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Entries from September 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008
Am I the only one?

move it monday.
...that thinks chocolate molten cake at Chilis tastes a lot better than a bowl of veggies? ugh.
What do you love to eat that is healthy, too? I need ideas! (tell me in the comments)
I'm so back on this Move it Monday thing! I've been wanting to get back into a routine and hoping that I would get the bug. I did get out and get moving this morning on a 40 minute walk with a few sprints thrown in to make me feel like I was getting my heart rate up. When I got back I unpacked my free weights and did a few strength training exercises on my arms. Yay!
Now...as you can see (above) from mydailyplate.com today and yesterday I have some big time work to do in the eating department. Hello! I've eaten enough fat today for an entire week. Why does food have to taste so good...especially the fattening food? Why can't the healthy food taste that good?
Here's to getting down to my target weight of 115lbs. That means losing 40 pounds. Yes, you read that right. Forty Pounds. I mean it. By March 1st I'm going to make it happen. Is everyone still with me?
I'm still going with the plan of being consistent. Eat less, put less on my plate, and then leave a little there. Exercise at least 20 minutes every day, and no eating after 7pm (I'm totally guilty of sitting at my computer working and eating). And just thinking about how I can get moving. (No more asking my kids to run upstairs and grab something for me...I'll just bring my own squishy butt upstairs and get it myself....)
it's time.
fit. LIFE.
Laughed 'til I....
ohmiheck!
If you have not seen the movie "Ghost Town" you need to get to the theatre tonight and get yourself into one of those comfy theatre seats. I laughed so hard so many times in this movie that I thought sure I might have to lean over to Mike and tell him I needed some new bloomers.
This is about a guy who dies for a little while and then starts having ghosts follow him around. This is not even close to the same genre as "Sixth Sense". What follows is hilarious and in the end meaningful without being over the top. Yes, it may be a little formulaic...but who cares?!?
You have to see this movie!
laugh. LIFE.
Julia.
Jessica had her baby!
I recieved this text message and was so excited to hear about the birth of little Miss Julia! She was born in the middle of the night at 3:22am. She's beautiful and healthy at 7lbs. 3 oz. And I, like you, am dying to see some pictures!
I so wish I could have been there for the birth but I'm waiting for all of the wonderful details.
Jessica has been a wonderful addition to the Davina Studios team and I'm thrilled to have found her. I have been so grateful for her sweetness with everyone who contacts the studio, her attention to detail, and her ability to coordinate all of us and help keep us working as a team. She's great at working in an artist's space and knows the importance of having a system for everything that happens. She's great at keeping things organized and has had so many great ideas that have helped the studio to be a better place to work. She's been a gift and I'm so grateful for her.
Obviously, Jessica will be out of the studio for the next few weeks. I'll be trying to keep up with her email box...thanks for your patience on that... :)
Make sure to welcome Julia into the world!
Best wishes and congratulations to you Jessica, Caleb, and Julia! Julia is blessed to have you both as parents...
new. LIFE.
Boys.



real. boy. life.
Last night Emmett had a huge dissappointment...the first loss during a season with his football team. All of the boys were very sad and all of them knew that they could play better but for some reason just couldn't seem to get their head and their hearts on the same page. It could have been that the game was a last minute make up for bad weather or it could have been the Goliath boys that were on the other team that would make any mom wonder if her son would come out on the other side of the game or if they will be making another trip to the hospital.
No matter what the reason was for the performance of their game there really, truly are more important things than winning a game.
After all of the kids were in bed last night I laid in bed reading "Boys Should Be Boys" by Meg Meeker. (If you don't have this book and you have boys you NEED this book!). Because I was desperate for some help on the matter, of what to say to Emmett after such a devastating game, I knew I had to read before falling off to sleep. I had started to read from the first page a few weeks ago but hadn't picked it back up since then. I checked the index for football and disappointment but didn't find what I needed. I decided to look at the table of contents and was thrilled to see a chapter called "10 things you need to know to raise a boy". Yay!. My favorite thing: LISTS. And a top 10 list to boot.
That top 10 list was just what I needed to read. Emmett is a very sweet boy. He tries hard, likes to do everything well, he tries to be patient, and he watches out for his sisters (even if he does know how to tease them in just the right way). He expects a lot of himself and gets pretty bugged when he performs below his own expectations. He is extremely smart and
is an excellent friend.
One of the things on the top 10 list is: Raise Him From The Inside Out. When I read this tip it was the exact help I was looking for. "He knows that good grades are better than bad, that scoring a touchdown is better than fumbling the ball, that hitting the high note is better than missing it. But he needs to know what you think of him as a person. Do you like what you see beneath the stuff he does--his character, the deeper parts of who he is?"
So...this morning as he sat at the counter with his sisters eating his breakfast before catching the bus that comes wayyy to early at 6:50am I told him about the deeper parts of him, about the stuff that really makes me proud of him, the stuff that matters. I love to see him help his team make a touchdown but what I love seeing even more is that he's nice to the boys on the team that are having a tough time, that he watches out for and protects his sisters, that he loves to learn and works hard to understand things and to help others understand without making them feel less than. I love that he loves God and that he wants to be good. I love that the core of him is sweet, understanding, giving and at the same time all boy, exploring, discovering, and making forts out in the woods.
And even though last night out on that field it was an extremely disappointing night and he felt like crying... I'm happy that he held it in but that when he got home he felt safe enough to share his disappointment and loss and sadness. (Another great point that this book makes is that boys have the 'boy code' that you don't cry in front of your peers. And that's an okay code. It teaches boys self-control and self-mastery. However, they need to feel safe enough once they get home to be able to spill that emotion and know that they can talk about whatever sadness they feel. Reading this last night at midnight and realizing that I have an incredible husband who went in and talked to Emmett in his room and let him feel all the sadness that he was feeling on the field was a gift to me. I was filled with love and gratitude for being blessed with a man who is a special bit of grace as a dad to our kids.)
Emmett is an amazing boy, full of life, emotion, giving, running, jumping, exploring, reading, learning, and love. I'm so glad that he is in my life, that he's made it more full, more wonderful, and more real than it ever would have been with out him.
**I made sure that Emmett was okay with this post before I published it.**
boy. LIFE.
Barbara and Sterling.


artist.
Sterling is an oil painter that had a space near my studio when I was in Utah. We had been talking for ages about getting his shoot scheduled and when he found out I was moving it decided it was time. We did a quick shoot at his home with his wife, Barbara.
Sterling has been so good to me. He has been extremely generous to me and Gracie adores him. He's one of the artists that always made Gracie feel like such a big girl. Every day she would check to see if he was in his studio and if he was she would go down to chat with him and usually come back with some beautiful piece of artwork she'd done with pastels or markers on cool watercolor paper.
Sterling and Barbara's home is filled with a lifetime of memories and art and sweet beauty. I'm so glad I got to spend a little time with them before I left...
sweet. LIFE.




