God Is Good or Why I Missed Foodie Friday! + Weekly Checkin

I knew this was going to be a tough week.  Because of a busy schedule and traveling for the holiday workouts were going to be shorter and/or non existent.  Then add in pizza and cake at a birthday party to boot.  I was going to have to tread lightly.  Then it became doubly hard.  Remember I'm a stress eater Ya'll!

Thursday afternoon on my planning period I was on my way to my wife's classroom to ask her a question. (yes we teach in the same building and it is wonderful)  As I came up the steps I saw her heading toward my room and followed whispering something that was probably not entirely school appropriate (hey, there were no students around and it wasn't really that bad).  She turned and I could see she was visibly shaken! Then I heard the words that made my heart sink to my toes. "Brian, Your mom has been in a bad wreck, Omi was with her.  Omi is fine, but they are transferring your mom by ambulance to the hospital."  Of course your mind races to the worse.  I called my sister who told me the details and it was sounding like it could be bad.  She had run off the side of the road and over corrected and flipped her truck 4 to 5 times.  She was responding to questions, on her own, but they were worried about her neck and head and internal bleeding.  Omi was perfect but they were going to have her checked out.  As a matter of fact when the Fire and Police arrived she was reading a book in her car seat like nothing had happened.  Anyone with small children needs to contact my sister and see what kind of car seat she has!!!!

I continued my day as best I could and prepared for a sub to take my class the next day.  Then miracle of miracles dad call.  Mom is bruised and will be sore, but there were no breaks or bleeds.  I told him I was heading down and he said that He knew it was momma and you want to see her, but you are coming tomorrow. You would get here till bedtime.  Just come with your family tomorrow as planned.

The next two days were filled with bad food choices.  I couldn't even tell you all because My Fitness Pal took a backseat as well.  Again I kept the volume of food lower than passed time in similar situations, but what I ate was not good, not good at all.

So there you go folks!  I will try to do two recipes next week to make up for the lost week, but miracles of miracles again even through this week I lost 4 pounds.  My short very intense workouts early in the week must have carried me through.  Thursday morning I swam 500 meter without touching a wall.  I now realize how much I am pushing off the wall because that was much harder than 800 m while touching the wall!

Here's my Week:

 

The Day I Became a Mother - Which Drove Me To Be A Blogger- Read and Listen - You Won't Be Sorry!

As a few of you know my wife blogs (Check her out HERE), has been for a loooong time.  As a matter of fact she is a very good blogger and author (Check out her books) and public speaker and teacher and mother and wife, but I digress.  Because of this two years ago she told me about this little show called Listen To Your Mother.  She thought about submitting stories to Austin the year before but didn't because it just seemed a little too far.  Then two awesome ladies, Stephanie McCratic and Lela Davidson (Check out their blogs and Lela's books) brought Listen To Your Mother to Northwest Arkansas and Heather jumped in with both feet. She submitted several stories and was chosen for the cast.  Her experience was so powerful that she and another great Oklahoma lady, Misti Pryor enlisted the help of Julie Bohannon and produced an AWESOME show in Oklahoma City.

After sitting in the audience and watching a lot of the videos on You Tube from previous years, I had a few story ideas floating around in my little head and I had a conversation with one of the Oklahoma producers that I happen to sleep with.

Me:  Hey, what would you think if I submitted a story to Listen To Your Mother?

Oklahoma Producer (My wife):  Really? (In that high pitch disbelieving way) Sure if you read, I will just not read.

Me:  You have a book coming out! YOU ARE NOT NOT READING!


So I secretly wrote a story and submitted it to NW Arkansas Listen To Your Mother, and lo and behold I got an audition and not just an audition I got cast in the show. So on May 30th of this year I officially became a mother!  It was an amazing experience getting to sit in the audience and become a part of the lives of all of these wonderful women in Arkansas last year and OKC this year as they shared their stories with the world, but being on that stage this year myself was a surreal experience.  The love and support you feel from the audience is indescribable. I had never considered myself a writer, but by expressing myself in this way I learned a lot about me.  Which lead me to begin this blog and start this journey to be healthy.  Which I hope allows me to be apart of many Listen To Your Mother Show for years to come.  If you have a story. Write it down.  You won't be sorry.  If it happens to be about motherhood please consider finding a Listen To Your Mother Show in your neck of the woods and submitting your piece.  Again you won't be sorry.

Below are the links to Heather's and My stories from the last two years and a link to the Listen To Your Mother Video Room.  Do yourself a favor and spend some time in the video room. You won't be sorry!

Heather's piece from last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAaVRx7hd8s&list=PL6D7EDFB11FF2EA58&index=4

Heather's from this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PYlW5YJCqE&list=PL5oPQWgVdsDnFSbpGeEBhNXh04CjuNSLu&index=1

My Piece from this year:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rCIHgyX9sF0

Listen To Your Mother You Tube Page:

https://www.youtube.com/user/LTYMShow/featured