family brings joy - Breaking Tradition & Breaking Dawn’s Families

Well, it pains me to say I broke tradition last night.

I did not go to the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn this morning. Are you shocked?!

Since beginning my Operation Get Fit, I have signed up for the Hilton Head Half Marathon. So this Momma is serious. I knew if I went to the midnight showing I probably wouldn’t get my training run in today. Let’s face it, I didn’t want to run today even with getting a night’s worth of sleep. It’s been rough getting back into shape. My runs have not been easy at all. This is different for me. I have run one marathon and 3 half marathons. Usually by now in my training it is not too difficult to run 3 miles. This time I can’t seem to get into the groove and I am dreading every run. I share this for the purpose of letting all of you newer runners indulge in the fact, that it CAN be difficult, even for us more ‘seasoned’ runners. {I’m sorry if that sentence is a run-on, no pun intended} Running is more about mind over body than you realize. Each run this week has felt as though I am running the last 3 miles of a marathon. I find if I am thinking too much about the run and the difficulty, I want to stop. So I train myself to think about other things. For example, one day I took the word BLESSINGS and for each letter I thought of something I consider a blessing; something I am grateful for. Another example: there is a young man who walks his dog on the track every morning…from behind he looks like Edward {Robert Pattinson} so I would tell myself to run to Edward. LOL, hey you do what you need to do to keep running.

Back to Breaking Dawn…my 16 year old daughter and I stood in line for tickets yesterday to the 4:25 showing today. I have to brag about one of the BEST things of living in small town USA…our tickets were $4 each! That is the matinee price, ahhhh…LOVE that!

Waiting in line for our tickets yesterday

In the middle of the night I woke up and had the idea of talking a little about the importance of FAMILY in the Twilight Series. {Yep, us bloggers are always thinking about content for our blogs} Family is a strong theme throughout the books.

There is the Cullen Family:

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The Swan Family:

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The Volturi Family:

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In Breaking Dawn you learn more about The Amazon Family, The Denali Family, The Egyptian Family, The Irish Family & The Romanian Family.

Quileute Wolf Pack/Family:

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Yes, these families are not real, but the importance of FAMILY in the books {& movies} is very real. Family stands behind each other and accepts each others faults no matter what. It’s about team work, strength in togetherness and sharing.

Last but not least, I had to add this to today’s post:

Front of Scarf

Back of Scarf

One of my very creative Twilight friends here in town made her Twilight T-Shirts into a scarf! What a wonderful idea, huh?! Thank you Tammy for allowing me to share this awesomeness with my readers. I LOVE it!!!