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This week has been pretty ho-hum so my Thankful Thursday highlights are not all that exciting.  They’re just a continuation of my life 🙂  BUT!  Today is the first day of Spring and we had 50+ temperatures so that is exciting! 1.  We had dinner at two of our daughters’ homes on two different days.  […]

This week’s Thankful Thursday highlights are pretty much ordinary.  What with the snow melting and the days seeming to be longer, there’s not all that winter excitement to complain and be stressed about lol 1.  So we turned our clocks ahead and I am now driving home in broad daylight!  Yippee!!!  I love love love it!  […]

This will be a quickie Thankful Thursday post as I worked today at my part-time job for 8 hours and I’m a bit tired.  Usually I have NO PLANS on Thursdays so that I can focus on my Blog, etc.  But it’s the beginning of the month when I have to work the part-time job […]

Good evening!  How is everyone this Thankful Thursday? It has been a kind of ho-hum week except for today which was spent at a funeral. But I’m getting ahead of myself.  Let’s get to the short list of my Thankful Thursday, shall we? 1.  We had a melting of snow, which brought on some muddy roads (I […]

This week has been about as exciting as last week.  I’m still waiting for the deep freeze to go away and for Spring to get here.  Let’s move on to the few highlights for this week’s Thankful Thursday. 1.  Did you all see the Valentine’s Day full moon on Friday?  I headed east to go […]

This week hasn’t been too exciting or anything.  I did get better and went back to work, but it’s been pretty ho-hum.  I’m just waiting for the deep freeze to go away and for Spring to get here. So here are a few highlights for this week’s Thankful Thursday. 1.  I’m starting with the negative […]

Even though this week wasn’t as “exciting” as last week, it still had its moments…some that were really unexpected and unwanted and some pretty cool ones.  Here are the highlights for this week’s Thankful Thursday. 1.  Yahoo!  Our baby girl came home to spend time with us and stayed overnite.  She’s been married 2 1/2 […]

What a week full of “highlights” – scary moments, happy moments and relieving moments…a truly Thankful Thursday! 1.  We went out to buy a used (third) car to be a back up in case one of the other two breaks down and we’d have one while it’s in the shop.  We came home feeling really […]

I would like to write about this while it is fresh on my mind.  Have any of you driven in whiteout conditions?  I had heard of it and how scary it is, but experiencing it is another story!  I was at work where the snow flurries came and went throughout the day.  The forecast was […]

Since it was a pretty quiet and uneventful cold winter week, I only have a few things to write about this Thankful Thursday. 1.  The weather this week has been very very cold and a couple days a little icy.  Ya’ll know I don’t like the winter anyway, but I very much hate having to […]

I have a few things to write about this Thankful Thursday that truly make me appreciate the opportunities that allow me to see the positiveness around me. 1.  One of my best friends is getting married in the summer and asked me to be one of her bridesmaids.  I haven’t been one since I was […]

My first week of highlights for Thankful Thursday is now in the books!  Time is marching on! 1.  My daughter’s in law and my youngest daughter’s birthday is in December, as is mine.  My second daughter’s birthday is in February.  We were going to have an overnite Girls Nite Out to celebrate all our birthdays […]

So my first Thankful Thursday post of this new month is also the first one of the New year.  WOW!  That’s all I can say.  It still amazes me how time just seems to pass by faster and faster! 1. I had my annual eye exam this week and everything went well. I didn’t expect […]

My Thankful Thursday post may be short this week, but it is highlighting 3 BIG important and blessed events in my life. 1.  Over 25 years ago, I received a lifetime birthday present.  Our youngest daughter was born on December 20, the day before my birthday, December 21st.  We have celebrated annually together for the last […]

I have a few more highlights for this Thankful Thursday than I did last week.  🙂 1.  While my husband is on partial seasonal lay off, he cooked dinner since I had to work the weekend (Saturday, Sunday, Monday).  He stuffed acorn and butternut squashes with ground pork and roasted the seeds one nite.  Another […]

  A while back I had the opportunity to attend a conference workshop on blogging.  The gal, herself a blogger, shared some excellent information and tips on being a consistent, successful blogger.  One of the take aways I got was about posting a quick post once a week – “no matter what”.  She suggested writing […]

Some of you know that I was born and raised on Maui and eventually wound up where I live now in Iowa. I recently went to Maui to visit family and friends whom I haven’t seen in 5 years (or more). So this is about my typical Maui staycation. Yes, I realize a staycation is […]

Here is my staycation beach photos – the beaches I combed while on my Maui staycation. This first group is of a couple beaches (where I acquired my sunburn) that was located south of Olowalu. They were pretty sandy and had only a little bit of kiawe thorns under the trees by the roadside.   […]

I couldn’t find my cucumbers.  Can you guess why?  This is what happens when the weather is hot and cold, wet and dry. We get rain, then it gets really dry and then rain again. That kind of weather makes for fertile ground to grow weeds and grass.  Throw in “no time” to tend the […]

I’ve been wanting to do another vlog for a while but haven’t made the time to do it.  So on a whim, I decided to video one of my hula practice sessions, aka my hula workout, and this is what I came up with.  Since dancing is one of my favorite ways to burn calories, […]

My most favorite part of my fitness journey is dancing. Yes, dancing is my favorite calorie burner! 🙂 I’ve been dancing (as far as I can remember) since I was 5. (I’m pretty sure as much as I like it, I probably was dancing in my mother’s womb!) My first formal encounter with dance was […]

I made it through the short 3 days of cleaning out my system and here are my protein cleanse results.  Just a note to reiterate that the protein-packed Shakeology shakes kept me from feeling hungry  and I did not feel tired during my 3 days on the cleanse.  I was able to do low impact […]

A person could get used to this cleansing/detoxing stuff!  And of course a protein cleanse is the way to go.  At least it’s working for me so I’m endorsing it. This morning’s weigh-in and BFP:  129 pounds, 29%.  I’m down another pound for a total of 2.5 and 1% less on BFP.  Sweet! I wanted […]

I was very pleased when I weighed in for my protein cleanse this morning.  I was 1.5 pounds down. WOOHOO! 🙂 Weight and BFP:  130 pounds, 30%. I walked for 30 minutes on our gravel road again for my low key workout and was not hungry or tired.  This is what I ate and drank:  […]

I have to get off this plateau! I’ve been moaning and groaning this for a while now. And I haven’t done a Shakeology Cleanse in a few months so this is what I’m doing for the next few days.  This protein cleanse is one of the better cleanses I’ve done in my life.  I don’t […]