It’s rainy here today and Shoo decided he needed to get up early even though he has no school today, so my day is starting a little rough. Why is it that children have to be blasted out of bed on school days, but bounce out at the crack of dawn on days when you…
Category: Ramblings
Mother Runner Party!
Last week was an, umm, adventure. After I slammed my chin into the ground, I had a vested interest in getting my face to stop bleeding. I had a big date with Dimity and Sarah of Another Mother Runner. Ok, there were about 300 other women there. But we know it was all about me,…
Decluttering
My house is all in one piece again. You can’t even tell where the hole was in Jones’ room and the floor only looks different from the rest of the house if you know to look for it. My dining room is a dining room again, with a slowly refilling china cabinet. (I’m getting a…
Intensity
Every year I think “this will be the year the memory starts to fade” and every year I realize, it’s not this year. It’s been 12 years and that day still feels like yesterday. Never forget.
Three Things Thursday
How can it only be Thursday? I feel like this week has been a million years long, but the kids have only been in school two days. On the bright side, everyone is so tired no one has asked to stay up later than their bedtime (me included) LOL. 1. I have a ceiling in…
Living in Chaos
This is what my house looks like this morning: And it’s just going to get worse before it gets better as they rip out the ceiling in my dining room and the floor in Jones’ room. This is my favorite time of year to run in Virginia – and I haven’t been running. There’s been…
(Video) Phone a Friend
Beer Geek contends that I always have my phone in my hand. He may be right, but I say it’s all good. This has been a stressful week. Some of it was good stress (getting a new car). Some of it was bad stress (I swear I thought the gecko was dead Thursday morning.) Know…
Checkmark on the To Do list
Yesterday was a really long day. Really long. As planned, I dropped my kids off at a friend’s house and headed to the car dealership. (Side note: It’s good to have a friend who’ll help you hide the body. It’s even better to have a friend who’ll take your kids on short notice, take them…
2 for Thursday: sunburns and a winner
You know your life is quiet and you aren’t running when you can’t even come up with 3 things on a Thursday. Perhaps I could talk about not running or not sleeping. But how exciting is that? 1. My kids have never had sunburns before this year. I’ve always used the zinc oxide based lotions…
Five Things Friday
1. I’ve decided I’m going to carry my larger water bottle on Sunday since there are 6 miles between Aid Station #1 and Aid Station#2. I’ve only run with it twice (last night and this morning) and it’s a bit heavy, but comfortable. I figure if my arm gets tired, I’ll just drink the contents…
#WhatsBeautiful Update
My goal with the Under Armour What’s Beautiful campaign is to step outside my comfort zone: run harder, try new things, say yes when I want to say no. Last week, I stepped outside my comfort zone. Arlington County has a really neat opportunity for students called the “Outdoor Lab”. It’s a property about an hour…
Monday Musings
I have no real, coherent post in me today. Just too many random things going on. I went four days without running. I woke up this morning in desperate need of a run. I had to drop my car off to have the dealership fix what they broke last week. It took an amazing amount…