I'm a Marcher for Babies. I do the March of Dimes March for Babies walk every year for the past few years. This will be my fourth year marching. I love it! It's great exercise, I meet great people, and I get to raise funds and awareness for a very important cause. I'll march for babies for as long as I'm able to do so.
Unfortunately, I realized today that the walk is just over two weeks away. I'm sooooo out of shape! It's a five mile walk, but it's along the river bank, over the bridge that goes over the river (they actually close down the bridge to traffic for the morning, and it's one of the major bridges into one of the major cities on the East Coast). Then it's back over the bridge, back to the ball field (where we start) and then home. It's a quick, neat, fun walk. But I'm out of shape!
I walked from my house, three blocks to the kiddo's school, from the school another 7 blocks to the post office, and then another 4 blocks from the Post Office home. Later on that night I walked the three blocks from school back home again. My legs and feet hurt at the end of the night. Oh no! I'm usually in much better shape by the time the walk comes around, as it's usually about three weeks later in the year. (It seems everything is out of whack on the calendar this year!) I really hope that I make it for the whole MOD walk!
Even if I don't finish (which I've never not done -even the one year in the 90 degree weather with my jeans and heeled shoes, and pulling the kiddos in the wagon behind me) I'll have already raised funds and awareness. That's the most important part. It doesn't matter if I finish or not -well, it does to me personally, but not so much as far as fundraising goes.
I just hope I make it!!!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Hey there!
I just wanted to stop in and say a quick "Hello!" I know that my three followers have missed me TERRIBLY! Lots and lots of exciting stuff has been going on over here. Unfortunately, none of it has been good. Bah! We'll get through it and get over it though. And if not, I'll stick my dragonfly friends on the problem! :-D It's finally warming up here. I'm so glad. I truly abhor the cold. It was almost 80 degrees here yesterday, and I still had the fire going. Needless to say, the hubs wasn't too pleased with that (as he came inside in his muscle shirt, sweat pouring down his face. Poor guy!) Today saw lots of heavy downpours. And that's okay because what do April showers bring? May flowers! Thing 2 is having a BALL asking me this, and shouting the answer EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. She thinks it's wonderful. She, however, does NOT get the part when I ask, "And what do Mayflowers bring? Pilgrims!!" In time. In time.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, Dad. I know that you're looking down on us (and laughing your backside off) all the time. I see you in the rays of sunshine. I hear you in the soft breezes. I feel you all around me, and I miss you every single day.
I love you.
I love you.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Mumbo Jumbo...
So, remember all that mumbo jumbo about "winter's only redeeming quality is the snow" yesterday? Well, after shoveling my 12.5 inches of it from the walk, from the street to get my car out, from the bottom of the driveway after I moved the car into it, and the plow trucks (my hubby one of them) plowed me back in and from of course, the front steps and front walk (which the kids were sledding down) I'm done with the fluffy stuff!
The kids had a ball sledding down the steps. I know. You think I'm crazy for letting not just my kids, but the neighbors' kids as well sled down my steps, don't you? Well, I promise they were safe. There well more than enough snow to cover my three steps, front walk, the step down, the bottom part of the walk and the outside walk way. They had so much fun, and I was able to shovel.... And shovel.... And shovel.... Of course, I took a few turns sledding too. I had forgotten how much fun it is!
HOWEVER, after sledding on it for a few hours, 12.5 inches of snow packs down to about four inches.... And it's near impossible to get up. I've been inside for an hour and a half now, and my limbs are REALLY starting to turn to jello. Truthfully, it's getting difficult to type this. :-P
And we're supposed to get more tomorrow.
I'm exhausted just thinking about it!
The kids had a ball sledding down the steps. I know. You think I'm crazy for letting not just my kids, but the neighbors' kids as well sled down my steps, don't you? Well, I promise they were safe. There well more than enough snow to cover my three steps, front walk, the step down, the bottom part of the walk and the outside walk way. They had so much fun, and I was able to shovel.... And shovel.... And shovel.... Of course, I took a few turns sledding too. I had forgotten how much fun it is!
HOWEVER, after sledding on it for a few hours, 12.5 inches of snow packs down to about four inches.... And it's near impossible to get up. I've been inside for an hour and a half now, and my limbs are REALLY starting to turn to jello. Truthfully, it's getting difficult to type this. :-P
And we're supposed to get more tomorrow.
I'm exhausted just thinking about it!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
And the weather is...
Snow! We've got MORE snow... I know I shouldn't complain. Snow is winter's only redeeming quality. I hate the cold. I hate the gray. I hate the dark. I LOVE the snow -even if everyone else is well beyond tired of it.
Did you ever notice how winter, and all of it's bleakness just sneaks up on us. Let's start from August, shall we?
August is still hot and wonderful. The days are slowly getting shorter, but sunblock still abounds.
September comes, and school starts. The days are a bit shorter, and we fall back in to familiar routines. Shorts are traded in for light jackets, and everywhere you look are fantastic colors of red, yellow orange, brown and maroon. September into October are such a sight to be seen!
October comes, and brings with it more colors, fun costumes and decorations, and a few cold snaps. The days are even shorter still, but that just means that all of the fun of Halloween is even closer.
There's a business to November that even the kidlets feel. There's a charge to the air. Everyone is busy planning, baking, shopping, making. A house here and a house there will start to put up Christmas lights, and the excitement builds.
December brings with it cold, Arctic blasts and days with shortened light. BUT it also brings twinkling of Christmas lights on almost every street. It brings rosy cheeks and excited faces. It has rushing here and rushing there. And even though the daylight is getting sparse, it doesn't matter because of all of the wonderful, beautiful, exciting Christmas lights!
In January, Christmas is done and over, and New Year's is over. It's just cold. And dark. And dreary. And cold.
We're in the throws of winter, and no one noticed it creeping up. Everything else kept it's arrival hidden until it was too late. (Not that it could be stopped.) The colors are gone. The lights are gone. The SUN is gone. It's just cold. And dark. And dreary. And cold.
Then something magical happens. It snows. The snow coats the world in an amazing blanket of clean, shimmering white, and when the light hits it, it casts millions of glittering rainbows everywhere. Everything is bright, and fresh, and new again.
And then the kids romp through the snow. And the plow trucks come through. And the salt trucks come through and dump their precious, ice melting commodity on the roads and the walks, and anything within 8 feet of the edge of their trucks. And the cars splash the slush up on what's left of the clean, white, rainbow-casting snow. And the world turns brown, and gray and dirty and cold.
And when the snow finally does melt, everything is still covered in salt, so everything is gray. It's the same color gray as the winter sky. The dirty streets blend in with the cold, dark sky. The salty cars blend in with the dirty, salty streets. Everything looks the same, and it's all blah.
And then there's that little bit of magic again. It snows again, and the world is fresh and new again.
Did you ever notice how winter, and all of it's bleakness just sneaks up on us. Let's start from August, shall we?
August is still hot and wonderful. The days are slowly getting shorter, but sunblock still abounds.
September comes, and school starts. The days are a bit shorter, and we fall back in to familiar routines. Shorts are traded in for light jackets, and everywhere you look are fantastic colors of red, yellow orange, brown and maroon. September into October are such a sight to be seen!
October comes, and brings with it more colors, fun costumes and decorations, and a few cold snaps. The days are even shorter still, but that just means that all of the fun of Halloween is even closer.
There's a business to November that even the kidlets feel. There's a charge to the air. Everyone is busy planning, baking, shopping, making. A house here and a house there will start to put up Christmas lights, and the excitement builds.
December brings with it cold, Arctic blasts and days with shortened light. BUT it also brings twinkling of Christmas lights on almost every street. It brings rosy cheeks and excited faces. It has rushing here and rushing there. And even though the daylight is getting sparse, it doesn't matter because of all of the wonderful, beautiful, exciting Christmas lights!
In January, Christmas is done and over, and New Year's is over. It's just cold. And dark. And dreary. And cold.
We're in the throws of winter, and no one noticed it creeping up. Everything else kept it's arrival hidden until it was too late. (Not that it could be stopped.) The colors are gone. The lights are gone. The SUN is gone. It's just cold. And dark. And dreary. And cold.
Then something magical happens. It snows. The snow coats the world in an amazing blanket of clean, shimmering white, and when the light hits it, it casts millions of glittering rainbows everywhere. Everything is bright, and fresh, and new again.
And then the kids romp through the snow. And the plow trucks come through. And the salt trucks come through and dump their precious, ice melting commodity on the roads and the walks, and anything within 8 feet of the edge of their trucks. And the cars splash the slush up on what's left of the clean, white, rainbow-casting snow. And the world turns brown, and gray and dirty and cold.
And when the snow finally does melt, everything is still covered in salt, so everything is gray. It's the same color gray as the winter sky. The dirty streets blend in with the cold, dark sky. The salty cars blend in with the dirty, salty streets. Everything looks the same, and it's all blah.
And then there's that little bit of magic again. It snows again, and the world is fresh and new again.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Thing One!
Happy 7th Birthday, Thing One!
So I missed blogging on your birthday yesterday (big surprise there), but your birthday was perfectly wonderful anyway.
You've been an absolute joy in our lives since before you were even born. You're smart, funny, caring, and you shine at whatever you do.
You want to be an Art teacher or an architect, and I know that you'll more than succeed at whatever it is that you try to do. You've already shown us that much.
We love you more and more with each passing day. Without you our lives would be incomplete.
Happy 7th Birthday, Thing One. May this be your best year yet!
So I missed blogging on your birthday yesterday (big surprise there), but your birthday was perfectly wonderful anyway.
You've been an absolute joy in our lives since before you were even born. You're smart, funny, caring, and you shine at whatever you do.
You want to be an Art teacher or an architect, and I know that you'll more than succeed at whatever it is that you try to do. You've already shown us that much.
We love you more and more with each passing day. Without you our lives would be incomplete.
Happy 7th Birthday, Thing One. May this be your best year yet!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Quick one. Enter this contest!
Howdie!
So I'm back from the land of the lost. What did you do without reading my crazy ramblings for the whole summer? I know. I hear you. You did the same as what you normally would have done. That's okay. :-)
Well, things are going better then they were. I knew that once I emerged from my dragonfly larva shell everything would be different, and ya know what? I was right. Things are very different now, and it's a good -great thing. Sure, things are still difficult, but anything worthwhile is difficult. If everything was easy, life would be boring.
......Speaking of, I have to get back to work, but before I go I wanted to let you know of this great giveaway going on over at Twig & Thistle. Are you ready for it??? Here it is:
One lucky winner will win a Silhouette digital cutting tool! ACK! Can you believe it?! Personally, I've wanted one of these things for a LONG time -well, this one, or another brand who we won't mention. I've wanted one since before the Cricut was a big name. ACK!!
Just go over here to Twig & Thistle. Show some love over on their great blog. (And it really is awesome! I'm LOVING the pumpkin place cards from today's blog. I think I might do this for Thanksgiving... Not that we have too many people here, but still.) Follow the directions at the bottom of the blog post. You have up to three chances for three entries. (For a total of three entries, not nine.) But enter soon because this giveaway closes tonight!!
Good luck!!
So I'm back from the land of the lost. What did you do without reading my crazy ramblings for the whole summer? I know. I hear you. You did the same as what you normally would have done. That's okay. :-)
Well, things are going better then they were. I knew that once I emerged from my dragonfly larva shell everything would be different, and ya know what? I was right. Things are very different now, and it's a good -great thing. Sure, things are still difficult, but anything worthwhile is difficult. If everything was easy, life would be boring.
......Speaking of, I have to get back to work, but before I go I wanted to let you know of this great giveaway going on over at Twig & Thistle. Are you ready for it??? Here it is:
One lucky winner will win a Silhouette digital cutting tool! ACK! Can you believe it?! Personally, I've wanted one of these things for a LONG time -well, this one, or another brand who we won't mention. I've wanted one since before the Cricut was a big name. ACK!!
Just go over here to Twig & Thistle. Show some love over on their great blog. (And it really is awesome! I'm LOVING the pumpkin place cards from today's blog. I think I might do this for Thanksgiving... Not that we have too many people here, but still.) Follow the directions at the bottom of the blog post. You have up to three chances for three entries. (For a total of three entries, not nine.) But enter soon because this giveaway closes tonight!!
Good luck!!
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