Re-Connection

I need to post entries more often, but here I am now almost a month after the last entry.... Anyway, has been a hectic, busy,stressful month...Getting Meg completley healed of her ailments and then I wound up @ the hospital 2 weeks ago with an anxiety attack that had me by every nerve in my body...... Heart-rate was 145 & B.P. dangerously high after a month of hoping these icky feeling would go away.... I was diagnosed with wryneck/pinched nerve... Caused by the anxiety or I think actually a muscle strain turned into the anxiety of thinking my headaches, arm numbness, etc... were due to something seriously wrong.... At any rate, it is getting better and my neck is straighter by the day... Sleeping better & taking my b.p. regularly (it's been normal every time) to make sure I'm taking care in every way possible to be back to 100%...Dealing with stress & allowing God to take the control is key to being healthy, just as well as the eating right & exercising... Balance between the body/soul/spirit/mind is something I had for several months, then a major change in our lives began the downward spiral of other things happening and me losing that edge I had to keep going on.... Excuses!...Back into walking..Not the 6 miles a day, but starting out @ the 2 miles each day at least..Plan is to work back up to the 6 miles a day by June... I will reach my 1,000 mile mark and/or exceed it by my birthday...9 miles to go by the 14th....(see exercise chart @ right to see when I make it)

Looks as though sometime this summer I will be unemployed and spending time with only my children for the first time since beginning childcare almost 14 years ago.... I plan to enjoy every minute and allow God to lead in the path He has chosen for me to take.... Having thought for the last couple years I would be calling it quits and never did..This times is for real.... Thankful for a husband that has health insurance and works so hard to allow me to be here for our children.... Ben will be 16 in November, but no real desire to drive yet..I'm still the taxi and don't mind it.... Meg isn't into sports, but has a desire to do soccer or softball....

This last few weeks has been a tremendous blessing in having being found on facebook and then finding people as well..... People that I've wondered about over the years... I didn't have a desire to really do much on the website, but to keep in touch with my niece & nephews...Now, it has come to be that something I didn't want has happened and I couldn't be happier, unless I could reconnect with my family who have went on before me.....I don't get into the mediator thing, so I'll have to wait til I get to Heaven..... It is like he saying of "you may get what you want, but then you don't want what you got"...Well, I got something I didn't want and now I'm glad I have it... Re-Connection... Going from a pretty unsavvy computer person a couple years ago to figuring out the ins/outs ....Learning to dodge the phishing (not fishing) & spam (not the lunchmeat)e-mails. Then go to being part of something that is considered to be the "in" thing out in cyberworld of chatting,e-mailing,facebooking,blogging,diet diaring, etc.....I have sold on Ebay for a few years, but not out of that realm.... This is pretty neat! I'm usually the one whom is about 10 years behind.....

More changes are going to be taking place and we are excited to see where it leads us.... The church we attend right now has called a new pastor..Been lookng for 2 years!... He will be here June 14th from Idaho..... Ben plays the guitar & I play the piano at times..... The church is growing and readying for a new expansion to begin within the next couple months.... We are holding back on joining the membership until we see where things are headed with all these new thing happening, but excited as things have went so well thus far and we are feeling that God has put us where we belong with total peace...

We all went for the walk this evening...I bought the kids new walking shoes a couple weeks ago so they would'nt be able to give me the excuse of not having any.... Bullfrogs in the pond have been sought and rocks have been skipped in joy of just spending time together as a family in the wonderful bounty of nature God has provided us with.... Bike riding is my next task..Need to get new tubes for my ten speed bike that a woman wanted to give me @ a yard sale last fall when she found out my lifestyle change endevour..I gave her $2 at least....She was asking $3 (lol)...Paul is the only one without a bike now.... Shall find him one this summer! Off to watch the Biggest Loser and spend time with my hubby before we both doze off.......

May the Lord bless you as richly as I know He has blessed me,

JERRI