Mommy and Me

Every year my friend Julie and her mommy Norma plan a group trip to Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Mass. The group is largely a mother-daughter affair. The daughters (we), were all like-minded gals, early- to-mid 40s, with young kids at home. We all needed a quick rest and we all had a super time, snow shoeing and cross country skiing in the fresh powder, taking yoga classes and aerobic weights and enjoying the spa and all of its many exotic massage rituals. The rooms were sumptuous (I miss the sheets already) and the food, was divine (the portions are excruciatingly small,

reminding us with every forkful how much we regularly heap on our plates).

It was not all relaxation. CR has an abundance of services available (from cardio-charging workouts to doctors and priests) that are hard to come by in the busy work-day world. So I took advantage of a VO2 max test to see how efficient my body is (or isn't) at using oxygen. The get-up made me look and feel like a Cylon (that's for you Missy), but the results were super.

Many thanks to Paul for letting me take a few mommy days and to my editor at LER for the freelance work, which afforded me, literally, the extra pennies to make the trek this year.