I remember reading, many times over my lifetime, all those events that cause stress in one’s life.  I am wondering where the first six months of 2008 would fall in my life.

1. I have had some weight loss.  I started walking/running last year and have, since Labor Day Weekend of 2007, lost approximately 30 pounds.
2. Work has been consistently more than I really want – though I don’t mind the additional money.
3. My 17 year old started the year in PT for a knee injury.
4. I have organized and run a regional middle school Science Olympiad event that had weather issues.
5. My ex – the father of all six of my kids – had emergency brain surgery to drain a blood clot on his brain from a bicycle accident.
6. I have gone to the NYS Science Olympiad competition where I was an event supervisor.
7. My former mother-in-law was hospitalized with congestive heart failure.
8. My 17 year old broke his ankle playing tennis.
9. My former mother-in-law died.
10. I am going to see my ex’s family – he is the youngest of 8 – this coming Monday at the funeral for his mother for the first times since we split in 1997.
11. My father called earlier this week to say he was recently diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure.

I think I qualify to go back out running again!