{"id":379771,"date":"2015-05-18T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/18\/fresh\/"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:48:18","slug":"fresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/18\/fresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday eve, Journeyer!<\/p>\n

It’s been a strange week, Friends!<\/p>\n

I am one of those people doctors refer to as “fit as a fiddle” or “strong as an ox” but this past week has made me double-think those phrases!<\/p>\n

I came down with Pink Eye the Friday before we left for Beauty’s graduation. Fortunately I’ve had this once before and remembered the symptoms, so I was able to contact my physician and start treatment immediately, thus staving off being miserable during her special day and the inevitable college dorm room emptying.<\/p>\n

I was out sick from work last Wednesday and then yesterday afternoon I came down with body ache after body ache that finally turned into chills by dinner time. Even my skin hurt to the touch!<\/p>\n

At least I understand why I fell asleep at my friend’s house Saturday night at the tail end of another friend’s fiftieth birthday celebration. Thank heavens they are super good friends who didn’t care that I put my head down and promptly fell into a deep slumber.<\/p>\n

I woke this morning feeling totally drained and washed out, even after going to bed at eight-thirty last night.<\/p>\n

Our bodies have a way of letting us know when it’s time to stop and re-fresh! I slept until almost ten this morning and then sort of sat around in a stupor until about two.<\/p>\n

Fresh seems to be the biggest highlights of the past week…<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed a fresh hot tub soak for my sore muscles after Friday’s crazy Crossfit work out. The last component of the workout was to run a 5k or do four sets of some stuff with the medicine ball.<\/p>\n

\"Refreshing<\/a><\/p>\n

I can do upper body workouts all day long, so I decided I needed to work on strengthening my endurance. It took my forty-five minutes and fifty-five seconds, but I’m proud to say I actually walked back in to the gym in an upright position!<\/p>\n

Seeing as how I didn’t train for this one bit, I’m pleased with coming in only a minute longer than the powerful and inspirational Race for the Cure event I trained months for<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

I came home from work one afternoon to the beautiful scent of fresh lilac blooms!\"Fresh<\/a><\/p>\n

It appears I wasn’t the only one who was enjoying these spring bouquets!<\/p>\n

I finally had a chance to load Beth Nielson Chapman’s Uncovered<\/em> CD onto my hard drive and enjoyed listening to her unique and soothing voice! Simple Things<\/em> is one of my favorites to-date.<\/p>\n

\"Fresh<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that we’ve successfully removed all of the items from our bedroom, closet, and ex-nursery-soon-to-be-bathroom, Warren has been hard at work gutting the room and putting up Sheetrock.<\/p>\n

Big Guy was helping him unload building materials from the truck and on one of his trips he opened my hand and placed this little guy onto my palm.<\/p>\n

\"Fresh<\/a><\/p>\n

After the critter proceeded to pee all over my hand, I released him onto the leaves of my burgeoning Hosta.<\/p>\n

MORE SPRING!!!<\/strong> (Can you tell how happy I am that WINTER is GONE?! And I usually don’t mind winter.)<\/p>\n

My mother-in-law invited us to dinner one night and prepared this exquisite bowl of fresh fruit!<\/p>\n

\"Fresh<\/a><\/p>\n

And, last, but not least, I enjoyed reading my new friend, Carol Scibelli’s book, Poor Widow Me<\/em><\/a><\/span>, and then sharing a little bit of her fresh humor with Fave, who had this to say: “Haha that’s funny! I busted out laughing.”<\/p>\n

\"Fresh<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes all we need to take us out of that down-in-the-dumps place is a fresh look at the happy moments that are right in front of us…<\/p>\n

What Moment(s) made you smile or brought you a fresh or healing perspective during you week? Please share with us and spread a little joy!<\/p>\n

Until we meet again, yours in hope, healing, and happiness,<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

p.s. When the title of this post came to me, I heard my mother’s voice from many years ago saying to my teenage self, “Don’t get fresh with me, Missy.” Amazing how a few years can change our perspective, because that memory brought a smile today, versus that universally disgruntled eye-rolling… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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