Beating the winter blues

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 11:00 AM

Christmas has come & gone. Winter came early it seems and wants to stick around so how do you beat the winter blues?

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I go outside and play in the snow with my dogs. I love the confused look on their face when I throw the snow in the air and it lands on them.

-- Posted by _Samantha_ on Thu, Jan 22, 2009, at 3:50 PM

I try very hard to stick to my fitness routine. We have always had a membership to the YMCA but rarely utilized it. After giving birth to my 6th child I decided it was time. I started with boot camp and then moved on to yoga & pilates. I now try to attend boot camp 2 mornings per week and my kettlebell class the other three mornings. My day never feels just right if I don't go. It is a great release & helps me feel better physically & mentally.

-- Posted by Leah Cauthron on Fri, Jan 23, 2009, at 8:40 AM

I've been thinking of exercising for a long time and here I sit, thinking. Every time I do it, I feel the same release of endorphins Leah does and if I do it a couple of weeks in a row I even feel some fat turn to muscle -- or a couple of centimeters reduced somewhere! It's very hard to get motivated to go out in the winter, especially working from home and sending the kids to school on the bus.

-- Posted by lakewriter51340 on Mon, Jan 26, 2009, at 11:51 AM

Hey - Is anyone out there?

Leah Cauthron

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Anything at all. I was raised on the same farm on which my dad was born. My parents still live there today. I graduated from Eastwood High in 1987 and from Eastern Wyoming College with a degree in Criminal Justice in 1989. I married Randy 19 long years ago and we have 6 children ranging in age from 3 to 18 years old. I have worked numerous jobs from detassling as a teenager, a legal secretary in California, church secretary in Iowa to a daycare provider now. I love being outside and hate doing women stuff inside. I would rather mow the lawn than do dishes or change the tire on my van than sort socks. I am patriotic, opinionated and sometimes loud. I am also a great mom, good friend and I love to laugh - I did marry Randy. I believe in common sense versus reading a book by some "expert". I don't pretend to have all the answers but I am willing to ask the questions that others are afraid to ask and sometimes to my detriment say the things that others only think about saying. I try to avoid confrontation but sometimes it finds me and almost all the time it is necessary to stimulate communication.

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