Constant hangry behavior from all four of us on day two. We are all doing our best to honor my wife’s insane request for a ten-day smoothie cleanse. On top of that we are blessed to be incorporating the colon cleanse as an added bonus. I can’t begin to explain nor would I the things that I experienced this morning at 6:00am this morning. Thank God for air freshener.

As the past two days have gone by everything I see relates to food. I’ve never realized how many commercials talk about food. Thousands a day. It’s like when your buying a new car then magically you see the same make and color everywhere you go. Have to say though, the upside is that I have lost three pounds already. I’m sure the experienced diet pro would say that it was just water. I’ll take it. Any evidence that this hell ride is productive is a good thing. I did work on the opening pages of a new book this morning so that’s also good. About mid-day we went to the lake and watched our youngest son paddle around in his Kayak. The distraction was good for all of us.  All in all, I would say this exercise in restraint has been fruitful. The family is more connected than ever as we watch each other to see who will be the first to snap. My children will talk about this for decades. In about five years it might actually make us laugh. Actually, when Michelle called us down to dinner tonight I yelled out that I only want two pieces of dark meat roasted chicken with my garlic mashed potatoes. I think someone laughed as we all slivered down to the kitchen for our green smoothies. Pedro is having a great day though. He finished off the rest of my sloppy Joe today and got to go to the lake with us. I keep waiting for this euphoric clarity, something similar to the runners high. It hasn’t happened yet. Maybe tomorrow….sigh