Saturday, July 31, 2010
More than enough
Yesterday, I woke up to my alarm. Usually at 5 am the alarm is really really loud and all I want to do it shut if off as quickly as I can. As I got out of bed I began to listen to the song that was on. I've heard this song before, but this time the words just spoke to my heart. I stood there for as long as I could listening to the song. I wanted to turn off the radio so that my hubby could stay asleep and yet I wanted to keep listening to this song.
Such a beautiful song that reminded me that God is all I need. He is more than enough for me. I have all I need in him. Without him I will never be satisfied outside of him.
Lyrics to Enough by Barlow Girl
All of you, is more than enough for, all of me,
For every thirst and every need,
You satisfy me, with your love,
And all I have in you is more than enough.
You are my supply, my breath of life, still more awesome than I know,
You are my reward, worth living for, still more awesome than I know.
Cuz all of you, is more than enough for all of me,
For every thirst and every need,
You satisfy me, with your love,
And all I have in you is more than enough.
You’re my sacrifice of greatest price, still more awesome than I know,
You’re my coming king, you're everything, still more awesome than I know,
All of you, is more than enough for, all of me,
For every thirst and every need,
You satisfy me, with your love,
And all I have in you,
All of you, is more than enough for, all of me,
For every thirst and every need,
You satisfy me, with your love,
And all I have in you is more than enough.
You're enough, You're enough, You're enough for me (REPEAT 17X's)
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Success!!
On two fronts there is success. First I'll update on my 30-day challenge. I actually got up and worked out this morning. I burned 104.3 calories in about 20 minutes. Mostly upper body today. I kicked butt in boxing! If I get up tomorrow, I will be back on track for my week next week. Bonus points if I can survive the baseball game on Sunday without eating so much. We'll see about that. Ha! They say winter is bad for diets because not as much exercise - not for me. It's baseball season and having 10 games worth of tickets to use up. That's what's gonna get me!
My other success story is about M. In May when he turned 3 the Dr. recommended speech for him. She thought maybe he could be behind a little because he's not wear a lot of 3 year olds are and a lot of his words are his own language that only we understand. So we went through our school district. Turns out he's low average. Not low enough to qualify for services but low enough that he's not average with his speech. Because he's so clingy and mom oriented, we went through his evaluation in two parts. The first part was articulation and M cooperated and did really well in participating and listening to Miss A. By the end of the hour, he started to get easily distracted and frustrated. Partly because the questions were harder and partly because he'd just been on his best behavior for a whole hour and it was wearing him out. So we came back a couple days later. His cooperation went out the window and he didn't really want to do any of it. Miss A scored what he did do and he still wasn't low enough to qualify for district service. There was one more test that I had the option of M taking given that he wasn't cooperating. My choices were try to finish that day, come back another day or call it quits altogether. I decided that since he wouldn't qualify even if he bombed that one test, that there was no use in putting him through a stressful time of "playing games." I still think he's on the lower side, but even since the middle of June his language has exploded. He's trying to put more words together in a sentence doing mostly 3 words sometimes 4, sometimes 2 words at a time. He cooperates and is receptive to repeating words and sounds which is a good sign. I'll give it until late fall. If he's not improving, I'll contact a private speech therapist that our medical insurance will pay for. They don't have as low of standards so he has a better chance of qualifying for speech therapy if needed.
I'm not trying to push something that's not there. I just want M to have the best possible chance to learn all he needs now at an early age and before he starts school, than for a delay that goes untreated to cause problems once he's in school. My husband and I were in the middle about whether he really needed a speech evaluation anyway. But since the pediatrician recommended it, we thought why not. They are trained in this and can give us a good marker as where he is at. So we will see what the next few months show as far as M learning to talk. Hopefully he won't need speech therapy at all and we can just continue working with him at home like we already are.
I guess the success part of this story is that M did his best and we learned some new ways to work with him. Oh and I successfully brought him to his evaluation with his cousin L. She wanted to answer the questions and play the games too so that was tricky but we did it.
*for the record, my 30-day challenge is on day 11.
My other success story is about M. In May when he turned 3 the Dr. recommended speech for him. She thought maybe he could be behind a little because he's not wear a lot of 3 year olds are and a lot of his words are his own language that only we understand. So we went through our school district. Turns out he's low average. Not low enough to qualify for services but low enough that he's not average with his speech. Because he's so clingy and mom oriented, we went through his evaluation in two parts. The first part was articulation and M cooperated and did really well in participating and listening to Miss A. By the end of the hour, he started to get easily distracted and frustrated. Partly because the questions were harder and partly because he'd just been on his best behavior for a whole hour and it was wearing him out. So we came back a couple days later. His cooperation went out the window and he didn't really want to do any of it. Miss A scored what he did do and he still wasn't low enough to qualify for district service. There was one more test that I had the option of M taking given that he wasn't cooperating. My choices were try to finish that day, come back another day or call it quits altogether. I decided that since he wouldn't qualify even if he bombed that one test, that there was no use in putting him through a stressful time of "playing games." I still think he's on the lower side, but even since the middle of June his language has exploded. He's trying to put more words together in a sentence doing mostly 3 words sometimes 4, sometimes 2 words at a time. He cooperates and is receptive to repeating words and sounds which is a good sign. I'll give it until late fall. If he's not improving, I'll contact a private speech therapist that our medical insurance will pay for. They don't have as low of standards so he has a better chance of qualifying for speech therapy if needed.
I'm not trying to push something that's not there. I just want M to have the best possible chance to learn all he needs now at an early age and before he starts school, than for a delay that goes untreated to cause problems once he's in school. My husband and I were in the middle about whether he really needed a speech evaluation anyway. But since the pediatrician recommended it, we thought why not. They are trained in this and can give us a good marker as where he is at. So we will see what the next few months show as far as M learning to talk. Hopefully he won't need speech therapy at all and we can just continue working with him at home like we already are.
I guess the success part of this story is that M did his best and we learned some new ways to work with him. Oh and I successfully brought him to his evaluation with his cousin L. She wanted to answer the questions and play the games too so that was tricky but we did it.
*for the record, my 30-day challenge is on day 11.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
What gives?!
Okay so the last two days I've been too exhausted to get up in the morning. Well two things - first I just need to get my butt out of bed and get moving because I will wake up and it will be worth it. Then, last night I was determined to get up this morning. Did I? Nope. Not a chance. Our 6 year old ended up coming down and sleeping on the couch. Drat. *snaps fingers with a disappointed motion* Oh well, I can try tomorrow. On the upside, I have been watching what I eat and not skipping meals and that has helped. I'm still not happy with the reading on the scale (boo) but I blame the weekend at family camp. Never do I eat that much food at each meal. 5 meals of food food food. The food is yummy but, man alive, it's a lot!
M had a couple speech evaluations this week and my next post will be about that. TTFN!
M had a couple speech evaluations this week and my next post will be about that. TTFN!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
someone got the camera
I haven't posted a picture in awhile so I thought I would post some picture of M when he snuck the camera from off the kitchen counter. Looks like he had fun...
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Day 8.
Dear Diary,
Today is day 8. I didn't not get up to workout. I was just so tired. Like so tired that when I went upstairs to get hubby's coffee and lunch, I had to stop and rest at the counter for a minute. I poured his coffee and then I went to get myself some cheerios. I was wiped out. All I wanted to do was sit. Where's my energy? This is not good. Hopefully this lack of energy and wiped out feeling goes away, other wise my 30 day challenge will end up being a 5 day challenge.
Yesterday as I was writing, I had so much to write about and now I can't remember any of it. One post will be about family camp, but the rest of what I thought about is gone. Oh well. Must've not been too great then.
Signing off from the most boring post ever.
Dear Diary,
Today is day 8. I didn't not get up to workout. I was just so tired. Like so tired that when I went upstairs to get hubby's coffee and lunch, I had to stop and rest at the counter for a minute. I poured his coffee and then I went to get myself some cheerios. I was wiped out. All I wanted to do was sit. Where's my energy? This is not good. Hopefully this lack of energy and wiped out feeling goes away, other wise my 30 day challenge will end up being a 5 day challenge.
Yesterday as I was writing, I had so much to write about and now I can't remember any of it. One post will be about family camp, but the rest of what I thought about is gone. Oh well. Must've not been too great then.
Signing off from the most boring post ever.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
I'm a wimp
Yep, day 8 and I wimped out. Well, it's my fault really. I stayed up reading until nearly midnight and the alarm was set for 5 am. Not a good combination. I feel a smidge of a migraine coming on too, and I've been really good about not needing to always take my relpax. I guess part of me didn't want to overdue myself and make the migraine worse. (More of me - like 72 % was just plain ol' tired). I shut the alarm off and snuggled in next to my hubby. So day 8 - rest day. Tomorrow I will work out so I need to go to bed early. I'm not too happy with the scale right now, but I'm trying to convince myself that some of the gain is muscle from the last few workouts. Yeah, that's it. Lots more to write about but I need jump in the shower. Have a happy day!
Monday, July 26, 2010
day 7 - barely
Well, day 7 was a little tough. I didn't want to get up so I dozed off after I shut the alarm off. I woke up 20 minutes later determined to workout. Only when I got out of bed and dressed, I was so tired. I grabbed a glass of water and set out to complete day 7. Only because I knew it would be disappointing to me to have to write this and say I didn't workout.
To be honest, I only completed 13 of 17 exercises. I skipped jump lunges, because I just didn't have the energy to do those. They really are physically draining. I also skipped the running activity that included high knees ( similar to marching) and the kick ups that I mentioned the other day. Yuck! I burned about 81 calories in 16 minutes. I barely broke a sweat but that's because I didn't really get my cardio workout in, since the exercises that I skipped were the cardio ones. Oh well. I did it though.
I might not be burning tons of calories in my workout but I am toning and shaping my muscles and muscle burns more calories than fat, so as I build my muscle I'll burn more calories. My goal with this 30-day challenge is to get in the habit of working out each day.
This past weekend our family was at our church family camp. It was such a great time with friends and the kids had a blast! I realized that with all the walking up and down hills and stairs and just all over was really a workout in disguise so that was nice. The food is so good though, I don't know if I actually lost any weight. I pretty much stayed the same. I will have a post about our time at family camp later.
Have happy day!
To be honest, I only completed 13 of 17 exercises. I skipped jump lunges, because I just didn't have the energy to do those. They really are physically draining. I also skipped the running activity that included high knees ( similar to marching) and the kick ups that I mentioned the other day. Yuck! I burned about 81 calories in 16 minutes. I barely broke a sweat but that's because I didn't really get my cardio workout in, since the exercises that I skipped were the cardio ones. Oh well. I did it though.
I might not be burning tons of calories in my workout but I am toning and shaping my muscles and muscle burns more calories than fat, so as I build my muscle I'll burn more calories. My goal with this 30-day challenge is to get in the habit of working out each day.
This past weekend our family was at our church family camp. It was such a great time with friends and the kids had a blast! I realized that with all the walking up and down hills and stairs and just all over was really a workout in disguise so that was nice. The food is so good though, I don't know if I actually lost any weight. I pretty much stayed the same. I will have a post about our time at family camp later.
Have happy day!