Focused and Feisty

Welcome 2010, are you ready for this feisty Mama. This is the year folks that I am no longer sitting on the side lines of life. The coach has called me to the game, and I will gladly play. The coach being my wonderful gracious and kind Heavenly Father and I being the team player. The coach holds all the game plans and will condition me into success if I work hard and endure to the end.

I sometimes ask myself WHY must it be so hard to gain endurance after being diagnosed with cancer 7 years ago. Having a thyroid condition is very debilitating. It communicates to the hypothalamus in what matter to run the whole bodily system. In my situation when the Thyroid is being over stimulated to hunker cancer cells down, the hypothalamus reports to the rest of the body to go on overdrive. Leaving me exhausted and spent all the time. This burden has caused me to become discourage and non motivated in finding the solution. Until this year. Theres no time to waste anymore. Tyler will soon be 6 years old and the younger brothers will follow quickly in his foot. Theres a life out there. A life of kicking the soccer ball around the fields with my kids, or chasing them around the playground and baseball fields. Theres gonna be family camp outs including wonderful day hikes that I WONT miss out on. I know the person I am and the person I CAN become. I have always had a passion for sports and outdoor adventures. I love nature and I love being active. I wont let those memories live in my teen years any more. They will be welcomed into my early adult hood and accompanied me through Grandmother hood down the road. I can no longer waste my time feeling discourage and in transit. This is the year for change. My kids need me and so does my Husband. Im not gonna spend my days sitting on the couch reminiscing the athletic days of old.

I have made a goal this year to become focused and feisty towards my lack of endurance. This is the year IT WONT win me over. I will show my body whos boss and find those creative ways to solve this issue. Ive been starting to go to the gym and research ways to help fight off my early osteoporosis and help build endurance. Every time I hit a bump in the road I remind myself of the wonderful traits my Father in Heaven has given me. Im a very feisty, focused individual and have never given up on my dreams or desires. I KNOW I was given THIS challenge because he knew I would be able to use my feisty and focused attitude in life and put it to work in a positive direction. No body messes with Keri and her family. And thats goes the same for my cancer. Im grateful for the continual guidance and love my Father in Heaven gives me daily in this challenge. If I remain focused and humble he will whisper those game plans I so desperately need and coach me in these challenges. Coming home each day to my beautiful children and Husband is a shocking reminder of the reason I will continue to fight this till the end.

Wish Me Luck!