Saturday, February 13, 2010

Not off to a rocking start, am I?

Well, so much for trying to write on a regular basis! Well actually, if you snuck a peek at my diary, this would actually be pretty amazing, seeing as though I would sometimes go 365 days or more between writing. OK, so I am doing great!

I should be in bed but I'm not! Today was a good day. Started my day in the typical Friday way...Stroller Fitness with dear friends. Picture it: 15 or so moms in a local store, pushing strollers of 1-2 children each, all doing a serious, sweat-inducing, hard core kickboxing workout, while periodically reaching through a punch to deliver a sippy cup or some cheerios, or jumping out of set of lunges to redirect one of the children who are not contained in the strollers from drawing on or hitting or sitting on one of the other children! Whew...tired just imagining it?? I have been doing it for (yikes!) 4 years now but I realized how we must look a few weeks ago when a woman who was shopping GOT OUT A CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPHED US! Needless to say we were less than thrilled. But I guess it is a sight that most people don't see every day!

After Stroller Fitness we headed to our post workout lunch...always interesting with 4 children. Now that they are getting older, we are actually finding it possible to TALK on occasion. Who'd have thunk?! Then after some blissful quiet time while the little ones slept (or at least remained quietly in their rooms) we had some more wonderful playtime with some other friends. We went to one of those children's play places that are so WONDERFUL! Really, what could be better than a warehouse that is cleaned daily and contains a multitude of jumpable, slideable, and climbable sturctures and can wear out even the most energetic of children? And this one has some wonderful safety procedures so even on a fairly busy Friday night it is possible to sit down and allow your child to be out of your sight for 10 minutes or more without going into a panic about where they may be at that moment! Truly, these places may be God's gift to tired moms! Follow that up with a fish fry (for me!) and wonderful, God-filled conversation at dinner with dear friends, and you have the makings for a wonderful day.

A little icing on the cake was coming home from all that fun to find I had NOT missed the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics and getting to watch, in awe, the beauty that someone out there imagined...it was STUNNING! I would SO have loved to have been involved in the planning of that event. Someday.... It is, after all, one of my two dream jobs. Oh, I could never even have imagined something so beautiful or elaborate. So my job will not be creative director. But to plan even one piece of the Olympics, and be one of the many players involved in putting on the elaborate event that is the Olympics, will hopefully be a job I get someday. Not anytime soon...but someday!

So, with that, I really need to get to bed. I have a lot to accomplish this weekend. It is time to get a bit more serious with some of those goals for the new year. Things like working out and doing a little makeover on my diet. I read this week that Food is Fuel, and we should make choices on what we eat based on that principle. OK, got that. It's makes sense. But now I have to figure out how to get myself to make choices on my food based on it's potential as fuel and not based on the fact that I just want more chocolate (or ice cream, or peanut butter cups)!

Until next time, with love and grace!