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It is already Thursday evening?! Yowza! This week seemed to whiz by. I guess because I was way more busy than normal preparing everything to announce my plans for September. Are you in?

I know quite a few of you are and have already grabbed the reigns to spread the word. Another round of special thanks to the following awesome bloggers for putting up the 30 Day button or sharing a special segment in their posts. The fact that they go out of their way to share this on their blogs speaks volumes of their character. Show them some love and say hello! Let me know if I missed you or if you put the button on your site so I can give appropriate thanks to you as well.

• Mindy – Just A One Girl Revolution
• Maura – The MOH Diaries
• Rachel – Fit, Fun, and Fabulous
• Melissa – Live, Love, and Run
• Cynthia – Cook and Eat: Adventures of a Pretend Cook
• Marcia – Healthy Living Adventures
• Kathleen – Journey to Loving Me
• Laury – The Fitness Dish
• Andi – Andi on the Go
• Lindsay – Learning to Cook, Eat, and Enjoy Delicious Food

Once again, if you are unsure what we’re talking about and getting all worked up about here on Faith, Fitness, Fun then click and check out my new page to learn about the special 30 Days of Self Reflection to promote self-love coming in September! I’m stoked!!!!

Dinners from last night and today included a few failures and successes. They all evened out. And I’m in such a good mood I don’t think anything could have brought me down. Last night, I planned on having a portabella mushroom burger. It certainly looks delicious, huh?

Something was seriously WRONG with that mushroom though. I couldn’t bite through it easily and it tasted off. I couldn’t stomach it, which is odd because I prepared it the exact same way as normal. Dinner FAIL! I had to have a PB+J sandwich instead. 🙁

I made up for it with tonight’s dinner. I made sure it would be a huge success by cooking up my favorites. Sweet potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts, and eggs cooked with some blue cheese. Loooovvveee me some stinky cheese! Dinner SUCCESS!

Over the last few weeks, I have been considering failure and success a lot. I almost didn’t follow through with the 30 Days idea and it would have been strictly for fear of failure. I know numerous times the fear of failure has held me back in life. Now, I embrace challenge and doing what I feel passionate about. Life needs failure. It’s how we learn and grow. How boring would it be to never fail? It would be that much harder to appreciate the successes. Taking a step out of our comfort zones helps us to live fully and truly experience the joys of life. I also think it is vital to find new ways of defining success. It doesn’t mean you have to be THE BEST…just that you do YOUR BEST. Succeed or fail – go out and live!

• Do you like stinky cheeses?
• How do you feel about failure? Does it affect your decisions?

Please check out my new Examiner article! Every click counts in promoting me! Thanks!!!

I want to say THANK YOU to everyone uplifting and supporting the 30 Days of Self-Reflection movement I will be starting in September. I can’t even begin to put into words how it makes me feel. The only thing that comes to mind is blessed. Incredibly so. I had tears building up reading through your comments and seeing that you all feel strongly about this topic as well; because yes, I feel that strongly about this little thing. I cannot wait for September and to see what this can do for all of us. Even the most confident of us out there can benefit from taking time to really consider our true worth every day.

I want to give a special thanks to those who posted the 30 Days button on their blogs. You rock!!! The blog button info is in the sign up post if you want to share it on your blog. Check these ladies out. They each are fabulous and share such beautiful hearts and personalities in their blogs.

• Em – HomeCookedEm
• Lisa – I’m An Okie
• Katy – Monster Proof
• Kara – My Wellnest
• Julie – Adventure Is Out There
• Talia – Texas Gunslinger
• Mackenzie – My Food Events
• Maria – Oh Healthy Day

If you aren’t sure what I’m talking about, please check out this post. If you want to join in and look forward to September and taking 30 days to fall more in love with yourself SIGN UP HERE. If you posted on last night’s announcement post about wanting to participate in the 30 days, please also comment on the sign up post. I hope to have everyone in one place to make it easier for me to keep up with those bloggers participating and be in touch with all of you.

Once again – THANK YOU and I feel so blessed for your support and friendship. Love you all!

In other blessings…my morning meals have been a pure blessing as well. After enjoying my bowl of oats yesterday morning so much I had to do a semi-recreation this morning.

I’m in love with the hazelnut spread.Yes, I consider it a blessing. Having food to fuel my body in itself is a blessing. But something this delicious makes it even more so.

The morning only got better. For my 11:00 snack I cut into a beautiful watermelon.

Oh, craving satisfaction! Possibly the only thing more of a blessing than satisfying a pregnancy craving for fresh fruit would be sharing the snack with a special mini-me.

She is a true blessing!!! And always reminds me of the blessings God has given me to bring me to this place in life. I never imagined being here, but could not fathom ever feeling more fulfilled than I do now.

• Tell me one blessing you see in your life today.
• What fruit do you crave during summer?