Sometimes I like the Easy Route

I have to admit it, sometimes I like to take the easy road -- especially when it comes to weight. For that reason, Plexus has been a blessing to me! This year is CrAzy for most teachers I know. A good friend and I were talking and she was telling me how she went on a short week long chocolate and sweet binge, because she is sooooo stressed from teaching and all the things they keep adding to our plate (lol!).

Luckily though, she decided to tap back into her weightloss journey and dropped 3 pounds this week! Down from 184 to 181 -- I'm so excited for her because I know what it's like to struggle with weight. It's always been an issue for me. What I love about Plexus is it's just easy to use. Even though we post these AMAZING TRANSFORMATIONS, because they obviously happen, not everyone looses weight that way on plexus. For some of us, the changes are slower and more gradual; but I'm ok with that! I eat what I want, when I want... normally just less. Right now you can join Plexus and get the plexus slim (helps make your waist skinny!), the biocleanse (reoxygenates) and the Probio5 (puts healthy biotics back in your system) for a little more than $125 and that includes a website that all you have to do is post on your FB page and you're in business. Even if you never sell anyone else their first packet, you are still getting all these products for a great price.

www.81949.myplexusproducts.com or use ambassador #102399 I feel bad when ppl say, $100+ a month is too much. I thought the same way, that's why I signed up to sell it. Since I'm a numbers person, I'll tell you the best way to look at it. You eat less, so you save money. Less cold drinks/coffee, you save money. That side of your closet that houses all those outfits that you keep hoping to get back into, more money saved right there. Everytime you DON'T have to buy a new pair of $40 pants or a $25 shirt, YOU HAVE SAVED MONEY. Increased confidence so you actually apply for those jobs that you've been wanting to, saved money. This summer, I actually felt so much better about the direction I was headed that I even went without makeup many days, saved money! Plus everytime ppl order from me or my website, I make money. And you can too.... But I really do challenge you to try it for yourself first. It's hard to sell a product that you can't personally vouch for. But when ppl see you and the quick or slow changes, they want a little of what you have... And I love helping people feel better about themselves. Anyways, just wanted to toss this out there. Hope you'll give it a try.... you can cancel anytime, I'll even text ya the customer service number to cancel, if you decide it's not for you.... but at least give it a try, and hang in there.... My newest customer is a man, and he's down 6 lbs in 8 days, but way more inches across his chest :) I hope you'll think it over, IF weight and health have been issues for you.... If you are pre-diabetic or diabetic this is definitely you need to try....

Moon Phase Oreos! Love it.... Of course I didn't create this little lesson, but I know lots of little people that would be actively engaged in it... http://www.sciencebob.com/blog/?p=828

Deep thoughts... and shallow moments!

Ahhh so the week has arrived -- high stakes testing week in Louisiana. I was nervous, then I got over myself and just put it in God's hands. I have done my job. We can only work with what we get. We only have so much influence, and so many hours in the day. Many of my friends have sent messages of encouragement, I think they know how pressurized I generally feel this time of year (lol!). No matter what happens though, I know, that at the end of the day, I have poured myself out for my students.

However the most important message I got this week, was from my sister, and it was something my MUCH older, lol, and wiser brother in law had shared with Kim. This is NOT the test that tells us if we get into heaven or not... Wow! He is right. This is not the most important test in the world. This test is a small measure of some 'successes, and even in some cases where it may look like a failure, if you take a good look at what they came to us with, we will see growth. However it does not measure maturity, it does not measure kindness or patience, it does not even take into account life issues that children have dealt with. It is just a measure.

I am so glad that Kim shared Bryan's statement with me. It was a "lightbulb moment" for me. It reminded me, that we are working with little humans, not just numbers. And most of all, it reminded me to trudge ahead this week, and try to use an extra dose of patience, kindness, and gentleness in the classroom, as I know these littles are feeling the weight of "the test." Father God, as always, open my eyes, that I may see your plans more clearly....

Whatever your "tests or trials" are this week, I pray that you remember that there is a bigger test in life... and if we fail, in the way we treat people... all other tests really don't matter much! Peace

Beautiful Things

You make beautiful things, you make beautiful things out of the dust... You make beautiful things, you make beautiful things out of us....

I really love that song right now, it reminds me that God will finish the good work he started in us. I haven't written in a while. Around Christmas time I began feeling sort of pressed in and pushed down by the world. I went through a rough spot where I just got complacent. That's really not a great place to be, and oddly enough
a message from an athiest friend is what reminded me that I needed to get myself right with God again. We can run, but we can't hide from God's love.

Makes me think of Saul/Paul in the bible. I love how God took a man who once persecuted Christians, knocked him off his horse and gave him new vision and purpose...That's what I'm praying for these days: New vision and purpose.

In 1 Cor. 9:19-23 Paul states: 19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

I'm not sure that I have made myself "slave to everyone" but I feel like it's a direction that I should be heading. I want to live like that... to do ALL THIS for the SAKE of the GOSPEL, that I may SHARE in its BLESSINGS.

Father God, let me run the good race and let me not grow weary. Focus me on your plans and purposes. Save me from my selfish pride, teach me your ways. Renew my spirit, and let things oppose your work in me, melt away. Most of all, thank you, for never giving up on me. I trust you in all things. Amen