Jake and the minions are holding up well, in large part because we’re bribing our children with chocolate chips (aka, “tock tips!”) to use the potty. Because we are awesome parents who resort to cheap bribery. It seems to be working, so we’ll go with it. I told Jesse that we need to start doing intermittent reinforcement very soon because… Read more »
Mondays are usually a little hectic in this house, so I’m used to that. No big deal. But the Monday after Daylight Saving Time ends (aka, the day we accidentally figure out the hard way which clocks we forgot to change), the Monday after I ran a somewhat punishing 11 miles, the Monday when I’m in back-to-back meetings all day and had… Read more »
Two weeks to the day before my first half-marathon, I’m still working on accepting my identity as a runner. I logged 64.6 miles in the month of October, 37.1 in September, 34.7 in August. I run kind of a lot. But it’s still new. I still feel like I need to apologize for it or excuse it somehow by pointing… Read more »
I keep hearing the advice “Life’s easy when you live it the hard way and hard if you live it the easy way.” Every time I hear it, I write it down. And today, at the Herbalife Central Florida STS, the speaker was looking right at me when he said this exact phrase. I may live a relatively easy life —… Read more »
I had to switch from Nature Made Prenatals with DHA, which I loved but couldn’t swallow once I started puking my guts up, to VitaFusion Gummy Prenatals when my hyperemesis kicked into high gear several months ago, and I really love them. They taste like Sour Patch Kids but better, and I wish I could take more than two a… Read more »