All I Want for Christmas...

is SLEEP. I am tired tiday. Not because my almost 3 month old keeps me up, she doesn't. I need to get to bed earlier. But the best present would be 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Which is not going to happen for a long time because Aisling can't go that long without nursing. But I can dream about sleeping, can I not?

Announcement!

We welcomed our new baby girl on Thursday, 29 September, 2005, and she is a little doll. Check out Our Thoughts for details and pictures. And yes, I am going to the gym tomorrow. :)

Probably wondering how long it's going to take me...

Well, I wanted to post more in depth on Fast Food Nation, and I should do that before my mind moves on to other ideas, but since that is taking me forever and my deep thoughts seem confined to preparing for when this baby is born and whether I have over scheduled our homeschooling work and activities, and getting my house organised, etc etc....I don't know WHEN that will happen.

Anyway. I am just over 36 weeks pregnant and so in a few weeks this baby could arrive. We have made "predictions". Both of our children have been born earlier, but I am not planning that right now, I don't know WHEN this baby will be born or how long it will take, so I have know expectations. But we are still preparing for early or later. Whatever, babies come when they come. My birth kit will hopefully be here soon and then I will feel fully (ok, almost) ready.

The children are excited and so are we. I am still able to run a few times a week (4 to be exact, but I do other stuff on other days too, and yoga and weight training every day). I feel good about what I am doing and glad I can do it. Actually a lot of other very active pregnant women (like my sister) are very inspirational to me. And I know I am not doing everything THEY are doing.

Homeschooling is back in full flow. We are having fun but I have more planned this year, and I hope it isn't too much. Oh well, if it is, we will adapt. Sinéad is excitedly looking forward to ballet starting. I am joining a local homeschooling group. I really need that "live" support. I love the online support too, but it's nice to have it in real life too. One thing I really want is for Sinéad to develop her creativity. Often when I give her a task, something to write about, to use her imagination, she gets a blank, discouraged look and says "But what do I do?". So we are working on that. With encouragement, she does perfectly fine. It's starting it that is alarming for her. She loves to read. She really does, and reads so well and so often. I am tickled about that because reading is the best thing in the world. I am glad we are raising readers. I sure hope her brother is like that, I have a feeling he will be, he likes to be read to, and likes sitting down and "reading" books, although he can only read a few small words (mainly his name).

I don't feel very deep in my thoughts right now. I just find that planning day to day is enough. I am taking President Hinckley's Book of Mormon challenge and it is certainly helping me in what I personally need, more patience.

I am on a new blog and it is very exciting for me. Birth is a very passionate subject for me.

Fast Food Nation

I know it's been awhile, but I am planning on blogging a bit on this book, and my thoughts about it.

For anyone who is interested, here it is Fast Food Nation

Anyway, more about it later....let's just say I like it very much.

Friday the 13th

Has always been a lucky day for me. Don't ask me why! Anyway, today is a beautiful day, it is supposed to be warm and sunny and tomorrow we might get thunderstorms! I won't hold my breath though, they promised that last week too.

I am 5 months pregnant as of tomorrow and baby is doing well. My exercise is good too. I get about 4 runs in a week. Not running as hard, but still running as far or even further. I am in maternity clothes most of the time. I just have to NOT be afraid of weighing myself.

My 6 year old lost her first tooth yesterday. This was an exciting event for her. She sure is getting big.

I am part of a new blog, and I hope to contribute something of worth periodically!
It's conversation

Ok, now to figure out how to add it as a link....

Moonlight Run

I am SO remisce! I should have posted long before this, I apologise to everyone who has been wondering. In my defence I have been busy with typesetting the past few weeks and so my computer time has been taken up with that (but all done as of last night, yay!).

Anyway, the Moonlight run was a BLAST! I absolutely loved it! A few days before I was worried, because it started snowing and they were forecasting more. Being pregnant, I was worried about slipperiness on the hill in particular. But, although it was cold and there was snow, the route was perfect and the hill even better! A few icy spots on the trails, but not very icy, and easy to navigate even in the dark.

If you are interested in checking out the results, you can go to here

Anyway, my personal results are...for the 6K...

I came in 329 out of ALL 6K participants (out of 1274), 139 (I jumped up, on Sunday it was 140!) out of 829 women and in my category (women aged 30-34) 10th place out of 72. I think I did pretty well, and even better, I had a LOT of fun. I can hardly wait to do another race. I even ran up most of the hill, I would have run up all of it, but I didn't want my heart rate getting too high. I also didn't push it as hard as I could have, since baby would complain later (trust me, that has happened!)It's nice to know I could have have had a chance at a higher placing if I was intent on winning a prize, but I am thrilled with how I did anyway. My time was 39:57:26. As a few of us were coming around the corner to the finish line the announcer said we had ten seconds to make it under 40 minutes for the 6K so I picked it up to get in under that. Oh it was so exhilarating. I highly recommend participating in a Run/Walk. Next goal, 10K or maybe 8K whichever opportunity comes next and eventually a half marathon and a marathon. It's so awesome running, I just love it.

On Saturday I will be 13 weeks pregnant. Things are going great and I am looking forward to meeting this baby!

March and October

I am going to do the Moonlight run! :) 6K. On March 19th. I am terribly excited to do this. The only thing is I haven't done a lot of hill work and I can't start NOW...because in October or maybe September, we are adding to the family. :) Our next baby is FINALLY coming! All this hard work has paid off. My hormones are balanced! So with the run I may have to walk the hill, though I do some mild hill work on the treadmill, it may still work. I have stopped doing interval training and let my heartrate get to 163. It felt great.