...Is what my last blog post should have ended with given my recipe for today.  You remember my last blog post, right.  With the topless sandwiches and pandas and everything.  It's here if you don't know what I'm talking about.  Bread, plant matter, and cheese is something Heather and I both love....

Last week was definitely full of exercise - exercising patience. Baby Girl got sick towards the middle/end of the week, and she wholly believes in sharing her misery. I can't remember the last time I've been that exhausted, which cut into my motivation to be a functioning adult. I did get another new pair of running...

Well it hasn't been quite 7 years since we updated our master bedroom, but we've lived in our house for 7 years, and while I love my house, there are always a few things that I wish we'd had, or wish that we'd gotten, or had been available.  We've been slowly changing/updating various things in the house for about...

This week started off full of gusto and starry-eyed wonder, but then it came to a crashing halt. I have decided that I can't run in my new Brooks Transcedence 3's. Despite the large toe box, the mesh cage that makes up the support for the shoe rubs against my bunions, and after a couple of miles it starts to hurt....

Hey all! I'm back reviewing yet another McCall's pattern. Funny how most of the patterns I seem to be making are from McCall's. Sure, there's been a Simplicity thrown in there, but McCall's just seems to be my go-to lately. That's ok, I find that I migrate between the pattern companies depending on my mood and styling...

So remember a few weeks ago, when I asked the question about the chemically smell in my nose after working out? The post is {HERE}. So my question today is why do I get chilled after running? This is not a new question, but I found several varied answers. Some of them I wholeheartedly agreed with, and some left me...

Or, as many call it, tartine!  For those of you that don't know, tartines are basically topless sandwiches - fancy people may refer to these as "open-faced" whilst holding their pinkies in the air and sipping volcanic rock filtered water from a bone china teacup handcrafted by endangered panda bears.  Whatever...

So you know the old saying - "Necessity is the mother of invention"? That's the reason for today's post. Our family has a shoe problem. A big one. I may or may not be the biggest offender of this problem, but in my defense, my shoes do make it back up to my closet far more often than the most prolific offenders, my children....

This week was ok. I got my workouts in, but still no core training. Seriously, I need someone to yell at me to get those strength workouts in. I know why I'm not doing them. The only time I'd really be able to focus and get them done is during Baby Girl's nap and there are other things on the list competing for that...

I am not really into zombies...says the girl who loves the film "Warm Bodies" and the TV show "iZombie" and only runs because there are undead around.  I have less than no interest in "The Walking Dead" and most other zombie related things, though, so that makes my initial claim legit, right?  Dubious.  I'm...

I'm blessed when it comes to be able to rely on my people. I have 2 people that I lean on a lot when it comes to the night before a race. My husband and my sister. However, Saturday night they were both busy! How dare they have lives! Don't they know I have a race tomorrow? Please read, see, feel the sarcasm dripping...

I am an anglophile; I adore England.  Honestly, if I wasn't married, I'd probably be living there.  We don't have enough time to go into all the reasons, so I will sum up with this: the accents, my bestie, the beauty, and the food. That last one may surprise some people because there's this crazy idea that...

Sunday was the 44th running of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10-Miler. Mother Nature decided that there would be no cherry blossoms, but there would be flurries, cold, and 50 mph gusts of wind. Super fun times!  I had volunteered at this race last year, and it was so beautiful, that I was stoked to run it...

Happy Monday everyone! Welcome to another edition of the Monday report. This week was pretty low-key given that the Cherry Blossom 10-miler was yesterday.  I managed to break in the new Brooks' enough to wear them on race day, but, as usual, I'm going to write about the race in it's own post. I will say that...

I was so excited to make this pattern. I love maxi skirt patterns, and the tulip effect of of View D had me hooked, which is why I bought this pattern on an impulse.  I wish it had turned out well. I bought a midweight melon colored knit for the pattern, and all was well until I got to the waistband.  The...