Overstuffed Easter

Happy Monday y'all. Hope you had a wonderful weekend full of family and friends. Ours was super busy, but worth every second of it. 

Saturday night we had our 3rd Annual Glow In the Dark Easter Egg Hunt at my Mom's.  Many people have asked how we do this, there's no tutorial needed, we simply buy the tiny 1.5 inch glow sticks online and pop them into plastic eggs after activating them. In years past we've used the bracelets because the planning was more last minute, trust me, get the small ones...it's worth your sanity. Unfortunately there aren't great pictures of it because it's dark of course when we do it, but take my word for it, it's fun! My kids look forward to it every year and I'm so thankful they'll have this unique tradition to grow up with. 

Mr. Coburn had to work all weekend, so the kids and I made the trips to see some of our family. My niece and sister-in-law were in town and it was so good to spend some time with them. My Dad had a birthday and Monica's baby girl had her first birthday, so it has been a party for a few days here! 

In full disclosure, I ate TERRIBLE this weekend. No need to go into detail, but there was plenty of this cake involved and then some. I won't lie, while I enjoyed all the delicious food, I don't miss the feeling of feeling over full. 

I'm so thankful to have reached a point in this journey that I am able to splurge for a weekend and then get back on track. I know for me missing a day or two in the gym, especially adding bad eating in with it, can make me feel like I'm throwing it all away. Don't get me wrong, I was VERY strict for the first 5 months+ and still make healthy choices the majority of the time, but it's nice to be at a spot where my consistent workouts 5-6 days a week are allowing me to maintain. 

Monica and I hit this gym early this morning to get right back in track. I did plan to where I had a great gym week Monday through Friday last week, and will have a strenuous workout schedule to get back on track this week also. It's all about planning. 

This journey can be tiring. Please remember, your timeline will be different than mine. Whether you have less to lose or more, different "problem areas" or whatever else, please don't see my timeline and expect it for your own. You may get there way faster than me, or it could take you longer.  Each one of is is different and I hope that instead of being discouraged by not seeing progress, or wondering why you're at a different place in your progress than I am, or someone else is, I hope coming here simply let's you know that YOU CAN MAKE IT. Keep pushing yourself, keep making changes FOR YOU and you'll get there. I hope you come here and know that you're worth every single bit of the effort that this journey takes.