Exhausted

It’s been a great weekend.  Kinda.  Yesterday started with a Cross Fit work out as has become the norm lately.  That was followed by just some hang out time at home with Jacob for the rest of the day.  He played his game while we watched Rocky parts 1 & 2, and I FINALLY took the time to be creative.  I haven’t taken a picture of what I created yesterday yet, but once I do, I’ll try to remember to post some pics.  I made my mom’s Mother’s Day gift and card which I will be sending off tomorrow.

Today started off going to church.  Pastor Kevin’s sermon was on Colossians 3 and how we are to live our lives as Christians.  It was a great sermon and left me with lots to think about.  We also had communion today which included a little reminder of each of our own personal baptisms.  One of the members of our church was blessed with the opportunity to go to Israel for work a few weeks ago.  He brought back some water from the Jordan River, and today during communion, we each had the opportunity as a reminder to ourselves to touch the water and then touch our forehead.  I guess it may not mean a whole lot to many people, but knowing that I even touched water from the same river that Jesus was baptized in meant so much to me.  Some day I hope to have the opportunity to go to the Holy Land and see it for myself.

Once church was over, we headed home for a quick bite to eat and decided to go take a hike in the foothills near where we live.  We went several weeks ago and it was a struggle for me to take on the hills, so today I wanted to see how much I have improved since that last hike.  It started out good, and while it was still a struggle, I didn’t stop, and I wasn’t nearly as irritable.  We got to the summit of the first trail and it was all downhill from there.  It was a lovely hike.  And then we got to crossroads in the trail.  I was prepared to make the turn on the trail that headed back to where we started.  Unfortunately for me, my dear husband (and I say that lightly) wanted to go on another trail that was headed UP the side of another mountain/hill.  I was very VERY hesitant not knowing how far it was to the top of this next mountain, but after feeling the guilt coming on for cutting Jacob’s hike short if I didn’t go, I gritted my teeth in nothing less than frustration and of we went.  I told him that he better get to running since that was what he had been wanting to do, and off he went.  Must be nice to have all that strength and stamina.

Needless to say, I was miserable for pretty much the whole rest of the hike. =  It took a good hour to FINALLY get to the top.  My body was screaming at me, and I wanted to scream at Jacob.  Lucky for him, there were entirely too many people around for that to happen.  There was sweat and tears, and as mental as this may sound, because it wasn’t exactly MY idea to do this treacherous hike, there wasn’t really any sense of accomplishment when I made it to the top.  All I could think about was the fact that I was now a good mile up at the top of this mountain meaning I had at least another mile to go to get back down to the bottom.  And once I got to the bottom, it was about another 2 miles or so back to the parking lot.  And it wasn’t even the parking lot where our car was.  I think that would have been another half mile or so if I hadn’t begged Jacob to go ahead of me and get the car so that he could pick me up at the main parking lot.  *sigh*  All in all, it was a 4 hour hike.  NEVER AGAIN (unless it’s my idea and I’m mentally ready for it)!

I am now so sore that any movement I make is done with the bare minimum amount of effort.  I pray that my body recovers over night so that I’m not creeping along like a little old lady tomorrow.  Plus tomorrow is a Cross Fit day, so who knows if I’ll be able to even complete the workout.

Well that’s all I got for today.  Time to readjust and get as comfortable as possible again.

Laters,
JamieLynn  =