Reading and Running

Reading and Running. One I have done to much of of late, and one not nearly enough! Any guesses on where I am slacking? If you guessed running you would be right. Where in the world has my motivation gone? Did the kids or the heat steal it? The brownies or bagels? Honestly it fled when I stopped seeing results the moment I wanted to. Now I am facing another view of the results I didn't see. The results of NOT running..I am up 15 lbs and my times aren't getting better. Which means that I will be getting off of my nice comfy couch and taking some sort of jog here very tonight. I was doing so good and then I just lost it...I hope to whom ever it fled to they are enjoying it.

On to reading. I love to read. I go places, meet people and experience things that I know I never will be able to in my life. Reading opens doors! With that said one must be careful what doors one opens. I love all literature. I see the value in the written word. I don't like all of it though and boy of late have I been picking some stinkers! With the next book club meeting being pick you own I truly do want to find a GOOD read, not a quick read or a cute read. Something that I truly an enjoy. I am starting this weekend with a book called The Vanishing act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. This looks to be a good book that should have some great depth. I am hoping to post my thoughts on this book later this weekend!

I hope that everyone has a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend. Please take time to remember what Memorial day is really about. Remembering those we have lost, especially those that we have lost protecting our rights here in what I feel is the greatest country of them all the United States of America.

Intro to well me...

I am jumping on the Blog bandwagon. Why? Who knows. I have a feeling that for better or worse I will sit here on my computer writing for no one other than myself. If that is the way it works than so be it. A bit about me I am a Stay @ home mom of 3 wonderful kids. The time in my life where I am needed every minute by my little ones is quickly coming to an end. What am I going to do with myself when this day comes you ask? Darned if I know. In the mean time I will be wiping runny noses, curing all ill's with kisses and praying for quiet time.

I have been happily married for 5 years to a wonderful man that I love. I am a runner. A very bad, very new runner but a runner none the less. I have been running for about 9 months now. Frankly I know that I have no chance of ever being competitive in it being 5 foot 4 (according to the Dr, but I think he is just trying to be nice to me) with rather short legs I feel that watching me run rather looks like a hamster in a wheel no matter how fast my poor little legs go I will never quite catch up. Ohh well I don't run to win.I run for me, for quiet time, for the freedom that I feel when I get to pound some pavement. I compete against me...which is about the only person I can beat!