Posted by Carrie on 29 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health
Went out this morning to run with the club down by the lakeshore. I got there about 45 minutes before we were to start, thinking to get in some extra miles, but as I was pulling up to the street where we had arranged to park, I saw a herd of club members running [...]
Posted by Carrie on 28 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Familial things, Food and drink, Gabriel, Pictures and movies
It should be noted that we chose to serve ham as our primary protein due to our kids’ usual reluctance to eat roasted bird, and it should be noted also that both boys decided to turn their noses up at the ham yesterday and instead eat from the small Rock Cornish hen we got just [...]
Posted by Carrie on 27 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Race reports, Warm fuzzy
It’s a good day to be thankful – for all the major things, of course, like health, family, God’s providence, freedom, and chocolate. Today I’m especially thankful for opportunities to laugh, as they just make the rest of life so much easier. It’s hard to feel sober when your four-year-old is “breakdancing” with [...]
Posted by Carrie on 26 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Completely random
Oh, the places to go today!
1. The music store, to have Sam’s violin fixed. (He dropped it last night, and the bridge popped out.) This is in the town to the north.
2. The college, to return my borrowed music. This is between us and the town to the south.
3. The YMCA, to [...]
Posted by Carrie on 26 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Gabriel
I swear, he catches me when I’m too tired to process. Last night, when I was trying to get the boys to bed, Gabe got very angry when I insisted that Sam be in his own bed, not playing with Gabe in the lower bunk. Gabe howled, “I hate this policy!” [...]
Posted by Carrie on 25 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Completely random, Rants and vents
Had to run in the pitch dark this morning, slipping over the many ice patches and the crusty snow in the freezing wind.
Gabe has already thrown a huge tantrum about having to go to school, even though today is their Thanksgiving feast party, with pie and everything.
Eric may not be able to join me, then, [...]
Posted by Carrie on 23 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health
I hate running in the evenings. Runs of identical lengths feel completely different to me based on the time of day – or so I thought, but it might be even more arbitrary than that. Daylight Savings Time means that the sun sets around here at around 4:30 in the afternoon, and so [...]
Posted by Carrie on 21 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Gabriel
I promise that I don’t sit around comparing my boys to each other all day long, regardless of how recent entries are carrying that theme. Today, too, though, I once again found myself recalling Sam as I worked with Gabe and found that things are really different this time around.
We went over to Sam’s [...]
Posted by Carrie on 19 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Gabriel, Samuel
I made a baked pumpkin today (so yummy!), and I had to search through my old journal archives to find the recipe. Doing that, I came across a toddler Sam, telling me out of the blue that “‘a’ is for airplane, and ‘c’ is for cat.” I remember how amazed I was by [...]
Posted by Carrie on 18 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health, Gabriel, Pictures and movies, Samuel
I never knew that Seasonal Affective Disorder can involve sugar cravings. I just thought it was the constant enticements of “holiday goodies” making me go all “COOKIE MONSTER AAAAAAAA-NOM-NOM-NOM” around this time of the year. That, perhaps, and some sort of pre-evolutionary throwback need to pack on fat for the long winter of [...]
