Accountability – Week 2

  By Amanda | March 19, 2012 - 1:18 am | , ,
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I told you I was going to do a weekly wrap up.  Look at me and all my follow through! This week the weather was absolute perfection.  The week started off great but then I got hit with an awful stomach bug that took me out!  It was a bad scene up in this house.  But I’m feeling better and ended the week on a high note.   Accountability – Week 2Weeks until Walk – 30Funds Raised to Date – $3483.14 ($530 in one week!) Monday – 2.5 miles with boys in the stroller – a beautiful after work evening … Read more →

Hitting my Stride

  By Amanda | March 18, 2012 - 2:48 am | ,
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Today after nap time, I took advantage of the unreal weather and hit the road with the boys.  I’d been sick for the better part of the week and was a little worried that I might still be a little weak, but we headed off towards town. We were about a mile into our walk when I realized I was actually enjoying it.  It felt GOOD.  I was having fun listening to Sam’s running commentary of everything he saw and the stroller I was pushing didn’t feel like a burden.  It’s the first walk I have been out on where … Read more →

The Scary Side of Being a Parent

  By Amanda | March 16, 2012 - 12:11 am | , , , ,
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Last week I heard that an eighth grader in my town, someone’s little boy, took his life.  As a mom, the mere thought of this tares me into pieces.  It makes my heart ache for that child, for that child’s parents, that child’s family.  It scares me to pieces that something can make a child feel things are helpless, hopeless.  Then today I read this.  And Oh. My. Gosh.  Being a parent is so frightening.  I looked at my little monsters tonight, whose lives’ are entrusted to me, and realized that right now this is the easy stuff.  I’ve stumbled … Read more →

Has Anyone Seen my Patience

  By Amanda | March 12, 2012 - 12:48 am |
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So I may be the worst mom in the World for saying it, but by the end of this weekend I was ready to list both my kids on Craigs List.  They were . . . challenging.  And when I have days like this I find myself wondering if I’m the only mom who feels this way.  Will is going through this super annoying phase.  When I’m not around he is a happy go lucky kid.  Laughing and playing and being all low key.  But the second I am anywhere near him he turns into this whiny, crying, clingy, screeching … Read more →

Accountability – Week 1

  By Amanda | March 12, 2012 - 12:46 am | , ,
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So, as we established earlier today I have a problem staying motivated and being honest about my training.  Tonight is my first weekly wrap up.  These may not be all that interesting but it’s just another tool to keep me honest and motivated as I train to walk the Susan G. Komen 3-Day in October. Accountability – Week 1Weeks until Walk – 31While we are talking the walk I’ll throw in current fundraising total – $2953.14 Official training doesn’t start for another 7 weeks but I’m working to get myself up to a baseline so training doesn’t overwhelm me. Monday … Read more →