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.
Sunday – OFF
Monday – 1 mile……I have been having some stomach issues the last 4 days so even this was a slog.
Tuesday – 2 miles. Ran this after I put the baby to bed. It was actually pretty nice outside but I ate way too much dinner so I was really bloated and uncomfortable on this one.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday – OFF still having stomach issues and feeling a bit run down from it.
Saturday – 12 miles!!!! Got it done! I slept in the tiniest bit so it got a bit hot. I stopped halfway and the farmers market and refilled my water bottle with strawberry lemonade hahahaha and ate extra energy gels to combat the sweat loss and a system that was probably already a little out of wack from all the stomach stuff. It is VERY slowly improving.
Total miles -15
Sunday – OFF
Monday – OFF
Tuesday – 10k race
Wednesday – OFF
Thursday – OFF
Friday – 3 miles
Saturday – 7 miles
Total miles- 15.93 miles
With the holiday and the jam packed week we had I was exhausted. We did lots of activities this week so I took it easy on the workouts.
I just hit REI and got lots of yummy new energy gels for the next 2ish months of training!!!!
Another interesting book with its dry moments.
It lays out healthy eating habits for runners and other endurance athletes. There is a LOT of technical stuff and dry facts but also an interesting looks into elite athletes diets.
The entire concept is to eat a varied, whole food, healthy diet with minimal amounts of processed food.
This is actually a few days worth of photos and happenings because my husband was gone for a week and my mom was here for a week and it was baby girls birthday party.
My baby slept through the night which was amazing. Toddler woke up at 545am looking for his moose. Got that for him and he dozed again for about an hour.
Baby got up at 615am. Fed her and she played a bit.
Toddler up just after 7am.
1130-1145am ish we sit down for lunch
After lunch is nap time. This goes from 1230ish until 230-330 depending on when the kids wake up.
After nap time we try for a little more school
After school we play outside more until dinner
Family dinner around 530pm then bath time!
The kids get to run around a bit then Ella goes to bed around 7pm, Robert runs around a bit longer than my husband puts him to bed around 8pm.
I clean up the kitchen then read until I go to bed around 10pm……. Though I should go to sleep around 9-930pm.
That is the basic layout of our day.
There’s no such thing as bad weather.
Love, love, loved this book. It was so interesting and eye opening. It’s all about how scandanavian countries put a premium on getting their kids outside versus how we do things here in America. There was a lot of data to back up what was said.
I try and get my kids outside daily but this really showed me that I could do more and how used to being comfortable I am.
I also love that the author gives a book reccomendation at the end of every chapter and I plan on working my way through those.
I didnt find it dry or tedious to read, i enjoyed picking it up each night.
Sunday – off
Monday – off. I needed a 2nd day. I was still really fatigued
Tuesday – full body strength and 3 miles
Wednesday – core
Thursday – 2 miles
Friday – off (exhausted from teething baby)
Saturday – off (running errands for daughters party tomorrow)
Total miles this week – 5. That’s life
My children are not school aged so I am not doing any formal schooling yet. But I am trying to foster a love for learning and put as many learning opportunities in our lives as possible.
I bought a nature study curriculum called exploring nature with children that I am currently dipping in and out of for inspiration. When we are playing in our yard or taking walks I mention the seasons and ask about flower colors and flower bulbs and on and on.
The other curriculum I was introduced to by my friend Stephanie is by a company called Timberdoodle. So far I love, love, love it. They have curriculum for kids from 0 years old to a senior in high school. I don’t know how long I will homschool for but the state of public education in this country is scaring me more and more.
I picked and chose what I liked and wanted to start with. We don’t touch on everything every week but i try and hit 1-2 things a day m-f. The weekends are just bonuses if we manage anything because our schedule is different.
I just love when they understand something, when they learn something new, and when he tells me something I taught him 5 min ago, 5 hours ago or 5 days ago. I love when she actually communicates something to me bub pointing or bringing something to me.
Come on this crazy journey with me!
I am incredibly thankful that is was so,easy for me to get pregnant both times and I dont take that for granted but I do not enjoy pregnancy. Pregnancy tends to hit me really hard.
I think I am right on the cusp of that hyperemesis gravitarium. WITH anti-nausea meds from my dr I still throw up a few times a day. So far in both pregnancies I have been able to keep hydrated enough to not need IV hydration. I dont worry too much about nutrition in the beginning of my pregnancies, I eat whatever I can keep down the best. My first pregnancy that was a lot of fast food, this pregnancy its been a lot of noodle and rice dishes. I also take a prenatal vitamin everyday.
Thank goodness for Gerber raviolis and skillet meals so my little man still had a semi balanced diet on the crazy days when all I could get down where mashed potatoes and top ramen. Also, because he is still young formula is a staple in his diet (my milk dried up around 6 months) so I never had to worry too much about him.
Now I got pregnant in August and I threw up for the first time 3 days before my positive pregnancy test…..yea it started that early. Thankfully it took a few weeks to really gear up but by mid September I was miserable…..and we were drowning in tomatoes and had a fair amount of carrots. I have said it every pregnancy, I dont know how the woman of the past did it. Pregnancy knocks me on my a** and I dont have to work even half as hard as they did to put food on my families table and if I miss the harvest my family wont starve this winter.
That being said, no one wants to waste their harvest. Thankfully my mon tries to come up every 3ish months to visit her grandbaby and boy did she earn her keep in September. She cleaned the house and did our laundry and helped me get the bulk of our carrots cut up so I could dehydrate them easily over a few days. We got lots of cherry tomatoes harvest, cleaned and bagged in the freezer. We also made a big vat of homemade chicken soup to eat for the week after she left…….which i ended up throwing almost all of it out because the smell of the cooked chicken made me puke. Couldnt even give it to my little man, just a hint of the smell had me running to the bathroom lol.
But with all that we have made it through the 1st trimester and we are happily settling into the slower winter months.
We have ALSO given away probably 5 or 6 dz eggs at least because guess what?! Eggs havent sounded good to me either! Lol. Ive managed to use a few here and there but man. I am actually begging these chickens to slow their production down now that its gettings darker. We are finally getting them back in our diet a bit but we are still swimming in eggs hahahahahaha
I need to get garlic in the ground this week or it will probably be too late. I am battling a cold which is zapping my energy so we will see………
I am almost 12 weeks pregnant with baby #2. It is a little earlier than expected but we are thrilled!
We also found out that its a girl!!!
I get really bad morning sickness so that has been hard to deal with while taking care of our little man. However, with the 2nd trimester just around the corner i am starting to have a few easier days here and there. Talk to you soon!!!
Trailing the blonde 