Always evolving, Never Average
When I was in my late twenties I lived in Pennsylvania, and I was a sixth grade teacher during the school year and the pool director and swim coach at a country club during the summer. This was about twenty years ago, and at the time I was thin and thirty or forty pounds lighter …Read More
Yesterday I ran the Hartford Marathon (recap coming tomorrow) and today I felt surprisingly good. While my thighs are super sore, I don’t feel nearly as bad as I thought I would. But I was pretty tired today, and my husband worked all weekend so he wasn’t around at all, and with my focus really …Read More
Tomorrow I am running the Hartford Marathon. I am not a fast runner, but this is my sixth marathon and the second time I’ve done the Hartford Marathon. The first time I was as prepared as I’ve ever been, but I ran way too fast in the first half and was in the most physical …Read More
Number 3 is in eighth grade this year, and he decided to join the cross country team, mainly because Number 4 was on it last year and she had a lot of fun and also did really well, and I think he felt like he was missing out on something. Plus it’s a short season, …Read More
I have two things I want to share with you. Both of them have been big sources of inspiration for me and given me some much-needed reminders. The first thing I want to share with you is a book I recently finished reading called Big Magic. It was written by Elizabeth Gilbert after she wrote Eat, …Read More
In four days I’m running the Hartford Marathon. I am not adequately trained for it. Not even close. I registered for this back in May, partially as a way to stay motivated to work out because I had gained quite a bit of weight over the last year and a half. I also registered for …Read More
One of the biggest organizational challenges for moms of kids in school is the amount of papers that have to be organized/looked at/signed/returned. When I was a 4th grade teacher, I had 20+ kids coming into school every day with multiple papers. This can get out of control very quickly if you don’t have a …Read More
Almost all the birthdays in our family fall in two major chunks. The first is the end of June to the beginning of July. There are four birthdays in that time. The second is the last two weeks of September and the first week of October. We also have four birthdays in that time. So …Read More
It was Number 7’s birthday on Friday. She turned seven years old. Number 7 has the latest birthday of all the kids, so she is always waiting and waiting and waiting AND WAITING for her big day to come. Everyone who knows me knows I have an issue with over-the-top birthday celebrations for kids for …Read More
Every day I look back through old posts I’ve written on that same day in previous years, and if there are any that are still relevant or if I think they will be useful to readers, I repost them on Facebook. (Yes, I know I should be scheduling these in bulk at one time so …Read More
