WOW!!!!
So I've been absent lately. I'm sorry about this. Life just got very, very busy. The last few weeks have been quite the rollercoaster of activity and excitement.
Here's a recap:
4th of July has come and gone (I know I haven't posted since before that but I'll start with what little I can remember right now). The family and I went back home to visit for a long weekend. We left on the 4th in the AM and drove 2 hours to Cleveland (where both our families live and where we are from). My PILs (parents-in-law) were in Canada for a Barbershop Competition (my FIL sings in a pretty impressive chorus) and so we stayed at their house to cat sit (HILARIOUS story about that later) and just went and spent the days with my family. We had a lot of family time. My son got to play with his cousins which was nice and is that boy in love with my dad. Seeing the two of them together is one of the happiest things in my life to think about.
6th of July, my son, the hubs, and I ran in a 5k that can only be hosted in Parma, Oh - Run for the Pierogis. I KNOW!!! You can't make that up. This is the second year that I've run it. Last year, my siblings and I ran it and the Hubs watched with our son. This year, we all did it, including our son (who cruised along in the jogging stroller). Highlight from this race is that afterwards, our son wanted to put on our race numbers and "go for a run". He has since woken up every morning asking to go for a run. I did alright in the race - especially compared to the year before (the weather was in the 90s at 830 in the morning). I think I hit an 11:30 mile but since I'm in the full 1/2 marathon swing
currently, I actually had to run an additional mile to get my training run in.
1/2 Marathon training has commenced officially!! Yes, I think its like 95 days until my race in October. I'm officially in week three of training - physically at least. Tomorrow is Week 3 Run 2 - 30 minute run. I say physically because my body now is at the point that it wants to go exercise so getting up at 5AM isn't bad. Nutritionally, however, is a different story. I don't think I can eat enough chocolate right now. I'm following the Jeff Galloway plan because 1) its the most flexible to fit in with my husbands training plan (he's also running the 1/2 in October) and 2) I only have to do 2, 30 minute jogs during the week and 1 long run on the weekend. Since its time based during the week, I can wake up early and get 30 minutes in before the Hubs leaves for work. Its ideal. Also, I'm not looking at breaking records for this 1/2. I'm just looking to finish before the course closes.
The cats... Oscar is on the right, Emmy on the left...
Cat sitting... Yea... Apparently, I'm allergic to cats! So when we go up to Cleveland to visit and stay with the PILs, I always notice, the first morning there I am groggy, congested, watery-eyed, and itchy beyond belief. I have always chalked it up to just being back in Cleveland where the air is different because when we would leave the house, symptoms would go away. I never attributed it to the cats. Well this past time up there, I somehow got put in charge of feeding the cats. That is NO problem. But since I fed them, they decided that they loved me more than my husband. You know how cats do that kneading thing to you before they lay down on you? Yea, Oscar, cat number 1, decided to knead me all the time and then plunk his fat butt (he's a chunker) on me. Next thing I know, my legs are itching like they have poison ivy all over them and I'm starting to get hives. That's a recent development but they have never sat on me before this past weekend. Enter Benadryl and plenty of it.
This is kind of bittersweet. I'm am by no means a cat person. But I am an animal person and my in-law's cats are probably the least obnoxious cats I know. You can't help but want to love on them. Our trips up to Cleveland now are going to be interesting. I don't have a problem staying at the PIL's house, provided I am medicated and also, hopefully, the cats will be less enamored with me next time around.
Its been crazy the last few days. Its going to keep being crazy over the next few weeks. In our future, we are helping two separate family members move, 2 birthdays (mine and my son's), dentist appointments, 2 people doing 1/2 marathon training, combatting with raising a toddler who is into EVERYTHING, and who knows what else.
Pray for me...
Kathy
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