Hope everyone had a very Happy Thanksgiving! As the shopping season, or should that say Christmas season, begins today I thought this link would give you some great gift buying suggestions for anyone in your life, whether or not the person you are shopping for has Multiple Sclerosis. Happy gift hunting 🙂
Speaking of gifts, I cannot believe I didn’t mention my turning 39 a little more than three weeks ago. Hard to believe it has been four years since I wrote one of my favorite blogs: 35. In it I was stressing about turning 35 and now, with my turning 40 in less than a year, you can probably imagine how much I am freaking out!! And as I often do, I crafted a list of some goals I would like to accomplish before November 6, 2014. And as my years of losing weight with Weight Watchers has taught me: You’ve got to name it to claim it. So here goes!
Before my 40th birthday:
1. I am going to float the river at least once more. Give me a bathing suit, an inner tube and some great friends. The name of the river probably won’t matter, just to feel warm sun, a gentle tide and to be like everyone else, i.e. no visible disability or wheelchair will be wonderful.
2. Get nice toned arms. I’m not talking Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 arms, but yes, they are my inspiration.
3. Finally get a realistic comfortable weight and be proud to stay there.
4. Encourage Dan as he finishes graduate school and starts running again.
5. Figure out how to get into a sort of high-off-the-ground spa pedicure chair and get my toes done.
6. I’ve wanted to see the Arch and some good friends for quite some time, so before I turn 40 I am going to see St. Louis to see them.
7. This goal may sound silly but I want to wake up some morning when we are back in Iowa and say, “Cheese omelets, anyone?” Then get in the van, drive over the Mississippi River to Wisconsin and have one for breakfast.
8. I have not driven a car since I was 28, which means I never drove in my 30s. I am not ending this decade of my life like that, so I’m going to get lessons to use hand controls. Maybe I’ll only drive around a parking lot but I will be in the driver’s seat. Looking forward to having that control.
This all sort of scares me, as do a few of my other goals, but as first lady Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Looks like that statement will define my 39th year.
Happy belated birthday. Mine is on November 5 which makes me 17 years and one day older than you. Have no fear about the future. It will be what it will be. You will control all that you can and influence as much as you can and I have every confidence that you and Dan will continue to live in a most extraordinary life. Great goals. Get ’em done. I know that you will.