Over the river and through the woods

Six running days in a row!  What a great feeling.  I'm totally loving this.  I am thinking I better pick up another pair of running shoes since I'm going everyday. 

A new week!  I had a great run this morning.  It was windy, but I was glad to be out in it.  I am looking forward to increasing my mileage this week.

The other day I was admiring my almost 6 month old baby.  He is so beautiful.  He is the picture of perfect health.  And then it dawned on me that that sweet baby has the perfect nutrition, created by the Creator of us all.  And then my next thought was to wonder about how I could have such perfect health.  Ta-da!  By eating the foods that the Creator created for me to eat.  Whole foods.  I'm thrilled by this concept.  Now I'm working on eating more whole foods and less packaged foods.  

I also just finished reading a book my little brother recommended, In Defense of Food.  It was very good, and good timing for me to read.  Here's to better health this year!   

Didn't run.  Had a terrible pain in my knee while carrying boys up and down stairs (normal part of my day).  Perhaps I need to cut down on carrying the heavier ones.  That really hurt! So I was cautious and laid off running for 2 days.

No running today.  Felt very tired.  Laid down on the floor and the two boys that were awake joined me.  Very cute, but we didn't sleep.

Ran four miles today!  Really enjoyed the run.  The day goes so  much better when it starts with a run.  Ben noticed that the two days I didn't run I just wasn't so happy.  I laugh in the face of chaos if I've had a run.

Ugh!  No run again today.  Couldn't muster it.  The six month old babe was up screaming his sweet little heart out in the night, many times.  Just as he was settled it seemed he would awake again.  Tried simethicone drops and infant tylenol.  Just when it occurred to me that Ben could give him a blessing, the most beautiful baby in the world finally drifted off to sleep, but it was already five this morning!  Poor fella.

This morning I found just a sliver of glimmer of white under his baby gums.  Maybe that's what caused all his sadness.  I don't remember teething being so hard for all the other guys!

The exciting news is I just checked and I'm in for the St. George Marathon!  Wa-hooo!  I haven't ran that course since 1999!

Side note:  I've had a very close relationship with sweets it seems for the last few years.  It dawned on me the other day that I haven't fasted much during that time because I don't fast while I am bearing or nourishing babies.  So my self-restraint and self-mastery skills have gotten rusty.  So, I took it upon myself to have a retraining  period of a week to see if I could bridle this passion.  Sure enough, it's going great.  And the more I bridle it, the easier it is to do it.  Now that is sweet!  It will be a week on Sunday and no treats have touched my lips!  The Bishop even offered me some the other night, and so did my little brother!  The next challenge is to figure out what I will do once the week of retraining is up.  Continue to abstain from chocolate and all things emerging from the oven with wafting tendrils of aromatic splendor?  Perhaps!

Awesome morning!  Ben needed to leave home for the temple this morning just after 6 a.m., so 4:30 a.m. found me and my headlamp out for a run!  I just feel good.  I hope this blog will be full of more runs than excuses for me.  I sure love running!

Drizzly Monday morning.  It smelled soooo good outside, especially the wet willows.  The blossoms are on the trees and it is just gorgeous!

I am starting to feel faster, for which I am very grateful! 

There was a little trouble in my knee this morning.  Not a lot, just a little.