6/29/2014 Update

So here I am being a good little blogger and updating about my whole challenge.  I just spent most of the month hauling my children here and there on their adventures to camp in North Carolina and Georgia.  It was a huge challenge in itself to try to eat well on the road.  All I can say is I did my best.  Now that we are back home -where we belong, I am getting back into the grove.  My life is settling down so I am able to try to plan things out a bit.  I have some babies due so I know there will be days when I can't quite stay on task and that is okay.  I have bought a lot of snacks to bring to births and to have around the house for the kids when I am gone.  Water drinking is not that hard in the Mississippi summer so I am proud of how I have done with that.

Well that's all for now,
Toni

Update 6/11/ 2014

I've been updating my facebook family but, not here on my blog I swore I was going to keep up with but, haven't.  Reflection is an important part of my day and I seriously have to find time to do it each day.  Please please send any virtual support my way as I step out on this life journey to whole wellness.

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   Toni Doulanowmidwifelater Hill

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   #wholechallenge update. So I bet you guys are wondering if I fell off the wagon or not. Well, I haven't. It has been a lot easier to make food choices since I don't have kiddos this week. lots of couple care this week since Jimmy Hill and I have been having a date every single night somewhere. Unfortunately, its been restaurants since I refuse to cook or wash a dish this week. Hydration has been great this week. Getting in about 90-100 ounces each day. Still not at my goal but, I'll take it. It's surely a lot better than what I was getting in. I have had my meditation and Bible reading every morning except for this morning because I wanted to get an early start on the day but, I think I will get a mid day meditation and Bible time in today. Y'all have a good and blessed week. Love you for your support. Next week I am going to add some movement. We will see how that goes.

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Morning musings 5/29/14

Ecclesiastes 3:11 " He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."

           




  This morning after my Bible reading, morning meditation and devotion, I again looked to nature for strength, awareness, and clarity.  This Gardenia that I planted only weeks ago gave me the gift of flowering.  Oh how I remember the sweet smell that reminds me of  my childhood home.  It also brings me back to the home we had in Moss Point, MS.  Remembering the large bush outside that I had threatened to cut down when we moved there because it was an eye sore and the beauty of the summer blooms added with the sweet aroma that filled our home for weeks as it bloomed.

 Gifts of the garden continued to flow as I dug a hole for a placenta from a sweet squishy baby boy I had the honor of catching yesterday.  Buried beneath the earth, God's sweet earth, I hit something hard rather quickly.  I  saw the shine and it took me a second to see what treasure I had unearthed.  A tray that has a story of it's own that I will never know.  To some it may seem rather crazy to treasure such a thing but, to me it was yet another gift.  See, in my prayers this morning I prayed for clarity and also for insight to continue to see the beauty within all things.  Being able to enjoy the simplest things is part of what brought me to begin this journey into wholeness anyway.   To me this tray represents the desire in my heart to enjoy the beauty of all things both seen and unseen.  It further reminds me that we do not know the treasures that lie within, how close they are to being found, and how easily they can be forgotten.


It continues to warm my spirit the joy that comes in the morning.  The joy in each breath because they are not promised to any of us, the joy to see a nursling child at peace at his mother's breast, the joy of a hug from a "true" friend, the peacefulness of a brook in a quiet forest, the joy of a job well done, and a journey well.
 I also think today of the earth living of our now ancestor Grandmother Dr. Maya Angelou.  Her words I carry with me always.  I remember our Phenomenal woman contest we did during our first "Dream Big Diva" summer camp just more than three summers ago when they all learned the poem, recited it, and explained why they themselves were phenomenal women.  Oh a gift and legacy she leaves.   I pray she journeys well.

May not look like much to you but, it was a true beauty of a gift to me.