Fast Running Mommy

Feeling better this week. rocky icy paths so our time was nice and slow. 55:14 

I've got a doctor's appointment today...we'll see what's up with this body hopefully.  

I'm too lazy to go upstairs and get the Garmin but our time was about 50:42. .

I went to the Doctor. I was hoping that Iwas pregnant and that my hypothyroidism had magically disappeared. Negative on both counts. Thryoid problems are very easy to treat but I told my running partner today that if I was going to write a book on the subject I would call it, "Hypothryoidism" and then smaller "The disease that doesn't kill you but makes you wish you were dead" You feel very very  tired when it is low....which is probably what has been happening to me(but only when Fred visits) since my medicine ran out and I decided to wait until I got pregnant to make another appointment(because we have to pay for our visits out of pocket..we have a huge deductible...I didn't want to go in one month and pay 100  bucks and then have to get retested 1 month later because I was pregnant and that changes things and thus changes my dosage) 

Anyway, I am terribly sad but also very happy that at least I have a disease that is very easy to treat and fairly common and well researched. 

The only explanation I can fathom for me being so baby hungry  is that my children are so completely adorable that I just don' t ever want to stop having such cute kids...or maybe it's because I'm going to have twins next time and this is God's way of preparing me to really really want the extra work that comes with that...I don't know.....don't mind my rambling...have a good day everyone.  

52 something..dont' remember now.

I am very sad. A older man in our ward died yesterday. He had heart problems and was old but I am still heart broken. You see Julia loves Grandpas and he had adopted her and Jenny and brought us presents all the time and gave them hugs on Sundays. He was working on a doll house for them for Christmas and I just don't think I've ever been so sad about a man I really didn't know that well passing on. I was so excited to go and help him and for at least a couple more years of friendship with this adopted grandpa. I am not sure of course because he died in his sleep but I wouldn't be surprised if he had been working on one of the dollhouses he was making as Santa Claus for neighborhood little girls. What a dear man. We know exactly where he is now.  

51:59  

Nice normal run today. Just chatted about whatever came into our pretty little heads. I think I might have been complaining about kids in my home the other day that scream for attention from their moms and the moms would say back to them, "Yes sweetie." Maybe they were trying the ol" A soft answer turneth away wrath" trick but I usually call my kids on it and ask them to be soft to me too.  

52:42 It was slippery and cold but I was very very thankful for my running partner being there to talk to me.

i had the craziest dream last night...in the few hours that I slept.....Jacob must be teething again...argh! I dreamt that a friend of mine who is pregnant and is having trouble eating normal foods made her family this very disgusting casserole that she absolutely loved. (not for the weak of stomach to read) It was a baked dish of cucumbers, cream of mushroom soup and raisin bran.....yum yum....maybe I should enter it in a raisin bran recipe contest...sad thing is that you never know....

I ran 3 by myself this morning and then 2 with the kids later in the morning. It's amazing how hard it was to motivate myself  in the cold without my running partner. I do fine some days but today I almost stopped at 2 and called it good for the day. I'm so glad I didn't. I think it would have been one of those days where I felt a lack of motivation all day if I didn't get my full run in. It was a busy day, hard in some aspects and nice in others. We went to the funeral of our dear friend and adopted grandpa Bob Johnson. He was such a darling man. I am truly sorry to see him gone and think I will grieve his loss for many years to come. He had such a loving way with my children. They all loved him. I think he truly emanated the scripture where the Savior tells the little children to come unto him and doesn't turn them away.

My two oldest children cried the entire hour and a half at the funeral....Suprisingly my youngest Julia didn't shed a tear.