Did I mention?

I ran a half-marathon last week. A fellow Hood to Coast team member organized the event and 10 people participated. Ran most with my super-runner mom. (Who makes 50-somethin' look good!) Then the last few miles I decided to see how many people I could pass. (Just one) I averaged 10.9 minutes per mile. Hoped for a faster time but oh, the hills...

(Here's me sprinting to the finish line.)
(That, or just a picture I stole off google images...)

The first mile I'm thinking, 'Who does this??'
The last mile I'm thinking, 'Let's do it again!'

So August brings the Hood to Coast relay and then onto marathon training. (Why not?)
And I would post an actual picture from the event but lazy-me didn't bring a camera. The kind person who took my picture is yet to be heard from. Oh. Hope I didn't break their camera...
I'm JOKING 'cause I'm BEAUTIFUL!!!

p.s. A half-marathon is 13.1 miles. The route we ran was 13.5. (I thought that was important information.)

Don't you know my kid is a genius?

In the first 20 minutes of Brenda's kindergarten graduation we thought we'd have to just take her home...

(Here she is hiding out in her 'escape' room, which is right off the stage.)

When suddenly she heard the music for the first musical performance. Before we could grab her she was out on stage...

(Maybe we should have drug her off the stage but I was more like, 'don't nobody be touching my dancin' baby'...)

She tolerated class picture time...

(Never mind the fact that she stood with the wrong class.)

Even posed for this shot-(Within 2 minutes the diploma became binoculars, of course.)

In the end it was a success!

***Can I add that I think the whole idea of kindergarten graduation is lame??
(Never mind that I savored the whole evening...)

A quick 'Hello!'

I love the corniness of my old journal entries (old-old, not last week) where I emphatically apologize for long gaps between entries. Who am I apologizing to? Who cares??
I thought of this as I realized I've got lots to blog about and no time to do it, over the next few days. I am SO SORRY. hahaOh, and send happy thoughts for good weather. If it rains this weekend it'll totally cramp my style.

in the kitchen

We were prepping for a snack and I needed Brenda's input-

"What does Brenda eat?"
..."apple"

"What does Suzie eat?"
..."milk"

"What does Garret eat?"
..."playdough"

He's MY monkey!

This is the picture I put together when first creating the blog. I scrapped it and did the 'ark' doodle instead. I'm happy with how it all turned out. I like the idea of the zoo-ish, ark theme 'cause I figure Noah's ark was bizarre chaos with a lot of poop to clean up.

We can relate.

I imagine they got used to the funny smells, restless monkeys, and every-man-for-himself meals. Noah would be nursing a dog's hurt paw and his wife comes running in announcing that the pig escaped again...

I've been stressing a bit, wondering about summer break. What am I going to do with these kids?? (How sad a question to come from the mom, eh?)

Thank goodness we're not trapped on a boat.

Garret needs a lot of stimulation or he gets a bit wild. His regular school schedule does help him "even out". At home, when he starts to lose control, sometimes all we can do is just sit on him. (Don't worry, he loves it.)

But this afternoon he got a rare treat of cream soda. He was giggling over the pure joy of it and cuddled up next to me. 'Oh, we'll be fine' I thought, 'and come end of August we'll send out the doves...'

I'm getting excited for summer.
-are you?

I'm a dogear-er myself.

So this is my favorite book-I read it after my dad laughed and cried his way through it. (Nevermind the awards. My dad recommended it!)

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Here's my second favorite-Thanks to my friend Sara, I read this and it has changed my life. (Not to be dramatic or anything...)

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And here's my third-

It was just last year that I finally read this one. (After years of posing as a P&P expert.)
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If I was stranded on a deserted island (and apparently had warning), these are the books I would have with me.
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You get three. Which would you have?
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OH wait, and this one-

Yeah, this one's pretty good too.
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OK, you get FOUR.