Pushing The Lawnmower

As I'm on my quest for happiness, I'm also on the quest to do more things with my husband. These past few weeks we have been redoing our flower beds together. So far it has been very successful and I think we bond a little bit more. We laugh a lot and we literally enjoy each other's company. After all, I did marry my best friend. So I decided to take it a little further and help out with our lawn. Sipping the good wife that I am, I went around and did hand edging/Clipping around the house. If that was an exhausting enough (which by the way it was)  I got the harebrained idea to do the hand mowing which my husband normally does. This involves using the push mower around the trees, Hills, Flowerbeds, etc. I was ready! I had on old sneakers, my favorite baseball hat, sunscreen, and a water bottle close by. So I started off. I thought it start with the easy things first by going around the trees and the flowerbeds then onward to this small hill next to our house. Keep in mind I do yoga every day and I powerwalk at least three times a week. This, by far, literally kicked my ass! You think your lawn is nice and flat and relatively easy to do; so far from the truth. I really thought my lawn with this nice looking, well manicured area which my husband I put together. However when you add a push mower to the mix, it really put some perspective on it. I was never so exhausted in my life. Pushing babies out of my vagina was much easier than the push mower. As usual, with every experience in my life, I learned some lessons.

1. Be prepared for the expected. Life can always go along Nice and flat and on even keel. It's the hills that challenge us. The hills are therefore reason; they are there to show us what is important to us.
2. Never go downhill - the mower can get away from you. In life we tend to see things on the negative side we are going downhill and the chances of reaching your goals are never going happen. Going uphill means staying positive, focusing on our passions and what is important to us. When we go uphill, we should never look back. If we do look back, we should look back at the lessons that we were taught; not on the emotions that kept us there.
3. Mow carefully around the flowerbeds. What I mean by this is think around the box or globally. When you mow carefully around the flowerbeds you're paying attention to every aspect and every action you take. You do this in life! When you have a situation, think of every possible outcome from your actions before taking the right decision for you. So when you are mowing around the flowers, you're making sure that you're taking the proper course to keep the flowers pretty.
4. Sweating for woman is not sweating; you are glowing! So why can't we glow every day? Each day get out of bed and say to yourself, "today I will glow with inner sunshine and happiness." It probably sounds a little hokey, but what the heck! If we look at ourselves from the inside and see how strong we truly are, we see that we do glow with a bright sunshine that can empower us to be the true person you really are. Glow and be proud!

It's never a bad thing to try I do things with your spouse. After doing the lawnmowing, I had a newfound respect for that man. That was some hard work! Even know deep inside I was whining and complaining, I think I'll do it again because I saw so many great lessons in lawn mowing. He didn't tell me I did a good job and with that, I sat down and had my glass of iced tea, and looked upon my yard with great pride.