Feeling Good From My Head To My Shoes!

For the past week or so hot flashes have been kind to me. I don't know why they have decided to be kind. Not that they have left me all together they just haven't made as many appearances lately. Perhaps because I am doing more ex cerise. Nothing major like enrolling in a gym or hiring a personal  trainer, neither of which is affordable when you are on a tighter then tight budget, the kind of budget where you are trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents. 

So, someone was nice enough to gift to me as a birthday gift a air stepper like the one I saw on an info commercial. I had admired the fitness of the woman who was selling it on TV. She was toned and tanned and a flat stomach which I aspire to have again, and muscles in her arms and legs which I have never in my life had. She announced she was 53. I was awe struck, mouth open and everything. I commented to my mom who actually bout the commercial on that I wish I looked that good. She really didn't say too much. We watched as she talked and stepped and the total rose on the screen higher as more people brought it and we listened to testimonials by people who bought them and list weight by using it and of course eating better too.

I knew there was no way on Gods green earth I could afford 99.99 price tag. So after a while the channel was changed to a movie.

A few days later, a few days before my birthday a knock on the door and a package was left on the porch. My son brought it inside under my watchful eye and laid it on the living room floor. We both looked at each other kind of confused. Anxiously we opened the box together and what do you know? There was the air stepper like the one on TV sitting on my living room floor. All the enclosed card said was GIFT for you. Happy Birthday. 

I have my suspision that my mom got it for me but she never said a word. Little by little I have been stepping up and feeling good. I have a long, long way to go I may never look as good as I think the 53 year old woman seller on TV  but that's okay. I am on my way to feeling and looking good from my head to my shoes!