** last Saturday morning brendan and I ran 16 miles with our friend Nate. It was one of the neatest experiences ever - a new record for brendan & I. I think a marathon should be in the works soon, but nothing planned. I look forward to our Saturday morning runs soooo much. Not sure if this is an indication that our life is too dull? maybe, but I think it's pretty cool that it's something we can do together!
**I haven't seen my kids for 12 hours and I'm missing them like CrAZy. They are spending a couple days with my parents, and then we will join up w/ them on Thursday.
** Our boarder is leaving this week. Amanda has been with us for 2 years. We have been spoiled - we've never had so many dates! She has been soooo sweet to our kids! She almost feels like family now, so it's hard to see her go, but we wish her all the best! We've had 4 other previous 'boarders' since we've been married. Even when we lived in NY, we had a boarder in his own apt downstairs!! It would be interesting to see how many yrs we HAVEN'T had someone living with us! I guess it's all been positive, or we wouldn't have kept doing it :)
** I'm having very strong guilty 'pangs' tonight. I got after Autumn for loosing her GOOD shoes (I was trying to pack this afternoon and we searched EVERYWHERE for her shoes and couldn' find them) and I also got after her for having bad manners at the table.) She ended up crying. Sometimes when I hear myself rant and rave I think 'get a hold of yourself'!! I don't want to be a mother who was known as yelling all the time, but I feel that's what I do a lot. Maybe it's a mother thing? In our case, Brendan doesn't deal with these things every day, so I find that he rarely gets after the kids, and I'm always the one who ends up "loosing it" and then I feel bad. Still, I wish I could handle these types of situations better. I don't want to be remembered as a nag or someone who demands perfection. argh....if only there was a manual for all of this! :)
** We're going to visit my 92 yr old Grandma this wkend. I'm very anxious to leave. She's an amazing person. Every time I talk to her she is positive and she ends up making me feel better! she's such an example of a content person who is living for things beyond this life.
** We have a trip planned to visit brendan's family in Spokane and British Columbia. We're anxious to see our nieces & nephews. Having family on the East Coast AND the west coast stinks. I'm all for living close to family. call me old fashioned, i don't care. By the way, I've already decided Autumn and Alec WILL live by us when they get older (ha) - and I'm going to pick who they marry, etc (double ha). ok, think it's time for me to go to bed :0)
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Kayla...you are the best mother I know. Please don't beat yourself up over the way you raise your kids. They are SO lucky to have you as their mommy! Have fun out West. Let's go get coffee when the kids go back to school (yes, I am counting the days!)
Running with a group is nice. Sometimes, I wonder if that's why my marathon experience was so miserable... I did all the training/running by myself. It got long and lonely sometimes.
my brother had 5 kids and running with his wife, doing marathons etc..was a great thing for them. i think it's great that you're both in such great shape and enjoy running together. love your "random" thoughts and nice to get to know you this way a bit!
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