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…
Tag: life with kids
Tourists in our own town: National Aquarium
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…
Tourists in our own town: National Museum of Natural History
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…
Tourists in our own town: Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum
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…
#WhatsBeautiful Wrap Up
For the last 8ish weeks, I’ve been participating in the sponsored Under Armour campaign as a part of FitFluential. As you might recall, my goal was “I will step outside my comfort zone: run harder, try new things, say yes when I want to say no. “ I’m not sure I did something every single day…
Happy National Running Day!
The weather here is gorgeous! Cool, low humidity, a slight breeze… Basically nothing like Virginia normally is in June. My toes are recovered enough to wear running shoes and my quads, while still sore, are definitely up for an easy run. I’ll be heading out the door shortly for a 3-5 mile run… Oh, wait,…
Five for Friday
1. I’ve been doing Tina Reale’s Best Body Bootcamp for the last 8 weeks. I’ll write a review this weekend, but {spoiler alert} I’ll be signing up for the next round. Today, the workout involved upper body weights with burpees in between. In fact, it called for a total of 125 burpees! Umm, I’ve never…
#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…
Adventure to Fitness giveaway, Honest Tea Review and WIAW
Whew, that’s a lot to throw in one post… Recently I was given a bunch of different Honest Tea products to try. At the same time I was approached by Adventure to Fitness about getting one of their Fit Family packs (and giving one of them to a reader.) Since Adventure to Fitness has partnered…
First world problems
This has not been what I would call a normal week, but then again, I’m not sure exactly what a normal week is anymore… Jones came home sick on Monday with a wicked earache. The phone call came during my run, so I ended up running a little over 7 miles outside and then finished…
“Beat the Chihuahua” 5K race report
OK, maybe that wasn’t the real name of the race. It was one of those races with a really cool name like “turkey trot”, but for us it was definitely all about beating the chihuahua. I’ve run the local (as in runs right past my house) Turkey Trot for the last 5 years. I know…
Help a non-biker out!
We hit a new milestone in our lives recently. Both Jones and Shoo moved up a size in bikes. This means I can no longer throw Shoo’s bike in the trunk of my Civic. It also means that it’s difficult to put both of their bikes in the back of the Pilot. I have a…