Merry Christmas

Wow time flies! Christmas is already here. I am just going to take this time to slow down and list some things that I am grateful for.
1. I am grateful for my family, they are so wonderful. My husband is my soulmate and my child is my life, my parents are still both here and are both very dear to me.
2. I am finally starting to do something for myself (running) and am taking steps to finding passion, health and happiness in my life.
3. I am grateful for the wonderful running comunity online and the motivation and courage that they give me.
4. I am grateful I have started reading again, I love to read and find when I don't that my mind wanders away from what truly matters in life.
5. I am grateful I am here today to write this, I make the choice every day how I want to react to certain situations and I choose today to not worry about the negative things that have been going on in the past few days.

Take time to be grateful for the little things as well as the big. What are you grateful for today?

What am I doing?

Ok so all of a sudden I am addicted to reading other peoples blogs. I find other peoples lives so interesting. I see myself in a lot of the ladies out there with me being a stay at home mom or a woman in general and just trying to find something for themselves. Something to escape from the repetitiveness of our days. I am not saying that being home with my child isn't the greatest thing it's just sometimes we forget that we have to take care of ourselves as well as everyone else in the house. We need some me time and this is what I am going to be doing from now on.

So here we go. I got together with the greatest guy I have ever met in my life 10 years ago. We are now married and have a 15 month old son who is the greatest "little guy" I have ever met. I do not think that my life is perfect but it is simple and when I look in from afar it is a great life.

I am a small town girl and struggle with self esteem issues and was scared of most things in life. In the past 10 years with the help of my guy I have conquered alot of my fears one by one. He is truly so supportive and amazing. I am 28 years old, 5'4" weighing 139lbs. I just recently lost 15lbs through diet and exercise and am feeling so much better about my body image.

I have always admired anyone who ran. Whenever I seen somebody out there giving it the best they had I was envious of their strength and courage to do such a thing. I was always to embarrased to get out there and try. I would always say to myself, "I should be doing that right now." So after years of watching everyone else run here I am today, I started a beginning program and feel great, thanks to some wonderful running and weight loss friends I have met online already. I got up enough courage to enter a 5K in May 2009. I am so scared and nervous but it is exactly what I need to push myself and get motivated.

I am brand new to this blogging world but am looking forward to the great journey. The great journey of health, fitness, happiness and finding myself.