Time for Reflection

Another year is almost over and what a year it has been.  Lots of fun and exciting things have happened and I have been spending some time reflecting on those things.  Most of those things I have shared here already and hope that everyone has enjoyed reading them.  I kind of fell off the blogging wagon for a while but I'm going to work on getting back on track and hope to share more in the coming weeks.    Looking back at my first couple of posts from last year I can see how far I have come and how far I still need to go.  I felt like I hadn't lost any weight at all but have realized that I have lost 14lbs this year.  It's not much but when you look at the fact that I lost and didn't gain I'm happy with that.  Maybe my goal for this year can be to lose double that amount:)  Slow and steady wins the race right?

Running has been very sporadic since my half marathon in June.  I know that I just need to get out and do it and have created myself a plan to make things work.  Since I have almost two weeks off I am going to start by running every other day.  Yesterday was supposed to be day one but the wind was too scary so I went today instead.  That would put my next run on Christmas Day but that's just not going to work so I will run a short run again tomorrow then will resume the every other day.  My short, short term goal is to be able to run 8k on my birthday in 3 weeks.  It might be a stretch but considering I could run 21k just a few months ago I don't think it's too much of a stretch.  Now that I have put it out there I have to do it so I can report back!

So what about the world outside of running and weight loss??  Well we have had some family fun this year with camping and recently we stayed over night at a local hotel with a water park.  The kids are all getting older and growing up so fast.  In just over a month we will register Christina for school!!  It's so crazy that this September she'll be off to school with Anna.  Anna is doing so well with learning and handled the first of her surgeries like a trooper.  Meag has had a year of self discovery!  She started college and realized that she didn't really fit the program she was in.  She has made some changes to her schedule and will be doing something different at school in the next year.  It has been a year of personal growth for her and she is slowly starting to find herself.  Drew had a rough year at school but things seem to be turning around now.  He is also really finding who he is now and discovering what he likes and wants in life.  Ashlee has come to be a young woman instead of a girl.  She is becoming a real teenager complete with the boy band obsession that I remember all to well from my teenage days.

Over all it has been a wonderful year and I'm looking forward to the year to come.  

Merry Christmas Everyone!