The granddaughter was taken back home yesterday after dinner and we settled in for the evening. We/I really had a good time with her being here. She was polite, willing to help, kept her things picked up and the bed made. She was respectful and a delight to have. But all good things must come to an end, right? I received a text from my son last night, thanking us for taking her for the weekened and said that she was excitedly telling him all about the weekend. Not that we did anything special, but I would guess it is moreso that we gave her attention. I enjoyed having her over.
And now we're getting back to 'normal'. I'm in my room this morning, in my chair, with my prayer shawl around my shoulders, my blanket over my body and footies on my feet. I'm warm, I'm comfortable, and with my cup of coffee, am working on becoming awake. I love that I was able to spend more time reading my Bible this morning instead of being interruped and stopping because I couldn't concentrate on it.
I won't be cooking like I have this weekend either! Hubby liked the fact I fixed three meals a day. Ok, you really can't call Taco Bell a meal, but it helped fill them up until dinner time. Yesterday I guess we only had two meals since I didn't wake the granddaughter until after church so that made it a late breakfast. We made it through until early evening for dinner. But it was an easy fix - put chicken in the crockpot earlier in the day and the meat just fell apart when we were ready to eat it. Sent the leftovers home with the granddaughter. Back on my eating plan today - got to eat more healthy. Well, once I finish up the ice cream in the freezer, that is. :)
My plan is to get back, not only in my eating better, but back into exercising again starting today. I have missed my morning protein shake so will be glad to have it this morning. Since I wore my granddaughter out shopping on Saturday, our conversation automatically turned to exercise. She used to get a lot of exercise - she worked out with weights at school and also ran track. But with COVID, and not going in person to school for awhile, kind of caused that to stop. She hasn't gone back, although school was in session a short while before summer. She mentioned she would be a JUNIOR this year!! I'm going "NO WAY!" We discussed working out and I emphasized the importance of eating ... and eating healthy .... to gain strength and energy. Working out isn't any good if you don't feed your body the nutrients it needs. We even agreed to hold each other accountable and check in periodically to see if the other is doing anything. I think that was more for my benefit.... to make sure that I am exercising. After all, I can't whine about the shape and health of my body if I'm not doing anything to make it better.
Back to work today. I have not even opened my computer since I shut it down on Thursday evening. I know someone has been working over the weekend because when I've come into this room I've heard the 'ding' of the computer telling me there is a message. Hopefully it is just that I'm copied on a message. Because of issues with my computer I don't totally shut it down over the weekend but just put it to 'sleep'. There is something wrong and IT can't figure it out - I need a new computer but I'm afraid if I shut it down now, it won't come back up. It would take me three-four times to get it to come on. Now I just restart it on occasion to get the updates completed. The graphics is all messed up too. Instead of a blue background, when they did the 365 upgrade, it turned my back screen black. As long as I can keep using it, I am. If I go back into the office I will have them swap it out, unless I just want to take a trip to Mesa to get it done. Naw... not in the near future anyway.
I'm thankful this morning. Thankful that God blessed our weekend with the granddaughter and we had a good weekend. I'm thankful for an awesome message on Sunday morning by Reggie Dabbs. He spoke at Free Chapel this weekend and the message he gave had men, women, and teenagers giving up the pain of the past, to embrace what God has for their future. It was awesome. He told a story .... it can be a long one, so perhaps I'll wait and share it later. I'll have to make a note to do that. It is a good story.
I'm thankful for my job. It allowed me to play some this weekend and not have to watch every penny spent. I have spent many, many years of having to do that, barely having money to buy food to eat. It was nice that I could stop and pick up Taco Bell and not worry about the cost of 9 soft tacos for us. Few people can understand that statement anymore, and I'm happy for them. But we have lived through it and I am very thrifty when it comes to some things. Besides. I have to save my money for Christmas. Just kidding! I watch my spending because at some point I want to retire. Hubby spends more each week than I do with going out to meet his friends for meals. He is meeting one of them this morning for breakfast, in fact. And that's ok. He needs to get out as well and I'm ok with that. I have Amazon Smile for my 'going out for a meal'. :-) And I can do it without leaving my house.
God is good. All the time God is good. He continues to provide for us, take care of us, and meets are needs. We don't get everything we want, but we have everything we need. He always provides.
He always provides for you as well. In your darkest hour, He will meet you there if you will let Him. He is always holding out His hand to you, waiting to draw you close to Him. He wants to walk with you today. Will you let Him?
Blessings!
