Life in the Fast Lane

Life in the Fast Lane

Life has been a bit hec­tic here, hence the lack of posts. I’ve thought of things I want to write about, but that’s usu­ally been while I’m dri­ving, or try­ing to fall asleep, or mak­ing din­ner. You know, all the wrong times. And I deter­mined when I started this blog that fam­ily must come first. I can’t find much virtue in being a slave to a blog while ignor­ing my more impor­tant respon­si­bil­i­ties. But, I so love to write and share my heart. Hope­fully, I will get to some of those thoughts soon.

My  mom started her chemo last week. I wish I could be there to help her, but 1700 miles sep­a­rate us, which makes it kinda hard. I hear that my dad is tak­ing such good care of her though, which is so pre­cious to me to hear. I love it that he is pour­ing out his life to make hers a lit­tle bit eas­ier to handle.

We cel­e­brated Ref­or­ma­tion Day this week­end with our church. My hus­band helped pull together a play about Mar­tin Luther in front of Car­di­nal Caje­tan with Tetzul.

Faith came to me and asked if Mar­tin Luther had any chil­dren. So, we looked it up. Wiki to the res­cue. Appar­ently he had six chil­dren, the youngest of which was a daugh­ter. She asked if she could be Luther’s youngest daugh­ter, Mar­garet, in the play. She said it would be so happy if she could do that.  I called Mike, who said he would write her into the play. Of course, the issue was that the play took place WAY before Mar­garet would have been born. Mike wrote some lines for her to intro­duce the set­ting and con­clude it at the end. She had a few lines to mem­o­rize. When I told her she could be in the play, she was so excited. She ran from room to room, let­ting all of her sib­lings know her joy­ous news. “This is the best day of my life!” I showed her her lines. She read them, and then said, “Okay, now let me see if I have them down.” I started to protest that she could read them sev­eral times, prac­tice with read­ing them, and study them before hav­ing to say them all out.

But, she didn’t need that time. She cov­ered the page and pro­ceeded to recite them per­fectly. By read­ing them once. I was shocked.

Through­out the week, she would say things like, “I like the name Mar­garet!” So funny.

So, at the play, she jumped onto a chair, stood at the micro­phone and said her lines. Per­fectly. So cute. And I totally for­got to record her. Major mommy fail.

faith as margaret

Oh, and we decided that we need to down­size my car. I’ve been joy­fully dri­ving a 15 pas­sen­ger van for the last 7 years. It might sound odd to most peo­ple, but I really loved the van. It fit all 6 kids com­fort­ably, plus room for things in the back (gro­ceries, lug­gage, etc.). It has such a com­fort­able ride, and I could have glee­fully con­tin­ued dri­ving it for years. But, it’s kind of overkill these days. I have only 4 chil­dren left at home, and often just drive around by myself, or with just the girls. So, even if all of us were in the car, that left an extra 9 seats. Or at least 5, with the back seat out. So, my hus­band is right. Down­siz­ing is what we need. It will save on gas. And park­ing will be much eas­ier. If you know any­one inter­ested in a beloved 15 pas­sen­ger van, let me know! You can check out our Craigslist ad if you want more info.

And, as a bonus, it’s not white. That was  my one caveat when we bought it. I didn’t want a white one.

And, I started the Trim Healthy Mama way of eat­ing. It hasn’t been very dif­fi­cult. It sounds way more com­pli­cated than it really is. I am sur­prised at how easy it is to get rid of the sugar. I was seri­ously dread­ing it! But, I’ve lost 6 pounds in just a lit­tle over 2 weeks. Not a record pace, but it isn’t meant to be a fast weight loss plan. It is a healthy way of eat­ing, by not mix­ing carbs and fats in the same meal. The body can only process one type of energy source at a time effi­ciently. If it gets too much by a mix­ture of carbs and fats, it releases too much insulin, which must be stored in your cells, mak­ing you gain weight. At least that’s how I under­stand it. 😉 I highly rec­om­mend get­ting the book if you are at all inter­ested. The whole thing is very for­giv­ing when you make mis­takes or have to eat off plan for a meal. You’re never more than 3 hours from being back on plan. So gra­cious. They have a Face­book page if you want to find out more. The ladies there are so very help­ful and knowl­edge­able. They post lots of progress pho­tos. I just love those! So inspiring!

Also, I relaunched my Fruit­ful Vine Cre­ations web­site. That has taken many hours of work. I still have more to do, but I prob­a­bly will con­tin­u­ally want to load new items. It was a huge time invest­ment, but so worth it! I believe it needed to be done for many years. Please go check it out. And, if you are look­ing for vinyl let­ter­ing for your home, please con­sider shop­ping with us. We spe­cial­ize in cus­tom designs, and also have a large selec­tion of off the shelf designs. If you aren’t already a Face­book fan of Fruit­ful Vine Cre­ations, you might want to go check it out. I offer spe­cials over there peri­od­i­cally, and have one going right now!

Well, that about sums up my life. More posts to come this week, Lord will­ing. So thank­ful for you. May the Lord bless your week, your fam­i­lies, and all that you put your hands to.

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