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Nice low 70s tonight.

found old CDs 🙂

Yesterday it was spending time with my niece and seeing her open all her birthday gifts. Today it was my evening walk with the dog. The weather was cool and the moon was so big and bright against the darkening sky.

10-Year-Old Aims to Send 10K Care Packages in Christmas Stockings to Military Deployed for the Holidays 4:23 AM PST, November 10, 2019 - JOHANNA LI She may be small but she sure is mighty. At just 10 years old, Sawyer Hendrickson, sometimes known as Miss Sawyer, is dedicating her life to supporting military and veterans. “Kids my age and people these days don’t really think about veterans and military people out there putting their lives on the line to protect our freedom and do what we do every day,” Sawyer, from Ludington, Michigan, told InsideEdition.com. Her main project is her annual Sawyer’s Stockings — care packages wrapped in Christmas stockings sent abroad to military men who will be away for the holidays. Ever since she started putting them together at just 6 years old, Sawyer said she has sent more than 25,000 stockings to military bases all over the world, and hopes to send 10,000 this year. “We send cookies, we send our world famous peanut butter brownies, rice Krispies, snack mix, chap stick,” Sawyer said. To get all the stockings organized, she has a few girls helping her: the “kids with a cause” as referenced by the name of her nonprofit Miss Sawyer’s Kids with a Cause. “They help us with baking and they help us with the stockings and everything else we do in our organization,” she said. Her acts of kindness to military members began when her older brother, 21-year-old Kylar, joined the Marine Corps. four years ago. “He’s such a big member of the family and we were all going to miss him so we thought we’d do something while he’s gone to remember him,” she said. That year, his first Christmas away, they sent him a care package inside a Christmas stocking. Then they sent care packages to some of his friends. Then, they sent packages to friends of the friends. Eventually the operation grew. “Which is really crazy starting off when you’re just six years old,” Sawyer said, especially considering her long list of school responsibilities and extracurricular activities. But Miss Sawyer’s Kids With a Cause continued to take on more and more projects, including what they call their hero rocks, which are hand painted rocks with the word “hero.” “We hand these out to our active military members and veterans and it’s just to thank them for their service and sacrifice to our great nation that they helped us build,” Sawyer said. “We give this to them to let them know they’re appreciated.” The group also lays wreaths on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, visits military bases and do different fundraisers throughout the year to support the Sawyer’s Stockings project. To donate to the cause, visit their website or Facebook page.

I'm going to try intermittent fasting, the 16/8 plan. It's how I naturally ate when I was younger anyway*. So from 1pm - 9pm (I might toy with the exact hours), I'm allowed to eat two meals and some healthy snacks. Then from 9 pm until 1 pm the next day, I'm going to only drink water. We'll see how it goes. (*Like I said, this is how I ate most of my life but I didn't know there was a name for it. I almost never ate breakfast, I ate a small lunch, and at home I had dinner and some snacks. I guess that's why it was easy for me to stay skinny before. Hopefully I can get back into it.)

Hot water with lemon. I haven't done this in a while, but I like it. It feels cleansing.

The day started good. The first half was celebrating my niece's second birthday in this big park by a lake. We had hot dogs and chicken and pasta salad and we pushed my niece on the swings and went down the slide with her and walked around. The second half of the day took a nosedive. Mainly in my mind. Whenever a day starts good, it usually ends in disappointment and depression.

It topped out around 80 today, but before that it was really nice. And it's cool right now, perfect walking weather.

4.21 miles today.

my tears

The cool weather today.

Family Feud marathon on Game Show Network

Diet Ginger Ale

Finished the day with two walks with the dog, picking up some more items at the store, eating at Waffle House, watching some TV, and finally making the pasta salad (so much chopping!). Now my back hurts and I'm ready for bed...hopefully.

So far, I've woken up fairly early, taken my husband to work, picked up groceries, walked 2.5 miles with the dog, and now I plan to chill for a couple hours before I make pasta salad for my niece's birthday cookout tomorrow.