Posted by Carrie on 30 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random
There are no bananas in the house. I feel sort of like Jack Sparrow, wandering around the kitchen, muttering, “Where have the bananas gone?” Into Gabe, that’s where. Grrrr…I do believe that I’ve gotten spoiled; having hot cereal without melted bananas cooked into it feels wrong. But a day without hot [...]
Posted by Carrie on 29 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Gabriel, Samuel
This morning, Gabe slept a little later than usual, so I got to wake him for a change. I put my hand on his back, and, without opening his eyes, he said, “…woke me from the bestest dream ever. There was an army of evil alien robots, and they were destroying the Earth, [...]
Posted by Carrie on 28 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Familial things, Fitness and Health
The funniest, coolest part of my conversation with Dad yesterday was when he was sympathizing with me, and he said, “…and maybe next year you can do the JFK 50, and we can just put you up at the house. We can just drive over to the start for that.” You know, because [...]
Posted by Carrie on 28 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Eric, Familial things, Fitness and Health
Good: marathon training. Everything is going smoothly so far.
Bad: the realization I was finally forced to accept yesterday that it’s just not going to be feasible for all four of us to head back east for the race. As much as I wanted it to be otherwise, it wouldn’t work. Too expensive [...]
Posted by Carrie on 27 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Familial things
Eric: sick. Sick since Saturday evening, actually, with something that sure is acting like Shigellosis (the illness du jour currently circulating in our county). Once he got past the initial, quite dramatically gross, onset, the fever has been the worst part. He’s at the doctor right now.
Kids: kids. This is the [...]
Posted by Carrie on 25 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Fitness and Health
Festival Park, that is, for “Italian Fest” – which is apparently code for “Beer and Overpriced Fair Food.” My cannoli was good, but…meh. Not a heck of a lot of reasons to think about returning in the future. I understand that Milwaukee’s Festa Italiana is much better, but it sounded a little [...]
Posted by Carrie on 23 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health
Well, crap. I’m having a really crappy (tired, stressed, headachy, grumpy) week, and this afternoon capped it off. Remember when my new/old doctor said I was probably fine, but prescribed a bone density scan, just to be on the safe side? Well, what with my parents’ visit and other business, I hadn’t [...]
Posted by Carrie on 21 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Familial things
We’ve lived here for a little over five years, and we’re still adjusting. When Alysia came through on vacation last fall, she took one look at our town’s primary beach on Lake Michigan and was aghast that we weren’t spending every available minute there; in fact, we truly haven’t availed ourselves of it much [...]
Posted by Carrie on 20 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Samuel
The big one, not the little. He’s eight, which places him rather firmly out of “baby” territory, of course, but I think somebody forgot to give him the memo – or maybe they didn’t, but he took one look at it, shredded it, and is choosing to pretend that age and time [...]
Posted by Carrie on 17 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Familial things
This has been a day of dragging and lolligagging. I actually hit snooze on my alarm for my run (giving myself a whole four-minute reprieve!), and Sam’s ever-so-slow finishing of his (requested!) oat bran made us head out for the farmers’ market about forty-five minutes after I wanted to leave…putting us out the door [...]
Wow, that is awesome that childcare willbe provided. You never see that!
I do have to keep chanting my little mantra to...