This is what you will find me doing....

This is what you will find me doing most days-WALKING! Walking has become my favorite past time here in beautiful Minnesota. I have 2 walking buddies during the week and Peter loves to walk with us on the weekends. The girls have learned to be patient so "mommy can exercise." I have to admit-I have kind of become obsessed with walking-if I don't feel like I walked enough in the morning, then I will walk again at night. I walk anywhere from 1.5 miles to 7 miles about 5 days a week. I am sad to say that I haven't seen my body change (i.e., loosing weight) but I do have more energy, which helps when I am chasing these two precious girls around.

Here is a walking story: Late yesterday afternoon, I wanted to get a walk in before the rain storm. I had walked about 1.5 miles and it started sprinkling (thankfully we were close to the apartment) so I ran back before we got drenched. When we got back to the apartment, I felt like I needed more of workout so I put on the exercise channel and "TRIED" to start doing a video. Well, most of you know that 8 years ago (today, to be exact), I was involved in a pretty bad car accident that has permanently ruined my back. So back to my story, the guy on the video started doing lunges and these crazy back bends but my "non cooperative" back wasn't going to have it so I just stopped and stood in place. The next thing I knew, Harper walked in and started saying "mommy, what are you doing? Are you trying to exercise? Mommy, you aren't doing it right! Mommy, do it like the guy on TV. No, that's not right." This went on and on for a few minutes, so finally I gave up.

The moral of the story is: if you need a great, motivating personal trainer-I have the perfect little girl just for you!