{"id":218,"date":"2013-01-06T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-01-06T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T03:40:09","slug":"first-week-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/06\/first-week-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"First week, still here&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the first week of the new year has passed us by! How many of you have broken your resolutions already.  Lets see, 1,2,4 8,10 yikes, don&#8217;t want to keep going, I might embarrass myself, not sure I can count that high.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that you asked? My resolutions? I still have mine. After all I&#8217;m learning to take each day as it comes. I&#8217;m following my trusty guides. Has it been easy this week? Yes, nothing major happened this week.  In fact it was all good. Only had to work three days, and my sons friends came in from out of town to say hi and hang out.  What a blessing that visit had been.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that really challenged me, was Sunday night&#8217;s dinner.  On Saturday night the kids and I planned Sunday dinner and everyone was in agreement. Well I started making Sunday dinner and the boys informed me they were going out to dinner. My first reaction was anger, but I smiled and told them to have fun! Then my daughter looked at me and said &#8220;how rude!&#8221;Now, I&#8217;m just frustrated but started talking to her about it. In the end I was okay with them leaving. All I would need to do was freeze a little of the dinner and keep some for left overs. It really was no big deal. In fact it may have been a blessing. <\/p>\n<p>Blessing you ask? Giving me that weird look. Yes a blessing.  What if they didn&#8217;t like it and threw the food away? What if there&#8217;s an unknown allergy to some ingredient?  Worse what if I didn&#8217;t make enough and they wanted more? So yes to me it was a blessing!<\/p>\n<p>Well I have made it in this new year, staying true to me. I didn&#8217;t make up unrealistic expectations, to only fail and become angry and depressed. Then all those negative thoughts come back! <\/p>\n<p>I have really worked hard since September to have positive thoughts about me. I have worked really hard at remembering the only one I have to impress is me! Armed with that knowledge God is my pilot, Jesus is my co-pilot, and the Holy Spirit is my flight attendant. I&#8217;m on a very safe flight.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, thank you Doug for sticking with me through the good and bad times, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health. Through you journey with God, I&#8217;m learning to walk beside The Lord, not in back or in front. <\/p>\n<p>Put one foot in front of the other&#8230;&#8230;..baby steps baby, for one day it will be Bigfoot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the first week of the new year has passed us by! How many of you have broken your resolutions already. 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