The last time Nick and I had a REAL vacation was our honeymoon 5 years ago.
FINALLY, we're going to have one. We're going to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii at the end of October!
If anyone deserves a vacation, it's Nick. All biases aside, he is literally the hardest working person I know. Today, for example, he woke up at 5:20 to go to work at QuickLearn Training. After that, he'll be off to Youth Group. We'll get home around 9:30 and he'll get to work preparing for tomorrow's class that he's teaching. He will finally be done working around 11:30. That's essentially an 18 hour day.
Besides work, we've had a lot of poo hit the fan over the last few years. 5 years of stress has definitely taken a toll. I feel different. Almost incapable of having fun or staying happy for longer than a day.
Don't get me wrong. Lots of good things have happened, too. Plenty of wonderful holidays, relationships developed, Nick becoming a Youth Minister, I'm leading worship again, Bear was born, we moved into The Barn with 8 members of our incredible family. We've always had a roof over our heads and food on our table. We've had support and help through every big event, whether it was happy or sad.
But, no break. Back when I was being diligent about blogging (lol), I wrote a blog about setting aside a day a week to have a Sabbath. We weren't created to go 24/7. While not necessarily straight from the Bible, I believe we weren't created to go 24/7/365. Nick's only day off every week is Saturday, which usually has a very full schedule anyway. So he doesn't even normally have his weekly Sabbath. And becoming parents, though the best moment in our lives was her birth, has added more responsibility to every day.
One last push. Our vacation is less than a month away and I haven't been taking nearly enough care of myself. I was down to 181 in July of 2011; I'm 207.9 right now (not the largest I've been over the last year). I used to go for hours with Just Dance; now I can barely handle 15 minutes. I used to do the stairs without issue; now I huff and puff at the end.
This is simply not acceptable. I need to be more active so I can walk the beaches with my husband and daughter. Ideally, I'd like to be under 200 lbs by the day we leave, but that's 8 lbs away and I only have 28 days to get there. So I'll just say my goal is to be more fit by that time.
Vacation will be so much fun and I will enjoy it!
