Stepping outside this morning, with the puppies in tow, I was relieved to have a cool breeze engulf my skin. It has been an usually hot summer here with 101 days reaching over the 90 degree mark and so I was delighted to feel fall finally arriving. Being a transplanted Yankee, I find the summers here beautiful, enjoyable, and hard on my body. When you over 40 and massively overweight, the heat and humidity of the southern summer season can feel as it is pushing you one foot closer to the grave.
For three months, one of the hardest things I do is walk up the 15 stairs to get in our front door, I'm exhausted by the time I get to the top.

But Fall is the time of change, the time when nature slows down to prepare itself for a long well deserved rest. This year it is a time for me to change also. A time to breathe in the autumn air while walking, a time to begin working in the backyard getting it ready to transform so next spring I can do yoga out on the back porch, a time to soak in all the beauty life has to offer and see the beauty in myself as well.

Tomorrow we close on the house, after 25 years of marriage we are the one things we've never been before...homeowners. It brings me a sense of calm well being. To have a space that belongs to us and that we can transform into anything we want to is amazing. It reflects how I see myself at this moment....as a blank canvas that I can turn into anything I want to as long as I'm committed to the hard work it requires.

After work I have to stop and get some salad for dinner, I'm going to pop into Hobby Lobby and grab a measuring tape and get my hips and waist measurements. Will post those tomorrow....Till then