Welcome to my Blog!!!!

Good evening everyone!!! I just wanted to try this out to begin with before I start officially blogging in the coming days. I am super excited to be able to share my journey with others. I hope to inspire others while they inspire me. Let's share with each other openly about out fitness, running, and weight loss ups and downs. I promise I am not perfect, nor do I even try to be. I am hear to share what I have learned since starting my own fitness journey in July of 2011 and my journey to becoming a marathon runner. I began running on March 17, 2012 and have truly found my passion. But I am by no means Boston ready. Running the Boston Marathon is on the top of my bucket list and I am going to work hard to reach that goal. So that's just a little bit about me for tonight. I will be back soon to post more about myself, the FB page I have created, and the training programs I am working on. There will be stuff about being a wife and mommy thrown in there as well. Hope you all will enjoy!!

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When Life Throws You Lemons--My Comeback

I know I haven't’ been the best blogger as of late. Honestly, I haven’t felt like sharing much of what I’ve been going through the past year. Maybe I felt ashamed for struggling so much and wanted to continue to give off the persona that everything was perfect. I’m not perfect. Far from it. But that’s what makes me real and human. I think that’s what people want to see and read about. Not everyone is a fitness model or perfect wife and mother. So here it is! My comeback to blogging. It’s going to be real and raw and everything I’ve kept inside. Last year when we returned from our Disney vacation (June 2017), I started back into training for my 3rd Madison Marathon. I wanted a PR so badly for this race. I wanted so badly to be under 5 hours. My training sucked! With EJ starting peewee football and my class load at work (I’ll get into that later), every time I thought about this race, I dreaded it. Honestly, I was falling more and mo...

Spring Break Fun!!!

Spring Break was sure fun and interesting!! Carpet cleaning, a trip to Ikea, egg coloring, Easter Egg Scramble, and all the fun of Easter morning have made this a memorable spring break for sure. I have truly loved being home with my kiddos but there were times, especially Sunday afternoon after too much Easter candy, that I was definitely ready to head back to work and for them to head back to school. Monday was the only day my hubby had to work as he took vacation the rest of the week. So the kids and I did some random stuff around the house and ran some errands. Maddie went to Menards to pick out paint for her desk so she could paint it with Poppa. While they were doing that, I took EJ to get his haircut and then to Shopko to get some totes for under the bed storage, the kids’ projects and their photo albums. I have recently switched from using photo albums to using photo boxes. You can fit in so many more photos and still have the ability to wr...

2 Weeks of March Reflections

Well it’s been an interesting start to March. I apologize for no blog last week. It was a stressful week for me and didn’t have anything positive to say so I knew that would be reflected in my blog. And that’s not how I want my blog to come across. So let me recap what happened that first week of March. The week started out just fine until I decided to check on the status of my license renewal through DPI. Because I have 2 licenses; one as a teacher and one as a reading specialist, I had to renew both of them. Well my teaching license is fine and will most likely be approved and renewed based on my teaching experience and my PDP (professional development plan). My reading specialist license is another story. It is not being approved right now as I didn’t complete the correct PDP as DPI classifies reading specialist as an administrative license. I knew this, I just didn’t realize that my PDP would be any different. I ...

Mom on the Run--Woman of Steele

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