I am all signed up as an Arbonne consultant and I have my first one on one this Wednesday. Krista will be there to hold my hand and help me through it. I am really excited about the potential this company has for me! I would love to be able to make my grocery every week to take that burden off of Tom. That would afford us the ability to pay off some things faster and/or be able to do a few fun things. For the time being though, I am working to pay off the laptop that I just ordered. If I work hard in the next 2 months, I should be able to get that paid off. Oh, am I excited about this new adventure!

I am still at the same weight as I was last week. I think that I have discovered that I just cannot use the extra points allotted to me weekly to their full degree. I can use a few if I need to but not all 35! I have done that the last 2 weeks and that resulted in no weight loss. Of course, I didn’t gain anything either. So this week it is back to using only the daily points and the activity points that I earn. I’ll see if that helps.

I stayed the same. I am very happy with that since this past week was not a good food one for me. I really want to hit that 15lb mark next week! That means I need to work hard to lose those 3 lbs. I think with all the gardening I need to get done this week I should be able to accomplish that. I have not deep, though provoking ramblings on my weight loss today. It is what it is and I move on. As long as that scale goes down next week, things will be good!

It seems that no matter what I read what I get out of it is to focus on God. So, with that in mind I have been putting a lot of effort in doing just that. Reading my Bible is becoming part of my day. And remembering Him in everything I do is also becoming a habit. I repeatedly say to myself and to Him that I could not do any of “this” without Him. Like this cleaning thing. It ultimately honors God because through this I am being a better wife. And being a good wife is what God has called wives to be. And the weight loss, it is only going to enable me to be better at what God sets before me. Its all God. See? So I have no choice but to focus on God. And it isn’t that it is a bad thing to only have the choice. The rewards are far greater than the “fun” I would have just doing my own thing. If I am focused on God, I don’t have to worry about what is next or how it will be handled. God has it all worked out. I just follow His lead. Yes, this is good!

I just agreed to be an Arbonne consultant. I am not sure where I will go with this because I don’t have a lot of evening time to give. However, if I can get a customer base built up then I should get some good repeat business. I am just looking for some way to pull in some additional income. I have also thought about working part-time for a local plumber in their office. But I don’t really feel like I can do too much away from home because of the kids. A few hundred extra dollars a month would be very helpful. So I am going to try Arbonne and see where I get with that. Hopefully it will be a good thing and help us get through this economic crunch we are in.

I am really looking forward to summer. I am tired of the hubbub of school and everything that goes with that. I want to slower, more sedate pace of summer. I will get my wish in three weeks. We only have 2 playing the little softball league in our town. I think that they will play on the same nights at different times. I think. This is the first year that any of our kids have played in this particular league. It will mean less running for all of us. It will mean more time in the pool and the garden and with each other. And that will be an excellent thing!

Today is the big day. The day that I strip naked and step on the scale. This has not been the best week diet-wise. Friday and Saturday were pretty much shot and Sunday’s are always a mish-mash for eating. I stepped on the scale and surprisingly it shows that I have lost 4 pounds! This makes a total of 12 pounds that I have lost in 3 weeks. Craziness!

I am struggling with balancing my housework and blogging. I really do my best work, no matter what the work is, in the morning hours. I think that I am going to get my blogging done first thing in the morning and then move on to my cleaning. I am also going to allot only some much time for this task. When my timer goes off, I will get up and clean. Hopefully this will allow me to get everything done by noon. Then my afternoons can be mine to do what I please. Of course, that won’t always happen….especially as the garden starts to produce. My days are going to get kind of hectic when that happens! But for now I will focus on getting most things done by noon.

I am happy to report that I have had several people pop in this last week and I didn’t stress at all about how my house looked. That’s because it is pretty much presentable at all times during the day. It is not perfect but it certainly isn’t an embarrassment either. I cannot believe how amazing this has made me feel! I feel light and free. There is no other way to describe it. Just think how I will feel when the entire house has been decluttered and is always clean. You see, there are still rooms in this house that are not very presentable. But they will get there. The common rooms are all neat and tidy with clean floors. OH! I didn’t have a clue that mopping once a week did not entail a long hour or two of moving stuff, sweeping, mopping and putting things away. My weekly mopping took me 15 minutes. That included sweeping, running the water, mopping the floor and putting the mop away. Amazing.

Weigh-in day was yesterday and I lost another pound. At least, I think it was a pound. The lines on my scale are small and close together and I really can’t see them all that well. So I think it was a pound. It was at least a pound. I am not unhappy with this loss at all. In fact, I am thrilled considering last week it was that time of the month and I wanted to eat continually. Every pound is a pound less on my body and that is a very good thing! It is only with God’s help that this time loosing the weight is seeming almost effortless.