So I’m finally embarking on my New Year’s resolution to be “Fine in 09”. I decided last week that I would make up in my mind to start working out and eating better. Last night, I made that step and attended a kickboxing class with one of my new friends. She like me cares about her appearance in every way so for me that’s very encouraging for what I’m trying to get back to in my life.

I was talking to a dear friend and photographer who I hung with heavily during my period of modeling. I mentioned to him that I was thinking about making a come back. Needless to say he just laughed. Of course I was offended and I asked, “You don’t think I can make a come back?" His reply, “The question is not can you make a come back, it’s will you?” So for me that was a challenge.

The following day I decided to read my horoscope, which isn’t a normal part of my day. I think I did it because someone around me just so happened to mention hers so I decided to see what mind would say. After reading the paragraph, that was it. I knew what I needed to do and it was time. It said something like this: Contrary to what you think of yourself, you are a very special and unique person and there is no one else like you. *I agreed with that.* Then it went on to say….Go ahead and do that thing that your friend said that you wouldn’t do. Take this time to prove them wrong.

All I could say was WOW….I have to do it. So I started it last night with kickboxing class and here I am a day later sore and can’t even walk UP the stairs.

Its okay, after a night of soaking in Epsom salt, I’ll be ready to go again tomorrow.

Jassy B.

Non-Maternal Moment

Being a mother is such a wonderful thing!!!! Everything you do is centered on this one way of life. No matter, what you do, what you say or how you feel, you will always and forever are a mother. With that in mind, I was having what I thought was a non maternal moment, yes a moment where I thought for the next 2 hours I am not a mother. Not because I dislike being a mother but because I just don’t have the times like I had last Thursday night. Me and a few of my fellow co-workers decided we would head out for a night on the town at a local bar that is known to be quite the place to hang out on Thursday nights. I was just saying how good the drink special of the night, the $5 margarita was on point and how I was about to indulge in a second drink when my phone begins to vibrate my hind parts. While, I could have had my phone in my purse, I had it in my back pocket because in the back of my mind I was having maternal thoughts and I also knew that my children were only a phone call away in my hind pocket. At first, I thought it was my imagination that I felt the vibration but then I felt it again. Lo and behold the caller id says, “Hubby”. Now if I’m out with the girls my husband is very good about not calling me unless there is what he calls an emergency. In this case, it was. In a loud bar of music, I can only hear blah, blah, blah, wah, wah, as I say HUH, I CAN’T HEAR YOU, WAIT A MINUTE, LET ME WALK OUT!!!!!!

So this is the conversation when I get outside to hear:

Me: “Ok, what’s up?” My thoughts, “This better be good.”
Hubby: “Can you stop by the store and get some tape on the way home?
Me: “We have tape. Didn’t you just tell me the other day there was some packing tape there? Can’t that work?”
Hubby: “No, not for this.” Avoiding right out telling me what’s going on.
Me: “Well, what do you need the tape for?
Hubby: “For our eldest child.”
Me: “Okay, what is she doing that she needs tape?”
Hubby: “It’s not what she’s doing; it’s what she’s done.”
Me: “Ok, again what is it.”
Hubby: “Well, she had a little accident. She was running in the house, when I told her to stop and then she comes in the kitchen, not saying a word only to lift her foot up and there is blood and no toenail.”

So there went my night out with the girls without husbands or children. Needless to say I had that second drink because he seemed to have everything under control and I didn’t know when this non-maternal moment would come again. It really didn’t do any good because in the back of my mind all I could do was think of my baby and her toe, so I had to leave and get that tape. LOL…..

Gotta love husbands and children!

Jassy B.