Resolution 9/52

The meal-planning went well last week. I made a few changes to the menu as the week went on, but mostly I stuck to the plan and made sure we had lots of good, healthy stuff. I made a delicious salad for lunch today- baby spinach, strawberries, Granny Smith apples, almonds and a sprinkling of feta cheese. Yum! I'm definitely having that again soon! Tomorrow morning I'll plan out the week to come and head off to the grocery store for my ingredients {didn't do it today, too busy enjoying a lazy day at home with the boys, cuddling and constructing a Playmobil airplane!} 

As for this week's resolution, I'm pretty excited about it. I read on my friend Kim's blog a few weeks ago about a really cool project, the 29-Day Giving Challenge. And starting this week, I'm going to give it a go.

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The idea is pretty simple. Each day you give something away. It can be a material thing, or a kind word, a hug, some help in someone's time of need. And in return? You get a good feeling inside, and the knowledge that maybe you made someone's day a bit better, maybe you helped to make the world a better place. I started today, by giving three big bags of clothes and household stuff to the Canadian Diabetes Foundation. Tomorrow I'm going to look after my sister's little guy for the day, so that she can switch her days at work and spend Wednesday with her older son on his birthday {Dylan and Thomas were born exactly one week apart! How cool is that?} As for Tuesday? Don't know yet. But I'm sure I'll come up with something. This is going to be fun!

If you've got any great ideas, stories about things you've done or heard of others doing, please share. I'd love to hear them.