Over the past couple of days I have been thinking about past New Year's. What I have done for them and whether or not I made any resolutions. There are a few New Year's Eves that I can remember growing up. A couple at church, one at a friend's house in high school, one at Food Max, and my most memorable one was in New Orleans. Since Chip and I have been married, we have spent almost every New Year's with the same group of friends from church. There are 6 couples that started out as newly married couples and now we've all been married for 12 years or more and last night there was 13 kids between us all. I always enjoy spending New Year's with all of them because I like being with my whole family. I like to have Chip and both of my kids with me at midnight. I know there will come a time when my kids don't want to kiss their mom on New Year's but for now they do and I love it!
I've never been one for resolutions because I know that I'm not very good at keeping them after January 31. I always say I'm going to eat better and exercise but if you know me well, you know I don't do that well either. The one thing I have done that motivated me the most was doing the half marathon in 2007. I have never felt so good physically or mentally. You also know that I partially tore my achilles tendon during training last year for the half marathon. I really want to do it again this year but I am also afraid of hurting that bad again. So I am thinking I am going to go really slow and see how it goes. I may not be able to run it like I want to but even if I can walk it, that would be okay. So if I am going to make just one resolution, it will be to start training slowly and see how it goes. This will make younger sister happy since she keeps bugging me to train with her again. :)
Today I am thankful for a New Year. It is always a nice way to have a "clean slate" and have a new start. Happy New Year everybody!
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