Heart, Sweat, and Tears: Day 13

Day 13! Wow, it seems I've been at this a whole lot longer than 13 days! Well at least my heart has been in it for longer than 13 days! It is coming in at a little over a month since I thought up this brainy crazy idea! Read that story here. I find it so very hard to find time to train! It's busy in the Davidson household! The little guy has been sick for the past 4 days and today was the first day he was able to manage to smile! I love his smile! He has been fussy all day and not sleeping at night since he got sick. So to see a smile creep up on his face was nice, however, its nearly midnight and he's still up! He had been in bed by 8:30 or 9 on a regular basis and sleeping through the night. Hopefully he will get back to that normal routine when he starts to feel better! On days I work it is hard to want to workout especially this time of year when we are so busy, all I want to do is shower and sleep when I get home! I'm going to try to do something active on days I work. I mean other than walking all over the ER! Maybe something like stretching for 10 minutes when I get home or doing 50 squats?! What are your suggestions? On days I don't work which are 4 days a week I try to hit Zumba on the days it is available because I really enjoy doing that! But since I started this new endeavor, I feel like I'm not training if I only do Zumba. It's hard to get the time to do Zumba and is even harder if I try to add something else on top of it! The hubs is such a trooper! I am so blessed by him! Again today I was able to sneak away for an hour and a half while the hubs kept the boys. Now I realize an hour and a half isn't a lot to ask the hubs to watch his boys, but this is after working 8 hours, going to the grocery store and cooking (he is the cook in the house). Plus bath time has always been daddy time so he usually does that too! So yes, it's hard for me to ask extra of him! I am truly blessed to have a man that does all this for me and does it all without complaining! I know how lucky I am!

Today when I headed for the gym the hubs asked if I wanted to leave early to run. What a guy! So I left earlier in order to get a short run in and then do Zumba Sentao (Zumba with a chair see pic below) with Ben. I forgot my sweat towel and I was drenching sweat the whole time. I only did one mile again, but I did it with an incline of 0.5 the first half mile then I dropped the incline and picked up the pace. I beat Tuesdays time and did it in 12m45s! So I only beat Tuesdays time by a few seconds but I beat it!

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I may be slow, but at least I am doing it! I will get there! Slowly, but surely! No pun intended :) It is a hard job, but I know it will be worth it in the end and I will look great and feel better eventually!

Jesus never promised it would be easy, just that it would be worth it!

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Matthew 7:13-14