My jeans are too tight.  Uncomfortably tight.  I was trying to spend time with the Lord this morning and they were cutting into my tummy when I was sitting on the floor!  It was super distracting!!  😉  But before you kindly suggest that I may have accidentally shrunk them in the dryer (so kind of you though!),  we both know the ugly truth…I’ve gained weight…ergh!!!    BUT… in my defense, there’s just been so many fun events with great food, some delicious stress-eating, some “hey kids, let’s bake cookies!” eating…and so it wasn’t completely MY fault!!!  I was simply being a fun-loving socialite who loves to do things with her kids!!!   Ha!  Ha!  Are you rolling your eyes at me?  If not, you should!

And now I’m left with what feels like “the bill” for those good times…and my jeans are telling me it’s time to pay up!  😉  The party is over.

So, with that being said, the sad realization has hit me that now it’s time to “up my game”.  That means harder workouts.  After all, I’m not twenty anymore!  (Another sad realization…but whatever?!  Might as well hit me while I’m down!)  It’s time to watch the calories too.  That means don’t eat anything you enjoy, Tami!

Basically,  it’s time to SUFFER a little. 😉  Yep.  Suffer.

Yay…. ;(

So I’ve started running in the mornings…which I hate (sorry runner friends, who love to run!)  I hate running!!  There I said it again.  It feels like suffering for my entire body!!!   I’m barely running two miles this first week and it feels like fifty!!!  I’m watching caterpillars going faster than me.  Everything in me hurts.  My face turns purple.  I think I even heard a little unintentional cry-whimper escape my lips this morning!  I think my body may actually be CRYING???  Did I mention I hate running?!?  But, if I want to sit comfortably in my jeans ever again in this lifetime….I know I must suffer. 😉  Therefore, I will run.

I want this t-shirt! 😉

Our lives have been a little uncomfortable lately…just like my jeans.  My dedicated and hard-working hubby is still in the job-hunting “boat”.  Prayers are appreciated!  🙂  It’s been a long voyage (especially for him), and we are SO done with this season of waiting!!!  It feels like dreams have been put on hold once again, and that this voyage is taking forever!!    This boat is not comfortable… but we’ve been in it before.  The good thing is, we DO have each other, and God is with us!  We also know the routine!  Yay for us!  If there is ONE thing we have learned through the trials we have faced, it is that it is better just to weather the storm.  We have learned to hang on when letting go sounds like the best choice.  We know eventually, the storm will end, and both Mike and I want to be able to say, “we never let go.  We trusted God even in the toughest moment.”  We know He’s with us, loving us the entire way, and taking care of us!

BUT…in the meantime, it feels tight…and it’s uncomfortable.  It’s suffering a little bit.

Good things are ahead though!  We may have to suffer a little bit, but there will be  a day that we stand and look back on all that God taught us during this storm.  We will even thank Him for allowing us to go through it!  How crazy is that?!  😉  It’s true!  God is faithful.  His promises are true.  We’re not going to doubt in the dark what we’ve learned in the light, no way!  No matter the circumstances, God loves us and is FOR us.  It’s going to be good…you’ll see.  We just have to get through it.

Just like that AWFUL running thing!  Yuck!

Hey!  Guess what my bible verse of the day was on my phone today?  No kidding!  It was Romans 8:18.  “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Wow!!  Perfect!!

God’s timing is funny sometimes…cause I just sat down at my computer to write about tight jeans…