300. Running.
I'm not the best runner. Or the most consistent. And I'm very slow. But having moms who wake up early and are willing to run at 5:45 in the morning three days a week has been a huge blessing. Some days we just walk. But that's OK, because usually someone has longer legs than mine (not hard, I know) and I work up a sweat walking with them. (Their walk=My slow jog).
So, while anticipating running is not fun yet, having run feels so good. I'm actually getting to the part where exercising gives you more energy instead of just sucking it out of you.
We run the same distance we did when we started (about 3 miles). But it's getting easier!! I don't have to walk as much, and I can talk more while I run. I want to do a 5 or 10 K in the spring. I just hope I can keep this up. Hopefully it's not as cold this winter as it was last year!
Friday, November 5, 2010
Is it just me or are early risers getting more sarcastic?
299. Good Morning!
Me to Seminary Student, "Have a fabulous Day!"
Seminary Student, "Fine."
Me to Seminary Student, "Have a fabulous Day!"
Seminary Student, "Fine."
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
It's Fun to be Popular
298. The S-Train and his peeps. Yesterday I brought the big girls back to school after a trip to the dentist. (I know, who takes their kids to the dentist the day after Halloween! The ladies at the dentist said, "A good one!" Or one who didn't realize it was the day after Halloween when she made the appointment.)
Anyway.
I looked in the lunch room and saw the S-Train. So - I ended up eating lunch with him. After lunch it was so cute to see him take the long way around to where his class was waiting. He had to say hi and exchange high fives, waves, and fist bumps with the other first graders. It's important to stay in touch with your people.
Anyway.
I looked in the lunch room and saw the S-Train. So - I ended up eating lunch with him. After lunch it was so cute to see him take the long way around to where his class was waiting. He had to say hi and exchange high fives, waves, and fist bumps with the other first graders. It's important to stay in touch with your people.
Monday, October 25, 2010
The unfairness shopping with your husband
297. Family Pictures. We had family pictures last weekend. We won a photo session last year at the school carnival. So - for the first time in - well - ever - we went on location with a professional for our own little family pictures. I stressed way too much about it. I looked through our clothes and shopped for over a week.
I put the shopping off as long as possible. I'm not a big shopper. But I wanted coordination. I wanted to get this right. It could be a couple of years (or longer!) before we do this again. It felt like it took forever to figure out the options.
(To add to the stress, we had to get up EARLY to get there for an 8am photo shoot. And it poured the night before. I woke up with my heart racing when the rain stopped and it got quiet.)
The night before I still had nothing for Mr. C. to wear. Or at least nothing I really liked. Ick! I had looked and looked and just couldn't find anything in the colors I wanted. I wanted him to wear a brown sweater and a white dress shirt. Finding a sweater that looked like my husband would actually wear it - yeah. Not happening. He's not big on sweaters. So my mom talked him into a brown blazer. Great idea, except - we didn't have one.
So - Friday - with a photo shoot at 8am and most stores closing in a half an hour, we took off to the store. As we walked in he said, I want this type of blazer. I said, sure Honey. Thinking - right. We'll be lucky to find anything. He walked into a jacket on a great sale that fit him perfectly and was EXACTLY what he said he wanted. Which I didn't think they even CARRIED. You would have thought he'd been shopping for weeks. Nope. 15 minutes. 20 tops. GRRRRR.
OK. So, while I'm happy it all worked out and he looked great, I'm so JEALOUS! How will he ever learn to feel my pain?
ps. The rain had mostly dried and the light was wonderful. It all worked out.
I put the shopping off as long as possible. I'm not a big shopper. But I wanted coordination. I wanted to get this right. It could be a couple of years (or longer!) before we do this again. It felt like it took forever to figure out the options.
(To add to the stress, we had to get up EARLY to get there for an 8am photo shoot. And it poured the night before. I woke up with my heart racing when the rain stopped and it got quiet.)
The night before I still had nothing for Mr. C. to wear. Or at least nothing I really liked. Ick! I had looked and looked and just couldn't find anything in the colors I wanted. I wanted him to wear a brown sweater and a white dress shirt. Finding a sweater that looked like my husband would actually wear it - yeah. Not happening. He's not big on sweaters. So my mom talked him into a brown blazer. Great idea, except - we didn't have one.
So - Friday - with a photo shoot at 8am and most stores closing in a half an hour, we took off to the store. As we walked in he said, I want this type of blazer. I said, sure Honey. Thinking - right. We'll be lucky to find anything. He walked into a jacket on a great sale that fit him perfectly and was EXACTLY what he said he wanted. Which I didn't think they even CARRIED. You would have thought he'd been shopping for weeks. Nope. 15 minutes. 20 tops. GRRRRR.
OK. So, while I'm happy it all worked out and he looked great, I'm so JEALOUS! How will he ever learn to feel my pain?
ps. The rain had mostly dried and the light was wonderful. It all worked out.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Cat Splat. The Cat goes Splat.
296. The cat and the windows. Our cat had to give up its door to the outside this summer after we saw the racoon using it. We've also seen a cat/dog sized fox in our front yard, and don't want to meet it face to face in our garage some morning. So the cat has had to rely on us to come and go. She learned to sit on the picnic table and yowl to be let in. It's at the same height as the kitchen window, so sometimes the kids let her in that way. It feels so daring.
Our back storm door has glass panes. Two of them have been missing for at least a year. Last fall Mr. C. just stapled some plastic over them. During the summer that got ripped up and became the perfect escape route for the cat when the main door was left open.
This Saturday Mr. C. put in new glass panes and reglazed the others. Monday, Sue opened the back door to let the cat out. The cat tried to jump through the storm door window. And smacked her little nose. She and the Windex birds now feel a connection.
Our back storm door has glass panes. Two of them have been missing for at least a year. Last fall Mr. C. just stapled some plastic over them. During the summer that got ripped up and became the perfect escape route for the cat when the main door was left open.
This Saturday Mr. C. put in new glass panes and reglazed the others. Monday, Sue opened the back door to let the cat out. The cat tried to jump through the storm door window. And smacked her little nose. She and the Windex birds now feel a connection.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Summer Fun Part III
291. Sleeping outside. That new uber-tree house has given us a place to sleep outside above the chiggers! Mr. C. doesn't mind sleeping out there - particularly when he runs an extension chord from the house to a fan in the window of the tree house! Usually we can fit 3 or 4 people up there. It's so nice on a beautiful summer night. Although Sue prefers her climate controlled and older backs are starting to protest at such treatment, everyone got a turn sometime this summer. Now the weather is just right for sleeping bags, but I think we're moving inside for the season.
292. The oldest had a great time at EFY.
And got to be there with friends from the ward. Crazy that she's getting old enough to go away for a week already. I think I'm in denial. The band is supposed to go to Germany this year. At first I thought - that's too far and she's too young. Then I found out there are several days in Paris. Now I want to be a chaperon!293. Lou had a great birthday. First a bit with family and friends with a drive-in movie on her birthday.
Then more friends over for an icecream party. We played minute to win it games, tast-tested ice cream, and built sundaes right on the table cloth. We gave them the option to eat with chopsticks, or face first. 
OK, we did give them spoons. They had a great time. My favorite quote was from a girl at the party. "I'm neat. This is wierd." I know honey. Tomorrow it's all back to being normal.294. The annual trip to the fountains.
Candy from the bulk candy store and a trip to the crayola store included.At the end of it I felt a little like Maria.
If only I knew how to teach them to sing in harmony!295. Parks were a big part of the summer. This is only one of the crazy pictures we got on the zip line.
More catching up later!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The beginning of catching up so I can finish strong!
Apparently once I hit the year mark for my blog I was mentally done and stopped posting. The only problem is, I haven't recorded 365 things for the year that make me smile. I still have at least 80 things left to go!
But my sister, who is home with a 286. New Baby, told me she needed some entertainment and asked me to finish strong. So I'm going to do some recap/catchup posting and see if I can finish this year. Then I have to decide if I want to do the same format for the next year. I'll admit, this has been a fun way to remember all the happy things in my life.
So I'm going to publish a few things and schedule a few posts and see what I can do about finishing up the original 365.
287. Pickles. We canned over 52 quarts this year. Mr. C. says all we need is a a quart a week and we have our year supply. We had so many cucumbers that by the time they were done growing we started giving them away. The funniest part was when we told some ward members they could come get cucumbers. I went out with them and we could not find as many as Mr. C. said were out there. When he came home he said, "You just aren't looking hard enough." Right. We looked. Imagine my surprise when he walked in with another grocery bag full. He says they hide and you have to know where to look. Apparently. Because they weren't there when we looked!!
288. Pickles, part II. The unnamed oldest likes to call people pickles. or green beans. She also uses vegetables in places where others might use the Lord's name in vain or swear. She is rubbing off on people. Some of her friends have caught themselves doing the same thing. She's a trend setter! Wouldn't it be nice if all the teenagers you knew just said the name of a vegetable when they got angry instead of swearing?
289. Texting lingo as conversation. She is also setting a trend by saying "question mark?" when she doesn't understand what someone means, or when something odd is said. It's the equivalent of texting "?". The ironic thing is that we are way behind the curve at our house and she started saying this long before she had a phone to text with!
290. Bobby pins. And one more about the oldest. One day she was fussing because she had put her hair up and it was coming out because she "only" had seven bobby pins in it. Only. Oh to have these problems!
And that's my little first catch up post. I'm looking through my pictures to figure out the next ones. Because I've waiting so long to post, I'm kicking myself because I have funny children, and I know I'm missing some great stuff because I didn't write it down. At least I know that life is good and I'm missing funny things, not tragedy.
But my sister, who is home with a 286. New Baby, told me she needed some entertainment and asked me to finish strong. So I'm going to do some recap/catchup posting and see if I can finish this year. Then I have to decide if I want to do the same format for the next year. I'll admit, this has been a fun way to remember all the happy things in my life.
So I'm going to publish a few things and schedule a few posts and see what I can do about finishing up the original 365.
287. Pickles. We canned over 52 quarts this year. Mr. C. says all we need is a a quart a week and we have our year supply. We had so many cucumbers that by the time they were done growing we started giving them away. The funniest part was when we told some ward members they could come get cucumbers. I went out with them and we could not find as many as Mr. C. said were out there. When he came home he said, "You just aren't looking hard enough." Right. We looked. Imagine my surprise when he walked in with another grocery bag full. He says they hide and you have to know where to look. Apparently. Because they weren't there when we looked!!
288. Pickles, part II. The unnamed oldest likes to call people pickles. or green beans. She also uses vegetables in places where others might use the Lord's name in vain or swear. She is rubbing off on people. Some of her friends have caught themselves doing the same thing. She's a trend setter! Wouldn't it be nice if all the teenagers you knew just said the name of a vegetable when they got angry instead of swearing?
289. Texting lingo as conversation. She is also setting a trend by saying "question mark?" when she doesn't understand what someone means, or when something odd is said. It's the equivalent of texting "?". The ironic thing is that we are way behind the curve at our house and she started saying this long before she had a phone to text with!
290. Bobby pins. And one more about the oldest. One day she was fussing because she had put her hair up and it was coming out because she "only" had seven bobby pins in it. Only. Oh to have these problems!
And that's my little first catch up post. I'm looking through my pictures to figure out the next ones. Because I've waiting so long to post, I'm kicking myself because I have funny children, and I know I'm missing some great stuff because I didn't write it down. At least I know that life is good and I'm missing funny things, not tragedy.
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