Steve Ray!!

This morning I actually woke up feeling happy!  I know it was because one of my favorite Catholic Apologist, Steve Ray came to one of our local Parishes.  He gave 3 talks, 2 on Mary and the other talk on Moses.  He was so amazing, and I learned so much from him. I’ll post the pictures from today when I upload them from my camera!

One thing he talked about, that I found so neat, is where we get Novenas from.  It was in the Upper Room after Christ had ascended into Heaven, and Mary and the disciples were in the Upper Room praying.  They stayed there and prayed for 9 days, and on the 10th day is when the Holy Spirit descended on them and the Church was born, hence Pentecost!  Still today, whenever we say a novena, we are declaring that same awesome desire to wait for the promise, persevering with confidence until the end.  I never realized that was where our Novenas come from. 

I also went walking again on the beach tonight. This is the 4^th time this week!  I have been trying to do this and lose my baby weight from Peyton. I did good losing almost 30 lbs right after he was born, mainly because I was too depressed to eat, but here lately I have been an emotional eater and have gained 10 of those lbs back (I’m also sure my thyroid had a role to play in the weight gain too)!  I gained about, if I’m going to be honest, 45 lbs with him.  But I want to lose about 60 lbs!  I would be so happy if I could do that!  I have struggled with my weight since I was in my early twenties.  Why is it so hard to diet? 

In the fertility world, today and yesterday I had peak fertility mucus! I was a little confused though because my temps have been so haywire ever since starting the Synthroid for my Hypothyroidism.  Usually when I was in my follicular phase, before Synthroid, my temps were 97.1 - 97.3 and never any higher until ovulation.  Well now my temps have been up anywhere from 97.0 – 97.8 and I’m only on day 14 of my cycle.  This morning it was 97.0.  I don’t know if my body is trying to level out my thyroid hormones or not, but I hope my temps go and stay up from now, until my next cycle.  I just want to make sure I’m ovulating since they have started me on this medicine.

Ok, well I guess I better get off here and say my prayers/Rosary and go to bed because we have our niece’s birthday party to go to.  It’s so sad when we are ALWAYS the only people there with no children!  I guess this is our very heavy cross!

~Alisha