Lord, help me to keep up with them… at Desperately Seeking Sanity

February 25th, 2008

The Best Church. Ever. announced two weeks ago that they were going to do a church wide Daniel Fast. (Basically, it’s rabbit food… fruits, veggies, etc… no milk, no meat, no cheese, no flour, no sugar… you know all the stuff that we eat everyday? yeah… all that…)

Matthew decides that he wants to try it.

Oy.

Then Sam pipes in that she wants to participate, too.

Double oy.

I can’t not participate with them, so last night, we headed to the grocery store to pick up the items for the few recipes that we saw that we wanted to try and lots of fruits and veggies.

Produce is expensive.

So is organic stuff.

I have now determined that I eat unhealthy because it’s cheaper.

Anywho, we made it through yesterday, no problems.

Today? They made it through… we’ve made a few adjustments for their lunches (Pastor Man said not to kill myself following this diet for the next 21 days) but so far so good.

Here’s the kicker though…. I cooked.

We had pan fried green beans and roasted potatoes and some fruit.

Not only did I cook, but I didn’t burn it… AND… it was yummy.

The only downfall is that I’m so tired… and I know that this will pass… but I have no energy to go in there and clean up that kitchen… or pack lunches for tomorrow… the kids are running around like banshees and what I really want is to go curl up in front of the TV…

but I can’t.. because Matthew is quite the spiritual kid and decided that we should give up TV for lent…

so Lord, please help me keep up with these kids… both physically and spiritually…