Mother, Run, Hike

Last week, at the Friday Five post, I wrote a very vague statement about my son is asking difficult questions, but I didn't go into detail. I figured this topic needed its own post. I have said here before that I want to raise a boy who is confident, smart, compassionate and woke. I also want to answer his questions with as much honesty as I wanted as a kid. So far, I'm not doing very well... read on to find out where I have failed him. My son's question: What is Suicide? My answer: Suicide is when a person takes their own life, because the sadness or anxiety in them is causing them too much pain, and they can't stand to live with that pain anymore. His follow up question: How do they do it? how do they kill themselves? My answer: It all depends on the person, some take pills, some jump off high places, and other ways ( I didn't want to describe more, because it felt strange to be telling my 9 year old how people kill themselves ) And I also said that ...

Happy Sunday! I have recently come to discover that I don't like Sundays, because they feel like I am in a rush to finish a lot of things, and I don't like that anxiety. This week we are back to a more normal workout schedule, with a more reasonable winter, and less work to bring home. Workouts Monday - 2.8 intervals + Weights Thursday - 4.2 miles and Zumba Friday - 4.5 miles and body weight workouts Saturday - 10 miles long run Sunday - Run Your Ice Off 5K Monday of last week feels as if it was an eternity ago. We ran outside in the dark, but it felt so good! I was really tired, and my brain wanted to go home and take a nap. I have said this here before, but having the sun setting at 5, messes with my brain .... my brain sees dark and thinks "We need to be sleeping". On Thursday I went back to run with the Fleet Feet group, and my friend Adrienne was there! I haven't run with her in a while, and it was nice to catch up with her. Friday was ...

Happy Friday! This week feels like it has lasted an eternity! I'm Linking up with the Friday five 2.0 ladies at  Fairytales and Fitness  and  Running on Happy  . I have 5 things I can't stop thinking about this week 1. The Crown - I have been obsessively watching The Crown on Netfix since Christmas, and now we are down to two episodes, and I'm going to miss it! 2. Concerts and Shows- I know you already know this, but I LOVE going to concerts and shows, and after Les Mis, my mind has been spinning for what can I go see next! Right now the calendar has Bunbury in May and Dirty Dancing in March. 3. My Son is Amazing - My little guy is 9 and becoming a very caring boy. He is asking a lot of difficult questions about life, and I'm trying my best to keep up with him. 4. Anitta - I mentioned on Monday that I recently found a new favorite Brazilian singer, Anitta, and I am loving her music! I need to learn Portuguese, so I can sing along lou...

3 years ago my office started a "Say Something Nice" event for the holidays. Blank cards were provided, and a box to put our positive thoughts for our co-workers. The rules were to keep the cards clean, to try to keep it related to work, and to try to include as many of our co-workers as we could. Here are the Something Nice cards I got this year (Names have been changed to protect my co-workers privacy) From : Left blank Ana, I so much enjoy having you with us in the office. It is so nice to have somebody who care about not only her work, but her team. Thanks for buying all of the cakes and making sure everyone felt loved and celebrated. You are truly an amazing person!! From: Linda Ana, Thanks for thinking of us and bringing in Bagels. Thanks for working so hard to get paperwork done on time for reports. From : Rosalinda Than you for taking the time to know our lives, beliefs and sharing your thoughts on special occasions. Happy holidays! From : Ashley ...

Happy Monday! How are you today? How was your weekend? Last week was crazy busy, but it still flew by. Workouts Wednesday: 4 miles, core and stretching Friday- 6 miles Sunday - 9 miles Last week was a mix of different things happening... on Monday we were off from work for Martin Luther King Day. I don't remember what we did, but I remember we slept in. On Tuesday my son had an early dismissal. After he went to his Dad's, I wanted to go for a quick run at the gym, but the roads were getting very slick, so I went home and finished my work. Wednesday was Treadmill day, and it felt so good to run after all the stress at work! On Friday I went for a run outside! I know it had only been 1 week, but it felt like forever ago that I was running outside! Later Friday night, I was installing an update on my laptop, when something went wrong and now my laptop is only giving me a blinking folder... I have to get it fixed, I just haven't had time. Sa...

Happy Friday!! It has been another busy week here, but the weekend is almost here and it brings all good things with it! I'm Linking up with the Friday five 2.0 ladies at  Fairytales and Fitness  and  Running on Happy  . I was going to write this in a separate post, but it got out of hand and it turned into a monster. And I figured that if I put it in a Friday Five format, it would be more manageable, it won't bring many readers around... which is fine, because just writing this post makes my heart happy.  This Saturday we are going to Philadelphia to go see Les Miserables. I LOVE Les Miserables! and have loved it for many years. I never saw the show on Broadway, but saw it on Tour at Penn State, the 10th Anniversary Video concerts, both the Movies ( even the spoken one), and the 25th anniversary concert.  This are my Five Favorite Les Miserables songs from the Musical. 5. One Day More, The 25th Anniversary Reunion by the...

Work for the last four weeks has been endless, rushed and exhausting! Between Holidays, snow days, and water main issues that have caused the office to close... work is getting on the way of life! I started thinking of when I started running longer 4 year ago, to deal with the stress of not seeing my son and the stress of work. I would go to work, give my very best everyday, and be told each day that my work wasn't good enough, that it needed to be better, faster, precisely accurate 100%, with no margin for any error. Thing is, I love my job. It suits so many parts of my personality, the precision of the charts, the definite answer on the numbers, and the definite set of rules. It all just makes sense, and it works perfectly in my head. And adding running, allowed me to deal with the negativity I was getting at work, without losing my mind. And now, work is keeping me from running, because I'm behind in my work. Being behind in my work is a cause of a lot of stress  for m...

Happy Monday! What a week last week was! Work was weird, I felt like I worked two weeks straight!  Workouts  Monday - 3 mile run, and whole body work out  Friday - 6 mile run  Saturday - 3 mile milkshake run This week our weather finally gave us some temperatures above freezing, which felt like spring was almost here! but only for a few days, and we are back to frozen again.  On Monday I was running inside, because of freezing rain and snow. The office let out early, but I brought work home with me. I was glad to be out of work early, I had almost no groceries at home and no time to get any! My desk covered in piles of papers. I might as well burn the desk down and move to another country Years ago I set myself a rule to not bring work home, especially if it was because somebody else's delay work that caused me to be behind. But with the holidays, the early dismissals, the snow, my work had piled on and I had no option but to bring thi...

Happy Friday! What at week it was has been!! I do not even know how to begin this, I have been working from home for 4 days, 1 because of weather, 2 because of a water issue in our building and 1 because I need to catch up with the work missed... even thought I was already working! I am so happy it's Friday!   I'm Linking up with the Friday five 2.0 ladies at  Fairytales and Fitness  and  Running on Happy  . With the start of the New Year, I keep seeing the "New Year, New Me" post on social media, and I keep thinking to myself, New Year same old me, because I very much like Same Old Me! Here are 5 things that are the same for me as they were last year... and many years prior.  1. I am always caffeinated . Somedays over caffeinated  other days under caffeinated,  but always with coffee running through me. Especially now. I had a latte a little too late in the afternoon, and now I can't go to sleep. My com...

December feels like it was an eternity ago! If I hadn't kept a list of the books I read, I wouldn't have remember them! Today I'm linking up with  Jana  and  Steph  for Show Us Your Books. I already talked about this on my last books post, but I met and exceeded my reading goal for the year. I have found so many amazing books this year, and only had one re-read this year. Rabbitt: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat- by Patricia Williams ( 5* out of 5) Somebody in the link up suggested this book, as a comparison/companion to Hillbilly Elegy, and I was very happy to have found it. What an amazing book! Ms. Pat is a comedian who grew up very poor in Atlanta, raised by an alcoholic mother, who was also abusive. By the age of 15, she had two children by a Sexual predator (Her "boyfriend" who was 10 years older than her. ) And by 16, she was selling drugs to provide for her children. The book deals with very heavy subjects, but Ms. Pat and her co-writ...