My Goal

Not sure what background to get into as I start this blog....better to pepper it in over the week, I think.  I'm a full time Mom with a part-time job, who recently transplanted her family from sunny Southern California to the Pacific Northwest.  We've settled in - mostly - the transition has been more difficult for me than I imagined.  I am "from" Portland.  It is the first place I lived after college and where I really struck out on my own as an adult, so for me it feels like home, even though I didn't technically grow up here.  After 10 years away I'm back in Portland, with a new husband and a young family, and we're trying to put down our roots.  The social soil is tough though, we're "from" California - which rubs some people the wrong way.  We both work from home, so meeting new people outside of our immediate neighbors has been tough.  The past year has been hard - hard on my brain and on my body.  I feel tired and depressed am carrying more that I want to - and have decided that shedding some of my physical Portland winter weight might help me to shed some of the other stuff hanging around too. 

Here's my goal: Work out every single day for the next 30 days...and see how I feel. 

Hopefully this blog will keep me honest.  Here's a photo of me from this weekend...my "before".

Things can only get better from here!