Sunday, Sunday

Hey there!
It's a rainy, rainy Sunday morning here in AZ. It's really nice actually. The rain on the roof and the sound of the rain coming down is wonderful! It's been nice all night long. I love the rain! It happens so infrequently here, I can honestly say that I LOVE the rain. Now if I were in Seattle, well that'd probably be a different story, but I'm not, I'm in "The Valley of the Sun", therefore I love the rain.

We had a GS sleepover on Friday night. It was nice. We watched a number of "Passport to Europe" episodes that highlighted London, Paris & Barcelona (the three desitinations we are hoping to get to this summer with our troop). The girls also made "Dream Boards". They were awesome! They wrote about their dreams and cut out photos of their dreams to glue onto a poster board. After they were done we put clear contact paper over the boards so they could post them at home and not worry about them falling apart. The boards were really cool! We've got awesome girls in our troop. We really do!

Yesterday my oldest and middle DD went out door to door for GS cookie pre order sales. It was fun. I think we'll do it again today, even in the rain. We'll pull out the umbrellas and go for it. Heck, everyone's home on a rainy day! LOL!

I've been eating ok and exercising daily. I'm on day 8 of the 21 day challenge (have I talked about that yet?). I almost didn't get enough water in yesterday so I was still drinking it at 11:30 last night. Needless to say, I was up lots during the night thanks to my water procrastination. I don't think I'll do that again soon. I'm actually going to get a large glass of water when I'm finished typing. :-)

I will be taking my weight and measurements today or tomorrow and posting them. I'm feeling good, even though the last two days I've felt hungry a lot. I've munched on healthy stuff though, so I don't have issues with feeling bad about food. Actually, that's one of the really cool things to evolve on this journey. I rarely, if ever, have guilt feelings over food. It's food. It doesn't control me. I decide to eat it. If I want it, I mean really, really want it, I eat it. If I don't really, really want it, I don't eat it. (I'm referring to things I "shouldn't eat"----which I don't do often at all and when I do it's only a little bit of whatever the item is vs. the portion amounts I used to eat).
It's a good feeling. It's nice to feel confident about that. It really is.

OK, I'm off for now. I want to get this day going. It's time to wake up all the sleepy heads in my house. HOLY COW people, it's almost 10 AM. Teenagers and hubby's....sheesh! LOL!

Have a super day and make good choices!
Hugs from AZ,
Shannon