My Journey With Weight Loss – Big Changes Are Coming

My husband is home for the weekend so I suggested he join me in walking the dog this morning. Off we go and I try to get my husband to understand what we need to do to keep our dog from going crazy when she sees other dogs. The walk went pretty well except it was SLOW. A walk that normally takes me 45 minutes took us an hour. According to my Fitbit not once during that walk was I in a training zone. I told my husband he is going to need to pick up the pace and he laughed and said maybe I should slow mine down a bit. Hmm, apparently I have some work to do with him.

But big changes are coming to our lives. Since 1998 my husband has worked in the States. Sometimes he would have projects that would take him away from home for a couple months at a time with a 2 week break before he was back at it again. Since 2007 he has worked out of the Seattle area which has meant (until COVID) he would be home every weekend. You combine this with my travels when I was working and it resulted in us spending a awful lot of time apart but we always knew we were making sacrifices for our future together. Well, that future has finally arrived.

March 11th will be Tom’s last day of work as he starts his retirement. We’ve known it was coming for a long time but all of a sudden it is right on our doorstep. After barely seeing each other during the past 2 years we are about to go to being together pretty much 24/7. Wow, is that ever going to be a change.

We have already started talking about what we will do when Tom retires. There is a lot of things that we have said we wanted to do but they had to be put off. Seriously, we are talking of going fishing, something we haven’t done together for about 25 years. There are all sorts of projects that we kept saying we were going to do and now we will have the chance to tackle them. I think one of the first ones will be refinishing a cedar chest that belonged to my Mom. Regardless, we are finally at the point in our lives that it can just be about us.

I have to admit, we have kind of already started reconnecting. At Christmas we did a scaled down open house but Tom’s best friend from high school as always came by with his lovely wife. We committed at that point that after 2 years of not seeing each other we were going to get together more often this year. And so, every 2 weeks since we got back from Mexico in January we have met for lunch on a Saturday. Today we agreed that to celebrate the official retirement that in 2 weeks they will come by for dinner and we can toast the new adventure we are embarking on. Moreover, we are planning a trip for the 4 of us to our condo in Mexico come the fall and we all can’t wait.

Big changes are coming and seriously I have never been more excited.