One point for each: 1. You have pumpkins! Check. But just this one so far. More to come! 2. You’ve baked, eaten or drank something pumpkin. Fail. Check. Fail. No fall baking yet, although I bought a pumpkin pie (and had my way with it) and I dream about a nice pumpkin spice latte or something equally [Read More]
Beware of the Taper Brain
My kids aren’t the most forthcoming about what goes on in school. Especially Thing 2, who started Kindergarten recently. So it was a welcome surprise when I got a call from her gym teacher asking me to come be ‘gym helper’. I jumped at the chance to be the nosy mom and scope out see Thing 2 [Read More]
It’s a Cold…It’s a Hernia…
…No it’s TAPER TIME!I felt the cold coming on Saturday at my mom’s birthday party. She turned 70…I know it’s so ….but 70 is the new 50, right? I got her a Coach Purse so big I swear she could crawl in and curl up for some peace. She probably would have done just that [Read More]
Shoenanigans
I got out ahead of the rain for my long run this morning. Minimum: 18 milesGoal: 20 milesStretch Goal: 22 miles The plan was to do 15, circle back to the house, reload fuel, and change shoes (still breaking in the moody Mizuno’s). Other than the fact that it was windy and I was tortoise [Read More]
TIaRT: Woof Woof!
Woof! We mean hello tapering Prima Donna Marcia’s friends! It’s her dogs here! We know she’d want to be here to answer this week’s question but as you may know (who the hell doesn’t?) she’s tapering for the Columbus marathon and is behaving a bit strangely. Despite our best efforts (short of whizzing on the sheets) [Read More]
