Back to the grind….

Well it's been a crazy few weeks. Tomorrow it is back to real life.  Because my crazy hit so hard, I took a medical leave from work.  So I've been off for the last 3 weeks.  It took a week & half to start feeling sane again. And at that point my work required a Dr release for me to come back so I had to wait until I could get into see my Dr for the paperwork. That was finally all faxed over on Friday so now tomorrow should be back to the grind.  So I had another week and a half off feeling better each day. During the last half of this time off I was able to test my ability to be a stay at home mom.  Part of me has always been afraid that if the time came to finally make the jump to be a SAHM, like I've always dreamed about, I would fail at that too because I would be lazy or to overwhelmed. But I loved every second of it. All the cooking, cleaning and keeping a schedule for my boys.  My house ran smoothly, my boys behaved better and I had a happier husband and my stress level was so low.  This test of having me home made not just me but both DH & I realize the importance of me becoming a SAHM.  It isn't an option right at this moment but we are going to spend the next 6-9 months making it our focus to make this happen.  Even possibly trying to sell our house this next spring and move.

With the focus in our house changing to learning to live off of one income. Eating at home is becoming a number one priority, because that is where we spend way to much money. So since I am making meals there is no reason why I shouldn't focus on all my meals.  No excuses I need to get back to tracking what I am eating.  I know if will be easier to run a half marathon if there is less of me to hall with me.

On the running note. We ran the Neon run yesterday and it was my fastest 5K to date! Under 45 mins!! I had all kinds of new pains so I am not sure if it was because of my new shoes but I've run 2 miles several times in them and never an issue but last night I had so much shin pain it was crazy.  I have officially ordered some compression calf/shin sleeves. Hopefully they will help. The biggest loser 5K is this next weekend and I hear it is a pretty flat course so I'd like to do at least the same if not faster as this weekend. My 10K training has me running 2.5 miles twice this week then I think it is 4 this weekend so I'll have to add another mile after my 5K I guess.

Only 21 weeks now until I am 35.  I still feel like I need to make my 35th birthday a big deal.  Not sure why but 35 just sounds like a big deal to me.  I would like to great it knowing that it wasn't another birthday I was wishing I had lost the weight or accomplished some of my goals.  So what can we do in 5 months?  ALLOT, if I can just focus on what needs to be done and take the small steps every day to reach them.