November was so, so busy

November is always a busy month for me, with the final preparations for the Turk-EA Trot taking up much of my time. After the race, I did some reflecting about how I can improve things for next year, specifically for my mental and physical health. I’m definitely a ‘black or white’ girl in terms of being ‘all in’ or ‘all out’ at any given time, and I struggle with consistent exercise during busy seasons. I’m often ‘all in’ when I’m working on something important, like the race or a house project, to detriment of exercise or healthy meal prep. Inevitably, a few weeks later, I regret letting those healthy (for mind AND body!) practices slip.

So, for next year, I’m vowing to ‘land in the gray!’

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a snowy weekend and Chinese New Year

I’ve really been enjoying these lazy winter weekends at home. I don’t know if it’s COVID, or a having a toddler, or just slowing the heck down, but I like having nothing to do and nowhere to go. (OK, there are lots of things we could be doing around the house, but you know what I mean.)

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Memorial Day Weekend

OK, so this is a *bit* later than I’d like, but things have been especially hectic over here these past two weeks, and it will be about another two weeks until it slows down, but it’s aaaallllllll goooooood, mon.

*Disclaimer: You will see virtually NO photos of us from the entire weekend. Yet again, we were ‘photo-challenged’ (as my mom puts it) and failed to take A SINGLE PHOTO TOGETHER. Seriously. Where’s Andrew and his camera when you need them?!

My parents visited for the long weekend, which was INCREDIBLE. My parents are in DC and we’re all pretty busy, so visits are few and far-between; it’s a good year if I see one or both parents more than once. Having them come here and see how much work we’ve done on the house–especially the backyard–was really neat. Also, my mom and I have birthdays that weekend just a day apart, (it gets better, too–my grandmother’s birthday is the day after my mom’s) and I grew up celebrating all three of our birthdays together, either at Bamma’s house in Virginia, or at our house in Pennsylvania when we lived there. It’s been a number of years since we’ve done that, and Andrew and I have been out of the country the past three years over my birthday, so it was really special to be with my parents again. Check out the beautiful cake my dad picked out for our BBQ Monday: Continue reading “Memorial Day Weekend” →