Walking Wednesday

I have lost 45 pounds over the past year. My weight lose plateaued big time when I returned to work last January. But I was content and felt comfortable. Now I am picking it up a knotch again. I am working out daily for at least 30 minutes on the elliptical. This is my 2nd week of re-entry. Sometimes I get a mini walk in ontop of it. However nothing beats fresh air and the out doors. And 7 days of doing laundry while popping on the cross-trainer in the basement doesn't give me the same "wow" factor.

Last Wednesday I went for a 3 mile walk with Ale and Annah. It felt so good and I even got a mini burn going. So this morning I woke up thinking that I would take advantage of the autumn weather and have proclaimed Wendsday's as my walking day. So today is my official 2nd Walking Wednesday. Of course, Wacky Wednesday comes to mind but hopefully I won't go down that road today, pun fully intended.

Hiyah!

Samuel was in a Little Ninjas karate program for the last year. We took him out in summer so we could enjoy family time before he started kindergarden. He started again at the same time as the school year began and it was just too much. A full day away five days a week is a lot. Right now he is going just on Saturdays. However all of his old mates are no longer there and the new crew are all just beginning. He isn't being challenged in my opinion. Last week he got a stripe which after getting a certain amount of stripes they get the next belt. So that got him excited and now he wants to continue.

The thing is that I just don't see that happening right now. It is tricky enough trying to coordinate pick-up after school and get dinner on the table without throwing something else into the pot. And then I fear that if he began again he would be too tired ontop of it all. That and squeezing even more any family time we have in the evenings. His gym days are the same day as karate and Samuel goes to bed at just past 8pm otherwise he just doesn't have energy for the next day.

This Saturday is going to be his last day of karate. He is counting down the days not because he wants to stop but because he wants to go. I think that is great however I think we need to step back. Is organized activities a necessity at the age of 5? That seems so young. I am going to see what else is offered locally that we can enjoy and dabble in as a family. Perhaps ice skating or football or something else "autumn-y".

Our little pink skeleton girl

I just could not resist and gave into temptation. Gymboree has these little pink PJ's with a skeleton printed on it. It glows in the dark. Yesterday we swung by the mall and they had a pair in Annah's size and I bought them. What fun!!! I put them on her for bedtime. I know, I like to launder new clothing before using them but I was just too excited. Then we turned off the lights and watched her walk around. It was SO cute to see a little frame of glow in the dark bones. When she went to sleep it was rather peculiar seeing the glow in the dark skeleton as she plunged out her arms and legs. For such a little gal she sure knows how to use up a lot of space in a king size bed.