It's freezing at the foot of Africa and I'm finding it particularly difficult to get motivated enough to get into the gym to shake off much un-needed kilograms! I have therefore decided to embrace my voluptuous curves for the worst of winter and delay the shock of exercise for a time in the near future when it would be more seemly to strip off the outer layers of clothing and build up a sweat. I'm using lifting Chaeli several times a day as the description of my 'regular exercise programme'! I call it power lifting ...
Our elder daughter, Erin, heading towards writing her final Matric exams is more of an edventure as I learn to open my fingers even further - knowing that my beautiful first-born child is heading helter skelter into adulthood. Now that is scary: coming to the realisation that your child is fast becoming independent and making decisions without you and forging ahead in a life that she is shaping for herself. It all seems so sudden. Where did all those years of growing up go?
And as sad as I feel when I reflect on the various stages of Erin's life I can't help celebrating the emergence of an assertive, strong, beautiful young woman who has taught me so much over the past 18 years as a child and will be teaching me so much more as she spreads her wings into an unknown but exciting future.
What an adventure for all of us ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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