Category: exercise

The God of the Living, with the Queen of Bizzaro

Bible, Bible verses, exercise, faith, God

Occasionally, I think about how bizarro some of my steeped-in-the-Bible thoughts may sound to my non-Christian friends that read this blog. Even more occasionally, I exercise! And today I did both! I went running, something that I used to LOVE, but never do anymore. Don’t you do the best thinking and praying when you are out walking or running? I certainly do. Before I went running, I was reading Matthew 22. That’s all part of my plan to study Jesus […]

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I did try.

exercise, family, funny stories, God provides, little boys, parenting, recipes

The day I tried to take sleepy JD to Joshua’s basketball game…. Today is Joshua’s very first basketball game. I would love to be there right now, cheering that boy on. Go, Joshua!!! Actually, I WAS there. I just didn’t get to stay for more than 5 minutes. John David still seems to be in charge of my schedule. We can try to pretend like our baby doesn’t run our schedule, but we’re really just kidding ourselves. “Oh, I can’t […]

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How I Lose the Pregnancy Weight

anemia, babies, breastfeeding, exercise, postpartum, pregnancy, weight loss

  What I look like, every single time, right after giving birth:  This was a few days after I had Caleb. I weighed about 170 pounds in this photo. And this is what I normally look like: That’s a 35 pound difference.  (After all, a few pounds actually DO belong to the baby.)   This is not my favorite topic:  weight loss.  I don’t like discussing it because it often makes us feel bad. Maybe it’s just me, but when […]

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Not the puddle!!!….Eh, go ahead….

Caleb, exercise, family, grandparents, little boys, toddlers, vacation

Today it was finally warm.  Really, really warm!  I was so excited.   I promptly rolled out our amazing double jogger and we headed out for a good little 1 mile walk. I thought, “Hey, this stroller is so amazing it can do ANYTHING!”  It can– sort of– it plowed right over snow hills easily….except I might have been a little over eager b/c I flattened a tire.  (Alan, will you please fix that for me??  Thank you!)  Check out […]

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New Year’s Check Up

being frugal, books, exercise, potty training, toddlers

Goal:  Be anywhere near as happy as Dan…That’d be great! As I wrote in a previous post, my goal for 2014 is to chill.  I want to calm down, enjoy my children, and not get all worked up about a bunch of stuff that doesn’t even matter all that much!   I was doing pretty great on day one, but then January 2nd hit, and Alan went back to work.   I don’t think ‘calm’ or ‘happy’ would be the […]

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Fall: Taking Stock

art, exercise, little boys, parenting, postpartum, weight loss

Three months out from the new baby:  This is what my closet actually looks like right now.   Ah, Fall.  Who doesn’t love Fall?  The further north you live the more exciting it is!  (And also a little foreboding at the same time).     I love it just as much as anyone, and as CEO of our little abode, it is my duty to take stock of everyone’s closet situation each fall.  Then I must fill in the gaps, […]

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