Half Marathon Training, Countdown: 5 Weeks To Go

This was a rough week for me.  Around the middle of the week, I got some type of fever virus, so I had around a 100 degree fever and just felt plain yucky.  I ended up taking extra rest days on Wednesday and Thursday.  Then, on Friday, I brought Libby home from school with the stomach virus, and by Sunday, I had a touch of it myself.  So here’s the.. Read More

Just A Girl and Her Dog

If you’ve never owned a dog, you cannot understand how much love we have for this beast.  We brought him home as an 8 pound puppy, and now, at only 9 months, he is a whopping 70 pound lap-dog.  He does not understand that he is BIG.  He jumps up into our laps and almost flips us out of the recliner.  He has chewed up the bottoms of my barstools.. Read More