MCM Mama Runs for Beer and Bling
What an amazing place! We recently visited La Paz Waterfalls as part of our Costa Rica trip. We give our kids an international trip as a high school graduation gift, but do it before they actually graduate. (This was super lucky for Jones as we visited New Zealand and Australia before the pandemic. Since he…
Today I’m wrapping up a busy and epic week. I mean, any week that involves a visit to the White House has to be epic, right? Not only did I get to hear the First Lady Speak, I got to talk with Dominique Dawes! I also got a selfie with a favorite RBF who I…
You all know I love to race. I had no idea just how crazy my race schedule would be when I started this blog. After all, I just wanted to train for and run the 2008 Marine Corps Marathon. But somewhere along the way, I got bitten by the race bug and started setting all…
Happy Monday! I’m sitting in an inn on Nantucket Island this morning. It feels like way more than a few days since I left home! I’m doing my usual Monday linkup with Tara and Erin today to tell you about the fun I’m having. Wednesday morning, after we got the kids off to school, Beer…
I love living in the DC area in the winter. Generally, the weather is cold, but bearable, so it’s a great time to get downtown without the huge numbers of tourists that we see during the summer. We tend to hit a lot of the museums during this time period, but it’s also a great…
We just got back from a week long vacation in Kentucky. I’ve never been so happy to roll up to our front door! Of course, that probably has something to do with the fact that we put more miles on my Pilot last week than we usually put on in a year. I’ll do a…
This past weekend, I mostly unplugged. Admittedly, I deleted all the unimportant emails I got (probably 90% of those I received, sigh) and spent a few minutes on Facebook after my kids went to bed, but I was barely on electronics and most of the time I was, I was reading the second two books…
The Natural History Museum has always been one of Jones’ favorite museums. It was his favorite even when we had to sneak past the elephant. Yeah, this elephant. It used to scare the crap out of him. Luckily, now he finds that amusing, so he’s more than happy to walk past the elephant in pursuit…
This summer has been… different. Not only have the boys chosen not to go to camp, but it has rained nearly every single day. And it’s not a refreshing rain – it just makes everything feel humid and oppressive. We are feeling a little stir crazy because of it. After a nice 3 mile tempo…
No, that’s not the last book in the Misty series. It’s what we did for the last four days. And it’s the real reason I didn’t run the Army 10 miler. Our county schools always have two days off in October for elementary school conferences. Normally this coincides with Columbus Day, but this year it…
Some day I’m going to choose a race that’s “flat and fast”. But, that would require actually reading the race course description before I sign up. I recently completed Oregon by running the Deschutes Dash 10k in Bend, OR. I thought I was running a flat race on a paved path by a river. I…