I mentioned here, that I started running this summer. I am following a training schedule to help me reach my goal but it keeps changing the distance that I must run each day. Instead of guestimating (surely it’s been a mile by now) or driving the route with the car (like I really feel like loading the kids another time) to try to calculate the distance, my wonderful husband, the engineer, found me an online application made using google maps that is a HUGE help!

It’s my 100 th post, so I thought I’d post a hundred things about myself… I love the smell of play dough. I like to have a night light on in our room at night. When I am baking cookies I tend to eat at least half of the dough. I hate vanilla ice cream. I also don’t like cake, especially chocolate cake. So, you don’t think I am crazy, I do have a weakness for ice cream, especially hand scooped, particularly chocolate peanut butter.

The other morning I came around the corner to find my 4 year old son unscrewing the screw from the switch plate of our light. He had gotten his chair, pulled it up to the light switch, found the right size Phillips screw driver, and had gotten the screw mostly off. I noticed he had been quiet for awhile when I peeked around the corner to check on him and saw this.

I love my children immensely and would do anything for them. When my children disobey, I do not love them any less. My love for them is not based on whether or not they behave in the store or if they place nicely with each other. I have loved my children since before they were born and the moment I held them for the first time that love multiplied and has grown daily.

Last week I registered for a 10 mile run at the end of August. For over a year now I’ve been wanting to do this. I ran a 5K for the first time when my son was a year old. I ran two more when my 2 year old was 6 mths old. Until last Tuesday, I hadn’t run since. I waited through one of the mildest winter and spring seasons I’ve seen here and decided to start running during the week of record breaking heat.

For as long as I can remember my Dad and I have bonded over sports. While most kids were getting quizzed on states and capitals, we’d play a game where he’d say a city and I’d have to name the baseball and or football team from that city. I loved this game! As evidenced here, he raised me as a Steelers fan since I was an infant. When I moved to MD he would tape the games not televised here and mail them to me so my husband and I could watch them mid week.

[] (https://latc.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/w4mewed1.jpg) "Ew, gross!" "I don’t like it!" How many of you have had this response after working hard to prepare a new dish for you family? It can be quite frustrating especially if you know they’ll like it b/c they like every single one of the ingredients in it or worse yet, they devoured it the last time you made it and now won’t even try it. My husband and I have always insisted the our kids at least try a bite of whatever it is we’re eating.

In honor of Father’s Day this week, I thought I’d use one of my favorite Daddy pics of my hubby as my Wordless Wednesday. Check out 5 Minutes for Mom for more Wordless Wednesdays.

When asked what it was like to get the power back on Friday, I replied " A lot of work." After throwing away the spoiled food inside of my fridge and freezer, this is what I faced. After an hour of scrubbing… Here are a few tips I learned from the cleaning process. If your power goes out and everything in your fridge spoils, clean out the freezer BEFORE the power comes back on and all the melted stuff in your freezer refreezes.

I love my son’s imagination! He is at age where I wish I could just freeze time. He cracks us with his antics these days. Check out last week’s comedy routines. My son was playing on the deck when I suddenly heard him say, “Help Mom, I’m stuck.” I turned around to see this. As I got him out of the basketball net, I asked him what on earth he was doing?