Whew.  Two weeks since I’ve last been here.  So much for posting at least twice a week…

Flexibility.  That was my word for the day last time I posted.  Turns out, it was prophetic, as the last two weeks got entirely swallowed up in the preparations for, execution of, and recovery from my daughter’s class trip (otherwise known as Four Days on The Junk Food Express).  It remains a good word, as I try to bend over backwards writing for the blogs (building a platform), finishing the manuscript,  and writing the formal proposal while juggling work, family time, kid’s activities, and, God-willing, a little bit of exercise.  Juggling.  That’s good word, also.  As is balance.

Unfortunately, I don’t seem to do any of them very well most days.  But I am learning.

Flexibility has been having a salad for lunch but having pizza for dinner.  Balance has been letting myself sleep all day Monday but dragging my butt out of bed today to work on the proposal.  Juggling, well, juggling has been my clumsy attempts to spend time with my children without feeling pulled in three other directions, one foot in their room and one foot out the door.

I truthfully don’t know how my weight fared on the Junk Food Bus. I’ve been afraid to step on the scale, knowing what price might come with a little too much flexibility.  I know I ate things I don’t normally eat.  Like Oreo cookies and large quantities of pizza and Taco Bell and key lime pie.  But I also know I made some good choices.  Like grilled chicken instead of fried and a salad instead of a Filet-O-Fish and swimming for two hours rather than sitting in the bleachers.  Balance.  It won’t take the weight off, but apparently it doesn’t put it on, either.  I can live with that, for now.

The Junk Food Ship has sailed, and life is returning to normal.  My hope is to get back into a groove here, as well as in a few other areas as well.  Eating clean.  Working.  Working out.  Family time.  Writing.  With flexibility.  And balance.

And as little juggling as possible.

Here’s hoping…

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