Baby Scarpa
No, its not us…its Elli and Michael! I am going to be an auntie–on my birthday 2009!!! I asked them for a neice or nephew in my stocking this year and when Paul and I arrived at their house on Nov 14, there was my stocking hung on the bedpost and in it was a coloring book page of a baby! It was a great surprise, although I have to say I KNEW Elli was in a delicate way–she was just NOT acting herself. Exciting times!
Wednesday night we took the kids to the pool, and Susan and I planned to do a swim. When we got there we decided Susan would go first and she said, “Are we doing a easy 750?” She knew that was the plan since we were doing a 5K running race the next day. Obviously she had different ideas because when she finished and I asked her how it was she said “13:38, let’s see you beat that.” My previous fastest time for a 750 was probably around 13:50 but I have never been one to turn down a challenge so I took off to beat her time. I finished in 12:20 so I won but it wasn’t exactly what I had in mind for a easy day before a race.
Yesterday morning we did the Greensboro Gobbler, a 5K running race at Country Park in Greensboro. The race was at 9am and when we left the house it was 30 degrees out so I wasn’t exactly excited (I like cold weather I just don’t like working out in it for some reason). There were 1063 people in the race so it was PACKED in the park but it was still a fun run. The park has a lot of hills so it isn’t exactly the best race for us Clydesdales and Athenas but Susan and I both had a good race. The race was two laps around the park and by the second time around the hills were slowing me down more than I would have liked. In the end I was slower than I wanted to be but it was still my fastest time ever in a race (although I have been faster in some training runs), I was even fast enough to lap a lot of people so I was happy with it. Susan also had her best time ever in a 5K so she was happy. I wasn’t surprised with her time because she has been running really good lately. I keep telling her she is faster now but she doesn’t want to admit it.
…and since Tyler is REALLY into Star Wars and desperately wants to be Darth Vader, we are searching online to get him a Death Star for Christmas (shhhh, don’t tell him!) HA!. So I Google “Death Star” and here is the link that comes up:
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Gosh parenthood is funny!
A while back Susan mentioned that she had never had a star fruit or a kiwi fruit, but that she had thought about trying them. She had even bought kiwi fruit before but said she never could get herself to try it. Of course that meant that I had to get some and she was going to try them. To make it better we had the kids tonight so Susan couldn’t back out of trying. Luckily the kids were excited about trying them so there was only one person upset about trying something new 
.
Star Fruit
First up was the star fruit. I have had star fruit before and it isn’t my favorite so I wasn’t to hopeful that they would like this. Because of the shape everyone was excited to try it, however we didn’t have much success after the first few bites. Susan said it tastes like a unripe apple which I think is a pretty good description.
Kiwi Fruit
Next up was the kiwi. Everyone got to pet the kiwi before I cut it which the kids thought was great, but it had Susan second guessing her willingness to try it. I love kiwi fruit but I wasn’t sure how Susan would like it because of the texture. She ate part of hers around the edges but she wouldn’t eat the part with the seeds or the middle so I think I was right about the texture for her. Anna wasn’t a fan of the kiwi either, but Tyler loved it. He was upset that there wasn’t any more left and wanted me to go by the store to get some more.
So we had two new fruits with Susan and Anna liking neither, and Tyler liking the kiwi. At least now Susan and Anna can say they don’t like star fruit or kiwi and know they are telling the truth. Although I think if Susan could get over the texture of the kiwi she would like it.
I just really liked the poll that we did, regardless that it drew attention to my nerdiness. So I want to do another. The most pressing question is whether Paul should do his 7 mile run now and miss a tasty dinner he cooked and time w us or if he should wait til 8pm when the kids are in bed and its colder, windier and our bed time. But alas, by the time most of you read this, it will be a mute point.
SO! We will vote on the last side dish for Thanksgiving instead. That way you can also leave a comment about what YOU are doing, too! You know, make it interactive and all. Paul and I will be hibernating on Thanksgiving after we run our 5K that morning (www.greensborogobbler.com). We have not stayed home by ourselves in MONTHS! Here is our menu so far:
Here is the poll question: Should we have homemade mac and cheese too?
Should we have homemade mac and cheese for Thanksgiving?
Total Voters: 4
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I was feeling a little guilty today because I skipped my 3 mile run yesterday. I woke up yesterday morning with a headache and didn’t feel great all day, but I still felt like I should have gone from my run. Add in that I didn’t eat the best on our drive to and from Indiana (I had a iced honey bun on the way there and a regular one on the way back for example) and I felt like I was slacking.
To add to it I went for a swim at lunch with the plan of swimming 1000 meters. About 500 meters into the swim I felt like I was slacking in the swim so I decided to pick up the pace and extend the swim to at least 1600 meters. In the end I did 1800 meters before I ran out of time.
We have a 3 mile run tomorrow and a 14 mile run on Sunday so hopefully I am back on track now.
54 hours of weekend; 1500 miles/24 hours of driving; 15 stops along the way; only 14 hours of visiting;
Saying goodbye to your childhood home….PRICELESS!
My parents bought their home in Crown Point, IN 40 years ago and they close on its sale today, Nov 17, 2008. Paul drove me home this weekend (that’s right–he drove every mile of the trip) to see it one last time. We went on a 5 mile run past my old high school, my junior high, my elementary school, the new high school in town, the park where we played pick up and I worked for my summer job, my track coach’s house, my jr high bball coach’s house, the fairgrounds and more!
It was kind of sad, but I truly believe home is where your loved ones are.
Yes Susan is a planner and we already have our Valentine’s weekend planned. Although in this case I guess I can’t give her a hard time about it because we had to make the plans early or we wouldn’t have been able to do what we wanted. I had signed up for the Myrtle Beach marathon about a month ago and Susan recently got signed up for the marathon and the 63 mile bike ride. I just completed the plans today when I got signed up for the bike ride also. The only thing we have left now is to get a place to say (which is kind of important).
So for Valentine’s we will be running a marathon and our recovery the next day will be to do a 63 mile bike ride. Are we crazy? The answer to that is obviously, yes! We plan on using the training from all this to do the White Lake Half Iron distance race in May so at least we have a good reason behind torturing ourselves .
I thought it would be fun to keep track of these things in order to embarrass the kids when they are older. Perhaps on their first date even. Well, Tyler at least–Paul will not let Anna date until, well, ever!
Stephanie (Paul’s mom) was trying to get Anna to massage her feet. Anna replied, “Granny, I don’t DO old people!”
Anna is working on things in order–smaller, youngest, newer than this, etc. She is struggling w the fact that I am older than Paul even though he is taller than I am. The other day she was comparing Paul and me and finally got it… sort of. “Susan,” she declared proudly, “is the lowest and the oldest!”
EDIT: A ongoing list of these is going to be kept here.
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