If you're one of my loyal daily readers, you know that I hurt my knees running on Friday, and that I was still grumpy about it yesterday. Today I was chatting with the friend of mine who I have been running with, and she is training for a triathlon, so I asked her if we could swim tomorrow instead of run. I asked it even though I was puuushing the words out of my mouth, and they still barely squeaked out. I'm nervous to swim. I know that swimming is tough, and I haven't done more than play in a pool since high school, and even that was like three weeks of a P.E. class.
I'm nervous, but I also think it is valuable to push the boundaries of your comfort zone, so I'm going to do it. I think that many of my struggles in motherhood are related to perpetually being pushed outside of comfortable places. It would seem that I need to learn to deal with that better, and I think it will be nice to feel like I'm the one holding the reins as I head into discomfort.
I'm also trying to get back into the swing of playdates this week. We got thrown off when everyone was sick and I've been a little lax with it, so at church today I made plans with some other moms. It's always good for me to set up plans on a good day, so that I have to follow through with them if it's a bad day later. On a side note, it is so nice that wards in Utah are so small that everyone is within walking distance. My ward back in California would have been several stakes here in Utah. I guess there's a fewwww more Mormons here.Labels: Exercise, Personal Growth