Life as a CrazyMimi

As I sit on my front porch watching and listening to the rain, I'm reminded that this is one of my favorite things to do.  Unfortunately, I don't get to do this very often.  Life is so busy that we don't allow ourselves small pleasures such as this.  But, my house is clean, my laundry is done, and it's not time to fix dinner yet, so here I sit, relaxing to the sounds of nature.  The fresh rain smell permeates the air, and I can imagine our garden drinking this in, it's thirst being quenched by this beautiful summertime storm.  The wind has kicked up a couple of notches, the sky has darkened and thunder is heard in the distance.  This no doubt will be a strong storm as the cool front comes through. As I sit here relaxing, my mind drifts back to another storm and another front porch, many, many years ago... I was a child, not sure how old, living at home with my Mom and Dad and siblings.  I have always been fascinated by thunderstorms, so this summer...

It's Friday!  And to me that means it's "Weigh In " day!  I have been struggling a little lately with only losing a portion of a pound at a time.  I am so very faithful with my "Healthy Eating" (we do NOT use the D word...), and extremely faithful with my exercising, so when I only lose a portion of a pound, I get a bit upset.  Well, let me tell you about today!  I lost two whole pounds this week!  I am elated!   And speaking of struggling, I have been bothered with leg cramps lately.  I stretch before I exercise, I drink a ton of water, and I take calcium.  So I was kind of at a loss as to what was happening.  Come to find out, I am a bit potassium deficient.  So the VERY first thing everyone says to me is "Eat a banana"!  I like bananas.  I love bananas!  I used to eat one every single day as my mid morning snack.  However, I stopped eating them because they are very high in sugar.  As I write this and i...

If you Google "Live Life to the Fullest", there are 62,200,000 responses.  But I found one I really, really like: To  live life to the fullest means  facing  your  fears with bravery, an open mind, and a lack of prejudice. It  means  making the most of what you have and never settling for less than the  life  you are capable of living. It  means  being truly alive and awake to  life  and not asleep in  life's  waiting room. I often question whether I am really living life or just going through the motions.  I think at this stage of my life, I am somewhere between "stuck in a rut" and "Oh my gosh, I have to get more stuff done before it's too late"!  Troy and I have had a few discussions lately about what the next chapter of our life will be.  We don't want to be asleep in life's waiting room!  We need to be truly alive!  But we are always so consumed with getting the lawn mowed, the la...