Fast Running Mommy

Hilarious thing happened today...I run with a lady named Adrianne who I've mentioned several times. We have also run a couple of times with Stephanie who is known on the blog as BYU Cougar Gal. Adrianne and I have met at 7:30 for months now and she is very dependable and wouldn't change her mind about running unless something really unusual happened. So this morning when I got a  phone call right before walking out the door to meet Adrianne I was disappointed when my friend on the line said that she was already on the trail and to not meet her today because she was trying to get done early.

Then imagine my surprise to walk by Adrianne's house 2 minutes later (she lives around the corner) and to see her already home. 

I said, "Oh..you are done already?" She looked at me when a confused look and said, 'Are you going without me?" Then I looked at her with an even more confused look as I realized that she was not the person I talked to this morning....it was BYU Cougar Gal calling to make sure we knew not to meet her today...I thought it was Adrianne...and Adrianne thought I was crazy....but it sure was fun to get the details all sorted out as we ran off into the morning sun together... 

accomplishments for the week so far non-running related...got our yard edged for the first time with a hand powered edger or whatever they are called until my neighbor across the street took pity on me and finished up with his gas-powered edger....he also weed wacked some weeds up front which I FINALLY killed off..yay!

Then the other great thing I did was get all of the computer stuff out of our closet upstairs and get a shoe organizer so our closet is finally organized....we had one of those over the door ones for a while but I really like the one we have now...it needs floor space though and we do have that.

 Sasha did great on the marathon as all of you know I'm sure but it was fun to be there and watch him come in third..Thanks again to Clyde for helping him out at the end..got to meet Mik'L so that was really fun too!!

i forgot to mention yesterday that I did some cross-training.....even at the same time..imagine that...running and swimming. Sasha says he doesn't think running in pouring down rain counts as swimming...what do you think?

I have had a pretty rough week. I've had a lot of rough weeks in my life..this one has just been different. There are some problems in my family that I can't talk about but anybody out there reading this please pray for me and my family.. 

On top of it the little family I'm in charge of has been sick with fevers, tummy aches and one big grand case of Mastitis for Mom...hence the zero miles for today. I will be grateful for the ability to run again next week. I think I'm going to take tomorrow off too and get a really really good rest.

I'm grateful now for the trials I go through in life...mostly because it's a sink or swim operation I've realized. I don't like sinking so I swim and I get stronger and smarter and nicer and everything.

On the bright side of things my baby is turning 1 tomorrow...although I have planned a huge crying fest...I can't believe it went by so fast. He isn't walking yet but he stands for a few seconds and leans towards us thinking about taking his first step.