Mommies Are People, Too

I started running almost two months ago. The initially reason was to lose weight by training for the 5K on March 27th.  After starting and coming into my eight week, I love it. I love how after every run I feel empowered to do anything. Meaning I have this energy I carry with me I didn’t have before. I love that I look forward to running, and the overwhelming sense of accomplishment. I love running with all the women on Saturday morning. I love everything about it. And for me it isn’t about running faster,  hard, or beating last weeks time. It is that I am learning to run, I am learning to love it!

When I am running I feel good, less stress, more in control. I am not letting anything happen to me, I like who I am when I run. This is my choice and for once it is working out.

So, for anyone out there that is thinking about running, hiking, biking, or walking outdoors. I hope this is inspiration to you, you can do I know you can. Just try it, you’ll see.

Till tomorrow,

Carolyn

1. Take Ben to music class
2. Work on a – Walk Plan for my community. Trying to get more of my our neighbors to become active in the community as a way to fight back against all the crime that has occur in recent months. The “walk plan” is our neighbor watch plan, rather than having people just patrol the community. We want to make it healthy activity. I will be presenting this plan on Thursday at the neighbor meeting. Wish me luck, it’s a tough crowd.
3. Work on Newsletter for the Latina Group I belong to. Not a big deal I am actually almost done.
4. Work on my history paper – again almost done. Due Thursday. I am looking forward to this deadline after this paper is done. I am off for a week, before school starts again on March 8.
5. Run a total of 2 and a half hours. This task is becoming one of favorite. I didn’t think I could do, but after every run I am so proud of myself for just leaving the house and getting it done. 5k is now only 4 weeks away.
6. Start planning Benny’s 3rd birthday. This makes me a little sad, he is growing up so fast. My baby will be a little boy soon.

That is it for this week, lets see what kind of trouble I will get into next week. Till next time – Carolyn

Yesterday I got the opportunity to hear President Cater speak via Oglethorpe University. It had always been a dream of mine to hear him speak. This experience was amazing, not only did I get to  hear him, I was sitting only 10feet away. How cool!!

I wasn’t allow take picture or shake his hand. Never the less it was awesome!

I love President because after countless interviews and reading his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. I get from him, of course I don’t know – I have had the chance to ask. I get from him that right is right. It does not matter what that may do to your career, what it did to him politically, what it may mean in life. Right is right.  President Carter does, I feel what he thinks is right. It was a pleasure seeing him yesterday. I look forward to hopefully seeing him again.  I live in Georgia, so it’s very likely.

See ya later…

(born Feb. 14, 1847, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Eng.—died July 2, 1919, Moylan, Pa., U.S.) U.S. minister and suffragist. She arrived in the U.S. with her family in 1851. By age 15 she was a frontier schoolteacher, and in 1880 she became the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church. She took up the causes of temperance and woman suffrage in 1885 and became an important spokesperson for both. She earned a medical degree the next year and later served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904–15). She performed home-front war work during World War I, for which she received the Distinguished Service Medal in 1919. She died shortly before women gained the right to vote.

via Anna Howard Shaw Biography – Biography.com.

Today I volunteered to lobby for the Feminist Women Center and Planned Parenthood of Georgia. Today we warned members of the Black Caucus on Anti-Abortion Ads.

Here is a link to the story on the issue from the AJC.

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via Young Women Unaware How to Avoid Cancer “Down There”.

Tags: Reproductive Health