It was utter chaos here this morning. Day two of back to school and it’s already hit the fan. Thing 2 has her usual schedule and usual bus. But Thing 1 is navigating high school. A big one with 5,000+ students. With a zillion buses and morning traffic in total gridlock, I’d be hard-pressed to [Read More]
Udi’s Gluten-Free French Toast Towers
Special thanks to Walmart for sponsoring this conversation. As always, all opinions are my own. #gfwalmart Back in the dark ages when I went to school, on the first day my mom would walk all six of us to school and we’d line up by grade number on the playground tennis court and wait to [Read More]
Three Things Thursday + One
1. Back to School. The kids went back yesterday, and, as much as I hate to see summer break come to an end, it needed to be done I guess. The bickering was starting. And too much computer time. 2. Marathon Training. I’m in week 6 of New York City Marathon training. My flight and [Read More]
NYCM Training Week 4
Four weeks of training are in the barn for New York. Here’s how week 4 shook out: Miles Run: 24 Miles Bike: 20 Monday: Rest Tuesday: 8x400m. Strength for legs Wednesday: Bike 20 miles, Upper body strength Thursday: Rest Friday: 6 miles Saturday: Swim Sunday: 12 miles, yoga This was a cutback week with only [Read More]
August Loving, Not Loving
Yikes August is slipping away and I haven’t done this month’s installment of loving/not loving. Loving: I finally got my holter monitor experience over with. It was a PIA walking around (and running) with all those wires sticking to me but it’s over. Not loving: I won’t get any results for an entire week. Geez. [Read More]
Overwhelmed!
A mere two weeks into the new school year, well short weeks but still, I’m waving my white flag in surrender. I suspect I’m preaching to the choir here and I know many of you have issues far more challenging butHelp! I am overwhelmed! Three calls asking me to volunteer at school came in yesterday…Plus [Read More]