Sweet and Sour

It's the end of a week of vacation from school and our jobs. Christmas is now past, and a new year has begun. It's all easy to take in when you're with your family, and you have leisure time to spend with the ones you love.

Tomorrow, we're back to the grind. I, to my job, my wife to her's, and the kids all back to school. It's not so hard for me to think of our eldest kids returning to school, because they return with us to where we work. The twins go to their pre-school tomorrow, only about a half mile away, but it seems a world away when for a week they've been "nuggling" on daddy's lap.

It will be good to get back to the daily grind. I thrive on schedule, regularity, and a "to do" list. I love it. It keeps time flying, and keeps my mind exercised. It's a busy month coming up with report cards and all, and also because I'm beginning a new venture- an investment in my future and the future of our whole family. I'm returning to school to earn my Certificate of Advanced Study to become certified to be principal, and/or superintendant of a school district.

And...Partially because I have a tendancy to overestimate my abilities, and mostly because I know I really need to...I'm beginning a workout program called P90X. It's designed to really kick my body back into shape. I do really need to get into shape. NOW, MOST people say get BACK into shape. Not me. I'm a realist. I wouldn't say I was ever really IN great shape so it's going to be to get me into true shape for the first time.

Wish me luck. Lord knows I'm going to need it!