Table Talk

My house is quiet – well almost. There is the sound of the dish washer and the washing machine that fills the room but everything else is quiet. I am sitting here at my kitchen table looking around and thinking “what have I done here in the last 2 – 3 weeks?” I look at my TV that I can see from my table and think about all the episodes of Biggest Loser, American Idol, Secret Life, Bones, & Criminal Minds that are waiting for us to watch. I bet the next American Idol will have a platinum record before I get a chance to see who won.




I look at my table and think – who can eat here? I have a couple of bills that I need to run around town and make payment on. There is also a recipe that I want to make my husband. Then there is my grocery list that I keep writing things on and wondering when I will get a chance to go shop for. I also have my Runner Magazine still folded over on page 37 where I stopped I know over a week ago. I have put it in my purse several times hoping to read it while I wait somewhere but I have been too busy to even wait. I also have my camera sitting in the chair beside me waiting to be charged to take more pictures with this weekend. There is also a great Coach purse that I got at a yard sale I would love to get cleaned up so that I can use it and beside it is the cover that I need to put on my seat in my Jeep. There is also my Made to Crave Bible study – which I must say I have done early this morning. Keep in mind all the things that I just listed are JUST the things that sit right in front of me on my kitchen table or before my eyes right into the next room. That doesn’t even count the rest of this house. . . However, it is a shows great symbolism for how my life is right now.



It is time for school to end and a new year to begin. Those two things use to be separate but they aren’t any more. I can’t get one group of kids finished before I have to start getting another group ready to take their place. Every day is something new and chaotic from now till June. I often feel like everyone wants something and somehow that something always comes through me.



Then there is all the after school activities and test to be taken and exams to prepare for that are only followed by school and church camps and vacation plans. I keep looking ahead for a quitter time but I don’t really see that. I keep thinking as soon as I get through this I can do that. However, this and that are all running together. Maybe I am just tired and over thinking things. Maybe a good night’s sleep is just what I need. However, it doesn’t change the fact that my life is as busy as my kitchen table. All these things that are here are good things. There are some things I have to do, some things I want to do and even a few things I don’t want to do (those bills ) – but here they are – part of my reality.



Needless to say – I am proud that I could talk my way through them with you tonight rather than eat my way through them alone – right here at my kitchen table!!!!!

Whew – Now I can go to bed and sleep.

Good night!

Today’s meals – eggs, yogurt, tossed salad w/ tuna, frozen berries, oranges, veggies and dip, grilled chicken and green beans(from KFC – so glad I could go out to eat somewhere other than Subway and still eat on plan.) yogurt.

Today’s exercise – 10 minute walk and 30 minute run.



My Kitchen Table