Monday, September 12, 2011

God is so Good

I was playing with my brother's dog Saturday night (running through the house playing "tag" and hide-and-seek) and I caught my middle toe on my right foot on a door. I broke my toe, at least that's what I think. I iced it, didn't take any meds, and slept fine that night. (I felt like a Dufflepud hopping around the house on one foot, except I don't have a huge foot.)  Sunday I hobbled around putting the least amount of pressure on that foot without having to hop on one leg. And, yes, I wore shoes--not flip flops. I taped the "broken' toe to another toe last night. The toe was swollen, but not bad. There is some bruising where the toe meets the foot, but not bad. And today I've sat on my butt playing a 10-year old friend's i-pod touch (she left a note for me when she left for school telling me to feel better and "Play my ipod"), reading a bit, played a game with cousins once they got home from school, watched only a bit of TV. I haven't sat for this long in a long time. I've been using a baseball bat as a cane to help not put much pressure on my foot. My toe doesn't even hurt that much.

God is so Good:
1. it's my middle toe and not my big toe or little toe
2. softball season is over
3. there's hardly any pain
4. I still have things I can do while sitting a lot
5. it doesn't stop me from going to church
6. He's already begun healing my toe, and I know in His time He'll complete the healing
7. He has a sense of humor

(Yes, it's kind of funny. :))

Monday, September 5, 2011

Finally...I get to blog again

Where did summer go in terms of my blog posts? Thanks to Labor Day and not having many pressing things to do, I was finally able to catch up reading friends' blog posts from the past few months. Seriously, I was reading blog posts from June. (Would these count as reading a book today?) I enjoyed reading about my family's adventures in Indonesia (Desjardines, Forneys) and the Philippines (Maxwells). I enjoyed reading about my brother's fast pitch softball season thus far (Robby). I enjoyed about book clubs, being good stewards of time, etc. on another brother's blog (Schindler). I enjoyed read the other blogs, as well. Okay, I simply enjoy reading friends' blogs.

There have been a few things I wanted to blog about during the summer, but at those instances I didn't get the opportunity, and now I don't remember what I wanted to say. Ah, well.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to prepare for next year's slow pitch softball season. I'm a decent hitter, and I'd like to get a bit more power in my swing. Lifting some weights, maybe?I should shed a few more pounds to be better in shape, in any case. I also want to work on running--more, better endurance. Hey, with school beginning tomorrow and most of the kids in school all day, I can begin Biggest Loser workouts on the Wii in our kitchen again during the day! Sweet! Hopefully I stick with it again. I'm thinking about jogging/brisk walking/bike riding around the lake on some of these cool mornings/evenings...yeah, we'll see how that goes.

No matter what I end up doing, I'm eager to see what my King will be doing in me this fall...we're coming into a new season...and the weather has been cooperating today, too. Beautiful and needing to wear a sweatshirt! Yes!