I have a client, who is also a friend.  She started coming to classes more than three years ago.  Her first day in the garage to workout, and I think one of her first days working out ever, she says “I am doing this so I can wear a bikini on my fiftieth birthday.”

Waking up to teach early Monday morning after Rhody is equal to a really bad hangover.  I guess it is pretty much a hangover, one of over stimulation.  The Rhododendron Festival has a little bit of everything and we tried to cover as much of it as we could fit in.

This is like those stories that you hear a hundred times because someone thinks it’s super important.  Well, as a trainer to women, this is super important.  This is like a Public Service Announcement about feelings, or better yet an After School Special for middle age women.  

I train hard.  I don't lack motivation or drive when I hit the gym.  But life is stressful, raising kids is stressful, relationships are stressful and what if one bad day turned into a week and then turned into a month.  What if the maintenance of strength became a slow regression, my previous PR’s became a memory of the past. 

I have a mentor in life that has been challenging my views of the world and helping me sort through all the bull shit in hopes of finding true relationships and true happiness.  And when we look for mentors, we want someone to challenge the everyday things and then give us strength in those really challenging moments. 

I love my classes.  I love the people.  I love the environment.  I love the whole thing.  We spend so much time together and over the years we really get to know each other.  It doesn’t happen in a day or a week. 

Can a bad day or two of eating ruin all the good days?  Hmmm.  I eat pretty spot on Sunday through Thursday, when I'm not stressed out, I plan my meals, my children aren't fighting, there are no girls nights, no celebrations and its not raining. 

My mind was blown and when I thought it was done blowing, it was blown again.  I had one of the best weekends learning EVER.  I go to quite a few seminars and workshops throughout the years, but this one made me so excited to go back to work.  I put pieces of the puzzles together and had one "aha moment" after another.

Spring Break has officially started.  Classes will continue because it is really hard to take time off of work.  Classes will be a bit slower and next week I will get to hear about all the adventures that people went on.  Some people are staying close to home and others are traveling far away.  Some are going alone and others with their families.

Shortly after returning home after walking Milo to school, I get the phone call asking me to pick up my Emerson.  This morning he wasn't feeling good and he looked really tired.  I wouldn't have sent him to school if he wasn't asking me to take him to the skatepark after school.