Training

Last night I walked 3 miles in 42 minutes. It is my first 3 miles towards training for a 50 mile walk at the end of May. Before I did the walk I did an hour of Zumba. By the time I came home I had a blister on my foot.

I did Zumba again tonight and now the blister is bigger. I'm not looking forward to doing Zumba and walking another 3 miles on the blister tomorrow.

Now back to this 50 mile walk. I say I'm going to do it. I have started to train for it, yet I can't get myself to go sign up for it. I think there are two things holding me back. 1. is that I have to raise $1,000. That is a lot of money and I hate asking people for money. 2. I have someone who says they are going to do it with me, yet they can only manage about 8 minutes walking/eliptical right now. While you can train and work up, we only have about 17 weeks. (That sounds like a lot but it really isn't that much). 3. I'm in the middle of opening a new daycare and that is taking a lot of time and energy and I don't want to stress about training/ working at the daycare to get it open.

I have until March 15 to sign up for the walk at the price it is now. So for now I will train and see how things go for the next month and a half. On March 14 I will make my decision.

The same, yet different

I have written 1 post since the new year. The month of January is almost over. Really the days have been super busy with normal day to day activities. By the time I sit down at night I really don't have the energy to type a blog. I also really don't have anything to say.

I was sick this week. I had strep and a sinus infection. We did interviews for the new daycare. The kids played and went to bed like normal.

 We are starting to learn to live without Vinnie. Colin still asks about him at least once a day. Today was the first time I walked into the house not expecting him to be there to greet us. And once I realized I didn't expect it, it made me sad. I still look for him every time I walk into my room upstairs. I wait for his head to peek out from under the covers. I still expect to find him sitting in my rocking chair when I go to sit down. I still really miss him.

The kids go to see the pulmonary doctor on Friday and I'm interested to see how he feels the kids have been  doing. Alyssa hasn't seen him in almost a year. She really seems to be on a good track. Colin fought off the flu and a pretty nasty cold without getting pneumonia. These are all things that make me cheer but I'm not ready to say Colin is out of the woods yet.

My goal for right now is going to be to put a blog out once a week. Keep things updated so that I don't look back and regret missing out on the "normal" everyday activities.

Vinnie

Man this is a horrible post to start off the new year with....

Tonight we had to put Vinnie down. He first got sick in August. After about a month of doctor's and specialist we figured out he had arthritis. We seemed to get it under control for awhile then it came back harder and so we did new medicine.
  He got better for awhile. Not perfect but better. Then about 3 weeks ago he started to get really sick again. After struggling through tests and a few different medicines today we decided that it was time to end the fight.

I spent the day snuggling him and petting him, telling him how much I loved him and what a wonderful dog he was. Sure he had his annoying habits, but he was the best dog for a daycare. He never once, not even when he was in pain, snap, growl, or try to bite at anyone.

I will miss that little dog and I know the kids will too. RIP Vinnie. May you find some warm blankets and sunshine to bask in free from all pain.