To read the premise for my experiment (aka what the heck I'm talking about): http://sweetmaeb.blogspot.com/2016/06/loving-my-actual-life-book-and.html?m=1I read the first chapter of Alex's experiment today, and i think this part is gonna be a biggie for me. Not actual literal quiet, but the virtual quiet, the mental and emotional constant background noise caused by social media and my [...]
Loving My Actual Life: book and experiment
So, today I started a new book. Loving My Actual Life by Alexandra Kuykendall. I'm already hooked and so excited to read about her experiment in falling in love with the life she has TODAY instead of waiting "until...". I'm going to be spending the next nine weeks (or more, if needed) doing my own experiment [...]
Fourteen years later…
Fourteen years ago, on a rainy morning, I woke up from a night of very little sleep and waited, knowing my waiting was just about over. No longer would I feel rejected, undesirable, unworthy, because today one man was standing up in front of anyone who wanted to see and saying HE wanted me. This [...]
Seven weeks in
So, since I did two extra days at the beginning of level 1, and two extra at the end of level 3, I'm now seven weeks into my fifth time through this program, And I have not missed one day. I'm pretty proud of that. I'm taking a mini recovery (still gonna get on the [...]
Craving Community
I was gonna write this later, because I'm really trying to stay off my phone till after I've worked out, but, just as I was about to work out, the Boy woke up, so nursing and blogging it is. I crave community, and particularly a best friend who loves Jesus. I had one in my early [...]
Being Intentional
So, I've kinda made a resolution. I'm going to really focus, starting this month, on using my resources more intentionally to serve God. My most valuable (and both most plentiful and scarce at the same time!) is TIME. And I know if I spent it more intentionally, I'd be able to maximize what I could accomplish. So [...]
First Goal Day!!! Except…not.
So, my period came on Saturday! Yay! And also, Awwwww. ☹️ today was gonna be the day my size 8 jeans were gonna fit, and my measurements were gonna show the payoff, but now I'm all bloated and cranky and tired and I'm just not going to do all that today. In two weeks, I'll [...]
Ending Phase 1, new toys, big plans, and missing the plyo
Today was the last day of phase 1 of this round of JMBR. It's about to get real, y'all. Workouts 5 & 7 are crazy intense, and it's gonna be a challenge mentally as well as physically to push through and overcome. This round, though, has already been full of victories, and in stark contrast [...]
Not all Mondays
So, it's Tuesday morning, round 6:30, and as I drink my coffee, I feel like I need to write about yesterday. Because Monday's generally suck.cthey do.cthere is never enough weekend, never enough rest, especially since we moved and have been trying to do allll the things we've dreamed of for so long living in an [...]
Seventeen years
Today is the most special day on my calendar that's not one of my kids' birthdays. Seventeen years ago today, a sixteen year old boy told a sixteen year old girl who believed herself unlovable and never good enough that she was, in fact, lovable, and that he loved her, just as she was, and [...]
Mae Breakall 