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5:10 AM – My first alarm goes off.   5:18 AM – My second alarm goes off and I get out of bed.   5:20 AM – I pump a bottle, eat a pre-run snack (banana with nut butter), and drink a coffee.  I get dressed and leave for my long run. 5:45 AM – [...]

So. I am on Day 11 of the Vegetarian Whole 30 (well, technically, Day 4 of my restart but more on that below).  I was inspired to try this 30-day whole eating plan after reading the two Whole 30 books. The Whole 30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom It Starts With [...]

Happy Memorial Day!  Did you have a nice weekend? We had a great one!  We spent a lot of time outside… and a lot of time inside because we painted our master bedroom!  Some more on that tomorrow, though. Stupid = me feeding Claire in a walker.  I swear, just last week, I could ‘park’ [...]

I have so many kid-related updates to share, so I thought I’d dedicate an entire post to it.  Let’s start off with the big boy, okay?   POTTY TRAINING  (Namaste tee!)   SO proud of Henry.  He’s potty trained (he’ll be three in a month)!  Wahoo. I was really intimidated to potty train, but it [...]

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of BUBBA Burger for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. On our awesome but super short beach trip, we had to feed 21 people - 5 men, 5 women, and 11 children, of which 9 actually eat solids. Suffice it to say that meal planning [...]

I have a LONG list on my phone of everything I need to do before my race.  Here are the highlights:   Figure out what shoes to run in and install my LockLaces. I have been training in the New Balance 880s and the Asics Gel Nimbus 17s.  I really like both (and will do [...]

I’m in “double workout” mode.  Multisport workouts are going to be the key to getting in decent triathlon shape before my May and August races. Obviously, my schedule isn’t super flexible with the kids. One of the things that I’ve learned is that is far more efficient and effective to do a handful of doubles [...]

I was deleting pictures off my camera’s memory stick when I stumbled upon a whole block of pictures from Claire’s birth that I had never looked at.  I don’t know how that happened!  But it was fun (and, um, painful) to relieve that awesome moment all over again.  And it inspired this post… Of course, [...]

Normally, I do a day in the life, but this time, let’s do 24 hours in the life – starting at 3 PM on Wednesday to 3 PM on Thursday! 3 PM – We are finishing up a rousing round of Hide and Go Seek, which involves Henry asking me what room he should hide [...]

This was a sun-filled and kiddo-focused day (plus wine!).  My favorite kind of day.  Here’s what it’s like to stay and work from home with two crazy kiddos: 6:45 AM –  I wake up and sneak out of bed.  Claire only got up once last night – wahoo!  No one else is up yet so [...]

I’ve gotten a ton of parenting-related questions lately, so I figured I’d put the answers all in one post.  Enjoy! What’s Claire’s sleep like?  How do you get her to sleep like that?   At 3 months, Claire goes to bed around 7:30, although actually falling asleep usually takes some time.  She normally wakes up [...]

I’ve shied away from the fitness tracker trend because I always thought they felt a little Big Brother-ish.  But over time, I got really, really curious about the hype.  So a few heavy-handed hints to the Husband later, I received a Misfit Shine for Valentine’s Day.  I decided to go with the Shine after hearing [...]

Ahh! She’s three months old.  I can’t believe.  Time flies when you have a baby, but a SECOND baby?!  Time goes even faster (you must fall into a black hole after the birth of a third or fourth!).   As Claire turns three months, we mark the end of the so-called “Fourth Trimester.” And she’s [...]