I’ve felt more spiritual today which is SO GOOD. One of the things I was thinking about today is material things. You know – money, video games, televisions, etc. We won’t take any of those things with us once we leave this earth but we WILL take our knowledge with us. That includes our spirituality. Since I’ve joined the church and really tried to change my life I’ve realized that I don’t need to hold so close to the material things but of the spiritual things because that matters so much. I’m just so happy to know the things I know today about my life and the before and afterlife. Heavenly Father wants us all to be happy and I want everyone to be happy too. Sometimes it’s so hard because we can’t make others change but we can help them or give them advice and when they don’t want the advice or help we have to accept that too. It’s so hard though because after all the changes I’ve made and the incredible, uplifted, happy feelings I’ve felt through those changes- YOU WANT IT FOR EVERYONE! … but we each have our own journey so we just have to hope that our words can inspire others to look at their lives and open their hearts to making those changes.

After Brad got home last night, we just hung out and I watched an episode of The Secret Life then we played super mario bros together for a bit until he got too frustrated, lol. I played for a bit longer then fiddled online until bed time. I woke up with a stuffed up nose but once I got up and going It got a little better. I feel a little drowsy but otherwise okay. Katie still has a runny nose and sounds a little congested still. As soon as I woke up this morning, I got some OJ and took my iron pill on an empty stomach. I’ve read that you’re supposed to take them on an empty stomach with OJ either an hour before you eat or 2 hours after you eat so I scheduled my pills like that all day long and hopefully that will help with iron absorption. Also- Brad is going to the store after work and I’m gonna get him to buy me more BABY CLAMS and a package of beef liver and I’ll eat the liver with my lunch every other day so between the pills and good absorbent iron rich foods then I should be boosting it up. BOO there was no sunshine today!!! It was cloudy but we got up to almost 70 I think. I didn’t do anything special today besides wash and fold clothes plus the usual. Watched 2 episodes of The Secret Life!

DAY 8 OF HIGH PROTEIN!!! I had a good bit um.. extra yesterday evening with snacks but that’s okay, I felt they were totally needed. I wasn’t just eating to be eating – I was eating the extra because my body was telling me It needed it. I ate breakfast and instead of eating a little apple and saving the rest for about an hour later… I went ahead and ate the whole apple and I also included a little lentils with my egg mix. I held off until 1PM till lunch time so I didn’t have a little snack! OH and I came up with a great new combo! I toasted a piece of my yummy multi-grain bread then took some protein powder, lentils, little raisins and canned pumpkin then mixed it together and added a tiny sugar free maple syrup to it and put it on top of the bread and YES. It was soooooooooo good! I ate my next snack at 4:30PM which was a mini lentil and protein powder oatmeal with the same kind of combo from earlier except I put added a small portion of oats! As usual I had my cheerios too. I held off all the way until 7PM and had my sweet potato + PB, WOOT! Tonights dessert is of course GREEK CARAMEL YOGURT!

I feel very content!!! Very thankful! Gonna upload my DailyBooth photo, listen to music and hang out until Katie’s bedtime! She loves music as much as I do, heh.