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Day 257: Signs, Bone Broth and One Less Pound!


This is what's going on at my house! lol

Yesterday, I had a day off from teaching. I lingered over my blog and made a new plan yesterday.

Then I made a pot of tea and I posted a sign outside my bedroom door and got to practicing!

On a bathroom break, I walked out into the hallway and noticed a sign my son-in-law had made. LOL!  I thought it was eerily quiet in the house. My son was at work and my daughter was on a job interview. I thought my son-in-law was watching a game. Apparently we have inspired one another!

Here is my list of accomplishments for yesterday:

Piano Practice  2 hours
Breakfast, prayer and bible study 1/2 hour
Email 1 hour
Piano Practice 1hour
Trail Walk:  1.5 miles
Shower, etc 1/2 hour
Made Dinner (roast chicken and cauliflower!) 1/2 hour prep
Laundry 1/2 hour
Stretched 15 minutes
Dinner 1/2 hour
Made bone broth with the chicken carcass 15 min prep
Stretched 15 min
Made popcorn 5 min
Watched movie ("Still Alice"- loved this movie! I also started to worry about my memory, which has never been good!) 90 min
Ate popcorn, 15 min, and too many calories!
Downloaded a memory game on my Kindle 10 min
Played memory game 15 min
Read a book ("Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories") 1 hour
Epsom salts bath 1/2 hour
Bed 11:30 pm

Today I am going to drink bone broth for breakfast, stretch and practice piano. I was so inspired from my reading, that I have decided to incorporate hymns into my prayer time. Isaac Wattss, who wrote "Joy to the World" wrote over 750 hymns, Charles Wesley wrote over 5,00!! Should give me plenty of material to wonder, sing and study!

On another note, (pun intended), I weigh 185 today! Even with popcorn!

HAPPY Thursday!

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