February 10, 2014- Day 1 of Reinventing myself

It's hard to believe that it is almost the middle of February. I started back to school last month on the long journey to get my law degree. To most people, they would think, oh that's great. You will have a great career. To  me, that means the same things, but one difference. I am not 20 or 30 years of age starting back to school, I am 42. This means I have 7 years of school ahead of me and I will be graduating at the age of 49 or so. I am excited because this will be a big accomplishment for me. This has always been what I was meant to do.

I got married at the age of 17 and had my first baby at the age of 18. In total, I had 4 children and now my youngest is 11 and my oldest is 24. I also have my first grandchild who I absolutely adore. I have a daughter in college and one to graduate next year and will be going away to college. I am a single mom now and with 3 of my children ready to take on the world themselves, I feel that it's my time to go after the life I always wanted. The funny thing is that I will graduate, hopefully, the same year my 11 year old does from high school. That is the plan.

I have altered my life for the past 24 years to be a great mom and I think I have done a great job. Over the past 10 years I have really been thinking about my life and what it is that I want. I realize it's time to reinvent who I am and who I became and begin my life for myself. I will always be their mom and a great mom but once they are all on their own, I don't want to just be a mom with no dependents. I want to be that independent woman who has made a great life for herself starting at age 42. Maybe this is my change of life time, or maybe it's just the person coming out that I've always meant to become eventually.

So today I took my first 5 chapter exam and I am not proud of the grade I received. I got an 84 which I am trying to maintain a 4.0 average and am disappointed in myself for not studying better. I will keep working on my goal because I want to get into a great law school. Keep watching my blog to see my journey through college and onto my new career.

10 Week Tae bo Challenge- 2/02/14-4/13/14

Happy Sunday! Starting today, I am embarking on a new adventure. For the next 10 weeks, I'm taking the Tae Bo challenge. The challenge of this experiment is to work out to the Tae Bo series for 150 minutes per week. I have noticed that most of the Tae Bo workouts run about 45 minutes. I will be alternating between Tae Bo basics and Tae Bo Ripped.

Tae Bo Basic

Tae Bo Ripped

Beginning tomorrow, 2/3/14 I will post pictures of what the before looks like and each week I will post pictures to document the changes. I will also keep a food journal and an exercise journal on how these workouts affect me. I hope that you will follow along and will find motivation in my efforts to get fit and in shape.

Happy Sunday!