END OF SUMMER AND A SURPRISING STORY!

I can't believe it's Labor Day weekend already!  Time sure does fly!  I haven't written for a while because we went away last weekend to Maine to visit with my stepson Josh and his family.  We brought two grandsons with us, and they hung out with their cousin.  The boys had a great time sleeping outside in tents and cooking on a campfire!
My husband and I stayed at a hotel.  No sleeping on the ground for me!


On Sunday, we took a ride to Rangley and stopped at Smalls Falls along the way.
It's a beautiful spot where you hike up beside the falls and there are several places to jump in.  I tried that a few years ago and the water is freezing, so I opted to watch the kids.  We got to Rangely at noon time and the kids cooked out, while we had a nice lunch at a restaurant that overlooked Rangley Lake and mountains.  Afterwards,
we changed and went swimming with the kids.  That's when I realized my Tablet was
missing.  I franticly traced and retraced my steps, but found nothing.  I prayed and prayed to St. Anthony, but to no avail.  I was really upset and mad at myself!


The next day we had to leave and make the long, 5plus hours, trip home.  I called Verizon to cancel my service and went to the store where I purchased my devise only the find out a replacement would cost me $300.00.  That's more than three times what I paid for the original because I didn't have insurance!  So I went back to work and worked very hard on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Wednesday night at 8pm, I got a call from a woman in Rangley, Maine who had found my tablet!  Apparently, I left it in the rest room when I changed into my bathing suit.  She got my name from the tablet and
googoled me!  I was so happy and excited, and I blessed her many times.  She will mail it back to me and I will reimburse her.  Isn't that wonderful!  It just renews your faith in God and humanity!


Take care everyone, and have a great and safe weekend!

AEROBICS!!

Remember aerobics?  Long before zumba, dancercise, and even step aerobics there was just plain old aerobics.  Aerobic exercise is what your body needs to burn fat!
It uses oxygen to burn calories, and a calorie is a unit of heat.  That's why you have to sweat and get your heart rate up to lose weight.  All those other classes are aerobic too and work just fine, but if you are not coordinated(like me) you might want to try an old
fashioned aerobic class.  Guess what?  I just happen to teach one!  What a coincidence!
It starts on September 2nd  at 8:30 A.M. at Harwich Community Center on Oak St in Harwich.  The cost is $10.00/class or two classes for $15.00.  I have great music and easy steps!  So give it a try!  What have you got to lose, but a few pounds.

EXTRA POUNDS!!! THE POWER OF PRAYER!!!

It is so frustrating to try to lose those 2-3 extra pounds!  One week you're down the next week your up.  It goes up and down like a sea/saw.  I really thought I had the problem licked with my aerobics solution, and I weighed myself at the gym and the scale was down three pounds!  I was so excited and happy, but then I went for my annual physical and I was up again and had lost 3/4 of an inch in height!  I was so mad when I got home that I had my husband measure me. The good news is I'm still 5feet 9inches.  The bad news is I'm still up three pounds, but I'll get it off!  I already got on the elyptical for 30 minutes and am taking a bike ride this afternoon.


On a higher note, the same day I had my bad day at the doctor's, my husband lost his hearing aids.  He took them off while getting a haircut and put them in his pocket.
Several hours later, he discovered they were missing.  We retraced our steps and called all the places we had been.  It  rained that afternoon and there was a beautiful rainbow which I took as a good sign.  I also prayed to St. Anthony, Jesus, Mary and any other saint I could think of.  The next morning we woke up at 5 and my hubby bribed me with breakfast(taking me out for that is!)  We went back to Great Cuts and there were the hearing aids lying side by side on the other side of the parking stone so they didn't get run over!  I told my hubby to thank God and St. Anthony!  We got home and he blew them dry and changed the batteries.  They work fine.  That's only a simple example of the power of prayer.  Think what God can do for big problems!

LEARNING SOMETHING NEW!!

For the past three months I've been dealing with 2-3 extra pounds that refuse to leave me.  It's very frustrating!  I think I finally figured out an answer.  I stopped teaching my aerobics class in May.  That was twice a week and it had 25 minutes of low impact-fat burning aerobics.  That's the key because I wasn't getting breathless during exercise!  So this morning I went out on my back porch and did 20 minutes.  I definitely got my heart rate up and was breathing hard.  It really felt good, and I felt good.  I forgot how good it is to release all those great endorphins through aerobic exercise.  That's why I like teaching aerobics because it makes me feel great! 
I'll be starting an aerobics/ exercise ball class at Harwich Community Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 in September.  So if your looking to burn some summer fat, come on down!