Time Away...

So it's been a while since I've written.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe I've been busy although I can't really argue that given how much I've done otherwise.
Luke started school this past week.  I was really looking forward to having some quiet around the house but I really do miss him during the day.  Jonah's preschool open house was this morning so he got to play.  He's really comfortable there since it's the class he was in last year.  We haven't made much progress with Seth and potty training.  He's wearing underwear but he still has accidents.  This is a new thing for us since the older two never had accidents.  Poop is really gross to clean up, I must say.
I've had this vague pressure at the back of my head the past couple of weeks.  It's not a migraine per se but it's not comfortable either.  I've been taking Baclofen (muscle relaxer) to see if it can ward it off but it hasn't really done a sufficient job either.  I've tried botox before but I get a really, really bad headache the day after from the injections.  So I'm not really ready to try that again any time soon.  I've noticed that I tend to be a little "fogged out" when I have this pressure.  It takes more concentration to focus on anything.  I see my neurologist again on September 8th.
I have been surprisingly consistant in working out lately.  I did 4 days last week and have done the past 2 this week.  I'm shooting for 5 days this week.  I was really frustrated when I weighed on Monday though.  Instead of losing like I hoped I had actually gained.  How do I gain when I eat 1200 calories and work out?  It doesn't make sense to me unless I'm just gaining muscle.  Mark argued that I should follow "no pain, no gain" except that I have both.  :)  Here's to losing this week.
Please keep my sister in your prayers.  She is dealing with a lot with starting college and we've talked almost everyday.  She's looking for guidance and I try but I always end up redirecting her to God.  I sound like the stereo-typical Christian and I hate that feeling but the advice is what she needs right now.  

Thus begins...

And thus begins a crazy week...
This week begins Vacation Bible School at church.  I'm super excited to bring this message to the kids.  We are using curriculum from Answers in Genesis this year and it's good stuff.  I'm co-running it and while I'm not nervous, it's still stressfull.
My parents and sister are coming this week!  Super excited about that!  My sister is on her way to the University of IL for NROTC and her freshman year in nuclear engineering.  It's amazing how different we are and yet so close.  Engineering is way too much math for me.  But hey, more power to her.
Well, I'm off to get stuff done.  Wish me luck this week.

Into a new month

Hello blogging world!
It's been a few days unfortunately.  I set for myself the goal of blogging everyday but I knew that I wouldn't be able to do every single day.  And I'm okay with that.  Perfection is not obtainable for a human being and I'm okay with that.  :)
I did work out today.  I did 2.25 miles on the treadmill.  I maintained the mostly running for the first mile as I have been.  I did wind up with a headache from it but I have been maintaining most of the day at only a slight pain.  I might go to bed early tonight with an ice pack but only so that I don't have to take another Vicodin.  
The boys have been pretty exuberent all day.  I'm ready for the older two to go back to school.  I think Luke needs the mental stimulation that his brothers just can't provide.  I'm having problems talking him into doing his "homework" - his workbook that keeps him going through the summer.  I'm really excited to see what first grade brings.  I think it's going to be a change for him.  He's been fascinated with "Shark Week" this month.
Seth has gone completely backward in potty training.  We are now back in diapers.  We were doing so well in pull-ups.  We even did a few days in underwear.  He never did #2 in the potty but we had #1 down.  Now he just doesn't care.  He doesn't care about going to school at the end of the month.  He says he doesn't want to.
Jonah has been Jonah.  He's excited about going back to school.  He tries so hard to be like Luke academically.  He wants to know the same things that Luke knows.  
I was sore the past couple of days, not from anything in particular.  That's just how the FMS works sometimes.  We walked around the fair on Tuesday night but nothing strenuous.  I think the medication that I'm on has been making me really sleepy during the day.  I'm hoping to eventually get off most of them but that comes after the weight loss when I can focus more on the headaches.  
Now that this blog is really long, I promise one day to update with a picture.  My boys are growing so fast.  

Today was a day of reflection for me.  I rested much of the day, sore from the past workouts.  My older two boys decided that they wanted to go to church tonight instead of yesterday morning, which is generally fine with me.  (Daddy lets them help with offering on Monday nights.)
My husband often does more of a bible study format sermon on Monday nights, slightly less formal than Sunday mornings.  Tonight we talked about Isaiah 55 and how often we spend our energies on things in life that, ultimately, do not make us happy.  
                  Why spend money on what is not bread, 
                             and your labor on what does not satisfy? (Isaiah 55:2)

C.S. Lewis says it like this: “Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something, other than God, which will make him happy.”  How true and how sad.

How often do we focus on things that don't matter in the long run?  And how often do we brush aside issues, such as eternal life, that do matter?  Can we look at our lives and honestly say that we live each day in God's word?

It's amazing how that can apply to so much more in our lives than our church attendance.  How often do we crave the unfulfilling calories of that slice of cheesecake?  How often do we covet that bigger house or the nicer car?  In the long run, those things just don't matter.  Your family, your health, your relationship with God - those are the things that matter.