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Bloom Where You Are Planted

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Flowers do not choose where they are planted.  People are different.  We chart a course for our lives  and settle our roots in the profession of our choosing.  We decide when it's best to start a family, buy a house, or change careers. We decide where we want to be planted, and choose the frequency of our blooms. Right? Well, not really.  In fact, when I was in charge of my planting, I didn't do such a great job.  I had children instead of finishing college, made a career out of something that was intended to be temporary, had a failed relationship and moved too many times to count.   When the dust finally settled in my late 20's, I was alone, under-educated and a mother of two young children. Accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior at the age of 29 was an easy thing to do.  I KNEW I was a sinner and needed help, I had no trouble believing that Christ was the son of God and died for those sins.  I was messed up and needed direction.  Jesus was giving it for f

Fried and True

My body is fried.  I tired to jump right in to the next training schedule, but I can't. Sunday, I took the day off, seeing as how we rode 100+ miles on Saturday...then Monday I ran some speed work - FAIL - and yesterday I did a swim to bike brick that sucked like no other. So I took today off. And tomorrow. My mind is actually agreeing with my body in the idea of "stick it."  I think I will cool it today and skip getting up early tomorrow.  I am meeting a friend for coffee tomorrow and might - might - might ride a bike to meet her.  That will be my fitness for the day... That Century Ride kicked my ASS! LOVE IT!!

My First Century Ride Report

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Today, David and I rode our first Century Ride!  We did one of the days of the 5 Days / 500 Miles through Spearman Expeditions. I wasn't sure, when we got up at 4:30 this morning, if we would be able to ride or not.  There was a noisy thunderstorm that had moved through around 2am and stuck around.  By the time we got to the starting site, the rain had died down and it was cool and a little windy.  Perfect for starting a full work day of riding! The first 30 miles was under an overcast sky with just a few little rain drops here and there.  There was a pretty decent head wind as we headed south, but nothing that we're not used to here in Nebraska!  Our first SAG stop was in Firth, Nebraska.  They had water and Gatorade, home made cinnamon rolls, crackers, bananas, gels, and more.  I sent the kids a text to see how it was going with Grandma and snapped a picture. As we headed out from Firth, we noticed the clouds looking angrier but peddled on.  There were two riders in fr

WIAW

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It's time again for What I Ate Wednesday! What do you eat on Wednesday?  I'm a creature of habit - so my meals are much the same...today I did have *meat* and it was delicious!  I have a recipe for you also. I love a good breakfast!  Remember my experiment with Intermittent Fasting?  Yeah...never again.  I wake up hungry - and even if they determined that eating within an hour of waking was NOT good for you - I'm not sure I could stop.  I was craving a breakfast burrito this morning - so that's what I had. I start my eggs with broccoli, onion, garlic and about 1tsp of butter. The finished product with a little melted 2% cheese and salsa, yum! I had my usual apple slices with Peanut Butter for a snack around 10am.  I've been SO hungry lately - I could honestly eat all day long.  It's hard when you work from home - the fridge is right there staring at you all the time! Lunch was another green smoothie creation.  Today I included soy milk, banana,

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!! No, I haven't finally lost it - I've decided that the 1st of June is a great time to rekindle those forgotten New Year's Resolutions.  Call it June-uary 1st! One of mine was to spend more quality time here: Love the memories in this book - going digital is tough. I started out the year super great, but then March hit.  Crazy, insane, everything happening at once March!  I made it halfway through with a 50% effort, but after that I seriously faltered.  I've taken to writing the daily reading on the big home school white board to remind me.  Gets the kids engaged to. See the white board...and my new Sheclismo shirt! I also decided the first of the year to try to work meat and dairy out of my diet.  Meat is increasingly hard for me to digest, and the only dairy I really eat is cheese so...yeah.  Trying to cut that out.  I got breakfast nailed down nicely 100% plants.  I recently jumped on the Green Smoothie train to attempt a total lun