full disclosure!  Good Morning Girls!  So, we've been down this whole goal setting thing before.  Sometimes ! share with you what my goal is, other times, I keep them to myself.  Well, as it turns out, the current goal is one that requires full disclosure.  Why is that?  It is because I have tried all of my own previous blog suggestions, and I have still failed.  I have tried off and on for 3 1/2 years and have failed every time.  The longest I have ever stuck to this goal is for 10 days.  The fact that I have not lasted for more than 10 days tells me I am in bondage to it.  I have claimed independence before, but have still failed.  So here, today, I am drawing my one hundredth and final line in the sand, make that cement, and telling you all my 30 day goal.  For the next 30 days (well 25 as I've already done 5) I will not have any sugar.  That's right, NO SUGAR! NO SUGAR. NO SUGAR. NO SUGAR. NO SUGAR.  This includes chocolate, ice cream, lemon bars, hot tamales, left over teddy grahams, fruit snacks that have fallen on the floor, a lick of frosting, just one M and M, a Popsicle, or yada, yada, yada.  The list is endless.  I am not a goat, I will not eat the scraps of sugar off my kids plates!   After 30 days I will see what the Lord has to say.  At most I will move into a one dessert a week deal, if possible.  If I cannot handle one dessert a week, it will have to be nothing, until I am no longer a slave to the cane!  So, there it is.  Why does telling you all make it easier?  Well, now you have something specific to pray for me.  I have had friends pray me through serious stuff in the past, I believe in it's power.  Also, many of you I will be seeing very soon at HomeMakers.  If any of you were to ask me how the sugar thing is going, I would like to smile and say great.  I do not want to have some lame story like "It was going really good and then.........".  For those of you who are, as my mother would so eloquently say "getting your panties in a bunch", at the thought of giving up sugar, let me remind you: this is not about you.  This is not about what I think anyone else should be doing.  I am not saying that sugar is in itself bad.  It is however bad for me.  I feel I have no control once I have it, and I refuse to feel that way about anything.  So, when your hanging out with the Lord today, say a little prayer for me!  I can use all the help you are willing to give!

Philippians 1:19 For I know that as you pray for me and the Spirit of Jesus Christ helps me, this will lead to my deliverance.

Love you all-
Jen

PS I have sat here for 5 minutes wanting to hit delete instead of send......deep breath.....here I go........