"A Wink and a Smile"

I love the start of a new year ... resolutions, de-cluttering,  and all those goals. After a 3 week hiatus from exercise (bad, I know), I started back with my running.  My husband will go full force into his P90x and I will likely do some of the workouts with him.  YOGA was really my favorite and the kickboxing was pretty good too.  I know the program works.  After a few weeks of working out with it, I was really seeing some changes.  My only issue is that life happens (so do excuses) and everyday exercise is not always priority to me.  Taking this on just at the start of Thanksgiving and Christmas was tough too.  I was also missing my running because while doing P90x, I just couldn't squeeze that in as well.  There were just not enough hours in the day. SO, starting on January 1st, I dusted off the sneakers and went for a little run.  Today again I donned a new running outfit that my sister gifted me for Christmas, and used my new handy dandy nike+ pouch ... I love that thing....

WOW, it has been forever since I sat down to write on my blog.  To be honest, I don't even have some good thoughts of what to write today, but the blog has sat idle tooooooo  long. The month of December really went by quickly.  It was filled with lots of running around ... schools, pools, stores, and more.  From the looks of some other blogs that I read, I think they understand my absence because they were dealing with much of the same craziness. The family had a wonderful Christmas.  My younger sister, her husband, and one daughter came out to visit us and it was really nice.  It's been a few years since we celebrated Christmas with family.  I'm really starting to miss those big gatherings. 2008 is now behind us.  While I hear so much talk about how it was the worst year, I really don't feel that way.  Sure the costs of things like gas was huge and certainly did affect us, but I saw so many wonderful changes in my family that rise above all the negative happening in th...