Time Past

Wow, has it really been almost a year ... blogging is not easy, I am just lazy or I need to get over the fact that others may read my post ... dah is that not why we blogg... So my last post was April 1, 2012 ... today is Januray 19, 2013 and a lot has happened in this time. I recovered from my stress fracture that occured in March. My son left for the Marines, I went out and to his graduation from bootcamp and I now have a Marine for a son that was in June. End of July went back to CA to see my Marine graduated from SOI. I made a few trips to CA this past year ... went back out in October to hang out for his birthday. In my previous blog I had stated that I was training to run a marathon, I did it on October 20, 2012 very exciting day for me. It was tough and my hamstring started talking very loud to me around mile 16 and slow as I may have been I finished in 5 hours and 40 min. Very proud of myself for doing this. I must tell you during this whole time my husband has been deployed, he left on the 3rd of February. It was hard not having him home to see this accomplishment and share the joy with him, but he was with me in my heart. In December you will never guess where I went - lol - back to CA this time to see my son graduate from his MOS school BUT not only that - my husband was back in country and for the first time in 11 months I had my boys together at the same time. On the 22nd of December my husband got to come home and wow has it been great having him back!! I started this year of by going to Florida and running in the Disney half marathon challenge - that means on Saturday the 12th of January ran a half marathon and then on Sunday the 13th of Januray I completed a full marathon. Now I will be very honest and tell you my times were so very slow ... but I completed it and at the end I received the Goofy Medal (along with Donald for the half and Mickey for the full). Quite proud of myself. This year already has a half marathon in its future with several other runs to come. This year is going to be a year full of change and i am going to use this spot to help hold me accountable so you can help hold me accountable by following along and I will challenge you to make some changes also. Every year I start the year off with a 21-day prayer fast and this year will be no different. I will be praying for several people, for several different things, for clariety, strength, knowledge, wisdom and understanding in this journey of life. I will also as I stated last year continue to focus on nutrition and exercise. I will contine with a couple Bible studies and you will probalby hear about them also. The nutrition is the part I struggle with the most and this year I am going to try and incorporate more raw into my husband and I's life style (don't tell him). Well this is enough chitter chatter for tonight. I hope that I can be better and be on here consistently - if anything for me. Good to get the things out of my head - look forward to hearing some response - positive, encouraging response - makes for a better place.