Guess what I was able to do Saturday? Nope, it wasn’t workout for 2 hours or run 5 miles – I was able to actually read a book. Yes, you read correctly – I was able to purchase, open and read it from beginning to end. It took me about 3-1/2 hours. I’ve always been a reader, but for some reason (or maybe 3) in the past 10 or so years I haven’t been able to actually sit down and read an entire book. Before, what would have taken me 3-4 hours to finish has taken me 3-4 weeks. This is how it happened…
Saturday morning we get up and drive over to Odessa to eat. When we get home, we drop off the “boys” and head out to several different stores with our “buying list” in mind. We visited Barnes and Nobel, so I could pick up a few books that I have wanted to buy for some time. Then off to Cavendars, Woods and Academy to pick the girls up some rollerblades and roller skates with all the accessories. After a couple of hours, we get home and I instruct the girls to get their room cleaned while I run to the office, so we can go tryout their new blades and skates that evening. So, I leave – then return to find them rollerblading and skating around the house chasing each other. Just as I enter the living room, Kiki is doing a dive toward Kitty (they were arguing AGAIN!) because she doesn’t have the balancing act down yet (and looks like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz)! They haven’t even touched their room and the trash, tissues, bags and boxes that previously contained their new “stuff” is now spread out over every room of the house. To write I was mad and extremely frustrated would be an understatement. All I asked for was for them to get their room cleaned AFTER I spent my time and money buying them the “things” they wanted. Is that too much to ask for? They were confined to their room until it was clean (clean to my standards) and was instructed NOT to speak to each other!
That is how I got to read an entire book - because they took 3-1/2 hours to clean a room that should have taken 30 minutes…
Sunday morning the kids and I got up and worked out at the school. The girls got to try out their new rollerblades and skates and then we had an early morning picnic on the bleachers. I didn’t bring the jogging stroller, but my son had a wonderful time chasing after the girls. He basically RAN the entire way – looking back at me and yelling “c’Mon, c’Mon – run, run!” Kiki ate the dirt a couple of times, so my son thought it was cute to run a few steps and fall down like she did. It WAS cute and a great stress reliever from the day before.
This morning was more like an obstacle course than anything else.
As I settled into my desk at work, I received a popup article that among other Myths, read the following:
5 Fitness Myths You Need to Forget• by Reader's Digest Magazine, on Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:07pm PDT
5. There is no best time for exercise.If you're simply walking to get healthy or take off some weight, it doesn't matter when you do it, as long as you do it. But if you're an athlete looking for the best-quality workout, choose the late afternoon, when body temperature is highest. Muscles are warm, reaction time is quick, and strength is at its peak. If you push yourself harder as a result, you will burn more calories.
Okay, there is 2 weeks until school starts. Which means that I need to take advantage of every bit of time we have to workout and the evenings are looking better and better for additional short workouts. After school starts I can only guarantee an early morning workout, because athletics and other sports’ practices will take over most of the afternoons.
We are approaching the end of our NINTH week and I look back and wonder where all the time went; saddened by the thought of the girls starting another school year...my babies…
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