School Starts Flying in Life

Thank the Lord above that school has finally started!!  My Lil Man has been pretty excited about it too and life feels good back in our “school year” routine.  Soccer practice starts tonight and I know he’s especially anxious to see who is going to be on his team this year and meet his new coach.  He has really come to life with soccer.  This is his 3^rd year playing and you can tell he has gotten much better at it now that he has found a love for it.

My weight loss/get healthy/half marathon training has been going very well… up until this past weekend and I’ve got a minor injury trying to slow me down.  So, I’m taking a few days (or weeks if needed) off of running with the high hopes that it will be brief and nothing serious. 

I’m so excited to go spend some quality alone time with my Hubby coming up this Labor Day weekend.  I’m flying into Pittsburgh and getting to stay 5 days over the long weekend with him… just us!  This hardly ever happens and in fact, neither of us can remember the last time that we got to.  With him working off and me working here and both our kid’s schedules the stars really have to align for us to make it work where I can go visit him and leave the kids with relatives.  I’m sure there are others out there that can relate to how hard that is to make happen sometimes.  But all the waiting makes the time we share together all that more special.   

We are so blessed to be able to do what we do.  And there isn't a day that goes by that I don't feel immense gratitude that we have great jobs and can make a decent living in this horrible economy for our family... BUT the one negative is having to live apart the majority of the time.  So, when God blesses us where we have the extra money I shop for cheap plane tickets!

Running the Life

Ok, so now a month later I feel a little better about finances.  Another month of steady paychecks feel good and has kept us afloat.  So, it’s a month in the positive, even if nothing was saved, we still paid everything for that month.   Thank God above my husband finished his first job of the year and immediately headed to the second.  No down time… which is where we always get into financial trouble.  Long stretches with no paycheck and we start to sink really fast. 

Now I’m trying to switch my focus and get ready for my Lil Man to start the second grade.  It’s exactly 4 weeks from today that that happens and a lot has to be done in these 4 weeks.  Simple things but costly and time consuming so I’m trying to be as prepared as I possibly can be.  I’m excited for him to start back because fall soccer starts (my favorite!) and cooler temperatures should be arriving. 

We are in the hottest part of summer right now with temperatures averaging 90-105 degrees each day with heat indexes way above those numbers.  It’s brutal and I’m supposed to start half marathon training next week!!! Needless to say I’m considering a month long gym membership for $40 just to have an air conditioned place to start training.  Otherwise getting up in the early hours of the mornings or waiting until dark.  People are getting sick left and right because of dehydration and heat exhaustion so I’m going to have to be careful.  I’ve lived here for the majority of my life now and I still hate these 2 months of extreme heat.  It’s just crazy!

I’m not an extreme runner or athlete for that matter.  But I have started running a little in the past year to try to lose weight and firm back up.  I was successful back when I first started but then had some shoe troubles and lost a little of my progress.  But now with a big goal race in my future, I’m back to training 3 days a week.  It’s been a challenge just to build the time into my schedule and combat the extreme heat.  I’m looking forward to next month already and October even more for a cool down.  My sister and I signed up for the CASA Half Marathon.  It’s a fundraising event, which makes the entry fees a little more understandable, and supposedly one of the easiest half’s in our state.  We both thought that was perfect for it being our first.