21-Day Challenge: Ending On A Good Note

Hi all! Today is the last day of the 21-Day Challenge, and I just wanted to check in with you all.

We had a hard day yesterday. I went down into our crawlspace to get something only to discover everything was wet! We could not find a pipe busted anywhere. We ran every water-connected thing in the house and found no dripping. Finally, I turned on the drip hoses in the front flower beds to water for about 45 min, then went into the crawlspace to find everything (what I hadn' t hauled out yet), FLOATING and 2-6 inches of water EVERYWHERE!! Turns out the water was running straight through the poor soil in the front, under the foundation, and gurgling into the crawlspace. WHAT A MESS!! You can imagine what we did all day: haul out stuff (mostly things I was saving for a garage sale), wash and dry all kinds of stuff, throw things out, haul out soaking wet tarp and carpet, clean mud and insulation that was all over my kitchen (only entrance to the crawlspace is there), haul up buckets of water---yeah, it was a long day!!

I think I can count that as exercising yesterday.

I am thankful that even though it was a MESS to clean up, it was not an expensive repair. Basically, I am left with a lot of laundry and having to relocate my flowers to somewhere NOT against the house!

That was our first major disaster as homeowners...

ANYWAY, I think this 21-day challenge has been good for me.

It taught me that exercise is fun, that I feel better when I do it--AND it got me in the HABIT of exercising. I'm thankful.

I am still not 100 % in the habit of going to bed on time, but I have been getting 7-8 hrs of sleep the past few nights and have noticed a dramatic difference in my level of crankiness and in my outlook on life in general.

The no white flour/no white sugar thing has probably been the least successful. I did stick to my plan pretty well--barring a few animal crackers, and I think a dessert at a friend's house. I no longer really crave those things, so that was a great side effect of the challenge. However, I don't think that white flour/sugar was the root problem. I think my attitude/obedience to God is. That's what I'm going to work on next.

How did YOUR challenge go?

Blessings...