Fast Running Mommy

I am CRAZY for running a race this pregnant(I'm 33 weeks on Friday) but it really was a lot of fun and I'm glad I did it. I started out at what felt like a brisk but manageable pace..probably 10:45 or so. My shins started getting really really really tight so wisdom told me to stop and stretch. It was worse than normal. Luckily they loosened up beautifully after a mile and a half or so. My first mile was 10:58. I guess I slowed down a bit because my overall pace was 11:08 but let's remember how very pregnant I am. I can't believe I can still keep up an 11 minute mile. I've never been able to before. The blog has worked it's magic on me too...It is a fun accomplishment and I'm saving the card from this race to put in little Will's scrapbook!! The best part was that the entire family was on the race course today. Marion...bless her heart...ran with my spunky 5 year old who is too fast for Mommy. Sasha ran with Jenny and pushed Jacob and Joseph in the stroller. Benjamin ran by himself and then William and I finished from behind. 

I am so grateful that I didn't have any ligament pains or contractions. It was probably as perfect of a race for a big ol' lady like me...Sasha has some hilarious things to say about women running pregnant..you should check out his blog for today.  

Shuffled along today at a slow pace but felt pretty good. The pace I ran the race at yesterday was about the same as what I've been doing on runs with Luz so in a way she gave me my "tempo runs" that trained me for race day!! Thanks Luz!!

Sasha worked at the temple today so timewise I could only get in three.

My kids were angels on Sunday and I was scared something bad would happen this week.

This may seem silly but the "bad" thing that has happened is that Jenny has lost her stuffed bunny. The bunny has it's arms sewn together and so she can carry it on her arm. She "wears" the bunny everywhere and we have a rule that she has to keep it in the car when she goes somewhere. I guess she forgot yesterday because we think it got lost at a park and someone or something took off with it...moved it..etc. We've already been to the park twice in the last twelve hours looking for it and will probably go again tonight. I am devasted for her...she is about to be baptized so I'm trying to make this into an object lesson about having a different type of comforter with you all the time. One that you can never lose if you are worthy. I am very very sad for her and hope against hope that we can find it today.  

I must still be tired from the race....or 33 weeks pregnant. I couldn't get my legs going. Good run all considering but I have to decide how to play the game the rest of my pregnancy.

Well..I ran with Luz today and I have to admit that I think I overdid it a teeny bit...just a teeny. I'm just a little bit tired.  Off to my day...have a good one everyone. 

missed morning run nightime is a joke for my legs...they barely cooperated for 1 mile

I may try to get another mile in when Sasha comes home but for now everyone is awake and I am feeling 9 months pregnant and really unmotivated. The baby's head is down and when he was sideways that was pretty uncomfortable but that little head on your bladder running opens up a whole new world of discomfort.

I felt better than yesterday today...I need to remember this is day to day and not think I'm done just because I have one bad day. 

I have told Sasha I am not running in labor this time...he always thinks it's so funny to talk me into it...and he is terribly good at talking me into things...I married him didn't I?  

I may have actually run closer to 3 but I'm not sure so I'll be conservative. I had a TERRIBLE start today with pretty bad ligament pains. The crazy thing about these ligament pains is that I've really only had them fairly strongly with my first pregnancy and I was the smallest with that one. I've been super huge with my other four...but again this time I'm a little bit smaller-I only measured 30 centimeters at my 33 week appointment. (not a concern if I keep growing...meaning the baby is growing..) So weird...when I'm smaller it hurts more????

I was going to stop at 1.5 and just call it at day...I could barely walk. Then I saw a friend pushing her 3 year old and 5 week old in a stroller. (she ran until like 37 weeks) I perked up and the ligament pains had stopped so I decided to go her way for a bit. I'm so glad I ran into her or I wouldn't have finished very gracefully today. It was fun to talk to her and we talked a little about other women we know that run pregnant or after they've had a baby.  

The last few days have been rough...I think my body is ready to have a baby and wants me to conserve some energy. I still kind of fight against it because I know to have energy you have to put some out. But...Sasha and I both decided last night for me to cut down to 2 and just go easy until the baby comes. I'm sad but I feel it's for the best. 

feeling kind of depressed that my legs have been so sore the last few days and I've had to cut down on my mileage...I'm in for a fun weekend though. Camping tonight, Jenny's baptism tomorrow with most of my family coming.  Then on Sunday I get to play my flute for a choir number...I love playing the flute....and then there's the talk I'm giving in the same sacrament meeting and to top it all off I get to give a primary lesson for Jenny's class. Funny thing is I'm excited about it all because it's different and it should be pretty fun if I just don't go into labor. 

I had a great weekend. I got to go camping with my kids and freeze to death and not sleep...why do people go camping...all the experts I talked to say that it gets better the rest of the trip. By the second third or fourth night you are so exhausted that you can sleep on rocks with scorpions climbing over you..hmm...sounds fun. 

I got to have most of my family over to my house for the first time in a long time. I loved being hostess and having a nice time with them. They are a fun bunch.

I got to play my flute with the ward choir and after practicing it a thousand times I was so happy to finally play it and express myself on a beautiful instrument.

I got to give a talk in sacrament meeting and really enjoyed that.

After doing everything the best part was to come back to my kiddos and be glad that I've chosen dishes of peach cobbler and stories and looking and the stars and disciplining and brushing teeth and all those things to anything else I could have chosen. I think I'm the luckiest lady in the world....and maybe the toughest. :)   

I'm getting excited to not be pregnant anymore..and to be able to move again. Slow and easy wins the race. Gotta go get the kids ready for the day. :)

Tried to pick up the pace a tiny bit but I just can't...weird feeling. Had a dream I was single again and kissing a guy that I used to like. Sasha just laughs when I tell him dreams like that because he knows it's innocent. I am always faithful to him in my dreams...that is comforting. I used to dream I was going to marry someone else but I would always remember at the last second that I was married to Sasha and choose him over the other guy. 

Theme for the day....don't die running.....Sasha tripped and landed on his chest. He tried to get up and run but his heart wasn't working. He had to lay down and catch his breath. Then he comes home and tells me he was wondering if he'd have to have his running partner call an ambulance for a second there. There is a strange thing that can happen to people.If they hit a certain part of their chest with enough force it can kill them. So nobody fall down and die running...please.  

Huh...I posted this yesterday...or so I thought. I was musing about how funny it is for people to tell me in order of a compliment, "You don't look pregnant from behind." 

I guess it's my nit picky pregnant brain but where's the logic in that statement. Do you know women who look pregnant from behind? Or even better...do you see women who look pregnant from behind and then turn around and aren't and you are surprised?  

Nice and easy..tried to talk a neighbor into doing my run for me. 

We have some avid runners for neighbors around the corner. Nice people.  

I'm doing another crazy thing this weekend...although not quite as crazy as last weekend...I think I'll dub that weekend "the busiest weekend of my life"

I got the idea to let my kids run a yard sale as an educational experience. Normally I just give items we don't use anymore to the local thrift store. We don't have a lot to sell and we aren't very close to main roads so we'll see if we sell anything...
 

Nice and slow....felt okay today hoping for no sore legs.

Good news...my kids woke up early by themselves today..I've been trying to get them on an earlier schedule  so we can get everything we need to during the day done and still have time for important things like cleaning, scriptures, and some family fun at night.

I had the worst day playing the organ yesterday. I fumbled over the notes and then I put the wrong registration on for the postlude and sounded like a bass drum. The other organist came up and abruptly told me what I had done wrong. She was trying to be helpful I'm sure but it was just the edge I needed to send me into a crying fit. I stopped playing(everyone was gone anyway) and left through the side door. As soon as I was starting into a good cry another woman came out and said she felt prompted to come outside. She is this cool Native American woman in our ward that is really spiritual. We talked about kids and husbands and how to take criticism....and I felt a little better.  

just a little over 4 weeks. I can't wait to meet William...I'm considering a water birth again. I didn't like floating around in the water when I delivered Julia but this tub is really small and so you get the benefits of reduced pain without the floating.  I just remembered  almost involuntarily (because I had decided to not do a water birth again) that Julia's water birth was less painful and I pushed her out faster...we'll see... 

uneventful 2....I'm just trying to run as slow as I can now so I can make it through the rest of my day.  

I'm thinking of trying to rope my brothers and sisters into pitching in to buy my Mom a nice piece of jewelry for Christmas. She likes sparkly things. Have any of you ever bought one of those Mother's rings with everyone's birthstones on them? Maybe if I can't talk them into it for Christmas, I'll start working on them for Mother's Day.  

Got to go on the trail. First time I"ve been on it since I slowed down...a walker passed me today.  have a pre-natal vsit tomorrow. Can't wait to see if the baby has decided to stop being posterior..I can't tell..bet my midwife can. 

2..nobody passed me today...ha! That's because nobody else walks or wogs around and around my block. Have any of you ever checked out facebook? A bunch of my high school friends have found each other on it and it is giving me a headache.  Years ago I decided I wouldn't watch Oprah anymore (she had some porno stuff on her show one time...women in lingerie...crazy stuff)..so she was forever boycotted from my life. Recently I went even further and decided she must have just completely sold her soul to the devil...her magazines creeeep me out. Harsh? maybe? justified..hmmmm.....So Oprah's picture keeps popping up all over the place on facebook and ugh....I just don't like it.

I have a super busy day ahead of me which I'm slowing going to get to...I'm off to make zuchinni .....no matter how many times I look that dang word up I can't remember how to spell it!!!!!!!!!.....then do a bit of homeschooling before we head off the the natural gas station (only annoying thing about natural gas is you have to plan your trips carefully), the dentist, the midwife, the "coolest" park for lunch, some stores to kill some time before my appointment to look at pianos that the Alpine school district is selling...and hopefully I can find one that Sasha will let me buy. :)....
 

Someone called the cops on our street about some teenagers disturbing the peace. So when the cop saw two figures clinging to eachother in the dark of the early morning he must have thought he found his teenagers making out. Too bad it turned out to be me and Sasha. I was having such bad pelvic pain this morning that I couldn't even move. Sasha came to my rescue and I held onto him for a second...until we were rudely disturbed by a police car parking in front of us with his headlights in our faces. He got out and I guess couldn't tell how old we were or what we were doing for a second....when he determined we weren't the troublemakers, asked us to keep our eye out for them. Sasha ended up having to get the car to drive me home today. I'm going to try and go out again because I'm sure those weren't contractions now and see if Mr. Willy Billy Boo has decided to move his head up a bit and let Mom walk.

Sasha's probably still laughing about the cop thing and I know he's still laughing about what happened to us in the temple last night. As we were walking up he said that people were always thinking he was going to have his first child. I scoffed at that comment and said nobody would think that anymore. Near the end of the sealing session, the sealer asked us, "Is this your first child?" Sasha and I couldn't help burst out laughing thinking of our earlier conversation.... I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Sixth!" You should have seen the look on his face! Nice to stay in shape and keep young! Good day to everyone out there in blogging land.

I ended up getting a mile in....feeling okay just a little stressed because I've got Juila's b-day party today and my kids seem to think I'm a robot on their birthdays....maybe we need to slow things down on birthdays and talk about how mommy's 8 months pregnant are not robots.

Nice and easy..challenged some guys from my ward to a race...they said maybe I could beat them this morning..must have been sleepy bunnys. 

I'm so looking forward to the next month..my nesting urges can finally be realized. No more camping trips, yard sales, b-day parties (i've done two in the last month) or anything else but finishing up whatever it is I want to before the baby comes.

I think I'm going to freeze some peach sauce today. Much easier than canning....so I'm off to Wal-mart for ziplock bags and whatever else I may need. Then we can finish up Halloween costumes....I'm excited because I'm going to let Jenny do most of the sewing on her skirt. I dont' know why my Mom didn't teach me to sew. I've had to figure it out as an adult and although I've come a long way I'll probably never be as good as my mom.  

Uneventful 2. No police cars or even neighbors to say hello too. Got passed by some teenagers walking to school. When I picked up my Garmin the other day it had continued to time the last lap from the last time I wore it. As soon as I put it on it beeped and the screen said, "Lap 9 -537 min" At least I'm going faster than that these days.

I'm getting anxious for the birth, excited for the baby, hesitant about the pain I know too well and have not forgotten.

I think I'm going to do full charged nesting this week. I have corners to scrub and walls to wash so at least those will look clean for the month Sasha and the kids are in charge of the cleaning.

I also want to finish my scrapbooking project I started this summer. I have been catching up on the last six years of a scrapbooking strike.

Stopped a tad early because of some braxton hicks. 

Got passed by a little boy running away from his pet dog that was trying to eat the bread in his hand. Did not get passed by his big mama and their pet dog...phew...at least I've got a little bit of speed left.