I'm still here! I promise! I read through chapter 19 of Matthew this week. So far I'm keeping up! Nathan has been out of town with my sister Leah's husband, Henry. (Hi Leah!) I took advantage of not having anyone around in the evenings. I cleaned my closet out in a serious serious way. I have FIVE big black garbage bags full and one tall kitchen bag of fabric for friends to sort through then to donate, one big black bag of clothes for Kathy, one white bag of fabric and projects for Anne, and am making a bag of shoes for a friend of Amy's.

Then, I got busy on Nathan's closet. From his closet I filled one big black bag for donation, two big bags for the cleaners, and a big bag of trash. I also collected a grocery bag, Whole Foods reusable thankyouverymuch, for Dawn for her contributions to the Kid's Market sale.

Oh. Yeah. I also got tired of only having 8 dinner plates. So I ordered 24 white dinner plates, 12 white salad plates and 12 white bowls. I packed up the remainder of our old dinner plates to be put into the attic for storage. I moved the drawer of kids' plates and cups so it is easier to reach when unloading dishes. I also hit the Dollar Spot at Target and restocked their drawer with plates and bowls. I also went to Hobby Lobby and got Valentine's day cups to refill the drawer.

I haven't been doing any formal exercise, but I have been working hard and moving around more. I've been eating less and making better choices. Well, not today so much. I had macaroni and cheese and fish sticks for lunch, but I limited my portions and ate slowly. For breakfast I had a superfruit smoothie. I got 3 servings of fruit in before 8am.

Off to teach the children something! Celeste has a holiday today, but she has a book report due tomorrow. I am going to attempt to teach all three of them at the same time. I suppose you could call it a trial run!