Trying to Keep My Body as a Temple

1st Corinthians 6:19 tells us that are bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit.  There is a saying that we are what we eat.  There are many other sayings about how we should treat our bodies.  I;m not perfect in any way and when it comes to food, I love food.
I'm addicted to sweets and sugar and I crave textures.  Since I do now that about myself and willing to admit it, I'm in the process of changing that.
One way I'm changing and breaking my sugar addiction is by implementing more fruits and veggies in my diet.  One way I'm doing that is y making and having a green smoothie every morning.
Green? That's right!  Green due to the cup of baby spinach or kale I put in it.  With the fruit and protein powder in it I can't taste the spinach.  But I like spinach.
I prepare some of my smoothie ingredients over the weekend.  I put an extra bundle of bananas, half them, wrap them in foil, place them in a zip lock freezer bag and put away in the freezer.  I make up jars of overnight oatmeal with the use of almond mild ad yogurt to add to the smoothie.
The smoothie I made this morning also contains pineapple flax seed, and plant based protein.  Some like to add honey but I always forget.  I really don't need the sweetener.  Pineapple is an anti inflammatory fruit and I love pineapple.  It can be made with coconut water for that Pina Colada taste.
It has helped to curb my sugar cravings and keeps me full through the day.  I usually have a little extra that I put back until I get home from work.  It's a great energy lifter.
I'm just trying to keep it all real.

 My ingredients for this mornings smoothie; oatmeal that I made up over last week and placed in the refrigerator, baby spinach, I use one cup; frozen banana, ground flax seed, frozen pineapple chunks and plant protein powder.  

I first blended up the spinach with the oatmeal mix and extra 1/2 cup of almond milk. 

Added the pineapple and banana, flax seed and protein powder. 

Mix, Mix, Mix. 

The finished product.  

Since I've Been Back in School

What a weekend! My first full week back in school and the kiddos were pretty good.  I have a new schedule where I am pushed into three classes, I think I'm going to like it.  It is not near as stressful as when I am in my room all day with my kiddos who have behavior disorders.  Don't get me wrong, I love being with my kiddos, but for the past two years, it has been really tough with the behaviors.  I am thankful that I have good parents and guardians who support me.
This past weekend was crazy.  I got a phone call from my DIL, she is 35 weeks preggers with my first grand child.  It is a boy.  She was hurting with Braxton hicks, but her doctor where the live really didn't do anything.  She was told to have bed rest, then he tells her to go for a walk to keep her diabetes under control.  HMM, how can she have bedrest and still go for a walk?  They live an hour from a town that has a hospital.  They came up here and went to see her doctor she was seeing who told her bedrest as well and she is dilated to 2.  We maybe having a baby within a month.  They will be coming back up here to deliver.
Also, it was my 28 wedding anniversary on Saturday and hubby forgot.  He had scheduled a student for gun building lessons.  I really couldn't get mad since I didn't feel good all week.  Friday night I wend to bed early, leaving everyone else up. I had not been feeling good since the weekend before.  Feeling queasy, dizziness, like I maybe getting dehydrated.  But now I think I just had fluid in the ear.
One of my dearest friends past away Sunday morning from a long fight with cancer.  She was such an inspiration to everyone who knew her.  I am so glad that I got the opportunity to be her classroom aide for 3 years while I returned back to school to finish my first degree.  She was such a help to me and my family.  Kathy Jones was a true woman of God.  I just hope that I am half the person she was.  We had some good time together in and out of the classroom.
It is going to be an emotional week.  I can get through it. I feel the hand of God on me, and him telling me that it is going to be O.K.

Well, I've not posted in a while, so I thought I had better.  God was telling me to get this done this morning.  Now, it is time for me to get ready for work.  I'm going to try to get there early so I can work on some IEPs,  That is paper work for students who receive instructions and services from special education teacher.

God is helping me to keep it real and I am.  His presence if so amazing and I know that He can take care of it all.

Let's keep it real!