Make Me Smile Monday :)

I promised a while back that I was going to start shaking things up a bit on Monday's with some guest posts. I'm so very excited to say that that my beautiful friend Krisjana has written today's Make Me Smile Monday. I met Sjana when I was 17, and it was as though we'd known each other for years. We've been friends ever since. Sjana and her husband Jed just celebrated thier 11 year wedding anniversary a little over a week ago. Sjana and Jed are one of those couples that are just made for each other. Together they have 5 beautiful children. (Be sure to check out Sjana's blog here: http://pitterpatterletsgetatter.blogspot.com/ )  

So without further ado...

I’m very honoured to have been asked to participate in a ‘Make Me Smile Monday’.  Brenna is one of my very dearest friends, a true Proverbs 27:17 friend to me.

Friday night we were having a party/fire in our backyard

At one point while sitting outside, we felt droplets of rain. Looking up into the sky there were dark grey clouds overhead but coming behind them were the fluffy white ones in a blue sky.

Well, the rain increased and it chased most of us into the house for a few minutes. When it cleared up we headed back out. I heard one of the kids say, “I wonder if there’s a rainbow!” I thought, “It rained for five minutes it’s unlikely we would see a rainbow.

Guess what? Up in the sky in the direction that the rain cloud had come from was a very faint rainbow. Yes, I was surprised. Pleasantly so but still surprised.

I’ve thought about it a bit since and have discovered that what I was lacking was expectation. In my skepticism I could have missed out by failing to even look up.

Children have such great faith and great expectation. If you don’t know this yet, talk to a child someday soon.

They expected to see a rainbow and there was one. I didn’t expect to see it and was surprised.

There it shone.

Reminding me of a promise.

Maybe next time I will have greater expectations, like those of a child.

Because rainbows always make me smile.

Sjana.

   

Six Weeks - The Results

So my six weeks are up and things didn't go as well as I'd planned. I only managed to lose 3 pounds in these past 6 weeks, which is a far cry from the 8 to 10 I'd been hoping for. BUT I'm not going to see this as a failure (despite my disappointment) because I still went down and that's good. I've lost 19 pounds, so for now I'll just enjoy this accomplishment.

Tomorrow I will begin my Six Week challenge - take two! This time I won't be setting for myself a specific number, but I will focus more heavily and staying under my calorie goal each day and working out 4x a week. And from there I will just have to wait and see what happens!

I will check back in with you on Tuesday, June 28th.

Make Me Smile Monday :)

On friday our youngest of three (and brother to two older sisters) turned 3. At the same time my incredibe sister was giving birth a couple of hours away. So on Saturday Jason and I packed our kids in the van and travelled down to meet baby A and give our congratulations. Jason did the honours of driving two and a half hours both ways through the rain, for which I'm incredibly grateful! ;) Despite the bad driving weather, it was a great trip and I'm glad we all went together. I have to say she's absolutely beautiful! Look at that perfect little baby nose, and those tiny little fingers. I love her already!!!

The picture is a little blurry, because she was resting in an incubator when we went to meet her so they could monitor her breathing. She was born very quickly and that didn't give her quite enough time to clear her lungs and as a result her breathing was quicker than they would have liked. By the time we saw her late Saturday afternoon her breathing was almost where they wanted it and for that I'm thanking God! Here she is...my beautiful little niece!!!