Niki Wight
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Jill Cheever was just like most Army wives at Fort Drum. She and her two children, Madison, 10, and Jacob, 8, were all waiting for the date of their husband and father, SFC Rob Cheever, to come home from a long deployment to Afghanistan. Rob was the type of person that would do anything for anyone. He was the neighbor that would snow blow the driveways of all the other wives who had husbands overseas. He was the man who would spend hours woodworking-making bowls and cutting boards. Rob had a huge heart, loved .... read more
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Jazzercise is a 60-minute group fitness class combining cardio, strength, and stretch moves for a total body workout. It includes moves from all styles of dance, with some added Pilates, yoga and sometimes kickboxing-cram it all into a one-hour class so you don’t need the gym! Lucky for me, by trade, I am a Jazzercise© Instructor. I have the luxury of being able to go to plenty of amazing Jazzercise© classes during the week, as well as teach them! I also had the most fantastic opportunity to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Jazzercise© in Chicago in November of 2009. It was my first convention, and I was amazed. While there, Judi Sheppard Missett, the founder of Jazzercise©, instructed a fabulous class with amazing routines that made it both fun and entertaining.
My favorite class, though, was the Dancin’ Abs™ class that was taught by Judi’s daughter... read more >>>
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Lately, when I have a minute or two, I have been reading Deadly Emotions, Understand the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection that can Heal or Destroy You by Don Colbert, M.D. The first few chapters talks about the toxicity of anger, bitterness, resentment, anxiety and stress. It explains how consistent high levels of adrenaline and stress put on the body, negatively (damaging and harmful) affect our hearts, cellular structure, hormones, etc. It has really been an eye opener for me being a Type A personality, who is prone to high stress; as well as, dealing with the recent move to a new installation with three small children during a deployment. Some of you can probably relate. ...read more >>>
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Infertility: This word, to most women and men who long to start a family, cuts into their heart like a knife. On a personal level, my husband and I, at the age of 29 and 31, have been dealing with infertility for over five years now. We desire to start a family, and when we were told that we were dealing with, at the moment “unexplained infertility”, our world caved in. When we originally wanted to try for a family of our own, we thought it would not take more than a month or three to get pregnant with our first, but… as months came to pass, those... read more
