Today was the ideal Saturday for me.  It started off with Shaun getting up with Lu and me sleeping in until 9-ahhhh pure heaven!  I then went on a 3 mile run.  I ran the whole way without stopping and got some great “me” time where I just thought about everything.  I forgot that running did that for me.  I also forgot how well it cleans out my digestive system 🙂

My run took me 40 minutes.  That same run before getting pregnant with Lucy took me ~25 minutes.  If you would have asked me before getting pregnant if I would be where I was now, I think I would have told you that that was my worst nightmare. I so wanted to be one of those women who worked out all through her pregnancy and then got right back on the horse after 6 weeks. I so wanted that. Then the first trimester hit.  During my second and third trimester I did stay very active and was walking ~2 miles a day but I wasn’t working out like I thought I’d be.  After she was born I was itching to work out again.  Then I started and I was so tired. I don’t think I realized how much nursing took out of me.  Then when I started work I was so tired and couldn’t figure out how to fit it all in.  It was an uphill battle.  But, I’m doing it now.  Hey, in college, I had no excuse and I weighed 40 pounds more than I do now and I lost 75 pounds and eventually became an Ironman.

Here I am right after finishing the Ironman-the best shape of my life-EVAR!

I still, 3 years later, need to scan the picture of me crossing the finish line. I had one digitally that I copied from online but I can’t, for the life of me, find it.

After my run, I ate lunch with Lu and Shaun and then I put together my shopping list for the week.  The food plan this week is:

S: Chicken and Lentils
M: Pizza
T: Spaghetti
W: Out to dinner before we see the tour for So You Think You Can Dance for our birthdays
Th: Leftovers
F: Out of town

I always email my grocery list to myself so that I’m saving paper and my list is all there on my phone.  I used to use a grocery list app on my iPhone but it as a pain to enter in everything and it didn’t list things in the order I wanted.  I like to list things out in the order they appear at the grocery store.

I went shopping while Lucy slept.  First Trader Joes and then Whole Paycheck. Trader Joes had tons of great stuff today!  I got some decaffeinated candy cane green tea.  The had chocolate covered peppermint Joe Joe’s that I so wanted but I resisted.  What I DID get was a dark chocolate taster.  It’s 10 different dark chocolate bars made around the world.  I thought that that would be a great gift, or part of a gift for the upcoming holiday season.

Here’s the goods from grocery shopping:

After grocery shopping, I got those pumpkins up there ready for baking.  I’m going to attempt my own pumpkin butter tomorrow!  While I did that Shaun pruned our plants outside and harvested these beauties!

I cut those up for the fajitas. YOM.

We then went and ran some errands together.  Shaun dropped off his bike to get new tubeless tires put on (my birthday present to him). Then we went to the mall and I got some new NON-NURSING! bras and I picked out my birthday present-a new watch-which I don’t get until Thursday. We got a Williams Sonoma at the my mall-WOO HOO.  I’ll definitely be heading back there soon! After the mall, we picked up Shaun’s improved bike and we were a little later than we thought we’d be.  There was no way I’d be able to get dinner done and Lucy fed in a reasonable amount of time so we decided to have fajitas for lunch tomorrow and we went to Fresh Choice. It was actually pretty good-great for a toddler (and free)!

And now, here I sit.  I had a day where I got some me time, some family time, and I got some chores done.  SCORE!

Gratitude

Today I’m grateful that I got to run and that I’m able to run. It was fantastic!