Sometimes on rainy days I just don't want to get up and do anything. My bed is cosy and warm, and I have everything I need within easy reach. But work has to be done, so I get up and leave my warm bed and go out into the rain and cold. I know we are lucky here, we haven't had all the snow and cold that America has been getting. We also haven't been affected with the flooding that many parts of England have had, along with other parts of the UK.
However it doesn't make it any easier getting up out of bed!
On Sunday R and I went for a run. He bought me luvly new trainers and running clothes as an early Valentine gift. So we had to make use of it. We ran about 1 1/2 miles on Sunday and it was exhausting! He is fitter than me and he does nothing. It is both annoying and brilliant at the same time.
Brilliant cos then he can keep me at it, encouraging me and not letting me give up.
Annoying because he doesn't get tired. I have been going to the gym for a year now, and running for four weeks. And he is better than me!!
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH
It is week five of the C25K programme tonight, and whilst I definately feel I am getting there, I am not there yet. However the trainers in the programme think we are all about 2 weeks ahead of schedule, which is kinda good.
I am beginning to like running. I'm not good at it, but it makes me feel good to complete the small goals I set for myself. Just run to that next lamppost, just run until you reach the gate, just run until you feel you can't run anymore.....I hope that one day in the not too distant future I will be telling you all how I have run a 5k, I registered today with Parkrun, but that doesn't mean i am ready to do it just yet. However R has said he will do it with me when I do decide to go for it.
It is so great having a supportive husband.
Showing posts with label husband. Show all posts
Showing posts with label husband. Show all posts
Monday, 3 February 2014
Friday, 8 November 2013
Blessed
Sometimes one just has to accept the cheese that is in their life.
Sometimes one just has to throw their hands up to whoever is in charge upstairs, whether it is God, a god, a goddess, or a giant turtle and say thank you. I am blessed.
I was looking (creeping) round facebook today, checking out various people's pictures etc and was wondering on how happy they were. We always put the best pics online. We don't really post (or take) pics of feeling down, or those days we spend crying curled up in bed. So everything looks rosy online. We brag about how well our new job is going, but not that we eat lunch everyday alone. We brag about our great holiday, but not that it rained 5 days out of 7. We boast about our partner's generousity, but not that they ignore us at weekends so they can go play golf.
I then started thinking about my life. Yes I have a husband who between work and his hobbies is out quite a few evenings in the week. Yes he has to work weekends as he works in retail. Yes I get annoyed sometimes that I don't see him.
HOWEVER
He loves me. He tells me every single day. He shows me every single day.
I feel like the luckiest woman alive.
I hope you feel that way too.
Sometimes one just has to throw their hands up to whoever is in charge upstairs, whether it is God, a god, a goddess, or a giant turtle and say thank you. I am blessed.
I was looking (creeping) round facebook today, checking out various people's pictures etc and was wondering on how happy they were. We always put the best pics online. We don't really post (or take) pics of feeling down, or those days we spend crying curled up in bed. So everything looks rosy online. We brag about how well our new job is going, but not that we eat lunch everyday alone. We brag about our great holiday, but not that it rained 5 days out of 7. We boast about our partner's generousity, but not that they ignore us at weekends so they can go play golf.
I then started thinking about my life. Yes I have a husband who between work and his hobbies is out quite a few evenings in the week. Yes he has to work weekends as he works in retail. Yes I get annoyed sometimes that I don't see him.
HOWEVER
He loves me. He tells me every single day. He shows me every single day.
I feel like the luckiest woman alive.
I hope you feel that way too.
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
29 October 2013
I was at a wedding yesterday. It was luvly. It was the first wedding me and R have been to since we got married. I kept catching him staring at me smiling. But I was smiling at him too. Marrying him was one of the best decisions I ever made. That man is goodness and kindness all wrapped up in a human body.
Looking around the room at other couples I got caught up in imagining how happy their relationships are. You never really know what is going on inside someone else's relationship, do you?
On Saturday I was at a tea party for a friend's birthday, all girls, half married, half single girls. The conversation, as it does, got round to our partners, how we met, how they proposed and how they have changed since then.
It was so lovely listening to these girls talk about their husbands with such love in their voices. These are girls that aren't "showy" about how in love they are, but without a doubt each of them got a little dreamy when talking about the man in their lives and how he shows them that he loves them.
It was really nice to hear it.
I kept looking at the singles hoping they were paying attention, hoping they would learn that the man you have built up in your head as your ideal man won't be the one you marry. That the man you marry won't be the same man in ten years. You have to wait for the perfect man to come along, the perfect man for you. God has him picked out for you, just be patient.
That man will change over the course of your relationship, and marriage. But you will change too.
The best relationships evolve together.
Keep on listening to your heart. Keep in mind why you married that man lying beside you snoring his head off. Don't give up.
Looking around the room at other couples I got caught up in imagining how happy their relationships are. You never really know what is going on inside someone else's relationship, do you?
On Saturday I was at a tea party for a friend's birthday, all girls, half married, half single girls. The conversation, as it does, got round to our partners, how we met, how they proposed and how they have changed since then.
It was so lovely listening to these girls talk about their husbands with such love in their voices. These are girls that aren't "showy" about how in love they are, but without a doubt each of them got a little dreamy when talking about the man in their lives and how he shows them that he loves them.
It was really nice to hear it.
I kept looking at the singles hoping they were paying attention, hoping they would learn that the man you have built up in your head as your ideal man won't be the one you marry. That the man you marry won't be the same man in ten years. You have to wait for the perfect man to come along, the perfect man for you. God has him picked out for you, just be patient.
That man will change over the course of your relationship, and marriage. But you will change too.
The best relationships evolve together.
Keep on listening to your heart. Keep in mind why you married that man lying beside you snoring his head off. Don't give up.
Sunday, 31 March 2013
March 30 2013
R was off work today. On a Saturday. All day.
Now I don't know if u realise just how much of a rare thing that is. He works in retail (fancy way of saying he works in a shop). And so that means he usually works weekends. And holidays. Cos, you know, we all like to go shopping on those days and someone has got to work in the shops.
But he was off today. So I got to spend the whole day with my husband. It was luvly. We slept in. Ate breakfast together. Did a few chores around the house. Visited his parents. Came home. Had Indian for dinner. Watched Dr Who and Australian Masterchef on TV. Then went to bed. I think the only time we had apart was when one of us went to the loo. :-)
I luved every minute of it.
He is off again tomoro. :-)
Happy Easter.
Now I don't know if u realise just how much of a rare thing that is. He works in retail (fancy way of saying he works in a shop). And so that means he usually works weekends. And holidays. Cos, you know, we all like to go shopping on those days and someone has got to work in the shops.
But he was off today. So I got to spend the whole day with my husband. It was luvly. We slept in. Ate breakfast together. Did a few chores around the house. Visited his parents. Came home. Had Indian for dinner. Watched Dr Who and Australian Masterchef on TV. Then went to bed. I think the only time we had apart was when one of us went to the loo. :-)
I luved every minute of it.
He is off again tomoro. :-)
Happy Easter.
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
February 11 2013
Sometimes it's harder to find something good in my day. It's not that it was a bad day. It's just that nothing really happened.
I went to work. I went to the gym. I did Zumba.
I came home. Me and R made dinner. We ate dinner.
Baby girl went out for dinner with her daddy.
Me and R watched TV.
It was an ordinary day.
But there, right there is the good thing.
I had an ordinary day when nothing bad happened.
I have a job. One that I kinda like, most of the time.
I am fit and able and can afford to go to the gym.
I have food and a house and a husband who loves me enough to make dinner with me.
I have a great life.
I went to work. I went to the gym. I did Zumba.
I came home. Me and R made dinner. We ate dinner.
Baby girl went out for dinner with her daddy.
Me and R watched TV.
It was an ordinary day.
But there, right there is the good thing.
I had an ordinary day when nothing bad happened.
I have a job. One that I kinda like, most of the time.
I am fit and able and can afford to go to the gym.
I have food and a house and a husband who loves me enough to make dinner with me.
I have a great life.
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