Sorting through what is just stuff and what really matters. So times we get so bogged down in the world that we can't see thru the "stuff" in our lives. "Oh gas is up again, this is due now and this is broken and needs to be replaced." But that is just stuff. It isn't what or who we are. We all have those moments that we can't see beyond the trees. But somehow it all works out. Learning that we have done the homework and the rest will follow. Hard work and a little faith. Believing that life is a cycle and it all comes back around.
I have been instill with the good sense of saving. That in all is a good thing. Don't touch it til a raining day. But sometimes spending for quality is needed. I too have learned that. Buy once and enjoy it for a lifetime or at least more than a year or too. Not wanting the almighty dollar to control me or my family. I have learned that it isn't mine in the first place, I am just the administrator of it. Times are tough but this should not affect me if I know the truth. I too have learned this. And for the most part I have been good in knowing this but there comes times where it is tested. That is good too. It will tend to ground me, put me back where I need to be. Live within my means and don't forget to share. There are other out there that need to see that. Stretch it but don't break it. "Do as Grandma did in the past." (And you didn't think I picked that one up-did you?) And for heaven sake don't take it with you!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Trying To Be the Change I want to See.
At least I am out there doing something. Well after two years of walking at lunch, it has finally rubbed off. I now have 4- 6 girls walking with me at lunch on a daily basis. And we don't just walk, we power walk. Yesterday was a hot one and we downed the tank tops and we were out there. Just don't care how it looks but we do it and that is what matters. (It is those that watch from a far that are jealous and make fun of you. They wish they were you. ) If you stick with it long enough it is bound to rub off.
Be the change you want to see in others. That has been a haunting phrase I have been hearing. To be honest, it does work. I have witness this first hand. When you see a couple cozing up to each other doesn't that make you want to grab for your better half and do the same. I just seen it at the ball field. Wasn't sure it was done out of love or jealousy but I seen it. If you don't get that-you have to have been there or just ask! Any how. finding out that-that it starts with me. I need to change first. That is a hard one especially when it is dealing with the ones that hurt more than I want to say. But respect them first and maybe just maybe they will toss you a bone. Hard concept to grab on too but worth it in the end.
When you see someone out there running or biking doesn't it make you want to go get your tennis shoes. It does me. It only becomes a problem when I can't find that hour window to do it. Well I am finally coming to grips that it doesn't have to be the whole enchilada at once. Every step counts. Do it increments and they all still add up. Thirty minutes at lunch and thirty at home, still an hour. My busy life can not be an excuse. I hear it in my patients on a daily basis. I also see that they are thirty to fifty pounds over weight! I try to encourage them to just get out there and move. One step at a time. Small goals does equal big ones at the end of the day if you add it up. At the end of the day it is still the same equation-calories in and calories out. Hmm sooo simple but yet so many just don't get it.
Same premise, what you put into your life=what you get out. Maybe not soon as you want but eventually. Maybe that is why we put off. Not getting the results as soon as we want. Well I too have learned this one-not in my time but HIS. I need to be reminded of that one all the time.
So be the change you want to see in others today and let me know if it works. You may be surprised right away or when you think that your about it give up. You may never know who you inspire. Like the commercial says "Just Do It".
Be the change you want to see in others. That has been a haunting phrase I have been hearing. To be honest, it does work. I have witness this first hand. When you see a couple cozing up to each other doesn't that make you want to grab for your better half and do the same. I just seen it at the ball field. Wasn't sure it was done out of love or jealousy but I seen it. If you don't get that-you have to have been there or just ask! Any how. finding out that-that it starts with me. I need to change first. That is a hard one especially when it is dealing with the ones that hurt more than I want to say. But respect them first and maybe just maybe they will toss you a bone. Hard concept to grab on too but worth it in the end.
When you see someone out there running or biking doesn't it make you want to go get your tennis shoes. It does me. It only becomes a problem when I can't find that hour window to do it. Well I am finally coming to grips that it doesn't have to be the whole enchilada at once. Every step counts. Do it increments and they all still add up. Thirty minutes at lunch and thirty at home, still an hour. My busy life can not be an excuse. I hear it in my patients on a daily basis. I also see that they are thirty to fifty pounds over weight! I try to encourage them to just get out there and move. One step at a time. Small goals does equal big ones at the end of the day if you add it up. At the end of the day it is still the same equation-calories in and calories out. Hmm sooo simple but yet so many just don't get it.
Same premise, what you put into your life=what you get out. Maybe not soon as you want but eventually. Maybe that is why we put off. Not getting the results as soon as we want. Well I too have learned this one-not in my time but HIS. I need to be reminded of that one all the time.
So be the change you want to see in others today and let me know if it works. You may be surprised right away or when you think that your about it give up. You may never know who you inspire. Like the commercial says "Just Do It".
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tight Schedule
Have you ever been so driven to get things done so that you can reap the rewards in the end. I have and that was yesterday. I had a schedule. A certain way things had to fly for it all to work out in the end. It was a very tight one that if things got off by just 15 minutes it all wouldn't work out. I also had a plan B for that too. But with the help of a few key people it worked. I got all that I wanted accomplished and 15 to spare. That is good and needed. Thanking God for all. 60minutes that turned into 45 some how. Grateful for all I have. Thanking all who are in my life and somehow help me to make it all work. You know who you are and if you don't-you will.
Setting a new schedule today but this one isn't so tight, and rain would be welcomed to make us stay home. All is good though. Kids have been wonderful in helping to make it all flow. Feeling good where I sit, oops no time for that! Ha ha.
Setting a new schedule today but this one isn't so tight, and rain would be welcomed to make us stay home. All is good though. Kids have been wonderful in helping to make it all flow. Feeling good where I sit, oops no time for that! Ha ha.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Lifelong Decisions
Finished race two. It was a hard one because it was 48 degrees and raining. But it wasn't about placing or taking any medals. It was about finishing and getting in a workout. That is what it has always been for me. Doing something new and enjoying it. Finishing a race that started many moons ago. Plain and simple, keeping the weight off.
It has been two years since I decided that it was time to get in shape again. Two years is generally the time that those who have lost weight fall off the wagon. If it is a diet and not a way of life. Believe me when I say it is easy to lose, hard to maintain.
But is it? Well no if you know that you have to move everyday. When your schedule gets lost in run here and do that and eat on the run, that is when your fitness suffers. I know that I need to take a look at where I stand. In the last two years I have given myself the permission to take care of me. Some have viewed it as selfish but they don' t sit where I sit. Is it selfish to want to see your kids grow old enough to get married and have your grand kids...well I am selfish. I need to reevaluate things again. I need to focus on the life long commitment I made to myself on that February day. The day I vowed to change my life. It is ok to say no. It is ok to ask for help. It is ok to do for me, for that makes me a better for them. I want them to know that it is not necessary to get lost in your kids but strong in yourself. Doing everything for them and nothing for you can lead to where did it all go when they are gone. I don't want to regret. I want them to remember how strong I am. I want them to see it is all in the journey not the destination. It is worth all the blood sweat and tears. Let them see that no one can make you happy, it is up to you. It starts from within. Believe that you where created with purpose and you have all the choices in the world. In the end, pray you make the right ones!
It has been two years since I decided that it was time to get in shape again. Two years is generally the time that those who have lost weight fall off the wagon. If it is a diet and not a way of life. Believe me when I say it is easy to lose, hard to maintain.
But is it? Well no if you know that you have to move everyday. When your schedule gets lost in run here and do that and eat on the run, that is when your fitness suffers. I know that I need to take a look at where I stand. In the last two years I have given myself the permission to take care of me. Some have viewed it as selfish but they don' t sit where I sit. Is it selfish to want to see your kids grow old enough to get married and have your grand kids...well I am selfish. I need to reevaluate things again. I need to focus on the life long commitment I made to myself on that February day. The day I vowed to change my life. It is ok to say no. It is ok to ask for help. It is ok to do for me, for that makes me a better for them. I want them to know that it is not necessary to get lost in your kids but strong in yourself. Doing everything for them and nothing for you can lead to where did it all go when they are gone. I don't want to regret. I want them to remember how strong I am. I want them to see it is all in the journey not the destination. It is worth all the blood sweat and tears. Let them see that no one can make you happy, it is up to you. It starts from within. Believe that you where created with purpose and you have all the choices in the world. In the end, pray you make the right ones!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Accomplished.
Slept crazy good last nite. Wore bite splint and everything. Woke up warm too. That is a sure sign of summer. Very productive day yesterday even got out earlier from work than expected. Didn't take that for granted. Bike runs good. Got the entire grass cut and raked (because there was a boat load of grass that finally dried out). And the rain held out. The farm still has standing water. I think it will be a good weekend to turn it over.
Funny how it all works it self out. If we stress about it or not. It just works. Better if we don't stress but we seem to realize that after the fact. Making the list of to do's for the weekend. Lots to do on Saturday, too much in fact but writing it down just in case 24 turns into 26 some how. Well enough time on the computer, I have things that can be done now. So off to the races I go!
Funny how it all works it self out. If we stress about it or not. It just works. Better if we don't stress but we seem to realize that after the fact. Making the list of to do's for the weekend. Lots to do on Saturday, too much in fact but writing it down just in case 24 turns into 26 some how. Well enough time on the computer, I have things that can be done now. So off to the races I go!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Energy
Well up at 4 again, can't sleep. Nervous energy wakes me. Oh not the bad stuff but the kind that when you eat too much sugar. Things to do already. Trying to get ahead of the game before it starts. Laundry started, got to pick up room, got that cluttered look again. Dinner hmm what to make. What is quick and easy today. Dinner last nite was an great success do to my oldest. I prepped it all the morning of and she started making it 20minutes before I was to be home. That was great. Good nutritious meal on the table and 5 minutes to spare before off to the races. See...it can be done with a little help. The kids are doing their part and that is what makes it all flow.
Late game tonite and I only work half day. I love Thursdays. I think I can run to get the motorcycle only if the rain holds out. I didn't spend a couple hours polishing that thing only to get it wet on purpose. Cleaning out the freezer for dinner so anything goes here. Stay in the moment the week is coming to an end. Saturday is a race and then it is relax and maybe get a bike ride in. Looking forward to it. Then Sunday is mom's day and I plan to do nothing. Travel to visit family and don't cook or clean. Just be mom and except all hugs and kisses.
Late game tonite and I only work half day. I love Thursdays. I think I can run to get the motorcycle only if the rain holds out. I didn't spend a couple hours polishing that thing only to get it wet on purpose. Cleaning out the freezer for dinner so anything goes here. Stay in the moment the week is coming to an end. Saturday is a race and then it is relax and maybe get a bike ride in. Looking forward to it. Then Sunday is mom's day and I plan to do nothing. Travel to visit family and don't cook or clean. Just be mom and except all hugs and kisses.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Fit For Life
Does it ever end? Race here to get to there and back again. Trying to get in as much as I can especially when the kids are gone. Yesterday was a whirlwind. The weather was beautiful and I had a need to move. But many things had to be accomplished in that one day, no that one evening. So divide and conquer. My motorcycle is not working so off to the shop it goes. So ride it there and turn in my boots and leathers for tennies and t shirt and off on a run I go. Need to hit two ball games in a five mile radius so grab a bicycle and go. Need to grab a bite to eat because ball food is so good but so bad. Made it to all things and got in my exercising time too. That is a good and a needed thing. So easy to get off the path. So hard to start up again. Need to premake foods again. Have salads made up a head of time so I can grab them and go. Thanks goodness for Smart ones. They can save your life in a pinch.
Any who I feel much accomplished today but it is early. Hoping the rain will hold out until after noon, got most of the office power walking at lunch time. What started out as me has turned into 3 sometimes 5. Fitness is contagious. Life is good if we let it. You just got to move!
Any who I feel much accomplished today but it is early. Hoping the rain will hold out until after noon, got most of the office power walking at lunch time. What started out as me has turned into 3 sometimes 5. Fitness is contagious. Life is good if we let it. You just got to move!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Head spinning
Wow and the race begins. Well it is always in process but this week especially was crazy. I have officially colored coded by calender with red, blue and green. Colors for each kids. Im still in regular pen and Joe and his kids don't have a special color yet. May was filled before I turned the page from April.
I will be living at the ball field everyday. I have decided that KC will have one day in the week to do what ever she wants and I will follow her doing that. We already did a shop day last week. There are things that she wants and I told her that I have spent X amount on the boys sports and she can go shopping with some of that. We talked about her starting a flower garden that is hers to work up and get the flowers and attend too. It will be outside her window and she seemed to like that idea. Went to a meeting at school and in 8th grade they go to Washington DC and the cost is 695. I talked to her and I feel that she needs to raise at least on third of the trip. I haven't talked to the dad on this one yet. UGH! Ideas that have been coming up are pop can collection, door to door or watch your email. Babysitting I think would be great or walking animals for people at work. Trying to get her to take initiative I want her to break out there. Was I the one to stay in the shadow and not go out and pursue? I babysat all the time I remember. I was trying to remember what I did at her age. I babysat alot. I rode my bike a lot. It was a different time but. I know my parents didn't hand out the money left and right. In the area that I live that is what people do here. Money is not lacking when it comes to the kids. I think that can be a downer. Am I depriving them of stuff or trying to instill the point that you have to work to make money and save!
Baseball pictures where yesterday and I didn't get them taken. But I did bring my camera. I did get a shot of them in the same setting that everyone else did. But was I looked down a bit well not sure. Do I look like the cheap mom sometimes in my kids eyes. Do I care. If they get the whole concept in the long run I don't care. Do my kids suffer I don't think so. We went for ice cream last nite when I knew very well that there is some in the freezer and it is the same kind that they are going to order. No suffering there.
Well I am rambling and that just shows where the whole month of May will be. Crazy and overwhelming. It will all get done and I know if I only look ahead for one day I will be ok. Any further I will need a shovel. So if you don;t hear from me don't worry but call me on my cell I am around. P.s I got my dress!
I will be living at the ball field everyday. I have decided that KC will have one day in the week to do what ever she wants and I will follow her doing that. We already did a shop day last week. There are things that she wants and I told her that I have spent X amount on the boys sports and she can go shopping with some of that. We talked about her starting a flower garden that is hers to work up and get the flowers and attend too. It will be outside her window and she seemed to like that idea. Went to a meeting at school and in 8th grade they go to Washington DC and the cost is 695. I talked to her and I feel that she needs to raise at least on third of the trip. I haven't talked to the dad on this one yet. UGH! Ideas that have been coming up are pop can collection, door to door or watch your email. Babysitting I think would be great or walking animals for people at work. Trying to get her to take initiative I want her to break out there. Was I the one to stay in the shadow and not go out and pursue? I babysat all the time I remember. I was trying to remember what I did at her age. I babysat alot. I rode my bike a lot. It was a different time but. I know my parents didn't hand out the money left and right. In the area that I live that is what people do here. Money is not lacking when it comes to the kids. I think that can be a downer. Am I depriving them of stuff or trying to instill the point that you have to work to make money and save!
Baseball pictures where yesterday and I didn't get them taken. But I did bring my camera. I did get a shot of them in the same setting that everyone else did. But was I looked down a bit well not sure. Do I look like the cheap mom sometimes in my kids eyes. Do I care. If they get the whole concept in the long run I don't care. Do my kids suffer I don't think so. We went for ice cream last nite when I knew very well that there is some in the freezer and it is the same kind that they are going to order. No suffering there.
Well I am rambling and that just shows where the whole month of May will be. Crazy and overwhelming. It will all get done and I know if I only look ahead for one day I will be ok. Any further I will need a shovel. So if you don;t hear from me don't worry but call me on my cell I am around. P.s I got my dress!
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