What I Would have Missed

Normally I get up about 5am four (or three) morning a week to go to my boot camp class at Genesis Fitness. Sometimes, when I don’t feel like getting up, I will go to the evening class. Yesterday when my alarm went off, I did not want to go work out. I told Andy I would just go to the evening class, and I rolled over to go back to sleep. About 60 seconds later I heard the puppies start to move around and knew they needed to go out. At that point I knew I might as well get up, get dressed, and go because taking the puppies out would take a few minutes then it would be about 40 minutes until it was time for Andy to get up. So, getting any extra sleep was really out of the question.

So, I got dressed, let the puppies go potty and put them back to bed, and got in the car. All this time I was telling myself that the only workout I ever regretted was the one I did not go to.

I made it to the gym only about 2 minutes late, which really is normal. We had a great workout. Joseph is amazing. It was great to see the ladies I work out with as well. As I was heading home, I was thinking, “I am so glad I did not miss that workout!”

Then I looked out my window, the sun was coming over the trees and I saw the most beautiful sunrise.  I see the sunrise most mornings, but somehow this morning seemed different. It was like God was saying, “See what you would have missed.” No I did not manage to snap a picture; I was too busy enjoying the sunrise

I continued my drive home. When I turned on the county road I saw the two doe deer that I see most mornings, and with a closer look I saw their fawns.  We see fawns from time to time, but this morning I got to see this pair pretty close up. I love seeing fawns, I have seen deer all my life and they are really common here on the farm, but I was grown before I ever saw a fawn in the wild. Just another thing I would have missed if I would have slept late.

When Andy got home yesterday afternoon and asked if I wanted to go check the cows at the lease pasture. Of course, I said yes! Andy asked if I was sure I didn’t need to go work out, and I told him I was glad I had gone this morning. I had also done my endurance workout earlier in the day, thanks to the energy I had from going to boot camp.

Cooper decided he would ride with us. So we all loaded up and headed to check the cows. We had lots of fun. I enjoyed watching Cooper and Andy together. Cooper loves the cows.

It was good family time. All family time I would have missed if I would have waited until this afternoon to work out!

And it was inspiration to get up this morning and go.

I love the way working out makes me feel. I love that I have a trainer that offers a class so that I can work out and stay fit and not interfere with my wonderful family time!