**The Senior WW Challenge*** - SUNDAY 4/14

Still not doing well this morning. Hope I can go with Fred to get Maybean, Bailey and Bridgette this afternoon. Supposed to get storms so it'll be good that Bridgette is home to be able to be held when the storms come.

We still want to go to New Orleans but Fred said maybe go on our own as when looking at the bus company's itinerary they will be doing a lot of nightlife stuff and we just aren't night people! Plus they say there will be a lot of long periods of standing and I find that is really bothering my back if standing for a long period. So I think I'll see what sites are recommended to be seen and what hotels are good in the French quarter and just do it as Fred also thinks we can do it a lot cheaper than $4,000!

Good morning.
Sandy “merry Christmas”, I hear it’s snowing there. Good grief it was in the 50s yesterday. We will get a bit of rain later from the tail end of that storm.

Don and I might walk in the mall later.

Vicki great idea on visitors bureau. The internet has all that info too.

I have 1/2 a bone-in ham in the oven. We will have that for dinner and half a baked sweet potato and salad. Then I’ll divide it up and freeze for soups, etc. We like ham and beans soup and Don likes split pea. I am so over split pea. But I make a batch and freeze it in portions for him.

KC yesterday I made soup with the homemade vegetable broth. It was delicious and so flavorful. I didn’t have to add any seasonings because the flavors were there.

Don made reservations for camping and we will leave here Fathers Day in June. We will be back late August-early September. The hope is to get to Michigan with the camper later in the visit.

Now on with my day.....

Sharon

Greetings:  Gail, I hope DD realizes that two issues were averted with you being there with the kids.  DGS driving on his own and DGD going to the party.  Kids are reliable and dependable and then they are faced with something.  Your being there made for two good outcomes.

Today is DGS-18 birthday.  He lives in Oregon.

Glad so many of us are signing up to commit to walking.  It isn't required to sign up at AARP, but just commit to walking those 30 minutes every day starting May 1 through June 30.  Think what a habit we'll build! 

Gail, I agree.  I'm convinced.  I've read several articles about how sitting is the new smoking and so bad for you. 

AOTD: What do you do to ensure that you are not too sedentary?   I started years ago with a timer.  In the evenings I'd set it and get up and walk a bit every 20 minutes.  Now it's a bit different as I use the fitbit and it gets me up every hour to walk 250 steps.  Same idea.  Some days I don't get a great grand total of steps, but I am more attentive to getting up and moving through the day.  Sometimes it's such a surprise to realize I've been sitting for an hour without moving and then I get the tickle from the fitbit.  Mine went for a long time without the reminder and then one day it just started up again, which makes me very happy.  

Hope sun today.  I think we get sun tomorrow.  Snow yesterday, again!  But it's warm enough now it melted, mostly.

Had the boys yesterday morning.  We made no bake cookies and they took every one home.  They each made a batch with their own particular ingredients.  Then we put the cookie sheets in the freezer.  And DGS-8 learned how to make the jello salad.  He was quite proud last night that he'd made something for dinner.

I went somewhere new yesterday for the afternoon program I wanted to attend and drove around and around the block until I figured how I could get ito the parking lot!  Hilarious, but true.  

Well, bummer.  I usually watch CBS Sunday Morning, but when I started to watch it, it's the Masters!  It's fine to watch the Masters, but I'd like the other, too.  Oh well.  I know a lot of people grumble about basketball during March Madness.

DGS-5 wants to come over today.  They are selling some outgrown toys and there are some things here that fit that description.  I think I'll try to get him to identify some that he doesn't play with anymore.  Some really simple puzzles for sure and they are selling the train table and I've got a few boxes of train parts, so they should go together.

Masters started very early today Karen C because of the severe storms threatening the area later today. They announced the time change toward the end of yesterday's play. They did it for the safety of all the those involved at the course.

QOTD: What do you do to ensure that you are not too sedentary? AOTD: You all know me...grass does not grow under my feet. I usually have one day a week where I will do a lot of sitting, and because I am so active otherwise, I allow myself that.  I do need to walk more. I am looking forward to the AARP challenge!

Love the Acela! So smooth and quiet. I left my European crutches at DD's though and am uncomfortable without having at least one with me on a train. Plus they are not mine!!!

AOTD: I have not been as active as usual, but am working on doing more. I am going to pay. ore attention to the alerts on my Apple Watch to get up and move every hour. Plus now that the weather is nicer I want to take long walks.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Joseph Addison

Thanks for the poem, Karen! Have you been able to do any writing lately?

You are a great role model for moving, Ruth. And for meditation. The Apple Watch has a sit and focus on breathing app which I have been using. And ahhh for chair yoga. Can't wait for Tuesday afternoon to do it again.

Getting to station. I'll check in again tonight.

Gail