GOALS VS. ACTUALITY

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny!!!!

2011 - Spring*

GOALS; Started running (COUCH TO 5k) to do a 5K - accomplished (fall) Began training for 10K
ACTUALITY: Severed head off femur in my moms hospital room - total hip replacement, end runs

2012 - Spring*

GOALS; After 6 months of despondency, daughter in law suggest walking 200 miles in Spain. Training began in April for the booked October trip. READY!
ACTUALITY: 12 hours before leaving, daughter in law sees her passport expired - I go alone! (fall)

GOALS: I know I can walk, so I begin training to WALK a half marathon
ACTUALITY: Car accident, break my knee cap, in brace for 8 weeks (fall)

2013 - Spring*

GOALS: Decided to try goal of walking half marathon, register for one and begin walking
ACTUALITY: Stepped onto dock wrong, and broke my foot! Walking cast for 6 weeks. (summer)

2014 - Spring*

GOALS: See an ad on TV for hip replacement and decide to try running again. Sign up for a half
ACTUALITY: In Canada on Julz's spring break, while jogging I trip, fell down and break my wrist and elbow! (I am still running)

I see a pattern here - stop making goals in ***SPRING***

Testing has commenced with endocrinologist to find out why I keep breaking myself. Suspected parathyroid tumor (non cancerous)

I Have the BESTEST Daughter!

So at Julz's school, they have a sweet mother student tea where students write speeches to honor their moms. I was out of town on business and had to miss it. It was sad and horrible timing. WELL, Julz decided to put together her own special time to do this for me - and invited some close friends and family to share in it. She arranged all the food, picked some flowers from the neighbors yard (they weren't home) and set adorable tables. This was her speech that she wrote and presented to me in our backyard:
Build A Bestie

By Julz Tolentino

I have often wondered what if I could build my own best friend?

I’d make someone honest, on whom I could depend.

Someone crazy, funny, and sensitive too.

Someone to make me smile when I’m feeling blue.

A Person to laugh with at the end of the day

And when I’m lost they’d help find the way.

I’d make them a friend to care and understand.

To Lend me an ear and a helping hand.

This combination is rare and in most cases,

It’s found in the most unlikely of places.

You are all these things and so so much more.

So if you get one thing from this poem, get this I implore:

See the point that I’m making is simple but true,

I could not build a best friend that’s better than you.

Now When I was little these words would like vinegar taste

When you would make brush my teeth with that awful toothpaste.

I never thought these words I would ever say

Not when I was fussing and yelling cause you wouldn’t let me play.

But now that I’m older I see that I’ve found,

A best friend to count on to always be around.

I hope and I pray that someday I’ll be,

As great a mother as you are to me.

As mothers and daughters do we will argue and fight.

But through dark times and hard times we always find light.

I thank God each day for a mother like thee

Because when He made you he must have been thinking of me.

We are family first and foremost and that’s all good and fine,

But you’re also my very best friend, dear mother of mine.