If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Ugh, this weather has been really dragging me down. I just don't feel like doing anything, even blogging really.  So if blogging is such a chore can you imagine what working out feels like?  I have a mountain of things that I need to get done and this is what happened...  Went to start on taking some pictures for work, batteries in the camera are dead, so had to charge them.  Went to start on the laundry only to find a load that my husband had washed at some point over the week still in the washing machine smelling musty... ewww... so had to re-wash that load.  Was going to tidy up the living room but baby girl was having fun playing with all of her toys on the floor so I left them until she started fussing and getting bored.  After trying a couple of things, I just gave up and said I'll do it later. Was I making excuses for not doing the things that I intended on doing?  Absolutely.

I have noticed a change in my household over the past week and a half.  My kids are spending less time watching TV and asking to play Wii, they're playing with each other and creating games.  My husband is spending less time watching TV, he's offering to shovel the driveway and walkways without being asked.  My oldest son is asking when we're going to the "exercise gym" next.  I was lying on my bed yesterday talking to my hubby and said to myself, "why just lie here?  why don't you do some crunches?", so I did.  This is a change that I'm proud of, sure I still haven't convinced my husband to come to the gym but changes are happening regardless. 

So when I found myself falling into the "bad weather slump", I thought of this quote and decided that I don't want to be that horrible warning to my kids of what they don't want to be.  I want to be the good example so I dragged my lazy a$$ off of the couch and started to tackle each thing on my to do list again but this time without making excuses and guess what, I got it done!  It was great to be able to say to the kids that we're going to get the house tidied up today and we actually did it.  They are now starting to realize that when I say that we're going to do something it's not just an empty promise or threat, it means that I'm going to take action!

It is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and held you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and indelibly etch your place in history.- Greg Hickman