Move!

Success Snapshot 2: Move!

If you want to be healthier and feel healthier, move your body!  Workout, walk, play with your kids.  Whatever makes you feel good and gets your body off the couch.

I find that long workouts don't work for me right now in this stage of life. I don't wake up before my kids, and I hate working out before bedtime, so I do a quick 15 minute walking workout (with Leslie Sansone, the walking queen) every weekday while my kids eat breakfast.  It's the perfect mom workout.  

In addition to my daily workout at home, I try to get in one long walk each week at the Columbia River waterfront, which is my favorite walk of all time.  There's so much to see and I often take my twins with me on their scooters.  They love it, too.

I also received a FitBit Alta for Mother's Day which helps me track my steps & time spent working out each day.  I rarely hit 10,000 steps (the daily goal) but I walk more than I would if I didn't have it.

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Perfect Walking Weather

It's funny... Everyone in the lower 48 is facing arctic blasts with wind and cold and snow. 

Meanwhile in Alaska, we've got 40 degrees and raining.

It's perfect afternoon walking weather.

Okay, it's not actually perfect walking weather.  There are patches of ice, huge mud puddles and that gray sky is down right depressing, but when you have three little boys stuck indoors for months at a time, you take forty degrees and not-currently-raining and you run with it. Literally.

And after your walk, you let them throw rocks into the puddles under your house because, well, why not?

Then you warm them with cocoa, bags of chips and episodes of Arthur, and for a little while, all is right with the world.