I swear I just wrote and yet it is two hours away from Wednesday again. You know sometimes I like to pretend that no one reads my blog and I just ignore the fact that I have anyone reading and then sometimes I just want to write directly to my family and friends that read the blog. I'm fickle like that I guess.
This past weekend just seemed really great to me. Friday I felt really ill, just a bad cold but I chose to just stay down for the day and try to recover (cold mostly gone in 3 days by the way)so Friday night we did a pizza night. Aunt Jackie, I'm having the same problem with Fit for Life. I keep expanding my free days and also I am eating way out of control on the free day. A binge if you will. I need to rein in again. Superbowl Sunday and Valentine's Day did not help at all! Which brings me back to pizza night. I saw an ad for $10 pizzas from Pizza Hut. Domino's pizza- fine. Papa John's- I can pass, but when I saw that Pizza Hut special I had to have it. Sure enough, it was heaven. Meatlover's Pan Pizza is amazing and of course I have deep emotional attachment to that delicious pan crust (Mike says it's too greasy and I have to respectfully disagree). Pizza Hut pizza is as much a part of my life as the state of Utah ( this summer hopefully Aunt Joan). I can go without it for periods of time, it is one of my earliest memories, I love it, it brings with it a sense of home. Pretty strong feelings for food, no wonder I have diet issues. I love food. By the way I heard a great quote, I think by Giselle the super model, it goes like this. "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." My sister in law Mindi quotes prophets, philosophers, authors- I quote super models. Pathetic. So far every part of my body believes that quote except for my tongue- or my brain- my running buddy Beth says its the brain. Maybe my brain is located in my tongue, that would explain my ability for deep quotes.
Antyway- after several pieces of delicious pizza it was movie night with the girls. Saturday we slept in (hurray! I have slept in on a Saturday exactly three times since the Oct. marathon). At Sadie's swim lessons Beth and I tried to let ourselves take a break from running for the day and by the end of lessons we had arranged to meet an hour and half later for a run. Mike took Sawyer on a hike around Point Lobos, Jane and Sadie went to the beach with Beth's husband and kids (we ran to meet them), and Beth and I took turns pushing Ellyn in the jogger for 8 miles. I hardly did any of the pushing because Beth is sadistic, and she's an awesome friend, and she's tougher than me. Everyone had fun. Then... we came home, puttered, and then Mike and I went to the adult session of conference. It was excellent. We came home and devoured several boxes of girl scout cookies with the kids and hung out again as a family. Sunday, much the same. Conference, lunch at the Heywoods, hanging out as a family. I just really enjoyed the downtime.
This week has been going full speed, as always, but guess what!?! I spent all day at Ellyn's school today and will again tomorrow because there is a special training going on with Emily Rubin, a very well known autism amazing woman (she is one of the founders of SCERTS which is one of the leading techniques for teaching children with autism) and they chose Ellyn for a case study in our area. How amazing to have this brilliant woman give direct instruction for my own kid! Now I just have to try and apply everything I'm learning. I might have already shared this but it's worth repeating.
Okay, Mike just came up to spend time with me. Blog out!
This past weekend just seemed really great to me. Friday I felt really ill, just a bad cold but I chose to just stay down for the day and try to recover (cold mostly gone in 3 days by the way)so Friday night we did a pizza night. Aunt Jackie, I'm having the same problem with Fit for Life. I keep expanding my free days and also I am eating way out of control on the free day. A binge if you will. I need to rein in again. Superbowl Sunday and Valentine's Day did not help at all! Which brings me back to pizza night. I saw an ad for $10 pizzas from Pizza Hut. Domino's pizza- fine. Papa John's- I can pass, but when I saw that Pizza Hut special I had to have it. Sure enough, it was heaven. Meatlover's Pan Pizza is amazing and of course I have deep emotional attachment to that delicious pan crust (Mike says it's too greasy and I have to respectfully disagree). Pizza Hut pizza is as much a part of my life as the state of Utah ( this summer hopefully Aunt Joan). I can go without it for periods of time, it is one of my earliest memories, I love it, it brings with it a sense of home. Pretty strong feelings for food, no wonder I have diet issues. I love food. By the way I heard a great quote, I think by Giselle the super model, it goes like this. "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." My sister in law Mindi quotes prophets, philosophers, authors- I quote super models. Pathetic. So far every part of my body believes that quote except for my tongue- or my brain- my running buddy Beth says its the brain. Maybe my brain is located in my tongue, that would explain my ability for deep quotes.
Antyway- after several pieces of delicious pizza it was movie night with the girls. Saturday we slept in (hurray! I have slept in on a Saturday exactly three times since the Oct. marathon). At Sadie's swim lessons Beth and I tried to let ourselves take a break from running for the day and by the end of lessons we had arranged to meet an hour and half later for a run. Mike took Sawyer on a hike around Point Lobos, Jane and Sadie went to the beach with Beth's husband and kids (we ran to meet them), and Beth and I took turns pushing Ellyn in the jogger for 8 miles. I hardly did any of the pushing because Beth is sadistic, and she's an awesome friend, and she's tougher than me. Everyone had fun. Then... we came home, puttered, and then Mike and I went to the adult session of conference. It was excellent. We came home and devoured several boxes of girl scout cookies with the kids and hung out again as a family. Sunday, much the same. Conference, lunch at the Heywoods, hanging out as a family. I just really enjoyed the downtime.
This week has been going full speed, as always, but guess what!?! I spent all day at Ellyn's school today and will again tomorrow because there is a special training going on with Emily Rubin, a very well known autism amazing woman (she is one of the founders of SCERTS which is one of the leading techniques for teaching children with autism) and they chose Ellyn for a case study in our area. How amazing to have this brilliant woman give direct instruction for my own kid! Now I just have to try and apply everything I'm learning. I might have already shared this but it's worth repeating.
Okay, Mike just came up to spend time with me. Blog out!
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