CAMPING!
A couple weeks before Thanksgiving, Jason and I did the unthinkable. We took our 18-month old daughter on a 1,900 mile, 10-day road trip to Big Bend Ranch State Park…and we were camping…and I’m pregnant. Yeah, there’s a bombshell for you. I bet you weren’t expecting that. Adventure is an understatement. We packed up all our camping equipment, the kid, the dog and all the things that go with the kid and the dog. We also
Witching Hour
des·per·ate ˈdɛspərɪt, -prɪt/[des-per-it, -prit] adjective An emotional state in which a person feels a situation to be hopeless and without satisfactory options. Desperate decisions may be more rash, impulsive, and inappropriate than those made in a rational frame of mind. Our weekdays are busy but generally uneventful. We run in the morning and take care of errands after breakfast. We come home for lunch and after lunch E takes a nap. After her nap we play. Something happens
Making Friends with the Heat
In case you missed it, today is the first day of August. I live and run in Houston, the self-proclaimed “air conditioning capital of the world” and for good reason. It’s hot outside, really hot. A sane person would spend the next 31 days on a treadmill but I hate treadmills. Either I make peace with the treadmill or I make friends with the heat. Since I’d rather run a marathon, barefoot, over shards of broken glass
Rocks on a Fencepost
I realize this is the second time in only a few months that I’ve completely redone my blog. I apologize if this confuses or annoys you but I’ve got a good reason. When I was brainstorming for the relaunch of my blog back in February and March I was looking for something catchy and cute. “A Buck’s Life” is what I finally came up with. Though it is indeed catchy and easy to remember, it doesn’t
My New Friend, Garmin
This is my new friend, Garmin. More specifically it’s a Garmin Forerunner 410. Garmin was a gift for my birthday from my wonderful husband. While I was marathon training, I insisted I didn’t need a Garmin. After all, I’m not a serious runner. Only serious, fast runners need something as technical as a Garmin. I didn’t need one of those. They’re expensive and bulky. Unnecessary. All I really needed was a heart rate monitor (a necessity,
Galveston Island State Park
Saturday we packed up the truck and headed back to Galveston for our long anticipated camping trip at Galveston Island State Park. Our campsite was on the bay side of the park. Though, I admit, I was disappointed at first that we weren’t on the beach side in the end I was very pleased with our location. The bay side camping area was grassy not sandy and the mile between us and the beach was