Yay. An “opportunity” to grow in character already this year. This evening, I got a message that the kitchen in our rental had flooded and we are still 2000 miles away on vacation.  Thanks 2010 for the great start.
I haven’t been on the computer much because I’ve been spending as much time as [...]

We are left today for Indiana and will be gone for just over three weeks. While I love to travel I always get a little nervous about getting derailed from my healthy lifestyle. I’m visiting family and my sister and parents both have home gyms. My sister also belongs to a gym [...]

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What’s that spell?  Kettlebell!!!!

I’m not sure where I first read about kettlebells.  I’m sure it was online but as soon I read some of the claims made by kettlebell enthusiasts I knew I had to give them a try.  So in August, I started training with kettlebells.  Luckily [...]

One of my favorite things about blogging is making new friends.  Michelle was one of the first people to email me through my blog and I’m so glad she did!  Michelle is hilarious, witty, super duper encouraging, honest, and COMMITED to her family and her health.  She is definitely a Girl Hero!
Michelle works as a [...]

My cat, Sunny (who I affectionately call Meow Cow), and I watched  the cold rain fall all morning.

While it was cozy inside, it was too cold and wet to exercise outside.  In fact, I didn’t even want to cross the lawn to my garage.  Don’t judge.  :)   So, I took a living room workout [...]

As some of you have read, I decided to change the name of my blog to Girl-Heroes because I realized without so many girl heroes in my life I might still be locked in a closet depressed gorging myself on Krispi Creams or worse. One of my girl heroes is my dear friend Martha.  Martha [...]

The other day I had to go to the DMV.  Although the visit left me frustrated, I was actually reminded of a few important lessons of health.
1.  It was a cold Monday morning when I drove up to the DMV and saw a line that wrapped around the building.  I was a blink away from [...]

Sometimes I amaze myself.  Seriously I didn’t know it was possible for one person to eat half their body weight in stuffing at one sitting.  For as long as I can remember, I’ve stuffed myself with stuffing and other festive foods every Thanksgiving.  Every year.  The night before I always tell myself this year is [...]

I’ve missed you and I’ve missed blogging.
I thought Thanksgiving would be a perfect day to get back to blogging.  There’s nothing like eating 4000 calories then sitting down at my laptop to pontificate on and on about the importance of sane meals.    Seriously, I was thinking about all I have to be thankful [...]

You may be familiar with Stephen Covey’s rock analogy.  If not it goes something like this.
Take a jar and fill it halfway with sand.  Next add some small pebbles.  Is is full?  Now try to squeeze some big rocks on top.  Do they  fit?  Probably not….at least not very many.  It’s an object lesson on [...]