My Turn

My boys are athletes and we take their health very seriously. I researched nutrition for athletes so that they perform at their peak. I know that practice and preparation and training are the foundation upon which success is built. I am viewing hiking the AT no differently. So when I began to think about preparing, here is my flow of thought: 1. We have gear, I wonder how much of it is usable for hiking The AT? to 2. I wonder kind of shoes I need to look for? to 3. How do I take care of my health on The AT? to 4. What kind of preventive measures can I take to prepare for The AT? which leads me to Training schedule. I work a fairly physical job. I help stock grocery store shelves. I pick up heavy things, I have to pay attention to lifting and bending and turning and I am on my feet for a lot of my day. I average 4 miles a day at work, in the grocery store. Instinctively, I don't feel like I need to join a gym and start weight lifting. What I feel is most important to do is ...

I am obsessed. I have been watching videos and Pinning and reading articles like a mad woman. I can barely focus on anything else. If I am fired from my job it will be for watching AT videos in my office while I am working. I add "while I am working" because I am still doing my work. But technically, I shouldn't have my phone open on YouTube with AT videos going. One of my ideas is for each of the boys to join me for a section. I would love for Sam to join me and maybe he will on a section that is not strenuous. I am resolved that it is not likely. So, I told each of the boys individually, of my intention. Usually when I have something to tell them, I send a group text. But this time, I wanted to get individual responses. I told #3 first. #3 is a 17 year old junior in high school. He smirked at me. I told him that I wanted him to join me for a section and he said he would. Because he's a good boy to his mama. Next I texted #1. His response was that this time nex...

When I started this little blog, my intent was to begin sharing my thoughts as a mom whose nest is emptying. For myself, blogging is cathartic. I have come to many realizations about myself in the process of blogging. I posted here a couple of times and then not again for a whole year. SO This new-ish blog is a sort of mid-life crisis chronicle. I mean... I don't think it's a crisis, per se... but a professional may term it differently. Life is a series of choices and living with those choices and hopefully making the best of the results of those choices. I admit that I have not necessarily made the best of my choices. Many times, I have moped and whined, feeling like things were happening to me and that I had no control. I was not really seeing or trying to make the best of a situation that I have choices in. I married at 19. And every choice I made for the last 27 years was for my family.  Which was the right thing for me to do. I look back and I feel successful. Ou...