Friday,
December 25, 2015
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
A new one just begun…
As I always seem to do, I was up and moving by 7
a.m. even though I had sworn I would sleep in. Ah well…
I texted Savannah knowing, like me, she never
sleeps late and might like to join me in the park for a Christmas morning hike
with the dogs. I wanted to keep
the exercise portion of my exercise blog going and since I was on a pretty good
roll for the month of December, figured Christmas Day should be no
exception. She was up and agreed
to meet with her spastic dog, Copper.
We hiked for an hour, but since the family was due
by 10:30, had to hurry home for final preparations.
“I have to go home and take a quick shower,” she
said as we hustled across the Rugby field towards our cars.
“I showered a couple of days ago, I think, so I’m
okay,” I said. She looked at me like I wasn’t funny…which we both know I am.
As we have always done, presents were opened
slowly, one at a time, and with seven people in the room and multiple gifts
from each to all of the others, this process took over two hours. I get no greater joy than to give
except maybe for seeing how much my own children seem to enjoy doing the
same. If I have done nothing else
right in my life, this one thing is good.
We had a dinner that included chicken stew,
something I’m avoiding, and a special ten-pound turkey, made particularly for Jack,
and me since it is our favorite meal.
I stuck to the turkey and again ignored desserts. Okay…maybe I did have a small piece of
banana cream pie.
And so…this IS Christmas and a new year is around
the corner. I know what I have
started to do, at least, but realize how much more is to be done on my new life’s
journey. It will be a good one.
Hike
duration: 60 minutes.
Training
Heart Rate: 90 bpm.
Calories
burned during workout: 350.
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