An Opportunity

I am sitting on the back porch listening to the London Metropolitan Orchestra. It is nice to be alone with my thoughts and fabulous music.

It is getting near to the end of our deployment and I cannot wait to have my husband home. The nights are lonely, and the weekends can be extremely lonesome but it is a small price to pay for being able to rest my head on my pillow each night knowing I am safe because of the sacrifices my husband and so many other men and women make for our country.

Adia is growing up so fast it is incredible. She isn't crawling yet but getting very close.

She has no teeth yet but those puppies are working on popping through. I think she has inherited her daddy's teeth. Which means essentially this girl is going to be best friends with a dentist her whole life if she grows teeth the way her daddy can.

Chief is well the same; loud, fat, and cute as a button. I can't want for him to wrestle around again with Mike. I know Chief could use some good old fashion rough housing.

I guess I could talk about myself in my own blog? Okay here goes....

I have started running again. It is a slow process getting yourself back into the shape you were before you had your baby. I run slower, have more "extra" skin and lets face it I hate how winded I get so fast. But alas I am pushing on, I try to run 3 miles every other day and I am slowly increasing my speed. I try to trade off days of treadmill and jogging outside with Miss Adia. And seriously running outside is tough because it is so flipping hot so fast here in Texas.

I mean here it is 9:30 pm and it is 93 degrees outside. Ugh. So in order to get a reasonable jogging temp in that means I must be up by 6 and hitting the pavement by 6:30am and that my friend takes dedication. Something I seem to be lacking since most often I am clocking my miles on my Ironman treadmill.

I talked Mike into running a half marathon with me and Adia in October in El Paso. The date is looming over my head and I think about it daily. I really need to get in shape and I want to run a half marathon by Adia's 1st birthday and run one every year from then on. Crazy right?

Well that seems to be all that is on my mind. Until next time.