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I've been drinking Isagenix shakes.  I'm not sure yet if I really like them.  Sometimes I just can't stand the thought of another protein shake and sometimes, a pumpkin spice frappuccino sounds really good and I know I have a healthy version I can make with this magical powder.  I've lost a decent amount of weight and that's with putting in a modest effort because, let's face it, life is nuts.  Sometimes this helps me stay on track.  It's one of those "make it work for you" things too.  It's a two shake a day plan but sometimes I need a season of one.  Sometimes the intermittent fasting days just don't work in my schedule. Sometimes I have more donor meetings in a week than I'd like to and I really need a recover week.  And then there's the daily nuts of being a working mom of 3 kids with a spouse that travels.  No, I don't have time to mix up a shake in the morning because I'm already late getting out the door when Isabel...

Nick loves M&M's.  No really.  He loves them like I love coffee.  We found coffee M&M's once.  They were just ok.  Every so often, I'll see a new or interesting flavor in the checkout line and pick it up for him.  We've tried raspberry nut, pumpkin pie and cake batter.  (Cake batter is a mistake, by the way.) He told me once when we were in college that he had this dream of buying one bag of every flavor and sorting them all by color.  Many years and several kids later, the girls and I did it for him.  We had a plastic candy dish, picked up every flavor we could find and started sorting.  We layered them in the clear dish and made an M&M's rainbow!  I think it was a birthday present but he absolutely loved it.  Now, it's a regular gift.  We've done it for Christmas (fewer colors but tons of flavor), springtime (thank you Easter Bunny!) and just about any other "special occasion". Tomorrow ends his six week ...

Tragedy has struck!  I just don't know what I'm going to do.  TNT is no longer showing episodes of Law & Order. WHAT??? WHY??? For YEARS I could count on getting up on the weekends and wasting HOURS watching a show I'd seen nearly every episode of while drinking way too much coffee.  No longer.  I thought this day would have come sooner when we cancelled our cable but with the invention of the Apple TV and my father-in-law's cable log in, I was able to get around that.  But now they've gone and taken the whole show off altogether!  I guess I'll have to do something more productive this morning. 

I was thinking about this during church this morning.  Our pastor was talking about miracles and how they were documented for us in the Bible.  But that also, miracles still happened.  They shouldn't be something that we thought only happened in Biblical times and he asked if we were taking note of them--reminding ourselves of them--making markers of them.  I'm not sure if this is what he meant, but it got me thinking about how anything was recorded.  People used to journal.  People used to write letters.  That's how we know what past presidents were thinking--they wrote letters and people saved them.  That's how we know what certain historical figures went through--they kept a journal and someone saved it.  My journal is not exciting.  It's jumbled and far too infrequently added to.  I write it mostly for me--to practice and to clear my head.  I wonder what someone will think of it when someday it is found in a heap with o...