Tool needed: How do you feel having almost completed CKU? What have you learned and achieved? What are you proud of? What do you feel disappointed about?

Visit your Blog and reflect on these questions or any thoughts and feelings about completing CKU and where you're at with weight control in general.

I feel glad -- glad to have made it this far. Glad to find I have internal resources to see that the journey to fitness and healthier weight is not a struggle with misery. Glad to know I do have resources to help me.

I'm proud that I am learned these new skills. I am proud that I can identify problem behaviors -- the things that got me heavy, unhealthy, unhappy. Proud to know I can find resources to help when I stumble -- people, information, prayer.

Maybe disappointed to realize there is no "magic" trick to the land of the svelte. I will have to be aware of my food and activity choices ALWAYS if I want to maintain a healthier weight and lifestyle. It used to be that knowledge itself would have made me miserable. Today, that knowledge feels like power. As the lesson states, once I reach goal I will have (a) developed many new daily habits, (b) a weekly weigh-in can be my guidepost, (c) vigilance 80% of the time will probably be enough to help me maintain.

While I'm here

Pentecost was glorious. So many fiery colors. My reading went well though not perfect. I had type-written out the three pages of readings, then only brought two pages to the podium. The Pastor rescued me by showing me in the Gospel at the podium where I needed to pick up. In earlier days an error like this would have spiraled me into depression. Today I just laughed. I thought "how funny. all this care to do it perfectly and I still have a last minute 'oops.'" Most important -- worship continued, so we all got what we were there for: renewal in worship.

My stepson the Elvis Impersonator called me for Mother's Day. What a blessing to my life that man is! I didn't come into his life until he was a teenager, yet he honors me and cherishes my talents to his family. My words can't adequately express how much that means to me.

In late afternoon, my hubby's niece will come over, and we will do something "girly" to celebrate her mother's day. The great-nephew will spend the time with my hubby, and I'm sure they'll have a lot to entertain each other. Both of them think the sun shines because of the other. It's wonderful to watch love like that between two souls. The great-nephew is 2.5 years, my hubby will be 57 in a few weeks. The two are in perfect sync so much of the time, it is as if they came from one hand, one mould.

Okay, need to get ready for the niece's arrival. Do I have to have clean feet to go for a pedicure? Maybe it would be best.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to any who have mothered anyone.

Picture: It's absolutely blurry. But it made me laugh -- the difference in my height and the Pastor's height!