The B.E.E. 90x Challenge

I have received NUMEROUS blog posts in my inbox regarding New Year’s resolutions or lack thereof . . .

and emails regarding

goals that just “happened” due to being prompted by the beginning of a New Year. 

I don’t want to bombard you with more thoughts on the New Year. 

But I’m going to.

(And yes, this old bat actually stayed up.) 

I didn’t get to see the ball drop in Times Square. 

(Not that I am bitter.) I have ONLY seen the ball drop EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. as long as a I can remember.  SOME PEOPLE neglected to inform us that it was midnight.  We were playing the Wii . . .  and a certain someone (who shall remain nameless but I am sure you can guess who it was because I am married to him) was resisting seeing a certain Dick Clark with lots of makeup on. 

I couldn’t look at my watch.  I was driving my racecar.  The nameless man was the ONLY one not playing.  He had been counting down the minutes until midnight with his fancy schmanshy (my new word) atomic, digital, and battery-less watch.  HE KNEW THE TIME.

While I deal with my “issues,” here are some suggestions for the new year . . . but certainly not resolutions . . . and this list isn’t setting you up for failure but offering an opportunity for growth.

1. B for Bible. Join me in reading the Bible in 90 Days (begins January 3rd – over 700 people are signed up so far!)
2. E for eating. Consider the Eat Fat Lose Fat challenge (starts January 5th)
3. E for exercising. Practice the moves of Dr. Jiggle (Veggietale character, in case you were wondering)and spring into action by exercising over the next 90 days.  To help me accomplish this massive movement of my postpartum body, I am using

• Biggest Loser Yoga (though I am hoping to obtain a Wholy Fit DVD)
• rebounder
• Leslie Sansone’s Walk at Home 
• Jillian’s 30 Day Shred
• P90x (which I blogged about last year)

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Getting Ready: The 90 Day Challenge

I don’t want you to miss out.  So I am telling you a week before this Bible event takes place. 

It could be in your own home.

Your favorite chair.

And the perfect cup of coffee or chai. 

I am going to challenge you.  When my bloggy friend, Jolanthe, read through the Bible in 90 days a few months ago . . . at first I was like . . . come on Jolanthe . . . do you have to tell us everything you are learning?  How can you be so stinkin’ excited for 90 days?

And then I realized why her blog posts grated on my nerves (sorry, Jolanthe—hope it makes you laugh, though). 

I was convicted.  I knew that I was supposed to be doing this very thing.

When I found out another round of accountability was presenting itself to me – and I could BLOG about it, I knew I had to do this.

I have already told you how I have been feeling stirred and convicted to really prepare my heart for Sweet Pea’s arrival.  I know that having four children won’t change anything (business already abounds) but yet it will change everything.

There will be another female in the house.  (Mussie doesn’t count.  She’s spayed.) 

Brian ultimately has the role of training our boys in the art of manliness and godly leadership, but I have the honor of raising up a little girl in homemaking, purity, godly submission, modesty, sewing, essentially all things Proverbs 31.

So reading the Bible all the way through takes me pretty close to her due date.  Pretty neat.  Coincidence? I think not.

July 5 is just around the corner. 

Oh, I did buy a new bible for this . . . I found the Bible in 90 Days on www.walmart.com.  Why Wal-Mart?  It was the cheapest and had this insanely low shipping rate.  (Plus, my sister-in-law had given me a gift card to Wal-Mart for my birthday.) 

You don’t have to buy a new bible.  You can read it on your Droid (like Brian will be), listen to it, or use a piece of paper that has the plan on it that you stick in your old bible. 

But I know what motivates me.  Yes, I know that the excitement of God’s word should be enough, but there is something about a new book, clean pages, a blank slate. 

And I just think a lot of things are going to be happening in the next 90 days.  I want a book dedicated to this 90 day journey.

To find out more, head on over to Mom’s Toolbox! 

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