As soon as I hit publish I am going to set up the coffee so it will be ready for me at 5:15. I will pull out my long run checklist and line everything up for the morning: clothes, shoes, gadgets (oooh, I almost forgot: I need to charge my watch), meds, race bib with safety pins. I want to be out the door between 5:30 and 5:45. I'm doing the same 10K I've done twice before. (I wrote about the first time in this post.) I'm not very prepared for it, but I'm going to show up and have fun anyway. I used to think that the point of running was to get faster, but I have come to think there's more value in acknowledging where I am and showing up anyway. Goal #1: run joyfully.
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Welcome to my blog, where I mostly natter on about my life with five kids. Occasionally (not very often, because teenagers keep a person humble) I dispense parenting advice. Occasionally I write about other things, like books. (Those are probably affiliate links in posts about books. If you click through and buy something, Amazon will pay me a little bit of money.) Or faith or food or my secret strategy for dealing with annoying kid behavior or whether I am fit to be a mother. Also: who is the mystery intruder? And: does stay-at-home mothering rot the brain?
If you are worried about slow weight gain in a breastfed baby, this is my most-viewed post — hope it's helpful to you. Want to read more? I have some favorite old posts linked here, or you can find my archives here.
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