The Craziness that is Life!

Spring is always a hectic time for most of us! The weather begins to warm-up. We're all anxious to get back outside after being couped up for so long and plans start popping up everywhere!

For us at the Mills' house, Spring means birthday's, baseball, recitals, school parties, more outdoor training, golf, trying to keep my dogs entertained, spring cleaning, and the inevitable... Allergy related sickness!

I give Coach Jen a hard time for growing up in crazy cold Chicago and then choosing to live there as an adult. However, I grew up in Atlanta and have always had HORRIBLE allergies! I've had 4 different sinus/allergy related surgeries and now as an adult that has developed into asthma. I don't go anywhere this time of year without my inhaler, yet I CHOOSE to live here! :) Yet I always question why when I get hit with this sinus infection/asthma illness that literally knocks me out for 4-7 days at a time as if I had the flu! Ahh!

So so far this year, 2009 has really sucked! I've been sick now 3 times. I went on the pill at the beginning of the year that literally made me crazy and that set me back for about 6 weeks! (Sorry, maybe a little too much information! :) I've lost my dad. I've really been trying to grow my coaching business. I've went back to work teaching to make extra money, and I've been going back to school to renew my certificate. When you write it all out on paper like that, I'm like... hmmm no wonder my own training has been pretty much in the tube ever since Clearwater! I think I'm in the worst shape since I was overweight in college!

But I am signed up for 2 ironmans!! Thank goodness they're later season Ironman's or otherwise, I might be calling the Ironman corporation to see what the refund policy is! :) ha ha!

But, as I was sitting around on Saturday starting to feel sorry for myself to be in such a slump, I thought about ok, what could I do to help myself, what I needed to just get over so that I could move on, and it reminded me of the serenity prayer...

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. "

I can not change the fact that I'm sick. The fact that I'm not where I wanted to be physically right now. The fact that I had to loose my Dad. Those are things that I simply must accept.

However, I can control somethings about my life. Like my attitude in dealing with all of these things. I can control the way I eat. The better I eat, the better I will feel and hopefully that will help prevent any further illnesses. Things such as this.

So, I'm writing off the first quarter of 2009 and moving on. It's not too late... It's just life. And we'll all make it through somehow. :) Life will settle down, and I'll find my "zone" once again. One step at a time.... So April 6-12th... here I come!!