January 1, 2010---New Year, new beginnings, new resolutions. The resolutions are easy to make but not so easy to keep---unless you've got the help and support of family and the resolution is done as a team.
The team is my five sisters and me. Apparently Pam was bored, dreaming up ideas. Around 12:30 in the afternoon of New Years Day we all received an email challenging all of us to walk a minimum of a mile a day. If the weather is nasty, walk to a Leslie Sansone DVD. Her comment was that we all want to feel better and by doing this together we would be able to motivate one another.
Kandy is finishing a long round of chemo. Still not real strong and knows her limitations but she was the first to respond that yes, she's in. May not be able to walk fast but wants to get her strength and energy back. Once the weather is nice she plans to head to Mapletown and walk around the high school football field. In the meantime, she can just do laps in her house.
Vicki used to walk 2.5 miles a day with her friend in MD before moving back to PA. Sure, she'll do it but doesn't know where she'll walk or when. Knows she's disgusted with herself and wants to feel better. Like all of us, no way she wants to walk outside in this nasty weather we've been having.
Pam, as I stated earlier, is the 'master mind' of this. Pam's had heart problems, the exercise will do her heart good and hopefully prevent future problems. She, too, knows it will be easy to not find the time but knows it will do us all good, make us feel better. Pam says we should make it a priority, like brushing our teeth.
Debbie (that's me) knows I need to exercise. This past year I started taking medicine for blood pressure and anxiety/stress. I'm in---goes along with my resolution to start doing more things for me in 2010; going to make time to stop and smell the roses.
Robin is a little skinny thing. Hopefully, the walking doesn't cause her to lose any weight. Robin suffers from bouts of anxiety, depression and stress. She tells us that she's afraid she'll let us down in this walking thing. Won't happen....we're all supporting one another.
Mary aka Tweety is the baby of the bunch. She has such a good walking routine going already. When she said she was throwing in with the rest of us, she'd just come in from a two mile walk with her husband, Brian. They walk every week day, Saturday mornings depending on their schedule/plans and take Sundays off. Tweety will be a good inspiration for the rest of us.
All of us sisters need to pay more attention to ourselves and our health. For nearly two years we have run ourselves ragged caring for and seeing to the needs of our parents and will continue to give them our love, support and care. We're blessed to have them and to have inherited their strong wills to overcome rough challenges.
Our walking commitment to one another will enable us all to handle the day to day demands with more confidence and strength and be more productive in everything we do.
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Pam has made it fun by saying we are traveling in a Flintstone car and we are going to be visiting all of our children along the way. We send Pam our mileage each day and she tells us where we are ending up for the night. Debbie may be adding our day by day locations so I don't want to steal her thunder. :)
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