Pick -Me-Up Please

Have you ever had one of those days...or ever weeks? Well I've been having one of those "months". It seems to be like this every year and I dread January- May. These are the months that drag on the most and I just get depressed. It also seems to be my weight gain months. I really want to live somewhere warm where I can be outside (or inside if I CHOOSE) all year round. I've grown up in Montana so this weather is nothing new to me but it doesn't seem to make it any better. I love going outside and going on walks or playing with the girls, going to the park, getting ice cream but being able to move around enough to burn it off! I live out of town and in a small mobile home so I get cabin fever very easily.

There aren't many activities that my girls can participate in to get us out of the house. We did sign Takara up for gymnastics and she loves the idea of it and talks about it nonstop at home. But when it actually comes time to go to gymnastics she becomes stubborn and won't participate in anything but the balance beam and even then she will not cooperate with instructors who tell her to "dip her toes" "kick her legs" "turn around". She is so stubborn and both Evan and I start getting frustrated. I really want my kids to be outgoing and participate in any activity that they want but Takara is proving to us that we can't MAKE her do anything. Kimi on the other hand would love to participate in anything thats going on. She wants to get in the middle of gymnastics and sometimes I will help her on the floor mats or the small beam and she loves it! She will do somersaults, and even kick her little legs if I tell her on the beam. I just hope that doesn't change from now until she can actually participate.