I can't even remember the last time I did something just with my mom and my sister. It seems that there is always someone else tagging along, or we just don't spend that much time together. We e-mail, but never do a "girls day out". Yesterday however, we did just that. The three of us spent most of the day at a conference downtown.
We went to the Speaking of Women's Health Conference. The local Public Television affiliate, in cooperation with many sponsors, including my employer, UEN, sponsored the day. I got discount tickets through work and heard that the gift bags were divine (and they were), so I signed the three of us up.
We didn't really attend any sessions (we tried, but they just weren't what we were looking for), but had fun at the booths, got lots of freebies, walked a mile, and had a convention center catered lunch.
The morning keynote speaker however, was excellent. Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston shared some startling health statistics with the women at the conference as she admonished us girls to develop healthy life changing habits. Of all the things she talked about during her keynote, a few stuck in my mind. First, she told us that we need to make our exercise clothes and habits as important as our tooth brushes. I brush my teeth like, 4 times a day, but do I take the baby out for a walk? Maybe once a week if it isn't too hot. Point well taken.
Another thing that I found enlightening was this: According to research done by leading medical institutions like Johns Hopkins, in order to cut the risk of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, and diabetes by upwards of 60%, all we women folk need to do is walk for 30 minutes a day, but we always say we don't have time. But, as Dr. Gaston pointed out, if we break our day into half hours, then we've got 48 half hours a day. All we need is one, and we should surely be able to find one 30 min. block to walk a day.
She also talked about stress, and how stress is such a killer (sometimes literally) for women. To illustrate her point, she told a very funny story.
Two women are on their way into heaven and are talking to each other about how they died. The second woman asks the first how she died, and the first woman says that she froze to death. The second woman said that must have been an awful way to go and the first woman said, no, that initially, it was bad, but once she gave in to the cold and started to really freeze, that she went very peacefully. The first woman then asked the second woman how she passed away and she told this story.
The second woman said that she was convinced her husband was having an affair and she drove home early from work one day to catch him. She stormed into the house and her husband was sitting in his chair, reading the newspaper. She then proceeded to storm through the house, looking for the mistress everywhere. In the attic, the basement, the kitchen, closets, under the bed, etc. Running down her stairs, she had a heart attack, fell and died, tragically.
The first woman, after hearing how the second woman died, said to her: Wow, that's a terrible way to die. The funny thing is, if you just would have looked in the freezer in the garage, maybe we both would still be alive.
ha, ha!
Thanks to mom and Haley for going with me. I had a great time at the conference. And, shopping at mom's favorite stores, Sears and Kohl's, on the way home was good, too.
We went to the Speaking of Women's Health Conference. The local Public Television affiliate, in cooperation with many sponsors, including my employer, UEN, sponsored the day. I got discount tickets through work and heard that the gift bags were divine (and they were), so I signed the three of us up.
We didn't really attend any sessions (we tried, but they just weren't what we were looking for), but had fun at the booths, got lots of freebies, walked a mile, and had a convention center catered lunch.
The morning keynote speaker however, was excellent. Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston shared some startling health statistics with the women at the conference as she admonished us girls to develop healthy life changing habits. Of all the things she talked about during her keynote, a few stuck in my mind. First, she told us that we need to make our exercise clothes and habits as important as our tooth brushes. I brush my teeth like, 4 times a day, but do I take the baby out for a walk? Maybe once a week if it isn't too hot. Point well taken.
Another thing that I found enlightening was this: According to research done by leading medical institutions like Johns Hopkins, in order to cut the risk of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, and diabetes by upwards of 60%, all we women folk need to do is walk for 30 minutes a day, but we always say we don't have time. But, as Dr. Gaston pointed out, if we break our day into half hours, then we've got 48 half hours a day. All we need is one, and we should surely be able to find one 30 min. block to walk a day.
She also talked about stress, and how stress is such a killer (sometimes literally) for women. To illustrate her point, she told a very funny story.
Two women are on their way into heaven and are talking to each other about how they died. The second woman asks the first how she died, and the first woman says that she froze to death. The second woman said that must have been an awful way to go and the first woman said, no, that initially, it was bad, but once she gave in to the cold and started to really freeze, that she went very peacefully. The first woman then asked the second woman how she passed away and she told this story.
The second woman said that she was convinced her husband was having an affair and she drove home early from work one day to catch him. She stormed into the house and her husband was sitting in his chair, reading the newspaper. She then proceeded to storm through the house, looking for the mistress everywhere. In the attic, the basement, the kitchen, closets, under the bed, etc. Running down her stairs, she had a heart attack, fell and died, tragically.
The first woman, after hearing how the second woman died, said to her: Wow, that's a terrible way to die. The funny thing is, if you just would have looked in the freezer in the garage, maybe we both would still be alive.
ha, ha!
Thanks to mom and Haley for going with me. I had a great time at the conference. And, shopping at mom's favorite stores, Sears and Kohl's, on the way home was good, too.
1 comment:
It was a treat for me to go to the conference with my girls. Hanging out with Annie and Haley, listening to an excellent keynote speaker, and getting some sweet prizes was a nice change from everyother Saturday.
Mom
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