I thought I would share what has been keeping me so busy

What a great world I live in.  I have the greatest of luck.  My grandchildren keep me very busy, filled with love and grateful for my life.  I take care of them plus two others.  They have kept me very busy and pushed me to my limits and then created new limits.  One of my readers said I am doing my Camino right now with all my preparation and she sure is correct.

One of the reasons I wanted to do this walk is because I have never done anything like this in my life.  I have never been as physical as the Camino will make me be.  I honestly don't have any idea if I can do it.  From one moment to the next I swing back and forth between I can and I can't.  In fact I work out and walk and begin to build my strength and longevity, then suddenly something happens that keeps me from going out and walking.  I fall behind and have to start all over again.  By now I had expected to be able to walk for at least 8 to 10 miles everyday.  But I was not able to walk all summer long.  Behind again.

So I have set another goal for accomplishing my walking goals.  I have just 2 years left to lose another 50lbs and be used to walking everyday for at least 10 to 15 miles.  The other big thing is to be able to walk up a mountain without severe panting as well as be able to get over the Pyrenees in one day.

I guess I am walking a Camino right now but this one has so many interruptions and crazy changes I can't wait to walk the Camino in Spain and just do the same thing everyday without all the crazy schedules I have right now.  My days start at 5:30am and ends between 6:30pm and 8pm.  I get home so tired and hungry I never make it back out to workout as I need a full 8 hours of sleep to keep up the pace.

 Hummmmmmmmmm  and I thought it would be easy to be able to work out if I didn't have a desk job and was out everyday with kids.  Wrong!!

Anyway, I keep going and keep trying and keep believing I can.

The four keep me quite busy and force me to be very creative to keep them all happy, at lease most of the time.


I am choosing to believe that this winter will be better than this summer.

Over the summer we had 4 weeks of summing lessons, 3 weeks of golf lessons, 3 weeks of pottery lessons and the oldest got his gokart license and did an archery class.  Sometimes it just felt like I was going from one thing to the next.  If being able to be flexible and be able to just push on is a trait I need then I can say I got that one down.

We had a very big fire in the mountains last year that kept us from being able to walk during the spring, because of all the smoke.  This year we had lots of heat and then a very severe flood, more like the Katrina Hurricane, with all the damage.  So mother nature has been putting this area through a lot in the last year or so.  I am beginning to think the world is on it's own Camino with all that has been going on.  Is it time for our world to rise up to a better place!?

Hope your "Camino" is going well and you are wading through your life with great success and if not, then may the hand of good fortune push you on :)))

Buen Camino
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Life Has So many Twists and Turns

I cannot begin to tell you all the things that have been happening to me since my last post.  It seems that at every turn another pile gets added to my life.  Just the thought of going on this trip puts up new and bigger walls to overcome.  Life doesn't seem to cut many breaks right now. I am finding my way around, over and through each of these events.  I even had strep throat and walking pneumonia, I am not usually sick except for small colds but this year has been a winner.  So right now, I am rebuilding my lungs AGAIN.  I haven't lost any weight lately as all this illness has me overeating.  On a light note, my daughter has lost 80 lbs since last September and looks awesome.  My turn now.

I am reading a book written by Cheri Powell called Seven Tips to Make the Most of the Camino de Santiago.  I love her tips, they help me to feel like I am beginning to know what to do here.  I am like the Goldy Hawn movie where she falls off her yacht and ends up as a 'mother' to a brood of country kids.  She is completely lost but eventually figures things out and ends up staying in her new life and leaving her past life style.  Cheri's book is helping me to figure out what to bring and how to do things and where to go to get them and what I should expect when I get to the store.  Awesome,  I now have my boots.  It took two trips to the store 3 months apart, returning the first pair as they did not fit correctly and finding a much better pair for my feet.  I have been wearing them around for the last couple of months and they are very comfortable. One thing done and many, many more to go.

It is very interesting to watch myself.  In my younger years I just did things.  They got done even if I didn't know how.  I was busy but life got figured out.  Now that I am more mature I find myself in the biggest quandary of my life.  I am suddenly having problems with figuring out how to get things done and when I decide a way the road seems to disappear. It is difficult to keep in the positive sometimes.  BUT, conversely, I am also manifesting in new ways.  These small successes have given me great hope for the future. 

My time for the walk has changed, yet again.  I will be taking care of my grandson until he is 3 and goes into the Goddard Preschool Program.  This puts my time out to fall of 2015.  I am trying to find an inexpensive place to live so I can keep my money for the trip socked away.  That is a huge feat here in Ft Collins where rent has doubled.

I am going out for my first long walk, since I got over pneumonia, this afternoon.  I am going to take a small trail and do a bit of uphill.  You all might hear me breathing all the way around the world,  chuckle chuckle!

I would like to use this post for a shameless promotion of a great childrens book written by a friend of mine:

Awesome book. Received it, opened the package and my grand daughter asked me to read it to her right away. She was completely focused on the story and when done she said she loved it. A real winner for kids starting school as well as moving. My grand daughter will leave her preschool and friends, moving to her elementary school without her friends, of the last 3 years, and starting a new school this fall. I recommend this book for all kids as all kids experience changes throughout life. It is a great story as well as a great mentor. Thanks Stacey for writing a book that is well needed in this mobile world of today.  

I am on my way out now and look forward to talking on here more often.  Thanks for hanging around and reading this.  I still expect to write my experience here when I walk and of course, as I continue my training to share my experiences.

Buen Camino

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