First 5k

Yesterday I signed up for my first 5k, Rock the Parkway. 

I've said before that I was going to run, and just never have. Been too scared, too nervous, whatever to actually do it. With Bobby's strange schedule, it's hard to train. I can't follow training schedules found online, and he'll suddenly work overtime and can't run for three days in a row. It's getting easier though--the girls can stay home by themselves for a short time, and I'm making more of an effort to force myself. The training is going pretty well, so I felt comfortable paying money and signing up.

I'm running with 2 others I work with, so we talk about it at school, and I'm getting excited! It may be miserable and I may hate it and never do it again, but that's okay.

I've blogged about this before, but it's something I feel strongly about. It's important for the girls to see that I do things outside of taking care of them. So many parents are wrapped up 100% in their children and don't take time for themselves. One of these days those kids are going to grow up, and what has the parent done for themselves? What goals has the parent showed the child they can achieve?

Running a 5k is something that I hope the girls can see me do and appreciate that I am taking time for myself.

Luck o' the Irish

Who am I kidding? I have no luck. Anyway, pictures from Saturday's Snake Saturday parade.

Kaylin and her super-cool shamrock glasses

Macy and her super-cool shamrock glasses, doing her super-cool gangsta look.

Macy and her BFF Kaylee, gangsta style

Me and the girls, along with part of Joseph's head. No idea what Macy's deal was on Saturday with the pictures!

Saturday Tidbits

It's been a busy week of doing nothing. My student-teacher is still teaching, so I spent the week watching the Big 12 tournament in school, researching things to do in Anaheim with 20 high school students (one month from tomorrow!!), and generally doing nothing productive.

When I woke up yesterday, I saw on FB that my second cousin was in Japan when the tsunami and earthquakes hit. She couldn't text or call, but could get on FB so that's where she posted her updates. Before I left for school, the girls and I prayed for her and all the other people in Japan. I followed her updates on FB all day, and right before I went to bed, she got on a plane to Detroit. Yeah!!!!!

Macy had guitar last night and is getting pretty good at Hokey Pokey.

Spring break for the girls is all next week. I was supposed to have the same, but because of snow days, I have to go Monday and Tuesday. We were going to go to Atlanta, but not getting the full week plus gas prices are making us stay home. :(

Off to the Snake Saturday parade in about an hour! Can't wait!!

Kaylin cheerleading

Kaylin finished up cheerleading on Saturday. She had a fun time, just like last year. I was her assistant coach, and had fun too. One of my good friend's Melanie was the head coach, and it was fun spending a couple hours a week together.

Here's Kaylin at her very first game, way back in January. Her dad took these first two..good job!

Clowning around with her friend Kirsten. They have a love-hate relationship that changes by the minute.

My sweet, sweet girl! Love her smile.

Being silly with her squad. One girl is missing, but look at how tall Kaylin is compared to the others! All her age or a tad younger. The girl missing is a year older, and Kaylin is about the same height.

Upward does a big celebration at the end, and this year, all the cheerleading squads put together a performance. It required several extra practice times, outside of the regular practice time, but it was worth it. It was neat to see the girls up there!

On another note, Kaylin went to the doctor yesterday for a check-up. She's in the 90% on height (meaning 90% of kids her age are shorter than her) and in the 20% for weight (meaning 20% of kids her age are skinnier than she is). She's definitely tall and skinny if you haven't seen her lately!

Oh, and she got a shot. Cried like a baby. Haven't seen her cry like that in a loooongg time!

My Posse

This is my Posse (yes, capitalized because it is that important):  Misty, Maria, Jenn R, Ronna and our newest Posse Member, Roselynn. All teachers, although Jenn R got out of teaching but is still a teacher at heart. 4 of the 6 still teach together at LN.

We started our Posse about 7-8 years ago. The Posse started as a book club, where we, in theory, read books and discussed them at length with great discussion. In actuality, we read the book, maybe talked about it for 5 minutes, then moved on to other conversation. We met at someone's house, there were other member's in the group, and Misty was not allowed because she didn't read books. :) Roselynn was still in high school at this point. :)

Then we dropped the book club part, started meeting once a month to do crafts and hang out. Misty was allowed in, other members dropped out, and it was just this group.

The craft idea didn't last too long either. Have you seen me attempt to make a craft? It's not pretty.

Anyway, the Posse now meets religiously about every month, just to hang out, eat, talk. And I do mean religiously--sometimes it is every other month, but not often. We aren't consistent in our days; sometimes it's a Friday, sometimes it's a Monday--we are all busy people with busy lives, but we make it work because the Posse is that important to us.

We've gone on a float trip twice, and taken our husbands bowling, but mostly it's pretty low-key. We like it that way. Once we did a sleepover at Misty's house, kicking out her husband and kids for the night.

This a long post, but I can't tell you enough how much these women mean to me. Through thick and thin, we are there for each other. Nothing is too private to share with the group, and if any of us needed anything, the others would be there in a heartbeat. We come from different backgrounds, different situations, but we respect each others opinions.

Everyone needs a group of friends like this.

The story of the lunchbox

Yesterday Kaylin came home with her lunchbox in a Walmart bag, tied shut.

"Do you want to know why my lunchbox is in this bag?" She asked first thing. Why, yes, I do want to know.

"Ants were in my lunchbox. I had to buy hot lunch and I hated it and only ate two bites and now I'm starving and what do we have to eat."

I'm thinking, what? Ants in her lunchbox? We don't have a problem with ants right now (although we sometimes do in the spring) After asking her a million questions, and talking with her former kindergarten teacher at church, Mrs. Clapp's class is having a problem with ants. She can't figure out why, and they are eating everything. And they attacked Kaylin's lunch box yesterday, forcing her to buy hot lunch.

So until I hear that the ants are gone, I am either forcing her to buy lunch, or sending a Lunchable. No ants can get through to a Lunchable! I'm not sending a lunch for it to be ruined again, or make her eat something she doesn't like with hot lunch.

And, on a side note, here's what she did to a piece of bologna yesterday. I think she looks like Jason with his hockey mask.

Love this girl to pieces!

Tuesday Tidbits

It was such a gorgeous day today, and I needed to get a walk in. It's hard to do that Bobby is working. Macy stayed after school for Drama Club, so when Kaylin got off the bus, she changed  into tennis shoes and we set off for their school to get Macy. It was a nice walk, maybe two miles roundtrip, and it was neat to get outside with the girls. It was a little strange to be walking through the car rider line, though!

Macy got the part of a Kid in her school play (not sure what that means, exactly) and is the understudy for Pig 2.

Macy is done with basketball and Kaylin has one more cheerleading Saturday left, and then we get our Saturday's back! Woo-hoo!

We are thinking of going to Mount Rushmore this summer, and probably camping/canoeing like we did last summer.

Time to wrap this up; Macy is awake and is dying to read this.

**She has read it and approved this blog post. And a Kid sings a song.