Well, Nat's officially two.  She's acted two for at least the last 6 months, but now she has the ability to climb out of her crib.  This poses an ENORMOUS naptime problem.  She still needs a nap......... desperately by 7 pm, but I fought with her the better part of 3 hours.  I won't tell you who won.  I like to consider it a draw.   Hard to believe that none of the others ever climbed out of the crib.  Max and Gabby were probably already in regular beds.  Anyway... The upshot to this is my butt ought to start shrinking.  I bet I ran the stairs AT LEAST 20 times today.  Speaking of fitness...

It is my intention to start running.  As soon as I get some new tennies that is.  I am going to embark on the "Couch to 5K"  plan.  Essentially you start with incriments of running and walking alternatively, and work your way up to 3 miles (5K) within two months.... or so they say.  It may take me longer, and it definately is going to be contingent on weather.  I don't mind cold, but I can see myself slipping and cracking my tail bone or something on the ice that refuses to melt.

My last thought for the day is actually a thought I had yesterday at our bible study.  (just now getting around to putting it down in writing)  I decided that I would share the definitions of FOREKNOWLEDGE and PREDESTINATION as defined by J.M. Boice in The Doctrines of Grace:

Foreknowledge:  To know in the biblical sense is to love, to foreknow is to forelove.  Therefore, God has beforehand fixed a special attention upon certain people or has loved them in a saving way.  It doesn't mean he foreknew their actions (the faith they would somehow be able to muster up from deep within their DEAD souls .... as if that were possible).  He foreknew His elect.  Christ's bride, the church. 

Predestined: This term does not mean the same as foreknowledge.  It means that a persons destiny is is determined before hand.  Not that God fixed special attention on us, or elected us, but rather, what we are elected to... our destiny... to be conformed to the image of Christ. 

Did I mention that I love this book?  It has done an excellent job thus far of making the Doctrines of Grace understandable.  The deeper we dig into the Word, the more it's confirmed to be Biblical truth, and the more confidant we can be in a sovereign God, who has had it all planned from eternity past.