At 3:00 Friday afternoon I dropped Douglas off for his scout camp. Then Stockton ended up at a friend's house which turned into a sleepover. Strangely, no one called and asked Mason to spend the night so Russell and I (and Mason) went to dinner and Target. We came home to a very quiet house. We usually can't find a place to have a conversation. The TV is usually going or the kids are bustling about. It was a rather strange feeling. We put Mason to bed and had the house to ourselves:). It has been a long time since that has happened. As we got up this morning there were no cartoons, no video games, no noise. It was a kind of a nice little break but one that I am not sure I want to get used to. Besides, I have a feeling in about 15 years we will be thinking the same thing - alone...almost!
I have never been a runner. I have grown up around runners. My dad has run 7 or 8 marathons. My mom has run 2. My husband ran one 7 years ago. I have always cheered from the sidelines and wondered why in the world anyone would EVER do something like that. It is just plain ridiculous. In my quest to get rid of the after math of 2 pregnancies in a years time I decided to step my workouts up a bit. I am a really good walker. I would much rather walk 4 miles than run 1 but I needed to burn more calories. So, running it was. I decided if I mostly walked with some intermittent running that would help. I started out running the downhill portions of my 2 mile loop. Pretty soon I would walk my 2 miles, put Mason down for a nap and run a few loops in the park. About a month ago, Russell challenged me to run the full 2 miles. He pushed the baby stroller while we ran. I was not very conversational , but I did it! I was so proud of myself. I incorporated that 2 mile run into my wor...
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I'm sure glad that we have you, Russ and Mason to be our DL partners when the other four are grown and gone.