I feel like I am always playing catch up with everything. Now that school is over and summer vacation is here, I once again have a full schedule. We just ended Awanas, T-Ball, and Cub Scouts. Then here we are, all signed up again for a whole summer of "fun". It sounded good months ago when I signed up for everything but now it is just exhausting just thinking about what we have going on this summer. Between swim lessons, reading class (for Isabella), VBS @ several churches, going to the Ravine (we got season passses), and making sure we have other "fun" in between...I just wish there were just two more hours per day so I can catch up to basic necessities (you know, like organizing coupons, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc.). I wish I wasn't so addicted to Facebook, blogs, and Words with Friends either. LOL. That probably explains what happens to all my extra time!
I am just amazed at how much we try to accomplish in a given day. To think, mothers back in the day had to cook food from scratch every day (I try!), had to wash clothes by hand, give their children real baths as there were no showers, and at some point in time...they had no hot water or electricity! Talk about accomplishing a lot, THEY accomplished way more than I ever have in my lifetime and here I am complaining about all the fun times we get to offer our children. Maybe this is a good reality check...maybe my kids just needs me to bake them cookies and play board games with them all day? Ever wonder how simple life COULD be?!
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Interesting (but funny) conversation...
So the kids and I are going through their bedrooms trying to collect stuff to sell at our yard sale. Connor is doing awesome looking for things to sell (and donate to Goodwill). He is breezing through his room stuffing boxes with toys he no longer plays with. Isabella, on the other hand, is a hoarder like me so she is having a hard time letting go of things and is actually asking Connor if she can take some of the stuff he's willing to let go of. Go figure. Lol.
Connor decided to donate his blow-up dinosaur he got at the Dollar Tree not too long ago. He says he never plays with it (which he does by the way) but is willing to let go of it (and just about everything in his room because he "wants to make room for more toys that he will be getting for his birthday in a few weeks"). As he puts it in the box, Isabella picks it up and decides it's now hers. It's a fun toy, so what the heck, I let her keep it. Fast forward a few hours later, Isabella's walking around the house, shoving the dino in Connor's face...
I: "Hi, my name is Cutie!"
C: "His name is Dino. It's a boy."
I: "Well I changed its name to Cutie. It's a girl now. I like to snuggle it and it's Cutie!"
C: "Well it's a boy. It was born that way and you can't change it from boy to girl. So his name is Dino."
I: "Well it's a girl now."
C: "Nope sorry, but it doesn't have a vagina. It has a penis."
I: "Well I'll just take it off. Now it's a girl."
C: "You can't just take it off. It's always been a boy and that's that."
Isabella walks away "Cutie is soooooo snuggly and I looooooove snuggling with her."
Those kids crack me up!
Connor decided to donate his blow-up dinosaur he got at the Dollar Tree not too long ago. He says he never plays with it (which he does by the way) but is willing to let go of it (and just about everything in his room because he "wants to make room for more toys that he will be getting for his birthday in a few weeks"). As he puts it in the box, Isabella picks it up and decides it's now hers. It's a fun toy, so what the heck, I let her keep it. Fast forward a few hours later, Isabella's walking around the house, shoving the dino in Connor's face...
I: "Hi, my name is Cutie!"
C: "His name is Dino. It's a boy."
I: "Well I changed its name to Cutie. It's a girl now. I like to snuggle it and it's Cutie!"
C: "Well it's a boy. It was born that way and you can't change it from boy to girl. So his name is Dino."
I: "Well it's a girl now."
C: "Nope sorry, but it doesn't have a vagina. It has a penis."
I: "Well I'll just take it off. Now it's a girl."
C: "You can't just take it off. It's always been a boy and that's that."
Isabella walks away "Cutie is soooooo snuggly and I looooooove snuggling with her."
Those kids crack me up!
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Triathlon Training
A great guide for Triathlon Training! I am really really hoping to be able to do the SLO Triathlon this year. I have been "training" for about a month now, not hardcore or anything, but enough to build my endurance. I'm able to do interval runs of 5 miles in 55 mins and swim 32 laps in a 25 yard pool within 11 mins. Not too bad. I am having problems with my right knee still but it has gotten a lot better since I've lost 10 lbs and been working out more. I was able to run 25 mins straight the other day w/ no pain! I was so ecstatic. I tried to push it but I could feel my knee start giving out so I started doing interval runs after. I ran 35 mins total so enough to do a 5K. I figure if I can push both kids in the BOB stroller and run a 5K in 30 mins or a 10K in 1.5 hrs then sheez, I can run a 5K now in less than 30 mins! It's just so frustrating when I know I CAN do all of this and in good time, but my body is failing me. Sucks getting old. Well, I can't really blame age entirely. It's my fault for always going into hibernation (eating all I want and barely working out) during the winter months. I can't expect that my metabolism and endurance will always snap back like usual. Now that I am getting older, I am finding that it's not as easy as it used to be. I used to be able to pick up right where I left off from 3 months prior but no such luck these days. Well, I just realized I have to swim 36 lengths at the Sinsheimer Pool (where the triathlon is held in July) so I need to start doing that. Off to go for a run then swim in the cold! Brrrrr!
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