Thank you all so much for your well wishes. My husband came home to a house full of yucky tissues…fun. I spent the weekend on the sofa knitting, planning, dreaming…and my husband spent his late nights up with the kids. The sinus headache went away Sunday. We didn’t go to church that day because our Diocese actually has told us because of the flu scare to stay home and pray if we are sick. Yesterday, I was up and at it for the first time in a while.

I usually eat a better diet when my husband goes on travel. I don’t know why, maybe because I like things that he doesn’t? I picked up from the grocery a bit of lamb liver, which I know he doesn’t like, but I adore. I have liked these “weird” meats since I was a kid. It was the most heavenly lunch, and quick and easy to prepare on the run with two kids in the mix. Getting back to the point, I decided to experiment and abstain from eating bread and pasta and most refined sugar. That is not to say that I am giving up carbohydrates…I am eating  rice, potatoes and starchy veggies. But I feel sooooo much better. I am not puffy, stopped up, tired (other than from the illness), foggy in the head, and my body feels leaner, and more energetic. I am happy and encouraged that I have found a simple change in my diet that produced such a dramatic positive result in my day-to-day life. But I am also sad because I love pasta and bread, and most things with wheat. Nevertheless, I feel the positive benefits of increased energy and clarity of mind far, far, far, out weigh the indulgent joy of eating pie crust, southern fried chicken, or gingersnap cookies. I just eat the pie without the crust, as in the photo above!

Have you found a single change in your lifestyle has made a huge positive difference in your everyday? Sometimes that one simple change (although a little hard to make) makes a change that is so dramatic that it smacks you upside the head! You just have to step off and do it.