lawn.  It's her little brother's turn.  Tradition.  I wish the restaurant where we'd eat lunch afterwards was still there.  The day looks to be beautiful except for the smoke that has settled into town from the controlled burns on the prairie.    

I know Easter bunnies do not lay eggs or hide easter baskets, but coloring eggs and Easter egg hunting is a sweet memory for me.  A special time of year.  During Holy Week, I can reflect on what Jesus did for mankind.  The reality of EASTER/resurrection Sunday is tomorrow.  Praise the LORD!  The Lord is risen.  The Lord is risen indeed.  Magnificent LORD, you have made a way for us to have a rightful relationship with our Heavenly Father and have eternal LIFE for us in a heavenly realm.  You did the work.  No one else.  Pause.  I'm saying a prayer of thanksgiving and appreciation to you in Jesus name.  CELEBRATE with a grateful heart.

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Creature comforts are part of the American way.  Now back to the toilet project.  Aren't you thankful you have a flushing toilet and don't have to visit OUT HOUSES to take care of business?  I'm more than alright to be living on the grid using real toilets.  I am very thankful ALSO for TOILET PAPER.  Porcelain toilets are beautifully crafted objects that make our LIFE more manageable.

  

I can't imagine LIFE without them,

~d

43rd

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY 43rd BIRTHDAY, 

Darlin'

CELEBRATING OUR DAUGHTER'S 43rd BIRTHDAY.  She went on a date with her Husband and when she returned, we ate supper and celebrated her special day.

GOD BLESS YOU.

Wishing you a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  

Love, Mom.

  

Think I'm in some kind of time warp as it doesn't seem possible that she was born 43 years ago.  Very much a middle aged WOMAN these days.  She was a delightful baby that always woke up HAPPY in the mornings.

I'd carry her on my hip as I did daily chores and when I tried to exercise on the floor, here she would come to climb aboard.

She is our third child after we had two boys.  I was delighted to have a daughter.  Love all my children and wish sometimes I could go back in time to see them in action as lil ones.  

My memories I hold dear.  Thankful to have pictures and memories.  THANKFUL to have the children in the first place.  

~d

MAMMOTH FILE CABINET

AS I WALKED ABOUT THE COTTAGE, I was imagining where things will go.  Giving this a great deal of THOUGHT.  Going from one square footage of storage to far less is a mind full to deal with.  Over the last few days, I worked at emptying the file cabinet drawers then Hubby pitched in and took over.  The FILE CABINET does come apart into pieces.  It can be disassembled.  We carried the pieces of the antique file cabinet down the stairs and placed the pieces neatly in the Living room then rested.  

RESTED.  Sigh and rest some more.  Grunting to get the pieces down the stairs took some muscle since the pieces are HEAVY.

Next day they were carried to the screened-in porch so they were closer to the cars.  This morning, my dear Husband carried all 22 pieces to our two cars and we drove over to the COTTAGE.  As he was piecing the pieces back together, I snapped pictures so I can remember how this mammoth goes together.

She's old and we've had her for about 35 years.  Bought her at a TEXAS AUCTION.  The adrenaline flowed as we bid on the file cabinet winning the bid.  We were young once and this added some excitement for two novice bidders.  Still think we got her for a great price.  The audience applauded when we won.  At the time I didn't know if this was good or bad.  Loading her in our station wagon was interesting since there were so many pieces.  Hubby is a MASTER PACKER so we were good to go.  I wish I had kept a journal of all our excursions to jog my memory these days.

She was one of the first antiques we purchased through the years. Along LIFE'S ROAD, she has come with us.  First we had her in Spring, Texas in the family room, then in the Marion, KS. rental she sat in the kitchen.  We moved to Tulsa and lived in a rental for half a year so at this time she was in a storage unit waiting for us to move to a Jenks, OK. rental where she stayed in the family room.  Along came Manhattan, KS. where I don't remember where she sat.  Off to the country to try country living where she came along to the farmhouse sitting in the breezeway off the kitchen.  When we bought the rock house in 2006 in small town America, she sat at the top of the stairs.  Then we tried to sell her with no luck so we moved her into the COTTAGE.  We then moved to our present location where she has been in the spare room.  BACK to the COTTAGE sitting in the Utility room.  There she be.         

She'll hold my cookbooks during this transitional time.  Once again she'll morph as time passes.  We got her moved and when doing this it all comes back to recalling how heavy this piece is.  Since we're older, it has gotten even heavier.  As we move things, my Husband says, I can't imagine how heavy things will be in ten years.  I can.  Ten more years and it will next to impossible to move the large pieces of furniture.  Movers will have to be brought in to do the moving. AT 67, we're managing but it is very challenging to say the least.  

I am at the age that my Mom was when she helped us move from the Jenk's rental to Manhattan.  I thought my folks were old then.  Here I am as old as they were.  LET'S GET ON WITH IT.  Someone passes away and we are in this downsizing place and say, "Let's get on with it."     

When I was working at the COTTAGE over the week-end, I would rest then shred papers.  MORE PAPERS!  It was fun this time as the shredder worked well.  Papers from 2015.  Shazam.  Then I began going through beat up cardboard boxes that are holding silver-plated pieces of metalware.  I have to scratch my head as to why I collected so many pieces.  As the week passes, I hope to have all the pieces out of the boxes and grouped with like pieces.  Have a GET RID OF box.  By the end of the week, she'll be full.  

I am wondering where I will store all these pieces I still want in my TINY KITCHEN?  They'll have to go down in the cellar I guess. 

With each passing day, I am able to turn loose of more.  It is answered prayer to be able to turn loose as I have hung on so tightly to so much it got in the way of being care-free and happy.  

I'll have some more things to shuffle around the Dining room to open up floor space where the Victorian Desk will sit.  Not sure I can get my Husband to move this large piece this week or not.  He's wanting to grout the Bathroom floor this week and I want him to.  

We are shopping for a elongated, tall toilet.  The one the COTTAGE has is way too short for tall people like us.  It hurts my knees to sit on it and getting off of it is a work-out.  This toilet is more like a youth toilet.  This has to change.   

I was eye balling storm doors at the lumber yard and choked on the prices.  What has happened to the prices these days? 
C O V I D   happened and the world changed.  Blink blink, it's 2023.  

After we get settled, then the storm doors will change and I hope to get better looking front doors as well.  The ones that are there are original to the house, so I may change my mind after they get painted and LIVE with the original ones.  Shall see as time passes.

Goal this week is to group all the silver-plated metal pieces and thin them out.  The pieces I'm keeping will need to be boxed up and placed in the cellar.  Another DONATION BOX is starting. 
Yard work will happened. 
Laundry caught up again. 
EASTER BASKETS fixed, cards filled out and mailed. 
Another load of CHRISTMAS TUBS to the shed. 
Kitchen utensils and baking ware in the cabinets.  Think I got this figured out.
More packing to take place.
Take over some more moving boxes and place them in the Dining room. 

THIS IS A LOT OF WORK FOR AN OLD WOMAN.  Moving is work for sure.  It gives me a golden opportunity to see what we have and be reminded of it, but also to thin out and lighten the load.  I can see where I need to be better organized.  So it's not all bad.

   

Will be baby sitting my youngest grandson one day this week as my daughter is having a birthday and going out for a date with her hubby.  I hope the little mister doesn't cry when they leave.  My Husband was holding him the other day and his mom moved a short distance from him and he let out a cry reaching for her.  I'll have to make some banana pudding and have that ready to go if he gets upset when they leave.  Gathering some fun toys for a GRANDMA BAG of tricks.

Well, that's all folks,
~d

EASTER BUNNIES FOR THE WEEK

MISTER AND MISSES BUNNY 

can be found in the KITCHEN.  

NOT MUCH DECORATING GOING ON AROUND HERE as we are working on packing up our belongings and getting out of DODGE.  Easter decor is in the basement so I brought two tubs up getting bunnies out to display for the rest of the week.  Nothing much.

Mr. and Mrs. came out of hiding in their pastel Spring attire.  I have a couple of resin bunnies that look like they were made out of chocolate.  SO glad I found them.  

The GARDEN WINDOW plants have migrated to the COTTAGE.  When we move, I'll miss this window for so many reasons, but for now I am admiring it until we leave for good and I don't know when that will be. 

A smaller version can be made for the COTTAGE UTILITY WINDOW later.  Good lighting is there and a few small plants would thrive.  Another idea to create after we get settled. 

WE ARE OFF TO A BUSY WEEK.  Hubby is grouting bathroom tile today and I'm working on assembling EASTER BASKETS for the littles.  I usually make up Easter Baskets, send Valentine goodies and Halloween treats each year along with Birthday gifts and Christmas for my Grandchildren.  When they reach 21, well things change.  Cards are sent instead.  I can at least do this.    

PRAYING that my dear Husband has great success and the grouting gets done quickly so we can put in a NEW, TALL, ELONGATED Porcelain Princess known as a TOILET.  We've been looking at what is available.  SHOPPING MADE EASY when using the internet, but I have to actually see the TOILETS to make a judgment call.

I didn't know, but some toilets are not entirely glazed throughout to where the naked eye can see.  This is one feature I KNOW we need to have when purchasing a new toilet.  If it isn't glazed throughout then I would suspect the clay that was used might get mildewed on the inside.  Not sure what health hazards could erupt from this.

THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK IS HERE.  I know that Resurrection Sunday/Easter is not completely about BUNNIES, but I like decorating with them.  The newness of Spring refreshes my soul.  Lifts my spirits.  GOOD FRIDAY and Resurrection Sunday are coming.  If I go shopping for a new dress, I might.  No bonnet for me.  You'll hear me saying, "HE IS RISEN INDEED!"  Jesus is LORD and HE is risen.  Amen.  Thankful for the EASTER STORY about a real JESUS, His real salvation, and real eternal LIFE through him.

I am never alone as HE is with me,
~d

TAKING SOME MINT WITH ME

WE HAVE A SMALL PATCH OF MINT GROWING IN THE SIDE YARD that has come back each SPRING/SUMMER.  Our little garden has had an abundance of MINT.  This stuff spreads.  I'm taking some mint with me.    

This is the 7th SPRING we have been here.  7.  How is that possible?  Little tiny leaves have pushed through the dirt already so I dug these tiny plants up this evening and planted them in a couple of urns that will be moved over to the COTTAGE.    

I hope I didn't kill the plants.  I tried to get most of their roots.  There are some more sprigs popping through the ground.  The urns will be moved over to the COTTAGE soon.  I spaced the plants just so-so and tamped them down then watered well.  Tomorrow I will dig up a few more plants and put them in the urns as well.  I am in such hopes that they will take and I will have MINT for iced tea, ice cubes and water this SUMMER.  

The crop we have has been super hardy.  A great way to be.

THINGS TO USE MINT FOR:

HEALTH BENEFITS OF MINT 

1. Filled with nutrients
2. Improved digestive health
3. Boost your immune system
4. Better brain function
5. Support your pregnancy
6. Reduce cold symptoms
7. Keep your mouth healthy
8. Help manage stress
9. Improve allergy symptoms
10. Soothe irritated skin

Cucumber and Mint Salad

Ingredients

• 2 English (hothouse) cucumbers

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 cup chopped red onions

• 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar

• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

• 2 1/2 teaspoons sugar

• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

• 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint




Directions

1. Cut the cucumbers in half lengthwise. Use a teaspoon to scrape out the seeds, then cut into thin slices. Toss the cucumbers with the salt in a colander. Let drain in the sink for at least 30 minutes, then tap the colander on the base of the sink to release any remaining water. Lay a clean dish towel flat on the counter, and then dump the cucumbers over top. Use the edges of the towel to blot the cucumbers dry.

2. Meanwhile, soak the red onions in a small bowl of ice water for at least 10 minutes, then drain in a fine mesh strainer.

3. In a medium bowl, combine the cucumbers, onions, white wine vinegar, olive oil, vegetable oil, sugar, pepper and mint. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. Cover and let stand in refrigerator for at least 20 minutes. Serve cold.

MINT IS ON MY MIND.  

PLANNING ON TAKING SOME DAYLILIES WITH ME.  I'd like to dig up some of the DAYLILIES that are showing up.  We have a spot at the COTTAGE in the back yard that DAYLILIES would be lovely mid SUMMER.  Think I will dig some up this week and transplant them right away.

ALREADY TOOK THE IRISES.  Almost two years ago my Husband made some large flower beds in the back yard of the COTTAGE and transplanted most of our Irises.  I think we will still be here at the main house when the Irises bloom in April/May.  I'll see which ones are still here after they bloom and if there are some I still want, I will dig them up after they fade to plant in the COTTAGE front flower beds.  This month, the front flower beds will need cleaned up making room for more Irises.  I LOVE IRISES.  Love 'em.

WENT TO TOWN to run some errands.  Managed to get some goodies for Easter baskets that I hope to makeup.  SPRING is here especially in Manhattan as the trees are blooming and lawns are green.  It was wonderful to see after a long WINTER.  Weather was beautiful and it was nice to get out in the sunshine, but while driving the brake pedal acted up.  Felt like the car wasn't properly braking.  Hubby will check to see what is going on.  So we went HOME and parked the car for now.

In this part of the country, control burns are taking place which creates smoke pollution.  This is tearing up my asthma.  Coughing spells happen and my eyes burn.  The smoke was very thick today in Manhattan.  It smells of smoke and not much one can do when this time of the year takes place.  

Lil Miss came over this evening to help with some yard work.  Was good to see her.  I worked on the mint plants while she raked leaves that have stayed all WINTER.  

I worked some in the basement today bringing upstairs a couple of tubs to clean.  I need a large waste can to pitch some things that are not going with me when we move.  More decluttering.

GOALS THIS WEEK:
☆Dig up mint plants and place in urns.
☆Transfer large urns over to COTTAGE.
☆Make Easter Baskets for young grandchildren.
☆Dig up some Daylilies and transplant over at the COTTAGE.
☆Work some in the junk room packing stuff.
☆Clear the floor area over at the COTTAGE where the Victorian Desk will sit.  
☆Possibly get her moved this week.
☆Oil down the antique file cabinet.
☆Group all the metalware, thin out, box and put in cellar.
☆Put more Kitchen items in the Kitchen.
☆Babysit.
☆Celebrate Daughter's 43rd birthday.
☆Attend a Track Meet.
☆Keep tabs on President Trump's legal activity.

Give or take a few things,
~d

  

SPRING TIME PROM

~PROM~
Lil Miss and date.

PROM was this past week-end.  As the students stood at the top of the Court house stairs their names were announced then special music of their choosing was played.  MADE FOR A SPECIAL MOMENT.  

Two grandchildren attended.  Lil Miss, a Sophomore and 'W', a Junior.  The weather was gorgeous.  

LIL MISS looked so much like a little woman I cried.  She has grown up right before my eyes and it has been amazing to watch her turn into a young LADY.  She looked absolutely beautiful.  Gorgeous. 

I'm telling you, I have never seen so many good looking kids from a small town before like this.  It was uplifting to see them promenading down the steps of the Court House.  

 'W' and date.

'W' looked so handsome.  He was about 9 years old when I first met him when my daughter began dating his Dad.  Here he is 17.  Not sure where the time has gone.  He's a bonus Grandson.

Each time I see all of my grandchildren, I can see how they have grown and changed.  Seems like they are growing up faster then my kids did as time flies by faster each day.

If I could do LIFE over again and I know I can't, there are a few things I would do differently since I know so much more the older I get.  ha.  The world is spinning faster the older I get.

Since I can't re-do LIFE, I have to live as best I can right now.  Eat better.  Be better organized.  Use time the best I can.  I have to live this LIFE right now, in the present and take it all in.

Promenading through the day.   

Make the moment count,

~d  

PALM SUNDAY

  Blessed be the name of the LORD!

Palm Sunday is the last Sunday in Lent and the Sunday before Easter. It's the beginning of Holy Week, a very important week of the year for Christians.

Palm Sunday comes from the fact that it honors Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem, where the people carried palm branches. It also is called Passion Sunday because the Gospel narrative of Jesus' passion is read on this Sunday. Palm Sunday marks the first day of Holy Week.

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/holidays/what-is-palm-sunday-and-why-do-christians-celebrate-it.html

The start of HOLY WEEK. 
Amen,

~d

KANSAS WIND DON'T GET ME DOWN

FALLING ASLEEP IN MY CHAIR BEFORE BEDTIME waking to the early hours of the changing day found myself writing this blogpost.  NO JOKE.  NO FOOLIN'!

GOSH, I am tired and sore after attending a HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET with the violent Kansas wind blowing so hard it was something else.

ON FRIDAY, We traveled about an hour by car to a small community to watch Lil Miss participate in Track and Field events.  Stopped off at a small coffee shop to pick up some lunch I ordered by phone ahead of time made lunch a breeze.  GET IT?  Breeze...wind.  grins.  A little play on words.  Moving right along.

We took the meal with us to the Football Field to eat on the bleachers.  TRUE BREW COFFEE HOUSE in Lyndon, KS. has a nice atmosphere to it and the food is good as well.

https://truebrewcoffeehouse.net  

With the wind blowing the way it was, the temps weren't so hot making it pleasant by some standards.  By the time we spread an old comforter out on some grass so we could sit to watch the events, the wind picked up even more and the temps cooled down.

 

We saw our youngest Grandson who was really interested in a small ice chest that was sitting on our comforter.  This was entertainment for him to play with the Sonic Ice inside the chest.  He is a hands on kind of guy.  Several times while he was playing the wind blew he backwards to where he couldn't stand up.  Playing with the little pebbles of ice kept him very occupied to where he stayed right with us and not running about to where his momma was chasing him.  We could sit and chat.

When Lil Miss ran an event, I walked over to the other side of the field in the wind so I could cheer her on hanging onto my hat.  She did well today.  SO proud of her accomplishments.  She took TWO first place wins.  PTL.  

Walking back to the comforter I nearly blew away due to the strong, gusting winds.  Horrifically windy for this SPRING day.  I like wind, but this was incredibly bad.  Even with the 30 to 50 mph blasts of wind the kids were troopers participating with enthusiasm.  I did my best to hold up and stayed in the wind for 4 and a half hours.  I know I'll feel it in the morning.

  

By the time her last race was taking place, we went to the car exhausted for a couple of old peeps.  It was when I was walking that I reminded myself that I HAVE to get healthier.  This waddling like a duck when I go isn't going to cut the mustard.  I can do better than this.

Twas warm and cozy inside the car.  Moved the car closer to a chain linked fence so we could watch her run from the car.  Worked pretty well.  Just before she ran past us on the track, I got out of the car to stand by the fence to cheer her relay team on. They did really well coming in first.

We headed HOME going through TOPEKA and stopped at Home Depot to pick up some supplies for the COTTAGE.  As we try to work each day on the COTTAGE, this was our work for the day.  We considered this a day of work on the COTTAGE buying a ceiling light and two lights that will go on both sides of the Bathroom mirror.  Let there be light and there was.  

Supper was a salad bowl from Jason's Deli.  I couldn't eat all the lettuce this time.  We managed to go HOME and I truly collapsed in the chair, falling asleep and here I be.

THE WEEK-END is here and I can hear the wind howling outside.  My goals for the week did not happen and that's alright.  It'll have to be.  The file cabinet did not make it to the COTTAGE, so I will try really hard to get it over there on SUNDAY if I can walk.  That's another thing, my feet get to hurting so badly it makes walking more difficult.  

It's back to counting calories and eliminating certain foods again to see if this improves arthritis in my fingers and feet.  I'll try eating clean for one day and go from there.  

I had a grilled cheese sandwich with a small pasta salad for BRUNCH.  Snack was a V8 and please don't say it DO-NUT!  Oops. SUPPER was a Jason's Deli BLT Salad with Ranch Dressing and Ice Milk for dessert.  Then I had a cup of organic orange juice and a couple of Trisket Crackers at HOME.

Calorie Count:

2 slices bread 170

2 oz. Cheese 228

cup pasta salad 360

V8 60

Donut 340

Jason's Deli BLT bowl 771

Ice milk cone 40

4 oz orange juice 55

2 Trisket crackers 40

Tea and water 0

TOTAL:  2064. Oh no...don't say it's so.  

Went over my calorie count by 864 calories!!!  Looking over what I ate, I should have skipped the pasta salad, ice milk cone and the donut maybe the crackers and only ate half of the grilled cheese sandwich.  That would have knocked off some calories.  

I had a lot of food today with a higher calorie count than I should have gone.  1200 should be as high as I go.  I was well over that.  Grains, dairy, protein, vegetable, fruit, fat.  I hit all the food groups, but failed to stay below 1200 calories.  Will give it a whirl tomorrow.   

My appetite has been huge.  I think I am trying to regain my strength and build up my blood volume after the last few months I have had health wise.  Am I an emotional eater?  At times I know I am.  With the pressure of trying to get into the COTTAGE sooner than later, it has affected my appetite.  Take a deep breath and forge ahead.

EASTER/RESURRECTION SUNDAY is approaching.  I have to get easter baskets whipped up for my young grandkids in a few days.  Need to get them in the mail.  Can I do it?  I'll focus on this tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday hopefully getting them in the mail Tuesday.  Lord help. 

May I behave in a manner pleasing to the LORD in what I eat, how I dress, the way I clean my house, conduct business, treat my Husband and family, sort through our belongings packing and placing in the COTTAGE.  I need a super natural boost and help from on high.  Thanks be to GOD.  Great things HE has done.

My eyes are getting heavy.  Perhaps I should try to go back to sleep.  Okay, I will.

~d         

 

The Best Time of the Day to Take Vitamins

I'VE OFTEN WONDERED WHAT TIME OF DAY IS THE BEST TIME TO TAKE SUPPLEMENTS and came across this video on YOU TUBE.  Thought it was somewhat helpful.

Here's to BETTER HEALTH!

~d