Well…things have been about as good as they can get and I couldn’t be more appreciative.
For myself…I’m down 49 lbs and I believe my heart is its healthiest in nearly 30 years. I’ve worked my ass off and I think I’ve stubbornly created a diet of a normal person and one I can sustain forever and not go back to where I’ve been since my early 20’s.
Coaching…yesterday my star runner won the division 3 state championship in the 1600 and then 90 minutes later in the 3200. He won both races in thrilling fashion in the final 100 meters in front of a packed Jesse Owens Stadium…I’ve coached a long long time in many sports and at many levels, it’s never going to top that.
But what has me at my softest heart…last Thursday I brought home a senior to be young girl to stay a few weeks with me and my wife….We aren’t letting her go back. We are pushing the foster care people to get this done. I had her in class from K-6 and coached her in XC in grades 7-9. As a toddler her own parents put her up for adoption and she was placed in a foster home….a foster home that had about 20 different kids in and out but a very bad situation and I won’t go any further. This past September she finally got out of there and back to some of her blood family and things were just bad in many ways. This girl has had to deal with everything and hardly ever given anything. My wife and I have never been happier than these last 10 days in caring and taking care of her. She can’t stop smiling and skips around humming and singing. This feels like the best thing I’ve ever done in my life. Keep my wife and I in your thoughts that this all gets finalized ASAP and she never has to go back.