Road Apple 5K

Saturday, June 12, 2010 I ran my first ever 5K!  About 3 months ago, I started training to run a 5K.  It's something I'd been thinking about for a few months and finally decided I needed to get my but in gear and get running!  I have an awesome friend from work, Shelly, who ran with me. I've been tracking my progress on dailymile throughout.

We had some rain the week leading up to the race, and I was getting weather anxious as it approached.  The day of the race, we had no rain, but there was a CRAZY amount of humidity! 

The 5K was held in conjunction with a Family Walk and a benefit auction to support the Rails to Trails program in Holmes County.  Shelly, who's run previous 5K said this was a fairly casual one, with what looked like several less serious runners.  Fine by me as a first timer! 

The race started at 8:15.  We ran along the Rails to Trails, which did you know is also a buggy trail for horse and buggy?  Well, it is, and it was still open to horse and buggy traffic during the race.  I ran, past, and next to buggies periodically throughout the whole race!  (As a country girl myself, I LOVED it! Shelly, couldn't say the same!)  Along with the horses, comes the poop.  It was LITERALLY a ROAD APPLE 5K!  I watched my step and managed not to step in any horse shit the whole race!  Shelly complained about the smell the came along with the manure, but for me, it smells like being home!  I smell manure on the fields at times when I run at my house too. 

I finished my first mile in 9:25, which is my fastest time yet!  I finished my second mile at 18:something.  Forgive me for not being able to remember in my excitement!  I don't know my final time, but it wasn't 8:45 yet when I finished, so it was under 30 minutes, which was my goal!

I will defiantly be running another!  Maybe I'll even start to work towards a 10K!

Your armpits are yucky!

The boys love to wear their pajamas that are sleeveless.  For about the first 10 minutes they run around telling us that "my armpits are sticking out!" 

This night, was especially entertaining as the boys told daddy that his armpits are yucky.  Daddy asked why of course, and the boys response: "They're hairy, you put hair on your armpits; it's yucky."

But mommy, Caleb & Caden have nice armpits.

"Your kids?"

I baked a pie, that my family didn't like.

As I was putting things together to take it to work for my co-workers, the boys were eating breakfast and watching. Caden says "Mommy you taking that to work for you kids?" Caden doesn't have friends at school, he says he has "kids" at school. He said I was taking pie to work for my kids like he took cupcakes to school for his kids on his birthday!

By the way, my coworkers said my pie was EXCELLENT, not to mention they were surprised it was all homemade!

Nothing

Half of our family conversations as we're driving in the car go something like this regardless of what may have been the topic of discussion or who was talking at any given point. 

Caleb: Mommy & Daddy

Mommy: Yes?

Caleb: No, Mommy AND Daddy

Daddy: Yes?

Mommy: Yes?

Caleb: Nothing!

Caleb & Caden: Laughing hysterically. 
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Caden: Mommy & Daddy


Mommy: Yes?

Caden: No, Mommy AND Daddy

Daddy: Yes?

Mommy: Yes?

Caden: Nothing!

Caleb & Caden: Laughing hysterically.
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And continue to repeat with a few spatterings from Caleb saying "It's taking too lonnng!"

Happy Kids are More Important than a Clean House

I've been trying more and more to really listen and enjoy the time with my boys.  Thanks to reading other mommy blogs and letting go of come of my OCD, I hope my kids are having more fun than ever.  I'm trying to be a little less strict and a little more spontaneous.

Maybe we don't get to bed at exactly bed time, maybe we don't have a fully cooked dinner because I'm too buy playing outside with them, but they certainly haven't seemed to notice.  My house may never be as clean as I with it were, but after all, happy kids are more important than a clean house.  (Straight from the mouth of my mom!)

I want to soak up my time with my boys, and I want to enjoy their love, hugs, and kisses before they decide mom isn't cool anymore.

A Failed Afternoon of Fun

This morning we went to several local garage sales as a family, as it is local garage sale weekend, and my town seems to take it pretty seriously.  As of Wednesday evening we had a half dozen or so carnival/fair food stands setting up shop in town.

We came home and hubs left to help one of his buddies move.  The kids and I had lunch and then they went down for a nap.  I had been planning on going grocery shopping with them when nap time was over, but I decided I wanted to be more fun than that.  So I sat down to look on-line for something fun to do this afternoon in the area.  Then it started raining.

And I got to thinking, why do we have to go anywhere to have a cool afternoon?  Who says that we can go play in our yard in the rain and have just as much fun!?  It was a perfect rain for playing in the rain.  It's warm, no storms, just a peaceful summer rain.

I thought I'd get the cool mommy of the year award.  I went, woke my boys up from their nap, threw on their swim trunks & my bathing suit and we headed outside!

They hated it.

The rest of the brief 20 minutes we were outside, and I was running around playing and having fun, I heard all of these statements, multiple times.

**  "Mommy, it's wet out here."

**  "Mommy, the rain is too cold."

**  "Mommy, I want to go inside."

**  "Mommy, I'm too cold out here."

**  "Mommy, it's yucky out here."

**  "Mommy, I just want to go sit."

**  "Mommy, I going to sit on the porch."

So I said fine, we'll go back inside and finish our naps.  And so we did, but not without complaint there too.

**  "Mommy, I need a towel."

**  "Mommy, I dirty."

**  "But Mommy, I'm dirty; I can see it!"

**  "Mommy, I need a bath."

**  "Mommy, I didn't like that."

And now, here I sit.  Kids sleeping again.  Me sitting here disappointed that my kids didn't have fun playing outside in the rain.  What kid doesn't love a good splash in a puddle?

I baked a pie!

With the help of my two little boys, we baked a strawberry rhubarb pie!

I'm pretty happy with the way it looks!

Hubs and kids tasted the pie tonight.  No one really liked it.  Hubs said it was alright.  Kids refused to eat it.
I do have some happy co-workers today though!