Star Wars land is freaking cool! Very immersive feeling….but! Only 2 rides and the rest is all shops……seems gimmicky for a whole land….but 100% worth exploring…..if you are there.
Disneyland Day 2
Author: Ariana Peters
Christian, homeschool mom, runner of 6 half marathons, PR 2:57 so far. Yes I am a slow runner. Small scale homesteading.
Disneyland Day 1
As if I wasn’t crazy enough to sign up for a long race with 2 kids under 3 I then decided that with only 1 day of rest we would spend 4 days at Disneyland.
Don’t know how but we picked a great time to go. During the day, we were almost always able to find a ride that had less than a 20 minute wait. I can tell you anything longer than that and your kids are going to freak out. Even the 20 minutes my daughter would get really fidgety by the end. Snacks are key.
The Long Beach Half Marathon
Whew! It has been a long 2 weeks! Lots of traveling, lots of fun and lots of exhaustion. I’ll update you over the next few days.
First, if I didn’t tell you I decided to drop down to the half marathon because the full was just too hard on my body this soon after birth. (My youngest isn’t even 18 months) my hips and tendons would hurt so bad after my long runs it just wasn’t worth it.
I arranged for an Uber ahead of time to make sure I had one and relieve that stress…..boy was that expensive.
I got there an hour before my start time, I got to watch the bike race and marathon take off.
I forgot how many people are in huge races like this. They said over 18.000 between the marathon and half. It’s just too many people. This taught me I prefer the small races. Every port-a-potty I used was out of toilet paper! There were maybe 7 or 8 waves to accommodate all the runners leaving every 5 minutes so my 730 start turned to a 755 start.
And we were off!!!! I always tell myself over and over at the beginning of a race ‘run your own race’ to try and prevent myself from going out too hot.
The water stations were using hoses to fill from a big truck which didn’t really work because different tables would run out of water and be calling for the hose and it was not the most organized of water stations.
I enjoyed the first half of the race a lot. But then because we started at 7:30. it. got. hot. I’m a slow runner and I didn’t finish until just after 11:00 since I didn’t start until almost 8:00 and it was so hot. I was sweltering and people were dropping like flies.
All in all the Long Beach marathon is a great race, but it’s not for me.
Weekly Workouts
Sunday – OFF
Monday – 10 min leg workout
Tuesday- 3 miles…..I forgot to take a picture after
Wednesday – 10 min butt workout
Thursday – 3 miles
Friday – OFF
Saturday – OFF we went to a harvest festival
Book Review: Good for a Girl
Such a good book! So informative and eye opening. I’ve known there is a gap for men and women in everything but this really opens your eyes to the challenges women face in highschool, college and pro athletics.
I highly recommend this book for any female athlete or any parents with daughters who are or will be athletes.
I am so happy women are starting to speak up but not enough, lots of abuse is still going on and so is body shaming.
Weekly Workouts
Sunday -OFF
Monday – 10 minutes standing abs
Tuesday – a nap holding both my babies, so needed
Wednesday – 3 miles
Thursday, Friday, Saturday – OFF.
It turned into a rest week for me and I loved it.
I have decided to drop down to a half marathon. My body just isn’t ready for a full after having 2 babies back to back. It was hurting too much after about 13 miles in my hips and tendons
Weekly Workouts
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday -OFF it’s been a weird week hahahaha
Thursday – 3 miles
Friday – OFF
Saturday – 18.5 miles……..was gonna try for 20 but it hurt so much, had to have my husband come pick me up since I was still a little over 1.5 miles from home.
I’m starting to think I might drop down to a half marathon. I’m just so tired. With 2 kids under 3 I have been sleep deprived for over 1.5 years now, I stopped doing cross training or weights because I’ve been so tired. I haven’t 100% decided to drop down to a half yet but I am seriously considering it.
Book review: How to be a Happier Parent
I enjoyed this book. There were some dry moments and I skimmed the parts that didn’t really pertain to me right now…like busy school mornings and homework battles.
It is a lot about how you react to the issues that come up, the attitude you have and setting yourself up for success.
I am by no means perfect so I did learn a lot from this book hahaha. I still have days that are a struggle, I still lose my cool quicker than I want but I am trying and also trying to implement some strategies from this book and I think it’s helpful.
I would recommend all parents read this.
Weekly Workouts
Sunday -OFF
Monday -OFF we started a 1 day a week preschool on a farm and it’s on Mondays
Tuesday – 3 miles
Wednesday -2 mile walk with the kids
Thursday – 3 miles
Friday -OFF
Saturday- 16.37 miles
Total running miles – 22.37 miles
September homeschool retrospective
Thursday September 7th
I woke up at 6:30am, the baby was just staying to stir in her crib. I got Ella up at 6:50 and made coffee.
Put Roberts and Ella’s entamology pen pal clubhouse letters in the mail. (We just started this from an Instagram account called Mornings together, we get a new little packet each week emailed to us, I print it out and the kids color it then we mail it to a family member. As they get older it has a few questions and some facts along with the coloring).
Robert woke up at about 7:15, I fed ella and snuggled with the kids for a bit. We had breakfast burritos just after 8:00. While we are I read the kids ‘How to Make Apple Pie and See the World’.
Then I unloaded the dishwasher while they played and colored. After that we worked on Robert’s good and beautiful math lesson number six. After that we went outside around 10:20am Robert fed chickens while I started laundry. We swung on our swing set and at popsicles. I watered the yard while they swung.
At 11 we walked to the corner market to get chips for lunch. The kids had tomato soup with grilled cheese and chips, I had a ham sandwich, soup and chips.
After lunch they played with daddy while he was on lunch, then we got ready for a nap run. I ran 3 miles while they napped.
When we got back I set them in front of the TV with some ice cream so I could take a quick shower. Daddy came out and sat with them for a couple minutes.
After I showered we did our tea time where I read to them and we have snacks. We read a few passages from what your preschooler needs to know and the book ‘H is for honey’. Then we completed all about reading pre-reading for the letter f. Then Robert did some practice with scissors while cutting papers and then they both did some dexterity work by threading animals.
After we finished our school work, my husband told us Starbucks having a deal on their foul drinks. So I loaded the kids in the car and we drove through Starbucks and then since we were out and it was close to dinner we drove through Taco Bell haha.
We ate dinner as a family. Then the kids took a bath then played with their daddy while we watched sea shanties and other songs on YouTube. My son is currently obsessed with the shanties.
My daughter was asleep by 7:25pm, and my son was asleep by 9. We have been having some big bedtime battles with our toddler. But I think it’s slowly going back to normal knock on wood.
Then my daughter was up from 10:30pm- 12am. I couldn’t get her back to sleep in her crib so she came into our room and took another 2+ hours to fall asleep…..it was horrible.
And that was our day.
Trailing the blonde 