Mom on the Run--Woman of Steele

So I follow several other bloggers and one thing that a few of them do is a 5 Things Friday Blog where they tell about 5 things that happened during that week.  I thought I would give this a try this week just to see how it goes.  Except our week was so busy that I didn’t have time to get the blog up and ready by Friday so I decided to do a 7 Things Sunday Blog instead.  So here it is!  My 7 things from this week! On Sunday we began the clean up on the side of our house to get ready for our garage to be built!  Moving the bricks was a lot of work but the kids helped so it wasn’t too bad.  Yes, it’s true!  We do not have a garage!  We bought our house knowing that it didn’t have a garage.  There were so many other selling points that this was not a big deal for us.  We finally decided that we really need a garage now that we have a newer car, the kids have bikes and scooters, and we just seem to collect more and more stuff.  Plus some of the kids baby toys I want to keep for the gr

Wow!  What a busy couple weeks it has been at the Steele house!!!  We have been going non-stop since EJ’s birthday!!  It’s been crazy, but it’s also what makes life interesting!  I wouldn’t change our crazy life for the world!   So here’s what’s been going on in our little world! Last year I ran the Lake Monona 2oK out of curiosity.  I had never ran it before and so many other runners in the area were running it and raving about what a great race it was, so being the crazy runner that I am, I signed up!  This year I signed up again because it truly was an enjoyable race and because I have this competitive streak where I always want to beat my time at races I’ve already run.  And I am proud to say, I did just that!!  Last year I finished with a time of 2:12 and this year 2:08!!  That’s a 4 minute PR!!!  Yeah Baby!!!  I think the weather and my strategic training played a big part in this PR.  Cooler temps and extra hill training definitely helped! We drove up early for p