What?

This weekend, my bunch and i took a weekend trip to Tennessee Aquarium to celebrate our fifth year together as a family. Five years ago, we had just come how with our daughter.  Truly, the best day ever of my life.  Nothing in my life has compared to becoming a mother....i thank God often for my husband and my daughter.  I am forever grateful that these two are in my life...

I love coming to this town....such a pretty town, lots to see and lots of walking to be done.  Granted, this isn't a huge city, but it is a city and i love how you are able to walk to where you want to go, or take a shuttle to get there. The hotel we are staying at is the Chattanoogan and i love staying here.  They have the most amazing rocking chairs.  Needless to say, i've been looking forward to this trip for a while.

The Aquarium was really busy, even for a Saturday.  I did what i do best and what is one of my favorite things to do: people watch.  As much fun as that usually is (i love seeing how many people are here from other countries!), today, people watching wasn't as much fun.  Today i noticed something that i've noticed before while people watching.....there are many, many overweight families. And just not a little overweight, either.  What was really sad was noticing that not only were the parents overweight, but the little children were overweight, too.

It was sad, watching how out of breath many folks were and how much they were sweating. Little children with round, red faces from running, out of breath.  Please understand that i'm not bashing or making fun of anyone.  After all, i am one of those overweight people that i'm talking about.  It's just that i am noticing just how many of us there really are. We are not 10, 15 pounds overweight.  We are more along the lines of 65 pounds and higher overweight.  I am noticing just how many of us need to stop eating the junk we eat and start taking better care of ourselves and our families.  Maybe one day, i can somehow help others to eat a plant based diet by what i'm now learning....i think that if parents eat this way and offer children very limited choices (healthy choices!), we would have a good chance of beating this unhealthy kind of lifestyle we currently have.  But it has to start with the parents, i think.....i think that parents have to lead by example.  Parents can't say one thing and do another.  It just won't work.

Yep, i would say that i'm learning a lot, wouldn't you?  ;0)