Confessions of a CF husband....

My most addicted blog right now, is here. It's written by a man who is married to a woman with cystic fibrosis. Facing a double lung transplant, she finds she's pregnant, and chooses life. While her health deteriorates, they wait as long as possible to deliver the baby via c-section...and that's where *I* joined in. I have read back nearly a year...and it is an amazing blog. His faith, his hope, his passionate love for his wife, Tricia, and his preemie daughter Gwyneth is inspiring. I LOVE LOVE LOVE that while all this is going on, he consistently is thinking of others on transplant lists and in the NICU, and asks prayers for them as well. 

I particularly love the post I linked to, one in which he confesses all of his 'weaknesses' but overall raises my esteem for the man. He is truly a blessing for anyone who reads his blog, and is blessed in this life as well as the next one.

Check him out, lift up your prayers and well-wishes. 

Freakin' cool website

So, reading the controversy about comet 07TU24, I was directed to THIS website. Its the geek in me, I'm sure, but oh man, I'm excited.

It shows you how close every traveling object in the sky is, and even has a.....gasp! Star map. Eeeek!

Okay, time to breath.....hope you like it!

I Scream, You Scream....we all scream!

For ice cream!

Don't forget, February 2nd is eat ice cream for breakfast day.

Although I have to laugh. I mean, we do that anyway. Not often, but enough. I think we'll make it big with SUNDAYS....yum. 

Bad habits

I have a terrible dislike of posting without pictures. I'm not sure why, most of them don't need a picture, at least not the ones about me. Kids, yes. Places, yes. Me, not so much. So, I'm going to try to post every day here, and get out of the habit of posting at yahoo 360. I love that blog, it's my first, and i can't stand the thought of losing two years of wonderful things about the kids. Dh says that we should print it all out and have it spiral bound. Me likes it.

Anyway, still going two miles every day. I'm really enjoying the time, and dh is totally behind me. The past two weeks I've been trying to add some running in. Now, I'm forty pounds overweight, so I like to run in the dark. Unfortunately nature is working against me, because last night I left at my usual time (6pm) and the sun was still up. Sigh. So I'm just going to suck it up. It's not like I'm running two miles, but last night I probably jogged about 1/3 of a mile before the heart attack kicked in. So I run a bit, walk about 4.5 mph until my breathing is back under control, and then jog some more. Once I can run one mile straight, I'm going to add another mile to the walk. Anyway, that's my goal. That and to break my fear of posting sans pictures. :-)

I went walking....

So my friend and I created a 'taking care of me' plan for the new year. There were several goals I created, most of them achievable. My favorite one so far has been to walk every day. The first few days, I just started walking around the neighborhood, as fast as I could. I was keeling over, muscle aches, exhaustion. Finally, as I was driving to the store I thought I'd drive it to see my mileage. What?! I figured out each loop was one mile, and i was doing four or five loops! 

So now it's down to two miles. And I've started running. Not a great deal, but a few blocks at a time, until the chest pains start (then follow my Swedish dad's advice, 'walk it off' This is the guy who tried to walk off a broken leg when he was twelve). The iPod has been GREAT....dh got it for my anniversary present (I'm not sure which year it's supposed to be, but I love it). It helps me keep my rhythm and gives me a tangible goal (Just run til the end of this song)

I haven't lost a great deal of weight, but I feel MUCH better. Although five pounds isn't much to sniff at. If I was skinny as my friend, I'd be wasting away by now. ;-)

What to be when I grow up?

So, following along with everyone else, I've been reading 'Eat, Pray, Love'. 

It really is as good as everyone says. I have a paper journal that I write my favorite quotes in, and I've decided I need to reread so that I can find my relevant quotes. This is such good timing, though. Unschooling has hit me hardest, because unlike the kids, I have set myself in stone, years of expectations and garbage that I have to clean up before I can be me.

Started therapy, that's helped as well. I've decided I want to be me when I grow up. I just need to find out who that is first. Elizabeth Gilbert says in her book "We get seduced by our own mantras and we become monuments to them." Man.  Later in the paragraph she says "I felt like a junkie in detox, convulsing in the poison of what emerged." How hard hitting, to recognize that your emotions can be just as addictive as any substance, for us control freaks. I'm so thankful for my Shine group, who emphasized for me this pathway to mental health!

Meme from Ren's Blog

Here's the meme, you design the cover of your band's album using these links:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. You then take the pic and add your band name and the album title to it, then post your pic.

I've been blogging over at Yahoo 360 for some time, and just wanted to spread my wings a bit. Blogger has so many options! So I'll try this for a while, and maintain my other one, and see which one I like more. 

I got the title from Emily Dickinson's quote

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"

That's how I feel about my life some days....just living our happy life with seven kids, a dad and a mom, I have little time for anything else. But it is life...and what is more blessed than that?