Family photos.

I stopped by Craig Pittelli's house, he's a freelance photographer for The Monitor and a professional wedding photographer, and he took photos of Paul and me, and some of me alone. I thought the photos turned out well. I mean, with me, there's only so much you can do ...

And, of course, there's the little doggie, who really needs to go to the groomer.

I must say that God is being extremely good to me, but I can't go into details just now. There, that will keep you on 'pins and needles' for a while :)

But I can say that God is so good because I followed through with my initial impulse to take the martial arts classes. I'm SO glad I started and hung in there long enough to begin to figure it out. I mean, there are so many days I'm just glad to be able to go hit something, but I'm discovering many things about myself. First, I would have said I'm very focused, however in the class I found that I had to work on being focused. It is really easy, particularly for women, to giggle when they can't do something and sort of be helpless. But, I saw that the higher belts are totally focused and I realized fairly early on that is what I had to do, too. I have trouble knowing how my body is positioned, which was an interesting discovery; but I am also working on overcoming that through repetition of the moves (muscle memory.) Tiger Schulman's starts a 90-Day-Challenge toward the end of March, and I'm going to do every aspect of it that I can - it is diet (which I'm OK on for the first time in many years), and training, but done with group support. Most importantly, the martial arts training is something that I can control - no one but me can make it work, and no one can take it away from me.