21 days.....

They say that 21 days is the amount of time it takes to create a positive HABIT. I believe it is also a great amount of time for MUCH to happen.

Oh the "Chapters" in our life........we move from each finding a new "normal".

On our drive home 21 days ago from La Jolla Jenny and I discussed trying a Fat Flush diet that went for 21 days. We both agreed that 21 days was very do-able and really not that long a period of time.

Let me just reminisce about what I saw, learned and felt in my 21 day period.

Just for starters .....to the very day (21) that is yesterday .......I was giving Jenny hugs of love at her fathers funeral. He passed very quickly. He had had cancer for several years. Was fighting fairly well until he caught a virus last week.
What a wonderful funeral. I have decided that I really do enjoy them. I always walk away much more focused on what is truly important.
LIFE. Family. Time in it's smallest increments. Christ. The atonement.
Another person to learn from ......(the deceased). How they lived. What moved them to do the things they did. What others thought of them. I love it all.


My dear friend Soni who lived next door got married last weekend. This event was a very hard thing for me. I didn't think much of it until I turned around to see her walking down the isle with her father in her beautiful wedding dress. She was really getting married! And.....she was really leaving to go live in UTAH! It hit me hard.

We vistited several times during the week prior to the wedding while she was packing the house up and it all seemed great. I was happy for her. She needed this more than anything. To start a new life with a great guy. But, something happened to me when I saw her that day walking down the isle. I think I realized that our chapter had ended and another chapter was beginning.
I don't deal well with the chapter changing. Our time will never be the same. Yes, we will see each other from time to time, and e-mail here and there, but it just isn't the same as NEXT door.
Oh girlfriend ......I am happy for you but, I am mending!!!!!!!!!!!

My closest cousin Amy Porter Riding just had her 4th baby. A baby boy! He is so darn cute. What a miracle to see this woman have 4 babies! I am so happy for her.

I am so amazed by life and the many transitions we go through. In the last 21 days I felt as if I experienced a small portion of the many chapters that I have either gone through or will go through.

Oh and yes the Fat Flush diet turned out to be a great cleanser. I felt so focused. I think when we find ourselves in control of ourselves we are much more focused. I love that feeling. I love the results that come from refraining.

On to another 21 days of who knows what........maybe life will have some more chapters to open and close.