Spring Break week.
Major challenge ahead.
I'll be in the car for 14 hours with two kids.
I will drive across four states.
I will spend several days in my fabulous aunt's beautiful home.
I will entertain two kids for 12 hours each day without my usual resources.
All that will be a breeze.
I have the knowledge and training to handle that.
I have always been told not to stop for hitchhikers.
Everyone knows not to talk to strangers.
Maintain death-grip on kids while in gas stations.
Use restaurant bathrooms, not gas station bathrooms.
Make sure someone knows where and when you stop and when you get going.
Pack DVD player, DVDs, markers, paper, markers, lipstick, etc.
Snacks...check.
Road trip will be a breeze.
The challenge, the test of my strength and sanity, is completely different.
This week I will be without the professional.
No co-dependent behavior for the next seven days.
This will be a major change of routine and a test of where I am in my growth.
This week I will have to think: Don't talk to strangers, check air pressure in tires, do 100 squats, eat appropriately.
After a brief break because of my knee, my work-outs have become increasingly intense.
My two minutes of Tabata are a thing of the past.
Hitler death march is recess for me.
My work-outs are intense.
I sweat. I stink. I love it.
This is no time for me to go soft.
I know that the next time I see the professional he will have the same expectations of me and my endurance as he had the week before.
Just because I'm on vacation, doesn't mean I'm on vacation.
This is a permanent life-style change, not a fad. Not a phase.
My challenge this week will be getting up and doing what I should do.
This week, my thinking will have to change.
Get up, brush my teeth, go potty, go into work-out room.
Even when nobody is looking.
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