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Location:

Provo,UT,USA

Member Since:

Aug 02, 1999

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I ran the Top of Utah Marathon in 4:43 after having my third child the year before. 5 K in 24:19, 10 K in 53 minutes pregnant. Survived personal training from my lovable but slightly overbearing husband Sasha for more than 8 years!!

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 23:45 in the 5k.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay thin and full of energy.

Not be an embarassment to my family full of world class athletes.

Personal:

Madly in love with Sasha. We have been married since 1996 and have been blessed with seven of the most adorable and talented children : Benjamin, Jennifer, Julia, and Joseph, Jacob, William and Stephen.

All of our children have run in at least one race, including Jacob and William who did it inside the womb. I enjoy various non-running activities such as: baking, sewing, playing organ, piano and flute, painting, and playing with our  vivacious children.

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Thu, Jul 31, 2008
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48 something for the run today...not bad for 27 weeks pregnant. I felt perky today...no contractions...no ligament pains...things are looking up. 

I'm so baby  hungry I need a few projects to keep my mind off the fact that I still have 13 plus or minus weeks to wait. I finished my picnic blanket and thought...okay...no more projects. I'm working on updating my kids scrapbooks.  I on purpose only do a few pages (I hate wasting money on scrapbooking stuff...just a few pages to represent their childhood seems good to me)...sorry if I've offended any die hard scrapbooking ladies out there but I'm just kind of stubborn about it. I am however enjoying what I've done in their books and can see the lure of the habit.

So the next project I want to do is pretend that we are moving and get rid of STUFF that we are never going to use again and organize the stuff we do have so I know what we have and all that.

I have plans to pack up all the toys except the cars, blocks, dolls and kitchen toys so Sasha and the kids will have less clutter to deal with when the baby is born. Hey...then for Christmas we could just take out all the toys from storage. ..just kidding...I would never do that.
 

Comments
From Hon on Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 16:14:12

Sound like you have a lot of work.

From marion on Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 18:18:46

We have bags of toys in the attic that we recycle every once in a while- its great. I remember after my 3rd child was born, I put ALL of the toys in the toy room and locked it up... forever!!! I found my 3 year old playing "dolls" using pens and wash cloths for babies and blankets. It was sad, but it cracked me up. My parents were sure at that point that I was the worst mother and had totaly lost my mind. They were right on both accounts :)

Happy cleaning. I LOVE TOSSING. Have you ever checked out FlyLady.com She is the de-clutter guru.

From sarah on Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 18:47:15

Hon: Yes I am a busy lady but I really love what I'm doing.

Marion: I remember my most common form of cleaning up stray puzzle pieces and weird small pieces to toys was to just throw them away...that was also after I had my third..I was tired. I've learned how to deal better with puzzles and am happy to say we've had sets for years that have stayed intact(not all of them of course)

I am scared of FlyLady..she IS crazy...maybe someday I'll get up my courage and peek at some of her ideas..

I read a home organization book that gave me one good idea that I think I can manage to do. It was " Every time you buy something new get rid of something old." For instance if you buy a new sweater get rid of one in your closet that you aren't going to wear anyway because it's worn out of out of style.

That's one shopping trip at a time and I like that. So if we have a birthday and get 10 ten toys I don't always get rid of 10 toys but we go through and see what we don't need and downsize a bit.

From marion on Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 21:41:50

FlyLady really isn't all that bad :)

I am with you, we have to toss as things come in. We don't have a large home and we are good with that, but it means what ever we have, we must love and be willing to take care of. One time I finally convinced my "pack rat" kids to get rid of a ton of stuff by reminding them that they HATE cleaning their rooms and they HATE me bugging them about cleaning their room. A light went on and they realized that they wouldn't have to clean up stuff that wasn't there. They tossed with a grin that day :D Victory point for Mom :)

Good luck- new babies really bring out the nesting :) Oh- and they are wonderful and cute and smell so GOOD!!!!

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