36F, 2nd Boarding Group, ORD to DIA

Oh yeah.  Flying again but honestly I didn't pen this blog while in the air.  Hence, the content is very grounded. 

We haven't been blogging at all in the past couple of weeks so I thought I would do what I could to kick start us on a few topics.  In the past few weeks a few material things have happened in our family that might spark some banter:

• Grandma Strempke turned 99 years young!  I know I had some discussion with both Marc and Brad about how much insight we obtain about how we ourselves will grow old when we get to see it play out first hand with our mothers/fathers and grandmothers.  Sure, it creates some anxiety.  Idiosyncrasies expand and become full blown craziness.  But it also creates a feeling of blessing and the hope that we each have the genes to be some long lived.  You can look at this as glass half full, or glass half empty, but either way you have to be realistic about what you see coming in terms of your own personal attributes!
• We started a fitness challenge.  Like all little ploys we've come up with in the past to challenge ourselves from a fitness standpoint, this is a really good thing.  We are only two weeks in and I'm already wondering how quickly the end of March will arrive.  What this stresses to me is how diligent and "hard" it is to make certain that amidst the myriad of priorities that I find time to go to the gym and work out.  Yes, I'm there a lot but usually to serve as a ride for my kids.  To actually commit the necessary 60-90 minutes to working out has been more of a challenge than I thought.  I can't imagine if I wasn't dropping off or picking up kids whether I would be meeting the fitness goals we set.  And they're modest.  4 hours a week, easy right?  Yeah, not so much, at least for me. 
• Marc got deployed.  I could take this a million different ways.  Uncle Sam, Goodwill trips, the politics of military spending, etc.  Not sure I am comfortable initiating any of these rabbit trails.  But I'm proud of what Marc does and know he's a great military man.  His commitment to his job and his country has been unwavering and I'm so thankful for what he and millions of other Americans do every day to preserve our freedom. 

Chime in as you see fit boys!