I am constantly amazed by people. Take for instance the women who are married to men who travel for a living.
YOU WOMEN ARE AMAZING!
Clay has been traveling quite a bit lately. I’ve been able to turn on my turbo boosters when he’s gone. I actually get more done without him here. But, by the time he gets home I am D.O.N.E. It would be ideal if he would walk in and say, “Okay, Honey your turn. Have fun at that spa.” Bah-ha-ha! So, I pretend that the grocery store is Hawaii and I buy a couple of cans of sliced pineapple.
Seriously, you ladies that single parent for days on end or any of you single parents out there, God bless you and your ability to not kill your offspring.
I am for certain one of those women that has a better half, he is far better than me at almost everything. Except cooking. If something happens to me, well, how long does it take for a person to starve to death?
And what about those people who exercise every day? That is amazing to me. I hate exercising. With all my heart, I hate it. But, my goodness, I think the people who dedicate their time and energy to pushing their body to do what it really doesn’t want to do, that’s amazing.
You know what else is amazing? English toffee. If someone would send me a tin from London, I would run a mile to get it. Yes, I would. In fact I would run two miles. Three is pushing it, but still, I would run for toffee. I think that’s an idea, I will run for candy. That’s my new platform. I will call it, “People that eat toffee and run are AMAZING!” and then I’ll feel a lot better about myself and the imaginary tropical vacations I take.









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Great incentive! Running for candy.
We have lived apart at times as we’ve (read here: Brent) has had job transfers, and the girls and I stayed to finish out school/sell the house. I find that when he’s gone, the house is cleaner and I sort of become super mom, trying to compensate for his absence. But the reality is, that clean house, exercising, healthy food mom is not the REAL me. That’s the me trying to compensate for the lack of having a dad at home. And strangely, my kids prefer their dad over a clean house, or super fit mom.
I am no longer able to eat sweet things but years ago when my daughter lived in England, she sent me lots of their toffee. I need to go to London again and send her some!
April! I missed you! Well, you don’t know who I am but I used to read your blog faithfully…until I quit reading blogs for about a year. I didn’t have your blog address anywhere but it only took me about two seconds to find you and get reacquainted. Happily reading again.
Go April!!! I need to find something I’ll run for; maybe coffee. I’ll run for coffee. I just love your blog, glad to see you are back!!
So funny and I love the spacious, simple beauty in your running photos below. You reminded me of Robert Louis Stevenson’s My Shadow.
Running is why I always vote for yoga.
If you ever get to Seattle, I shall take you here.
You always make me smile!
I used to hate exercise, but it is growing on me. I started eating better with Weight Watchers last January and started walking in May. Since January I have lost 75 pounds, and if I don’t get to walk every day I feel like I am cheating myself. I guess it is because I finally decided it was my time. Anyway, running on the other hand is something I don’t do. I will stick to walking. My current goal is training to walk a mini marathon in Houston in February. Did one about nine years ago and trying to beat my last time. Keep it up, I’m sure it will grow on you too!
I run anyway, but I would probably be much more motivated if there were toffee involved. ;D Exercising actually feels awesome once you figure out how to ease into it and not overdo it, but a lot depends on where you’re doing it, too. I like to take my dog trail running but I only tried my condo association’s gym one time before realizing everybody who works out in there is a total tool and I should avoid it as much as possible.
My husband is in the military and is gone for a few weeks (or even sometimes a year) mulitple times a year . I’m a pro at it, unfortunately. I am usually like you and get tones of stuff done with him gone, this last time… it just wasn’t so. I was “off” with out him. It was hard to do anything and he was only gone two weeks. (yes, only…) I am glad that you appreciate people who go thru this a lot. I hear a lot of complaining from friends when their spouse is gone … overnight. Thanks for being appreciative! Its hard work, but somebody’s gotta do it!