It's Time

OMG, it has been a really really long time since I touched my blog. I got sick of doing it after all the stress of work and dealing with the challenges of having a therapeutic foster child in our home. Don't get me wrong though! I love working with children, even therapeutic foster children, but foster parents really do have a hard job. We balance the needs and goals of every single component in these children's lives. Whether it be from school, therapy, social workers, family, or even within our home, we have to find that balance to ensure these children not only meet those needs and goals, but be able to stay stable. Can you imagine having 10 different people from 10 different agencies sitting around a table to decide what they want out of your life? 10 people basically controlling your destiny! It's a lot of responsibility and a lot of pressure! But again, we love working with these children. As stressful as it may be, we may be the only people in their lives that are willing to sit down and show them how much we value their lives.

Let's move on! So basically, I gain a lot of my weight back. Actually, I gained it all back. So we decided to start a workout group. We decided we were all going to do Insanity together. What an INSANE choice huh? We started with about 10 people and little by little we went down to our core four. Shannon (my other half), Rusti (my BFFF-in-law), My mother, and myself! All four of us stuck it out. I lost about 15 pounds! I was happy.

Then again, I began to cycle back. Things got stressful in life: Work, finances, etc. I gained back about 10 pounds. Luckily it wasn't the full 15 pounds.

I don't know what to do with myself, but I know I need to get back into shape again...Here we go again!

Round 2 of Insanity!