Making Memories

Thursday I took a w.r.og (walk, run and jog). It's amazing how much you can think about when your doing the best you physically can to keep your breathing steady and your legs from falling out from underneath of you. Mid walk I came up with my new mantra for 2010 "Take a good look at what today brings, make memories, anything beyond the bend isn't important and doesn't matter because you can't see it. Focus on what's right there in front of you."

Which brings me to the weekend:

North-east blizzard of 2010. What a weekend we had here in the nexus of the universe (NJ). I am not exaggerating when I tell you that every year, for the last 5 years, has been a disappointment as far as any kind of frozen crippling precipitation. Finally we were not let down, we finished the weekend with 18 inches of snow. Mike (my husband's) brother-in-law (Kurt) and sister (Christine) stayed over Friday night to get snowed in with us. Worked out well, Mike had a shoveling buddy and I had a cooking pal. Friday: before the heavy wind came we took a walk in the already accumulated 6 inches to Mike's in laws house just down the street. On the way to their house we packed in as many snowball fights as we could. There were a few attempts at shaking snow heavy branches above one another head's so that the victim would get hammered with falling snow. The guy's ganged up on us a few times making Christine and I run in a serpentine pattern (helpful info from Land of the Lost). Do not underestimate the power of the serpentine pattern. It works! When we got home from our walk it was nearly 11:30pm. My eye's couldn't believe it. After the week we had I didn't feel an ounce tiered. Saturday: we woke to the sweet aroma of coffee, sizzling bacon and cheddar cheese eggs. Is it just me, or is there something to be said about a BIG breakfast on a snowy day? Yum! When the boy's weren't outside shoveling snow and in between our restful movie watching we would eat and play games. Saturday night it was off to Norma and Waldt's (Kurt's parents house) for chicken in a pot...another yummy meal on a cold day. Sunday: led to more rest, more food and more friends.

What did you do this weekend? Did you roll over in bed after a cozy night of sleep and take a good look at your mate and think "today we sleep in together because we can"? Did you slowly make your way to the kitchen and cook a large breakfast just because you want to remember that specific morning's breakfast for year's to come? Or did act like a kid again and have a snowball fight during a blizzard? Did you take a mental pictures of the love you were surrounded by and recall the reason your surround by that love? I DID.