We stayed up past 2 a.m. last night.

My husband and son are on the PS2 again.  They are having fun.

I let both of them sleep in this morning, but I was up rather early. 

My daughter spent the weekend with my mother.  I miss her when she is away.

Well, we solved the problem of not having a lawnmower.  We could not afford a new riding mower.  We could not even afford a new mower deck for our current mower.  But life has a way of opening paths that you don't expect. 

We headed to the big city today.  We had some aluminum cans that we needed to turn in.  We turned in over 1,000 cans (um, we have sort of procrastinated in getting the cans to the drop-off site...LOL) and we got $11.00.  Cool, huh?

Anyway, back to the mower.  After turning our cans in, we headed over to Lowe's.  We bought a push-mower.  I haven't used one of those in years! It was all that we could afford.  At least it has a key-start, instead of those impossible pull-start cords. 

I actually used it today.  Guess what? I realized that my life has been blessed yet again!

See, I am 34...and my metabolism just keeps slowing down.  In other words, I needed to start exercising.  The thing is, between marriage, children, work, college, and everything else in my life...I don't have the time, energy, or true desire to exercise and/or work-out.  Yuck!

But I DO have a passion for being out in my yard.  SOOOO, while I was pushing that mower around, I realized that I was actually exercising!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! So, if I push-mow the accessible parts of my 4 acre property (the cleared part probably only comes to 2 acres, give or take) every week, then I might actually lose some weight!

Here is the weird part...I am actually excited about this! My arms are a little sore right now, but I had fun doing it.  I was actually able to get in closer to my flower beds and around my trees.  It even has a mulching bag.  We have this one mud-hole in our driveway that WILL NOT go away, so I was able to fill it with three loads of grass clippings today.  That is cool.  Maybe filling it with grass-clippings every week will finally bring an end to that mud-hole.

Again, perspective is everything.  I was so worried about what we were going to do about not having a lawnmower.  Then the spirit just directed us in a different direction (a blessedly CHEAPER direction) and now I can get my satisfaction from having a manicured lawn, while getting myself into shape!!!!!

Well, I am tired and tomorrow is Sunday.  I love Sunday.  It means getting to go to Church.  I hope tomorrow will be a great Sunday with good talks, uplifting lessons, and a Spirit of love coming from everybody.

Have a good night...and an even better Sunday! 

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