NEW TRAILS

This is Mindy. She's been a hiking guide for Fitness Ridge for quite some time. She became pregnant and hiked as always. Then she became really pregnant and l hiked on and on! About a month before she was due it finally became just to hard to hike-especially in this wicked heat-so she took some time off. Then little Lincoln decided that he was going to make his entrance a little early... 6 weeks early...and now Mindy and her husband are enjoying every aspect of new parenthood.
We threw her a baby shower not too long ago. And Hollie, another hiking guide, who we have now learned is also a writer and a poet, wrote Mindy this darling poem.
I felt that it would be fun to share it here, since it has to do with hiking and with motherhood.



A Hiker's Guide to Motherhood
by Hollie Reina

At the trail head you'll find that you're starting off blind
and the path looks rocky and hard.
Many people will say how to start on your way
and they'll tell you how long and how far.

You might not want to go and you'll step out real slow
thinking why did I do this and how?
Just remember your feet and that baby so sweet
and the joy that you're feeling right now.

You will climb many hills and take many spills
and you'll feel like you've been left behind.
You'll get slogged down in sand and not want to stand
and ask how much is left of this grind?

But life is a thrill as you crest each new hill
and the view before you is grand!
The further you go the more that you'll grow
and you'll see it in one tiny hand.

At times it is tough and most certainly rough
but you'll find strength where you least thought you would.
Now get on your way there is no more delay
on the hike that is called motherhood.