I'm Back!

Well, family and friends I have had many of you ask about my blog and why I haven't been updating. Needless to say, August 12th I had to return to school and I have been going none stop since then. Mike has been traveling with his job, so that has been different and therefore, I've had extra responsibilities to take care of all by myself at home. He's gone again this week. Lord willing, he will be returning on Thursday and not Friday!

I have still been attending Weight Watchers and lost another 1.6 pounds this week. I guess waking up at 5:45am to walk 2 miles, walking up and down the stairs all day and then coming home and walking Cooper for a half mile is working! Although, I'm exhausted by 9:00pm.

I wanted to share about Sunday after church. Mike and I went to Olive Garden (we had a gift card) for lunch. We saw some friends of ours, Bob and Barb, and they invited us to join their table. WELL. . .Mike and I were the youngest and I learned much at the lunch table. One lady had recently lost her husband and the other couple used to be missionaries, so the table was full of life and I was amazed at how God's hand had directed all of them together and for us to join them. I wanted soooo badly to take a picture, but I wasn't sure if our new older friends would go for it. So maybe if we get invited again, I'll be more brave and ask to take a picture. One of the gentlemen at the table asked our waiter his name and told him we were going to bless our food and wanted to know if there was anything we could pray for him about. WOW. . .I was speechless! What a great idea to share Christ with others in a simple way of thinking of others than yourself. He right away mentioned 2 prayer requests. That again was surprising to me. I don't know why, but God was using this experience to draw me closer to him. It reminded me IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT ME!!! Thank you God for using friends to focus on You!

I'm hoping to get back in the swing of blogging and get back to it on a regular basis! I've missed it! Wonder what I'll blog about next. . . .