7 Quick Takes: March 19, 2010 (Vol. 34)

I decided on Sunday that I was going to go to reconciliation (confession) on Wednesday evening.  I then spent a ton of time during those days dreading going to confession.  I dreaded it more than I have since the first time I went (on Palm Sunday in 2007).

When I went though, it was wonderful.  It was probably one of my best times in the confessional ever.  It was exactly what I needed.  The advice was wonderful and just what I needed to hear.  Now I’m just praying hard for the strength to do the things that I need to do.

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Daylight savings time has been kicking my hiney this week.  I have been staying up too late and have had a really difficult time getting out of bed in the morning.  I’ve begun to think that I might never readjust to the time. 

When you throw in my natural sleep issues (delayed sleep phase syndrome, which I have self-diagnosed due to my extensive medical training — years of things like ER and Grey’s Anatomy), it has been a little, well, tiring this week.s

Holy Moly!  I got to try the new Almond Joy Pieces candy the other day and I couldn’t stop eating them.  Thankfully, they belonged to my Mom, so I couldn’t really eat them all.  Otherwise, I think I would have eaten them all. 

If you like Almond Joy candy bars and don’t want to eat a ton of the Almond Joy Pieces, just don’t try them, okay?  Trust me on that one.

It’s been a long time since I talked about our weight loss journey.  We aren’t making fast progress, but since January 1st, I have lost around 11 pounds and Eric has lost around 15 pounds. 

We both could have lost a lot more, but we haven’t made a crazy amount of changes in our eating (though we have made quite a few, and are taking the time to count calories and watch fat content) and we have sometimes forgotten about exercising.  So, all that considered, I feel like it’s going really well.

Then again, if I could kick it into higher gear, that would probably be a really great thing.

Speaking of kicking things into high gear, I am proud to say that on Tuesday, I managed to have whole grains at every meal!  Who knows if that will ever happen again, but I can hope.

For breakfast, I had a 100% whole wheat English muffin with a couple of teaspoons of peanut butter.  For lunch, I had a sandwich on 100% whole wheat bread while we were busy driving around to some appointments.  For dinner, we had homemade pizza.  I made the crust with — yeah, you guessed it — whole wheat flour. 

As a follow up to our visit from Seamus the Leprechaun, I must share that I told our priest friend that my kids were sure that Seamus had come to give me “payback” (as they said” for having toilet papered his (our priest friend’s) office. 

Imagine my kids’ delight when we got a message back from the priest.  He let the kids know that, indeed, he had met Seamus at his new parish (after he was transferred from ours) which is named…wait for it…St. Patrick’s (yep — it’s true!), and knew that Seamus loved pulling pranks.  So, he had given Seamus the names of some families to “visit.”

The kids went insane after this message.  They were laughing and carrying on.  They were also pleased to finally understand one thing that had bothered them all day — Why had this been our first visit from a leprechaun.  Now they knew it was because Seamus had never been told to visit us.

While the kids plotted their own payback, I thanked God for all of the wonderful priests that we know. 

While discussing leprechauns this week, Molly at one point was excitedly talking about when the “Decepticon” had come and pulled pranks in our house.

“Leprechaun,” she had to be reminded.  Although I had to wonder what kinds of pranks a Transformer might decide to pull on St. Patrick’s Day.

 This post is linked to 7 Quick Takes Friday and Weekly Wrap Up.

photos by:  confessional – elmada / sleeping doll – :: Hello Mizu ::

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