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Run On Mom

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Illustration by Yuko Shimizu. See my previous post from May of 2008 entitled 'I Run Because I Care'.

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

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These are the recycleable items accumulated by our family just THIS MORNING!   More than half is cardboard.  Saves so much space in our trash can just by recyling that one thing. Think about it.  Then, do it!

Bounty

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Sometimes I take things for granted.  This is the blessing of what the fridge looks like after the weekly grocery run!  Full of safe, nutricious foods.  Plenty for everyone!  Sweet.

A Hodge Podge

My brain is all hodge - podgy , so the blog will follow. Were I about 15 years younger - this post would be titled "Random". Sick. I think that's good. Lowest weight on the scale today in 2 years !! SO pleased with that. After 6 weeks of no scale movement to speak of - I've gone down 3.5 in the last 2 weeks. Oh glorious day! I can also do 10 push ups and run 3 miles now, which is probably a better indicator of my progress than that silly number on the scale. Kicking butt and taking names. Hoo-ah! Been thinking about our schedule for school next year. To be honest, taking off June and December works fine - until you are staring down the barrel of summer. Now, I think I'd (personally) have the whole summer off! I was thinking about having June, July and half of August off along with 2 weeks for Christmas break and 2 weeks for Easter break. No fall break, no Federal holidays, no Teacher in-service days. I haven't done the math yet - but that should

A Long Way Back

Yesterday I went for a run. It was the first run of the season, outside. We are blessed to live in a perfect location for such fun. Our street dead ends at the bike trail, which goes straight to a huge park about a block or so away. Our 11yo son went with me on his bike and I planned to go about 2 miles. A mile up and a mile back. To be honest, I wasn't especially excited. My running experiences since Cameron was born have all been inside on the treadmill. I'm working my way, slowly, to a goal - so I need to well, work on it! With a couple of training days during the week, I'd like to get back to Sundays being my "long run" days. Off we go. My brilliant husband found an application that tracks my running location with the built in GPS in my phone. It has a variety of options to track your distance, elevation, and pace with a feature that automatically sends it back to a website for storage and analysis. Very cool. Also free. I always start out by wa

A Sign of the Times

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This billboard caught my attention this morning.  Hmm.  I guess I didn't realize how common this procedure had become.  It happens to be right above a liquor store.  Just in case.

Spring and Love

Here in Nebraska there is a collective " hoorah " right now. After a LONG winter with several feet of snow that didn't melt we are finally free! The trees are budding, the grass is growing, and some of my dear friends are miserable from the growth explosion. Sorry friends. :( I am so glad to be able to take the kids outside. My living room was starting to feel like a prison. Keeping TV out of the regular rotation was getting increasingly difficult. Keeping my sanity regularly was becoming increasingly difficult! Today we got to go outside during morning nap for the babies. Liam wanted to read the new book he got, so he stayed inside on the "cry watch" and I took the other three outside. We dug a hole and planted a plant. The little kids liked to push the dirt around the plant and then give it a drink. I was also very productive with our time this morning and cleaned up the garage a little. I couldn't find my pots to put my tomato plants in, so I re

Gift from My Hubby

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I can't wait to give this little guy a home in the garden!  The kids are very excited for the friuts of this beautiful plant.  Mmm...garden fresh Brussel Sprouts!

Its Time

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To get planting!  Finally dry enough on Sunday to get my plot all tilled up, now I can plant theses little beauties, and SOON my other little planty friends!

I Should Have Slapped Me

Last night around 9pm I looked at my husband and said: "I'm kind of tired tonight, think I'll turn in a little early." If you are a parent or have studied Murphy's Law, you know what happened next. Screaming, fussing baby up and down til Midnight, then up again about 5am. Oddly, when he went down at 12 (after a heavy dose of Mylacon and Ambasol followed by a bottle...and some stuff for the baby too) I thought to myself - "If I can just get about 5hrs of sleep, I think I'll be okay." Hubby said he got up with the little guy but I didn't hear a thing...for 5 hours. I was thinking today that, it's to bad I can't go back in time and speak to myself one year ago today. I would most likely slap the crap right out of me. Nine months pregnant or not, someone should have taken me by the shoulders last spring and shook some sense into me. I always take on to much. But having a new baby, taking on another baby the same age to sit for (who ne

My Soundtrack

Baby Cam-Cam has spots. They started yesterday in the nursery at church. Didn't look like hives, more like little pimples in places. I scooped him up and took him home. Missed festivities at my brothers place, and watched the spots spread. This morning was that waiting game til the doctors office opened. Called the daycare clients and told them to stay away til I figured out what was up. Took my blotchy, fussy baby in immediately in the morning. My lovely mushroom and egg white omelet left to grow cold on the stove. Found everyones jackets, wrestled Susan into clothes, remembered my cell phone, insurance card, adjusted straps on car seats. Turned on the car to hear Third Day singing to me on the radio. "There's a light at the end of this tunnel..." I smiled. I hadn't felt any more stressed than usual this morning. Babies get sick. Two year olds are difficult. I don't always get to eat when I want. Nothing new. Just the way it is. But somehow, tha

The Lesson is Life

Happy Resurrection Day!! He is risen, just as he said. What a fabulous weekend. We had a date last night. My super duper hubby and I went to eat at Mazatlan Mexican Restaurant. I'm happy to report, that I had about 5 chips with salsa from the basket. In fact, hubby nibbled on just a few as well and most of that basket of chips went to waste...not to waist. I love South American Cuisine and require that my Mexican food be cooked by actual Mexicans. This place is so authentic that I ordered something and wasn't entirely sure what it was. Unfortunately, it came out as battered and deep fried steak! Oh no!! I cut a little and tried to take the breading off, but it still just wasn't very good. So I tried something new. I ordered something else! Hubby agreed that it would be worth it to just pay for another entrée to be sure to get what tastes good. Awesomeness though...the waiter wouldn't let us pay for both dishes, just wanted us to be pleased with our meal.

Two is Better Than None

It's always good to keep records when you are working towards a goal. I've been semi-depressed lately over the failure of the scale to budge. But looking back I see that I really did loose 2 pounds in March. That's a FAR cry from my goal of 5 pounds, but also a long way off from the ZERO that was in my mind. Might as well be zero, though. I've been working HARD. Certainly hard enough to earn more than a 2lb loss. I workout a la Jillian Michaels 5 days a week and stick to my calorie budget. I drink 8-10 glasses of water and do well getting my 100g of protein a day. It's my crazy schedule. I know I'm not getting enough rest. I get a full nights sleep 2 or 3 nights a week. The baby still doesn't sleep through the night most of the time. I read an article that pointed to the fact that your body needs 7-8 hours of sleep to efficiently burn fat. But what do I do? Just hang out and stay this heavy until our son decides he doesn't need a hug or a