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Happiness:
I pray that you all had a wonderful Easter. I love the reminder of the gift that God gave us when he sacrificed his Son for us. I am so unworthy but grateful for the unconditional love that I receive from God and Jesus. I had an amazing day with my family and enjoyed a beautiful church service. I can really feel the Lord working in my life and my families life. This makes me Happy!
Update #1:
My Father In Law, Mel, was moved out of the hospital and is now back at rehab. He has resumed physical therapy and his state of mind is good. It appears that he has a rare blood disease or a form of blood cancer. We won’t know which for sure until the infection in his leg is healed. He says that the food is terrible at the facility so we took him Easter dinner. That he truly enjoyed. At this point it looks like Mel will be in rehab at least another 2 weeks. Thank you all for your prayers, they are so felt and so needed.
Update #2:
For those of you that know the history of my prayers for a Christ following husband. This has become a little closer to reality. Craig and I have started reading Acts. We finished Matthew and are going to hopefully take it one book at a time. I am enjoying the reading aspect of this study. I am really enjoying the discussion aspect. My husband is a Christ follower, he knows what Jesus is all about. Now we are working on getting the bad taste of “religion” out of his mouth. 
His interest has also ignited an interest in my son. Prayers are being answered and Angels are singing. Again thank you for your prayers.
The After Pictures:
**For those of you coming from Moms, Ministry and More looking for the after pictures….Here is the post that shows my final update.**
I have to thank Stonefox (Heidi) for letting me share my story.
Last April I went to a concert. Before the show we had a wonderful Italian dinner where someone took our picture. When I saw that picture I was shocked! “There is no way that I am that fat!” that is what I told myself. Here is that picture, remember I am in Purple.
I joined Weight Watchers. I started working the plan and the weight started to come off. It was amazing learning about portion size. I would say that that was the first and most important thing I learned. Here I am today, March 4, 2009.
I am 55 pounds lighter. I still have 5 pounds I would like to lose. I also need to work on getting some tone. I hate exercise. Recently when I was in Oklahoma I got to go jean shopping. I bought 2 pairs of size 12s. When I started losing weight I was in a 20. Now I know some of you are 3,5,7,8s. but for me, size 12 is perfect, for now. While I was in Oklahoma I was lucky enough to score an appointment to get my hair done. Ali Ruhman (she is one of the Many Meadows) did a beautiful job with my fried and ruined hair. If you are Looking for a great stylist you should get ahold of her. Here is a close-up of my hair. I love it!! Thank you Ali! I wish I was close enough to always have you do it!!!
I would like to express my Thanks for all of you that Encouraged Me, Supported Me, Loved Me and Prayed for Me through this process. You all are amazing!!
Do you ever give other people power over your Feelings?
I’m not talking about the authority figures in your life. Your Spouse, Parents, Employer, Supervisor.
I am referring to the people in your life that are your “friends”, your “Been There, Done That” Aquaintence that knows everything, your Confidant that you thought you could rely on to be there for you, not just you always being there for them.
I have been quiet this week. For a few of reasons.
One reason is that I am getting ready to leave for Hawaii this weekend. So that takes planning not just for Craig and I and our luggage but also for the kids and grandpa and their needs while we are gone.
I have also been fighting one of my infamous tired/pain attacks that no doctors seems to be able to figure out. So I take my medication and try to just smile. ( )
Another of the other reasons is I believe that my Heavenly Father has been teaching me a lesson in friendship. I had two things happen this week that were eye openers. Covering one extreme to another.
I had an important issue that I needed some advice on and I emailed a friend about it. We set up a time to talk over the phone. I called, she answered, we talked. She made me feel like she cared. She didn’t just mentor but she was my friend first. We laughed, we discussed good and not so good with our children and we discussed our up coming trips with our husbands. (My trip being way better 
) She also made sure to help me with what I needed advice on. This was the Good Extreme!
Now the other Not So Good Extreme…I believe that I have allowed a couple of people to take advantage of my friendship. My spiritual gifting runs strong in encouragement. I love encouraging people! Especially Women that have low self esteem. We are all beautiful. God loves us all. I think that one thing that I am suppose to do is help lift people up. When you lift people up it ususally means that you are at the bottom of the pile. I am ok with that most of the time but can you please take your military boots off before you stomp on me. This week I crawled out from the bottom of the pile just slightly bruised.
It makes me want to just keep to myself. I use to have a saying that I don’t really use anymore but some days it is tempting…It goes like this. “It sucks to be you” I remember when I could say that and walk away. What a work God has done in me. I am just not sure I will survive the bruises sometimes.
So to answer the original question……..
Do you ever give other people power over your Feelings?
YES! I Unfortunately Have Wasted 3 Days With Hurt Feelings?
Yes Folks Theresa Has Been At The Pity Party!
(I am waiting for Cindy Beall to come pop my Balloons)
As most of you know, I have been losing weight this year. At the last update I had lost 40 pounds by my 40th birthday. I have still been counting points and going to my Weight Watchers meetings but I have also been trying to just hold steady. I still have another 16 pounds to lose to reach my goal. I am also getting on a plane to Hawaii in about 10 days. When I get back from Hawaii I am going to tackle the 16 pounds.
I go to weigh-ins on Wednesday afternoons and a new week starts Thursday mornings. So I usually claim Wednesday night dinner as a free be. So can you guess what I had for dinner….Yep I had a BIG MAC!!! It was AMAZING!! I haven’t had one for over 6 months. It was worth every single one of the 13 points.
I know that some of you have seen the email earlier in the week but it has been awhile since I update the rest of you. So here I am total weight-loss of 44 pounds and I had my hair cut off. I am also 4 pant sizes smaller but I refuse to buy clothes until I need winter clothes.
