3 miles on the treadmill + New Shoes =

Bloody ankles...

I took the entire weekend off, due to the blisters...

Put a band-aid on the "bad one" this morning and off I went to do my thing...

The first 5 minutes were PURE HELL but after that I coasted....

Even increased my incline to 7 (I'm not sure what I was thinking there) but felt great.

When all was said and done, I was a little sore, but nothing out of the ordinary...

Get ready to change my clothes, and notice a "color" in the back of my shoe...figure it was just where the socks rubbed....although I was wearing black socks....

Take off the other shoe, and it's fine...

So take off the socks to notice my band-aid is full and my ankle is rubbed raw...

I'm not gonna let this slow me down, but I have yet to put shoes back on and it's been over an hour!

The Best things about my kids being at the beach???

While I miss them terribly, there have been some positives...

Not really positives, just things I haven't done with them home...

• Sleep till 9:30....I couldn't even begin to tell you the last time that happened
• Fold laundry the same day it was washed, and put most of it away (Alexander loves to help with laundry...typically having me refold the same item a dozen or so times)
• Take a bath by myself, or with out 3 voices saying "I wanna take a bath"
• Not worrying if I use all the hot water
• Go to a movie
• Watch the opening day Baseball without any interuptions!!

I'm sure that it will be crazy when they get home tomorrow, and I miss them more than I want to admit!

My poor sister has gotten a million calls from me just so I could say hi, and make sure they were having fun and behaving themselves, but I must say it is nice to get somethings done and be alone!

So what do I do while my children are at the beach????

I go to the movies by myself!!

I saw 21.

I knew the premise of the movie, and what it was about...blackjack and playing to help pay for school.....

I also knew it was loosely based on the story in the news a few months (years??) ago....

I LOVED IT!!

I couldn't tell you the last time I had been to a movie, and it's a whole new world for me....

The movie was great...had some slow points, but all in all a great movie!

Thought about doing a double feature with Horton, but could only sit still for so long....

Another weekend for Horton I guess

So the boys are at the beach....

and Caryn takes pictures with her cell phone of the three of them at the waters edge....

Johnathan later calls to tell me that he is afraid of the ocean....

Here is our conversation....

Mom, I don't like the water..

How come??

Cause it keeps coming up to grab you...

Me (stiffling a laugh) what's it gonna do when it grabs you?

Take you back in the ocean and eat you up!


Needless to say they are having a blast!!

3 miles and 60 minutes + New shoes =

VERY SORE FEET!!!

The back of my heels are killing me.

Typically I change into different shoes, but the weather has been nice that I'm in my capri's.

Didn't really feel like wearing my boots with my capri's (let's all say it together TACKY) so here I sit in new sneakers with sore feet!!

BUT I did make it FINALLY to the 3 mile marker!!

I stepped on the scale again today after my workout and I'm down 4 pounds.

I'm not sure how accurate that is.

When I was first measured/weighed I had no shoes on and hadn't worked out. Can't imagine that working out would add pounds but who knows...

So a week from tomorrow I get the results of 30 days of working out. All new body measurements and weight check without working out and shoes on.

All I can do is hope that it shows some improvement. I've tried to convince myself I don't care if the pounds are off but we all know that's not true.

I really just want something that shows all my work has done something.

I need real PROOF that I'm doing this for a reason. I know that feeling better is one thing, but I'd love to see real results!!!

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger...

Someone convince me of that please!!!

So I've stepped myself up slowly but often so that I don't have it "easy".

Started out 30 days ago at level 2 on the treadmill, and 20 minutes.

As of today I'm at level 5 and 50 minutes.

The outcome is 2.5 miles!!

I've kept my speed anywhere from 2.8 to 3. I bounce back and forth between the time. My max peak is 4.8.

Burning about 450 calories a day.

I'm so excited. I'm just tired when I get off the treadmill, but then feel great about 2 hours after I'm done.

Who needs the entire bed???

This is how I found Alexander at 6:45 this morning....

The child has a twin bed, with a trundle to help for "fall outs" and this is how he sleeps...