Oh Snap! Oh Boy! It's Double Digits!

This week my bouncy baby boy will turn the big
1-0!

In honor of this momentous occasion, here are three good things about my sweet A - the most awesome 10-year-old ever!

2. He's got the beat! He's a percussionist,
and he's pretty darn good at it.

3. He's a good sport! He plays soccer, he watches soccer, and he's a fan of the White Sox and the Blackhawks too.

1. He's a silly kid with a sweeth tooth! He likes to act goofy, and he loves to eat dessert!

Happy Birthday bubby!
I love you!

Oh Snap! 3 Simple Silly Good Things

Sometimes with all sorts of chaos swirling around in my life at any given moment, it's refreshing to take a closer look at the little things around me that make me smile. Like these good things:

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My sweet son A has bunches of freckles across the bridge of his nose. He inherited them from me.

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We like this breakfast-for-dinner dish called Toad in the Hole. The recipe calls for thyme and onion gravy, but we skip all that and just eat it with butter and syrup like pancakes - yum!

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No, not Angry Birds, but three happy little birds the kids and I made together while taking a break from working on school projects the other day.

Which leads me to a bonus good thing. A song that always makes me smile:

A Marathon not a Sprint

Today is the day of a silly event I set up on Facebook called the half-half-half-half-half-half-half-half-half-half-half-half-marathon. It's a dead sprint from your couch to your fridge. If you haven't done so, sign up and get ready. Add your comments, tell us what you're doing to be successful. Today would be a great day to post your pictures of your own training regimen.

Official distance is 10.3 Meters
0.00640012328 miles

This event is not timed - it's all about finishing... well half-finishing anyway.

Three Good Things about this silliness?

2) I've met about 50 new facebook friends from all over North America and a few in other places. I love to meet and get to know people.

3) This has been a really fun creative outlet for me. I've had the opportunity to design the images for the SWAG, write about it, have fun with the community that's arisen and do some fun grass roots marketing.

1) It's just ridiculous. I think we all need a lot more ridiculous in our lives.

Considering all of that, it's really good to remember that our lives are run like a marathon and not a sprint. We have a major endurance challenge set before us and it's not finished in short-spurts of speed, but working on the long-term. That's particularly difficult for me, because I was actually a sprinter when I was more athletic and the mind-set really sticks with you. Having said that - I don't want to detract from our silliness.

Remember the motto of our Marathon!
No Pain, no pain.