The flame is flickering out...

[SirPrizeMe]

Oh, I have to say...
From time to time I get down about my situation. I write "Life happens now" and I want to follow that path but it is not always easy. but yesterday I lived up to that ideal.

Any time I am with my kids I feel great. So happy to be with them. As we sat down to dinner yesterday, I told them that. I told them some people say grace before a meal, a little prayer of thanks. I told them that I am thankful for being with them, for being together.

But when I am not with my kids, I can get down. It's quiet in my house.

After I dropped them off I carried the positive vibe into a bike ride. I've been slacking off on the exercise, which means I've gained weight and also, no phyiscal activity is bad for the 'tude. Which makes me not wanna ride. It's a vicious cycle. So I consciously surfed the positive mojo from the kids' visit into a bike ride. I rode for two hours yday evening. Strenuous. A really hilly route I used to ride 3 or 4 times weekly. It was much harder now - I've been not riding for about 8 months. My legs and lungs are not what they once were, and the extra weight doesn't help on those hills. But still, enjoyable. I stopped and watched a baseball game at a field near the trail I rode. I thought of all my son's games I watched last year. (This year he didn't do baseball.) Then I turned around and rode back to the house.

I gotta say, the exercise feels soooo good. I resolve to get back in the habit.