My Improvements

So with the new year-- I had to make certain promises to myself of what I was going to do this year-- you know, kinda like New Year Resolutions except I didn't want mine to be called that. Nobody keeps resolutions and they become a source of anguish or something else to beat yourself up when you don't accomplish them or give up on them.

I decided to make my improvements fairly simple- really doable and when I can take as long as a year to perfect them they will make my bigger goals more attainable-

My first one----hold on- this is BIG------

Make Breakfast as many days as possible for myself and family---
Yep, that is it!! Get up and make breakfast!!
But it accomplishes many things. First the kids have a full belly and can concentrate at school and if they are anything like me- will eat less for the rest of the day as a results. For a couple of years now, they have been filling on on cold cereal and I have come to the decision that cereal should only be used in case of emergency- like I don't wake up until 10 minutes before the bus leaves--- so far- so good. I have just planned my grocery shopping appropriately for many breakfast meals. But with this little step, I see big things happening.

Next--- run--- thats it-- just run whenever I can. There are no weightloss goals- in fact, I am banned from using the scale-- just run and try to love it. I do have a teensy goal with it and that is to run 3 miles in one session by the end of Jan. My Ipod and Nike's keep track of what I do and it is attached to this blog on the right side. One thing I have noticed is that everytime I leave this house- I improve by a few seconds- that is good because I need to improve by a few minutes total--- that means there is hope for me. To me it is much more managable to be able to say I will make breakfast and run run run- because that is something I have complete control over. Saying I will lose 20 pounds- well, not so much.

anyhow, here are some pics of the kids on their first day of school at their bus stop




Also, you will notice that I am trying to take a picture everyday and download them to my flickr site--- well that is proving harder then I thought because everyday I think- what in the heck am I going to take a picture of today-- and I am only 10 days into this. I need some creative juice as far as photography goes because it is not supposed to be difficult!