WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2012

I can't believe I haven't written in a long time. It was a crazy busy week and weekend. I am adding more students for summer work and meeting with teachers and parents is taking time. I can't wait until I actually know my schedule.
I will be back....

Sally

Been on the go all week-end.Sat had a party for my twin niece and nephew who turned 2,sun we had a church celebration with pot luck,swimming afterward.Today was date day with hubby,went to a movie and then to a friend`s for pool time and dinner.
Home exhausted.
Hope everyone had a great week-end.
Thankful for all the soldiers today,my Dad,FIL,son.
Tomorrow is my last visit with the ortho dr.Know i`m on my own to get my knee stronger.
Have a good night!!
HUGS
jane

hoping everyone had a great holiday weekend. it is quite warm here but i was able to get in several long walks over the weekend...despite the heat. just wanted to say hi to all!

Just done an hour and half brisk walk with my friend. Feel great although I think I need new trainers, my feet are a bit sore underneath which isn't usual. Having said that I haven't done any serious walking for a long time not since before I was in hospital earlier in the year. So, back on track now and my new pedometer has arrived too. Hopefully I've walked some of those excess calories off that I ate at the weekend.

Glad everyone had an enjoyable weekend

Off for a shower now, it's so hot here again

Cath x

Hello Ladies ,:flowerforyou:
Did you all have a good week end.:happy: My weekend was go go go all weekend . Friday I did the shopping and I bought my self new walking shoes,:bigsmile: they sure make a big difference.

Friday night My son and familey came over for dinner, we had bar b-q ribs and salad, I know to much salt. Then 2 of the grand kids stayed over night , Hunter 8yrs and Zoe 5 yrs . Saturday morning after breakfast I thought it might be a good ideal to take the kids and the dog for a walk. :laugh: The kids wanted to go to a park so I said ok we will walk there. 5 blocks over. 3more down and then 3more over. and by then it was hot and the kid played while the dog and I watched.:glasses: Then the kid were hot so we walked 4 more blocks to my sister's house and called my DH to come and get us.LOL he was already out looking for us because we were gone so long. :
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after my son came and picked up his kids, I took a shower and at 3:00 Pm pick up my 2 older granddaughters and I niece at the highschool ,after they had marched in the 500 festival parade. They are in the Ben Davis Marching Band, anyway took them home to shower , change and off to go see another neice performance in sleeping beauty. My neice is a ballerina, and she also co-teaches a tap dance class. She is 17 yrs old

The girls stayed over night and we all went to church Sunday Morning. Then it was home and change , then off to the lake for DH's family reunion. That means more fun in the sun and more food ofcourse.

it was a good time , and I enjoyed every minute of it, but now it is back to the business of getting rid of these unwanted pounds.

Hope you all had a grand time this weekend as well!

hi all:flowerforyou:
haven't posted in awhile. glad to see everyone had a good long weekend. will sign on later.......take care

Faye , what part of Florida do you live in? My mother in law lives in Labelle and we go down there at the end of Oct. for a vist and take her out for her birthday , LOL she was born on Holloween and then my DH was born on her Birthday so they are both Holloween birthdays:laugh:

OH and it is rainning here in Indianapolis also , but we had great weather over the weekend and for the 500 race!:bigsmile:

I am still here, just been a bit busy lately. I love reading your posts and how you are all doing. Bit jealous about the warm weather most of you are having as we head into winter, and what looks like being a colder then usual one this year. Not so jealous about tropical storms or possible hurricanes.
Having to split my time between my mother and my daughter and then trying to keep up with my own things is quite a juggle. I spend one day a week with my mum. she has been sick lately, I think its the flu she is calling it a chill and is curing it herself. Will not see a doctor, but she never has in her life been much for doctors so why should she change at 81. She is being good though and resting and eating well. I usually stay with my daughter one night each week, so thats 2 days a week with her. I have been told I shouldn't do so much for her when there. cleaning, washing, shopping etc . But then I realised the people who are telling me this have their children still living at home, with everything done for them, my daughter works 4 jobs to pay her costs and goes to classes as well. She does her own cooking, and is really making some healthy choices and tries to keep most of her cleaning done. So proud of her. I guess I shouldn't tell people what I do, But I am an open book, so when asked what do I do each week when visiting her I tell them. I really think when people are jealous they like to find fault. All of her friends are still at home and studing and have a casual job to put money aside for holidays and evenings out etc. I would love to have my daughter back home. But the travelling was too much and she was often too tired for class so she made a decision to move closer. She is very determined to achieve her dreams. She is sick at the moment (flu ish virus) so I am thinking of going in tonight an extra night to give her some TLC. Wow didn't know that was inside me but now that I have got it out, realise how others were making me feel guilty for helping my daughter. I will no longer feel guilty. I will continue to help my daughter anyway I can. Life changes all the time and who knows what is round the corner. I will do what is right for now. Being home only 3 to 4 days a week is showing in my own house. Jobs left to another time and the garden is sadly in need of some care, but that can all wait. The hardest thing I'm finding at the moment is getting my exercise in. I have to work on that. So witth that said, shall step away from the computer and go for a walk, before the day gets much older (6.30am) and I find myself caught up in other ways.

Jellyfishjen - you have to do what is right for you and your family...you are helping with chores, it is not as if you are enabling bad habits...stick to your convictions!:flowerforyou:

It was unseasonably (and uncomfortably) warm in NYS today..90+ and very high humidity...felt like late July not late May...dh had to put the ac window units in...we don't usually have them in until end of June...I hate closing up the house. I am a fresh air fanatic!:laugh:

I did do a 12 mile recumbent bike ride this am...woke up at 4:30am...:grumble: tried to go back to sleep,but finally gave up about 5:30...makes for a long day.

Am getting better about my eating and the healthy choices are becoming more normal and less like I am giving something up...hopefully the scale will start to show this trend...work in progress and not giving up...took me 50 years to get here...not going to see instant results!:bigsmile:

Question for the water exercisers....what do you do or is there a website or resource you can point me to? With the hot weather already here, I am hoping to find some things to do in the pool...above ground, round pool..hard to swim laps

Have a great night, ladies, love to read the posts...we do cover it all..fitness, healthy eating, venting and sharing the joys in our lives.

Jen

I'd like to get rid of 35 pounds....again. wth is wrong with me and where is this yo-yo thing coming from:grumble: :grumble: I seem to have zero self-control :grumble: :grumble: all the while thinking I can do it, no big deal, yay for me:drinker: But not really :explode:

What a dilemma.

Renny, the Rebel