Summer days....

I am SO looking forward to summer! The past couple of weeks, we've had glimpses of it here in Maine, and I'm getting a little impatient waiting for it to completely arrive. The grass is growing greener, and my hostas and daylilies are poking their heads through the ground. It's my favourite time of year - the time when days are getting longer and brighter, everyone and everything seems happier, and there's a sense of "I can do this!" in the air.

This time of the year always means two things for me, when it comes to my weight loss journey:

1) I can exercise outside!! The possibilities are endless: walks/hikes with the kids, bike rides, swimming, to name a few

2) FRESH fruits and veggies! Here in Maine, we're especially blessed to have an abundance of pick-your-own veggie/fruit places within an easy 1 hour drive from our house. During the summer, we can pick strawberries, blueberries, peaches, pears, raspberries, peas, tomatoes, corn, cabbage, spinach, cucumbers, and the list just goes on and on. If I can't find somewhere to take the kids to pick our own, the Portland Farmers Market (twice a week during the summer - yippee!!) has just about everything else. Once we get our own garden going, the amount of fresh produce in our house is unbelievable.

My goal this summer is to get outside as much as possible and get all of us - all FIVE of us! - moving. We have a great yard, and access to amazing hiking trails all around. I think I might be getting over my fear of ticks (EWWWWWWW) and am getting better at recognizing them. If we end up staying in Maine, I need to just get used to them - the outdoors are too marvelous to miss out on here. Ticks are a fact of life here - I need to accept that and move on.

The sun is shining today, I worked out last night, and all of the kiddos slept in today. It's a good day - and summer's coming! I can't wait!!