Triathlons and Babies

Triathlons and Babies
OK, so more than a week has gone by....and here I am finally blogging. So, the last week has entailed several showings of houses with clients, one closing, and many tenant showings for rentals, 5am risings with Cade of 23 mos. and serious runner who is all legs and no arms, picking up poop, cleaning diapers, cleaning litter boxes, trying to get some sort of grass or weed in my yard rather than the mud pie that Cade and the huge 80lb puppies, Calhoun and Harriet, specialize in creating, and somehow get some kind of workout in. The marathon in Fargo left me with a terrible bout of sciatica, which I only had when pregnant. Went to a chiropractor and was adjusted or was I broken? She informed me that I am really tight in the right hip and looser in the left but my pain is in the left, so perhaps my left side is overcompensating for the right side. I told her that could not be right because if it were, I would only be able to run in a circle...but after thinking over the last 10 days, I have only been running in a circle. She may be on to something.

Brian, my spouse, wants to do another long run on Saturday...but my friend, Jane, wants to do her long run on Sunday, and we have all three been training together this winter...and I do not want to do a long run for a marathon. I want to do a brick for the first tri of the season next weekend. So, we are each going our own ways this weekend. And somewhere in there we will also be social, I am sure. Or at least, I hope.

Rode 20 miles today on the trip to a park to meet other mommies and tots for a play date. I am not sure why I bother because Cade The Runner does just that...RUNS. He runs to the street, to the basketball court where the 5th graders are playing and not looking for a tot, to the street and my only perk is that I biked 20 miles. There certainly was not any socializing with other mothers. In fact, that may be ok too as I heard WAY too many times how BIG my child is. UGH. OK OK already. I get it. Everyone else is dwarfed.

What else? Cade is gettting a bath from Dad right now and Dad is tired. I decided to veg out. I poured a double at about 4pm and just tried to hang in there as we were on high speed today. And now I just get to reclean the house from the mud pie backyard. It is a daily task. Not sure what to do. We took on two 50lb dogs, or so we thought and we have two 80 lb dogs. They are 8 months old. We lost a tree last year, so one side of our postage stamp yard is mud from the tree loss and one side is mud from two huge hounds. Hmmm. Well, I am bored of writing and I have nothing else to say...so the assumption is that my writing is boring now as well.

Til next time.