This and That

Another week down. Thanks to that half marathon I achieved my personal goal of getting 30 miles in. We were supposed to do the ALS walk this morning after church but we came home instead. It was pouring down rain and Aidan is still getting over a cough so I thought it would be best if he went down for a nap.

This is how you eat a donut. By Aidan.




She made this scroll in Sunday school about a month ago and I've been meaning to take a picture. She said "Mom, I drew hearts on it because I love Jesus." I could just eat her up.

My fabulous husband came home from work last night with just because flowers. Well actually they were to cheer me up. I've had a rough week. Maybe I should have gotten him flowers for having to deal with me...

13.1 Miles!!!

We did it! Half Marathon today and we finished in 2 hours and 10 minutes!!!!

Whew!!!

What a week! Sunday was Gymnastics. Monday Swimming. Tuesday Taekwondo. Wednesday night off! Thursday Taekwondo and ironing. Friday groceries and get a jump start on house cleaning. Oh and fit it 2 extra days of walking porky Cooper. Abby made it through her first full week of Kindergarten- all five days- full days. I think she's tired. I'm tired.

Aidan gets daddy all to himself on Monday and Tuesday. I had a bit of a bad attitude around this because well... I'm human . I kept thinking "I'm the mom- I'm the one who should be home with him and he gets all the time" Selfish I know. You should have been in my head to hear the entire childish conversation. Several times while walking fatso, there I go again... I mean Cooper, I kept saying ok you've wallowed enough, it is what is and Lord help me be grateful because I am so abundantly blessed.

We have a certain amount of volunteer hours to complete at the kids' school. I signed up to help with the Scholastic Book orders- not knowing I was going to be given the duty of "Book Order Mom" so two days this week I was online for what seemed like hours trying to figure out the log in code, the parent activation code and get a letter written to all the parents explaining how it works. Next Tuesday I have lunch duty and am serving hot lunch. I think Abby is excited to see me in a hair net. Thank goodness I have a job that is flexible for all of our school commitments.

We found out yesterday that Rick is on a "list" of people at his work invited to San Diego for a Management Forum thing-a-ma-jig. Apparently selection is based on "up and coming leaders of the company" and VP/Director recommendation. Needless to say, I am EXTREMELY proud of him. The only downside is he will be gone of over Aidan's birthday and I will have to take 2 days off since we don't have childcare for the little guy on those days.

Sunday Funday

Abby's bug was a mere 24 hours. She came in my room 6am Saturday morning and declared she was starving. I took my chances and hauled both kids to Target to get those zippered mattress covers (have you been reading about the return of the bed bugs? GROSS), then to the mall to exchange her PE shoes and the library. She acted liked nothing happened while I am still trying to re-gain my appetite. Oh to be young again.
A day of rest it wasn't. Got a little run in this morning, first one since being taken out. Glad that is out of the way. Church was fabulous. I just need to tattoo 'respond to God with faith and trust' somewhere on myself. We did some damage at Costco, Cooper went to the vet today because they called and said he was due for heartworm but he wasn't. Some mix up??? He did need some other vaccine though. We found out he's a porker. In April he was 28lbs. He's now 43. Yes, FOURTY-THREE. I think their scale is wrong. But then again- you can't really feel his ribs so he's going on a diet. We do feed him the recommended amount and he runs approx 15-20 miles a week. We don't give treats that often either. So... I don't know why he's overweight. We had a park play date with all the families from Abby's old school. Such a great turnout I think every single family was there except her "boyfriend" Hudson. We were sad to have to leave early-because she started gymnastics today.
Daddy and Aidan climbing

Her bestie Amelia

Our Week

I came down with the barf bug Tuesday morning about 1am and it has wiped me out this entire week. Even Aidan, who came down with it Sunday is still not eating much. Which is fine-I just know how awful I feel so I can relate to the little guy. I prayed as soon as I got it that Abby wouldn't get it and miss her first day of school. She's been so excited! The day before school I resolved myself to knowing it's not in my hands and so what if she gets it, it's not the end of the world we would just have a disappointed little girl.

This morning she was in my bed at 5am and I told her it was too early to get up. I knew how excited she was to go back to school today. I took a shower and she came in at 5:45 and I said it was still too early but that I would let her get ready- she started getting dressed, got one shoe on and burst into tears saying "I can't go to school today" and I said why- and then duh.... she didn't look so hot. I spun her around and told her to aim for the bathtub. She is just devastated about missing school. At least she made it to her first day.

And... Rick is on antibiotics for his man cold sinus infection. It's going to be nothing short of a miracle pulling out a half marathon in 8 days.

Kindergarten!

Sickness Prevails

Rick's man cold has improved. He's out finishing the deck and he ran 5 miles this morning. I had Sunday School duty yesterday and I asked him what the sermon was about and he said he couldn't remember and that no, he didn't fall asleep. Those man colds I tell you.
Aidan's preschool class was hit with a barf bug- I think I heard 9 kids were out? Maybe more... but it was a lot. Normally there are close to 20 kids there and when I picked him up and all three days there were only 4 or 5. Look who has it now. I'm praying Abby doesn't get it and miss her first day of school.

Linus. Had we known we should have named him Linus.

Taken Saturday I washed all the school clothes and they wanted to wear their new jammies.

Nada

nothing. zilch. Uh... we ran 10.54 miles on Wednesday and I am still sore. It was a really tough run- I didn't drink enough the water the day before, and mentally I was dreading it. Many times I wanted to quit but I kept on. It's such a head game. Well for me, since most of you know I've lost my marbles. Rick came down with a man cold the next day. Had Abby's school supply drop off at her new school, (well it's the same school, different campus/location) saw her classroom, met her teacher. I'm anxious about the whole car line thing but I was anxious about all her field trips and she, I mean me, survived. I need to surrender.... amen.