I slept through my alarm for 5:00 am. My husband couldn’t sleep last night, which means I-as a light sleeper-couldn’t sleep either. Then my special needs daughter woke up at 5:45 am cold, and I had to give her a bottle. We both fell asleep until 8:00 am. This is not how I pictured the FIRST DAY. But, it is realistic. I ran @ 5.0 mph for 15 minutes. Whereupon I felt like a lung was going to collapse, my heart was going to burst, and I was going to choke on the clearing out of my sinuses. Then I walked @ 4.0 mph for 15 minutes and again barely made it to the end. This is what taking a month off gets me. However, I ran 2.25 miles which is only 0.25 less than my best time. But, I did it with no iPod (drat those bored kids in the backseat of a car) and I got a shower today. Pretty good for me. Also, I did not eat the cookies. I had breakfast at 11:00 am during which my special daughter vomited on the couch. In ten minutes it will be noon, and my husband and three kids will be expecti...
The life of a train wrecked woman, trying to get back on track.