Sunday showers

Church was good today. I think my object lesson really struck a cord with the kids. I had a teacher come up and try and break a piece of extra strong jean thread in half, then after he was successful I had him hold two pieces of thread and try and break those in half. The kids thought it was funny to watch him struggle. He did manage to break two threads, but could not break three pieces of thread together. I likened this to prayer and how praying together as a family will make us stronger and closer together. When we pray by ourselves, we are like the single thread and the more we pray, individually or as a family, we get stronger, just like having two and three threads together. Then Satan has less and less power over us.

In other news, I've been totally behind on my cleaning and laundry. UGH! I decided to just try and do a little, but once I started it was so addicting I just kept going and going. Now I know I really shouldn't do this on Sunday, but I needed to take advantage of the fact that I actually felt like cleaning and had the time and energy to do so. Since I've started the Cambridge I feel like I have more and more energy, which is such a good feeling!

I tackled Colby's room and even found some more things to go into my Garage sale. Dejunking and Decluttering feels SO AMAZINGLY GOOD! Then I put up a new shower curtain in my bathroom and decided to scrub my shower so that the new shower curtain wouldn't be doomed from the start! My poor bathroom gets so neglected.

I had to put in some serious elbow grease and I tried to remember to tighten my stomach muscles while I was doing it. I really did work up a pretty good sweat and felt my muscles working hard. Next I scrubbed the toilet, wiped up the floor, cleaned the mirror and dejunked and wiped down the counter and two sinks. My Colby came in near the end of my bathroom cleaning spree, well actually he came to my bedroom door crying and I finally took pity on him and let him in. He started getting into too much trouble so I stuck him in the bath, which he of course needed anyway. Then Joel came in and was happy to take a bath too! I don't know why it feels like so much work to scrub them both up and wash their hair, maybe because I am so out of shape, or the fact that you are half bent over the whole time. Anyhow, I felt like I got a workout in.

I also did a couple loads of laundry and could feel my muscles work as I bent and twisted and walked really fast from the bedroom to the laundry room so the big pile of clothes in my arms wouldn't fall all over the floor! =)

Burn fat burn!