Journy to the Silver Strand!!

Here is what I am thinking.....writing a blog about my "half marathon" training. Since training sometimes gets hard and you want to give up, I thought this might keep me accountable. I will try to write everyday about my training and how it is going, all in order with my crazy nest I keep at home with all my boys. :)(should be fun!)

I am a person who would rather give up in situations then push through. I know that is probably why I am heavier than I would like to be after my second baby. With my first, I exercised and ate right and the weight seemed to fall off. This one, is two lbs a week if I am lucky. Oh, also my stroller has gotten a lot heavier with my 38 pound three year old and my 26 pound one year old to push. Do you see where I am getting, I find any excuse to give up, give in or whatever, just so I don't have to do it! But here and now, that stops. I am using this to be accountable and finish what I start.

I ran a marathon about four/five years ago, and guess what, I didn't do very much to....TRAIN. Yes I was running consistently, but never did I go over a six mile run to prepare for a 26.2 marathon. However I finished. This time I want to train right and run the race good! (sounds like a quote from the walls of a gym) I am not saying I won't complain, or that I think this is going to be easy. I just hope that me writing about it, will keep me on track and at pace.

I am hoping to get in shape a bit while doing this, so many of the blogs may also be about me being hungry, because you can't train and not have a hungry body. I will also try to fib on this too, so again you're my accountability. (I say you my blog world, but I now it is me) By fibbing, I mean cheat on my eating and give up also.

So here I go on my adventure, today is my first day to run three miles, so tomorrow I will let you know how its goings!!

Also I realized I forgot to tell you when and where the race is.....this is reflecting my state of denial that gets me to not train in the first place! But it is down the silver strand, on November 14. Running with my sister in laws (as usual.) If I am doing anything that is a race...it is with them!! :) But we love it!!

Stick it out!!

People! Do you think that everyone just gives up on things in life......NO! If that were true, we wouldn't have a light bulb, or computers, or Iphones!! So why is it we feel like we can just give up, when our marriages get hard!

Ok I am better and maybe this part wont be yelling. But I am frustrated that so many think it is ok to get divorced simply because it is too hard, or there is no more spark. Come on, sparks are made, and the happiest of couples have had there down time too!! They just stuck through it and are stronger for it.

Babies, buying new houses, kids living with us longer then they should, family dieing, and more, can cause a person to at different. A person acting different can be a reason why you may not feel a "spark." (hate that)(the word) Sometimes you need to "use your words." (as we tell children and then forget ourselves) Tell them what you need, want, or even (shocker) how you feel.

Don't get me wrong, I don't judge anyone for being divorced or getting one. I just think everyone now a days gives up too easy. The grass is not greener on the other side, and you will be lonely. I have many close friends and family who are divorced and it does not make them a bad person, I am looking at the thought put into a divorced not the people. Again, no judgment, just thoughts. There are reasons for divorce, I just don't like the lazy reasons.

Working mom vs stay at home mom.

Wow the war we create when I think we each just envy the other, just a little bit.

The working mom feels bad for leaving her children, and having to go to work. Constantly waiting to get home to her children. Constantly rushing from one thing to the other, but somehow doing it all, but not feeling justified.

Then the stay at home mom, doing it all with her kids, from shopping, going to the bank, and even going to the bathroom. Getting it all done but desperately needing time to herself.

The stay at home mom does not wish to work all the time, but envies the break those mothers get from going to work, being around people who can hold a conversation. The working moms envy the fact that the stay at home moms get to wake up and go to the park with there kids and not worry about the time of when to get to work, or what they might have forgotten.

But some how, we all look at the other in an envious way, instead of a loving way. We must remember that the working mom may look like she does it all, but she is really just feeling like she is lacking. The stay at home mom may look like it is what she was born to do and have all the free time in the world, would love to organize your closet if it meant a little time to herself.

Neither one is wrong, just normal!