Our New Year's Promise

Himself, the three fur babies and I have joined the millions of others out there who have promised to loose weight and get into better shape this year. We, himself and I, have made this resolution before so what's the difference this time? I have truly pondered this over the past few days ... . And, the difference this year is our committement to live a loving and healthy life -- a long life, together. Himself had a health scare this past fall, and it made us realize that our 25 years together (almost 26 years now) is not nearly enough time. We want more time, simple as that.

After that revelation we also noticed that the fur crew was completely out of shape as well. So, we, as the responsible and loving parents that we are, have made the promise for them too!! Just when we wanted to get started, wouldn't you know that we all came down with some form of a cold/flu bug. It has been great on the weight loss as we have not wanted to eat, but on the exercise front, well, there was no energy to be physically active.

But today is a new day and the beginning of our promise. That's for all of us. Yesterday the crew spent a great deal of time outside. They then spent the entire evening in one position on their doggy bed sleeping. It's so hard to believe that the three of them are so badly out of shape that an afternoon of fresh air and frolicking could be so waring on them. It's back to daily activity for them!!

And as for we humans, Himself has planned out our exercise routine for each evening. We'll see if I can even move after a couple of days or if I'm so warn out that I too just lie down and refuse to move for hours upon hours. I guess I'll just keep thinking about our trip to Vegas in May as a motivator for being in better shape - can't go to Vegas all frompy and fat!!