My son has begged me for a pet… forever. I am allergic to all things with fur, so my “poor” children have had only fish for pets. Rounding the corner to his…
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Pushing Limits, Patience, and Protecting the Kids
As I wrote in this month’s article in Triathlete Magazine, I have two amazing, wonderful children–who could not be more different. They had their second ever triathlon this past weekend. Stella (age 7)…
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Through Her Eyes
I started talking with one of the women in my strength training group this morning during some diabolical plank rotation. The jokes started with our “mom bladders” and how that one exercise…
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Gravity
This morning, I had my back turned as my seven-year daughter jumped on the scale in our bathroom. She caught me completely off-guard. “Does this number mean I am fat or skinny?”…
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Running and Not Running
I’m on the DL… that’s “disabled list,” not “down low.” But only on the list for running (for 8 weeks) and cycling (for just a little bit longer–hopefully next week I can get…
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When Is It Time to Quit?
This morning after my swim, I received a text message from one of my favorite people, @pcap0829 (*Wait, don’t you talk to your friends in usernames? Oh… well. 🙂 ) …She wrote:…
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New Year, New Hope – A Virtual Race benefiting Project Semicolon ; in Memory of Dylan
Register Now Here’s the link to REGISTER for our Virtual Race: New Year, New Hope benefiting Project Semicolon ; in memory of Dylan. Their story and more information on the “race” is below. Thank…
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Soup to Nuts?
So Campbell’s apparently now has 33 new soups. Hooray! Or whatever. 🙂 I was rifling through the pantry, and found this on the Healthy Kids Chicken NoodleO’s. (No discussion, really, on if this…
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1st Place Munchkin Man
Hey Guys! Todd here! I’ve totally slacked off and wrote this a couple months ago and just now getting around to putting the pics in but here goes… This race was by…