Fresh Starts

"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." ~Mark Twain

Everyone loves to receive second chances, new beginnings, a fresh start! We let go of the past a little bit more, hold optimism for the future and at all times try very, very hard to remain present. And this leads us to New Years Resolutions... I won't go into a long list of things we promise to ourselves, rather, relish in the moment of the here and now. What's done is done and the future looks bright! Woohoo!



We ended 2008 with the Chicken Pox AND pneumonia, so we figure it can only go uphill from here!

Never having the Pox before, Scott took it on at the age of 40 and it was NOT pretty! Poor dude was quarantined to the bedroom for two weeks and I took to the office/guest room. He was on 72 hour 'death watch' as the Pox is dangerous in adults. Needless to say, I didn't sleep much and spent a LOT of time reading instead, which was actually kind of awesome because I LOVE to read and plan to do much more of it in 09.


I was going to post a pic of the ol' man with the Pox, but they were just too gross so this one is MUCH better. He and Miss C made a promise to each other. This was just a few days before he got sick - it took us by surprise!


We certainly do take advantage of good health, we don't realize how good we've got it until we are laid up like this. On the same day Scott was diagnosed, Boy J was coughing like a barking seal so I took him to the doc. They ordered a chest X-ray stat! I was thinking it was just a rough dose of a cold till they showed me the X-ray. He had pneumonia. Two of my dudes down at once on Christmas break? No way! Way!


"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past." ~Henry Ward Beecher

We went out for a celebratory dinner (pizza and beer, my fave!) as I got my first job after being a stay-at-home mom for ten years! I'm super excited to not only change my life and my body, but to help others change theirs for the better as well (not to mention a paycheck!). I teach both Aqua Aerobics and Pilates at 24 Hour Fitness and will soon be adding more skills to my repertoire. I could not have found a better fit for my life! Hooray to good things.



Welcome 2009!
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." ~Oprah Winfrey