The Final Fifteen Pounds

  I'll tell you about the push up challenge in a minute, but first holiday eating... It wasn't pretty. Okay, the food was great. And I didn't go hog wild, really. But somehow I picked up about seven pounds in the month of December.  Back on the straight and narrow. Already lost three of it.  Now the push ups. I had an idea to do a push up challenge with my boys for a month. Six of us began the challenge. One dropped out the first day. It's not because it's too hard for him. He's already crazy fit. He builds pools for a living and much of that is him on the business end of a shovel.  Another one did it only once or twice. He too works a full day in construction.  The boys who still live at home all are doing it with me. We are just over half way through.  The challenge is this: Do 50 pushups a day for a month. Take Sundays off.  The eighteen year old, who practices karate and ballet, immediately decided to take on more than 50 each day.  The other ...