Run Streak

I started a run streak because Beth was. I kept at it to help my sanity of being unable to get out and run the 3+ miles I wanted to. I'm shocked at how much faster I can run 1 mile in my hilly neighborhood from what I could 50 days ago. In 50 days of my run streak have run 126.44 miles. I ran a 5k a few days ago and did 2 minutes better than I was guessing I'd do. Once all 3 kids are in school, I'll go back to fewer runs a week with them being longer in duration.

I spent way too long saving all the mapmyrun pictures to make the video. It doesn't show distance on the treadmill runs which is annoying. Also who cares about calories and it's probably wrong anyway since who knows what weight it's attempting to use. 

Liam Drew (8.31.22)

Liam decided to draw Pap-Pap some pictures for his birthday. Then he wanted to mail them so we did.  I should have been cleaning but he was just too cute. 

Perrigo Parkrun 5k (8/27/22)

At almost the last second I decided to go to the 5k. I parked at 8:57 and the race had a 9 am start time. It started a little late which was good. I ran so much faster than I expected. I know race adrenaline helps but also perfect weather helped. It was 60 degrees and cloudy. 

I was surprised that within hours of the race, the results were emailed to us. They had a couple race photographers but they all took photos on their phones. I am waiting to see those. I plan to take race photos at a future race. They do these weekly. 

After I finished it took me a little to stop my devices. 

I was near the finish when someone was cheering like crazy so I got out my phone and recorded the cheering. Then after, I went up to her and asked if she wanted me to send the video. 

Perrigo parkrun results for event #102. Your time was 00:26:51.

Congratulations on completing your 1st parkrun and your 1st at Perrigo parkrun today. You finished in 26th place and were the 4th Female out of a field of 69 parkrunners and you came 1st in your age category VW35-39. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Well done on your first parkrun. We have set this as your PB.

You achieved an age-graded score of 56.36%.

I was really nervous I wouldn't have anywhere to park but there was a little bit of room. I had to go to the bathroom but didn't have time. I drank my energize in the car on the way there. My water bottle was pretty full of ice and since it wasn't hot, it didn't even melt enough while there. I didn't run out of water but after the run and before I got to the car I did. I had ice but no water. I didn't turn on a podcast. I didn't have time but then since they started late, I would have had time but just chose not to listen to one. I still had a head phone in and listened to my splits. My watch was on "easy run" so it had a 5 min warmup and then I missed the first mile split (that is really the first full mile after 5 min) and I missed the second split. So basically didn't see my splits on my watch. I did have it showing me my lap pace and lap time but then it didn't show me overall distance so at 2.73 mi I swiped to switch my display and knew I was pretty close. I set my run:walk intervals to 1:15-0:15 but lately i've been running 10-15 min before walk intervals so I knew I'd skip the first few. But then I just ended up using 3 of the walk breaks even though I should have had more. I think they were roughly 11, 16, and 21 minutes. Garmin, NRC, and mapmyrun had different splits!

Their facebook page had a summary a few days after the race.  Perrigo parkrun #102 After a couple of very exciting weeks of special parkruns, it was back to a somewhat normal routine, but we still had an amazing crowd of 69 runners, walkers and joggers. That was including the fact we had quite a few of our regulars out of town, including our friends the Hoeggers, who have now moved off to Hawaii, Mary and Michele pounding away the miles on the Hood to Coast run, and Nina and Shawn representing Perrigo at our sister parkrun at Winthrop Trailhead parkrun Amazingly, we had another 10 first timers including: Annesha Kneip,Colleen McCloskey,Derik Stenerson,Hoke Monika,Kathryn Sullivan,Ke Xiao,Linda Zhao,Tony Meng,Warren Aldred and Yifan Li We love to see the first timers and hope they make it a plan to come back regularly. Even more astounding was the fact we had 19 runners with PBs!! Congrats to everyone who got a PB including: A.j. Ritter, Amit Kapur, Bingran Luo,Chuck Mulberg,Dave Jackson, David Addison, David Couvrette ,Doug Sippy, Hannah Jackson, Jiashu Wang, John Prochaska, Kanjun Li, Kirk Devine, Min Yang, Nancy Devine, Sam Addison, Shyam Sunder, Tracey Gilman, Zach Jackson We also had 7 runners visiting from other parkruns: Deepak Rajendrakumaran visiting from Rock Creek trail parkrun in Portland. Maya Cutforth who normally runs at South Boulder Creek parkrun in Colorado. Jack Hogan visiting from Roosevelt Island DC parkrun. Alex Watterworth from Nose Hill parkrun in Calgary AB Canada. Cody Elledge who has two parkruns under his belt now, one in Calgary, and now one here. And a couple special guests, Simon Faber, and Ellisha Simon-Jantz from Okanagan parkrun in Kelowna BC Canada. Simon just happens to be son of our regular run director DeanF. And as usual, biggest thanks go to our volunteers for the day: Laura DE ZORZI, Dean FABER, Max JENSEN, Molly JENSEN, Shinta JEWELL, Gayle KEENAN, Anne MCNICOL, Kevin MORLEY, Linda VATE BRATTSTROM Extra special thanks to Laura for volunteering when she could have run her 25th parkrun today, and Linda who jumped in at the last moment to fill in for another volunteer who was not feeling well this morning. As usual, I say we have the best group of volunteers, so huge thanks to volunteers from today, and all our regular volunteers.. and you know who you are!! If you have not volunteered yet, please consider it once in a while, since our parkrun depends on volunteers, and I can honestly say it was a big change for me once I actually started volunteering. We have more pictures coming from our photographer, but in the meantime, here are a few from the finish line. They are not fancy pictures, but pics we occasionally take with timestamps on them to help resolve timing issues if they should arise. Till next week, your RD DeanF. 2 photos were posted on facebook that included me at the finish. I'm still waiting for other  photos to be posted. I know someone took photos.   This shows how close the 2 females in front of me where. The lady in the white hat finished 12 seconds before me. Then the other lady finished before me too. I like the time stamp on the photos. I wish I knew how they did that.  They posted more photos. Here are 3 others that I am in.

Kids Say... (May - Dec 2021)

Apparently I didn't document a single quote for 5 months.  I Went from April 1 to September 7. I am probably missing a lot of gems. 

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Me: did you have to play inside because of the air quality?

Liam: yea.  Air quality bad

9/7/21

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Liam was just in the freezer. I asked what he was doing. “Getting ice”. Then I asked why. He walks over to me with a cup of ice and water. He said “getting ice for you”.  It was my cup!

9/8/21

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Liam: Tickle me tickle me

Me: Why do you like to be tickled

Liam: It's funny

9/11

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Today I told Liam I was too tired to make dinner. 

He went and got 2 healthy beach bars. And gave me one. Said "your dinner. My dinner". Haha

We ordered dinner. But I mean Liam was so stinking cute!

9/16

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Getting ready to carve pumpkins. But styrofoam ones 

And Liam gets a bowl. I ask why

Liam: to get pumpkin seeds 

10/12/21

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Miles: Mommy do you know 5+4+3+2+1 is15

October 21

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Dave: are you ready to go for a bike ride when you are done with your breakfast?

Liam:  yeah. 2 more minutes.

10/18/21

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Nap time but no previous discussion

Me: Liam

Liam: I don't want to put my head in the pillow

Me: Liam

Liam: no no no. No mommy. 

12/18/21

He was right. I was about to say to do that

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Dave telling Miles he should build his vocation tomorrow since it's a burning day. 

Ella: Tomorrow isn't a burning day it's when everything's on sale. 

.... I'm so confused by the above. I don't know what it means but maybe when I read this at some point I'll figure it out.  I know Ella means the day after Christmas everything is on sale but the rest no idea.  Maybe Dave and Miles were going to burn wood in the smoker?

12/25/21

Kids Say ... (Jan-April 2021)

More quotes from the kids.

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I ask Ella what she had for lunch.

Me: Oh that’s right. Rice and chicken.

Ella: Why did you say rice and chicken? It's supposed to be chicken and rice!

How could i say those in the wrong order for what she ate for lunch. 

1/3/21

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Me: you're a cutie. Does anyone ever tell you how cute you are?

Liam. Nods and :"yeah "

1/11/21

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Me: who's this?

Miles: not me

Me: yes it is you. Why wouldn't it be 

Miles: I would never put my finger in my mouth.

1/18

I had a note to see fb pic but I didn't take a screen shot and cannot find it.

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I said to Dave "do you believe those cleaning ladies are coming tomorrow?!"

Liam: uh oh 

Haha very fitting

1/18

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Talking with Miles. Then 

Miles: ok. Can you stop talking to me now so I can hear the TV?

2/6/21

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"Hey mommy get your ass upstairs"

Don't say that

Miles: but daddy says it to me

2/17/21

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I have a note to see video about an egg. I can't find one. I did see a picture with a caption. I saw Miles's empty plate and thought he ate his egg. Well he tells me he hid it in the couch. I can't find it. Later he shows me where it was.

2/18

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Me: Miles you need to start carrying your water bottle or hoodie or lunch box. Or all 3

Miles: Why? Me: Yours 

Miles: I don't want to waste my muscles and all that crap

2/19

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Miles asked me

If I remember things better now 

Or if I still forget things 

I said I'm doing better but the more I sleep I'll be even better. 

He Said "like do you remember daddy gets the best presents but yours are still good too?"

2/20/21

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Miles gave me this and said this is how much he loves me. Then he corrected saying he loves me more but he couldn't fit any more hearts on the paper.

2/22

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Today I was asking Liam if he was going to learn more words. He said no. I asked if he knows enough words. He said yep 

I asked "what is your favorite word?"

He said "boob" and looked right at my boobs.

3/1/21

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Earlier Miles said I looked better on my wedding day because I wore a dress and daddy just dressed like a magician

3/31/21

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Dave gets home: Miles are you eating?
Miles: Yes at Mommy speed

He’s saying he’s eating slowly!

4/1/21

Kids Say ... (Nov & Dec 2020)

 Oops I didn't document a lot but I'll start 2021 in it's own post. 

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I asked Miles who left this blanket on the floor. I kept guessing people and he said no no no and then he said maybe  it's the people from Mexico

Has he been listening to  Trump

11-12

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Earlier Ella has to create a word problem for school. She was lacking creativity so I gave her an example. I said "Miles had 8 cookies. Ella stole 6 cookies. How many cookies did Miles have left?" And Miles comes running in and said "mommy I want the 2 cookies" 

I was super impressed 

He wasn't happy to hear there weren't actually any cookies.

(I have a note to see the video but I can't find one.)

11/23/20

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Miles : mommy do you wish you could fly?

Me: Yea 

Why?

I don't know

Maybe so you can fly away from us 

12/9

August 1-7 in workouts

I compiled a video of my workouts for the first week of August. I ran 7 times and did 4 BODi workouts. I also went to an amusement park in there which is a huge workout with the massive hill. 

Kids Say ... (Sept & Oct 2020)

Some more old quotes! At least pretty soon I will document so few that I will have 6 months or more in a post.  

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oh man. I just walked in to help Ella and she said "I see your boobs"
"i know my shirt doesn’t contain them"
I try to pull up shirt to cover them
"it makes you look prettier"

9/2 

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I told mIles about Mummaw’s and pap-pap’s presents and how ours will be daddy take him to the store and he can pick out whatever he wants. 

Miles: No thank you. I just need mummaw’s and pap-pap’s presents. That is all. 

9/9

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Miles: You can't always hug me. It's exhausting me. 

Video of before he said this 

9/11/20

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Aww miles went and got a blanket "Liam I got a big enough one to share" and covered them both

9/11

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Miles: Mommy I love you a thousand

Me: Aww that’s nice. I love you a thousand too. 

Miles: And I love Ms. Linda more than a thousand. 

(She was his preschool teacher)

10/15.

Snow (4.3.21)

I kept trying to go to the snow but Dave didn't want to go. I decided it was the last weekend to try to go so we would go. I would go without Dave and take all 3 kids. At the last minute Dave decided to go so we all went.  We went to Arnold. It was so warm and there wasn't a lot of snow.   Dave did our taxes on his laptop in the car. 

We left a bit later than I wanted. We had to have bathroom breaks and one added 20 minutes since there wasn't anywhere to go.  We arrived at a lookout at 12:45 and walked and played until 2:45. Miles had the most fun. Ella might have had more fun if she put on her snow pants. I wished I had snow pants since it was so wet sledding.

We drove a little further out to see what Bear Valley was.  It wasn't even that much further. 

By 3:30 PM all the kids were asleep. Two woke up when Dave needed a bathroom break. Then the third woke up at the next bathroom break. 

Near 6 PM we stopped for ice cream. Now it was cold and the kids wore the winter coats that they didn't wear in the snow. Liam liked the ice cream. He also would eat the cone. The other 2 kids won't.

I finally got Dave to drive so he drove the last 30 minutes home. It was so much more pleasant being the passenger. On the way home the kids were asking to go to snow tomorrow.

(I wrote this entire post over a year ago but didn't add the pictures!)

I took some videos but either never compiled it or didn't upload it to youtube but you can see the videos on the google album. 

Memories Together

Google sometimes creates slide shows of some theme with a collage at the end. They never save. It always fails. I think my google hates me. It's always so close to full and I'm always deleting. Auto backup won't upload.  But sometimes I can share the collage with someone else. Today I shared it with myself, then tried to save it. That still failed. But then I logged into to my other account I shared it with, and I was able to save it from there.   So here you go "Memories together" is a bunch of family pictures.... mostly before Liam. 

The top row is new born photos, 6 mo photos, and 1 year photos for Miles. Most I don't easily know off the top of my head. 

Google had the dates so I typed them below. 

1. September 17, 2016
2. March 25, 2017
3. August 26, 2017
4. Oct 7, 2017 - Idlewild
5. Nov 4, 2017
6. Nov 26 2017 - Christmas card photos
7. March 24, 2018 - protest 
8. August 5, 2018 - Cooking 
9. Dec 1, 2018 
10. Dec 25, 2018
11. March 3, 2019 - Pregnancy photos 
12. May 5, 2019
13. Oct 22, 2020
14. Dec 13, 2020 - Christmas Card photos
15. May 15, 2021

Kids Say ... (July and August 2020)

I have a real backlog of quotes that I stopped even documenting them.  But these are 2 years old! I started this draft post in February and it took me this long to even get it done! I had quite a few that just said "see memo" which meant I had to go back. 

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Miles just came up and told me I smell like poop and "can't you go poop in the bathroom" and he left since I apparently smell so bad.   What in the world?! I said I don't smell like poop

7/2/20

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Miles hands Liam what he wants 

Liam throws it 

Miles gets it

Liam throws it

Miles gets it and says “Liam you are getting ridiculous”

7/6/20

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"He's smiling really big. Get your camera ready."

(I had a note to see pic and couldn't figure out which picture it meant until I saw an instagram story with the text over the above picture.)

7/13

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Miles: After you’re done doing pushes, I’ll rub your back so you better do the pushes good. 

7/13

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Miles: Do you remember the first day?

First day of what? I forget a lot 

Miles: The first day of Earth 

Me: Miles I'm not that old. I don't remember the first day of Earth 

Miles: oh sorry. I got carried away. 

7/15

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Me: I need to find my white visor and my pink one is all sweaty. So maybe I need to buy another visor.

Miles: No you have 2 visors. I think that’s enough. 

Me: You’re right miles. We just have to quit losing the ones we have. 

7/16

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I'm putting on makeup. Miles asked

Me: I'm putting on makeup for fun

Miles: I thought grownups hate fun 

Me: no grownups like fun

Miles: oh ok. You can put makeup on for fun 

7/21/20

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I bought Miles new shoes. Fit. And too small. Returned too small. Got more new.  Different brand. I thought they were too big

After 2 days 

Miles: I love my new red shoes that are bigger than my new gray  shoes. They aren't too big. 

7/21 

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Ella: When will corona virus be over?

Me: I don't know. It's not looking good. 

Ella: I thought it wouldn't be over until everyone dies

8/1

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Miles told me if I didn’t give him ice cream he would bite Liam. 

I told him he should be positive and gave an example: If you give me ice cream, I’ll tickle your back. 

Miles: That’s what I said. I think your ears were playing tricks on you. 

8/2

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Me: I have to cook dinner

Miles: Why

Me: So we have food

Miles: if you cook a super good dinner like daddy does, I'll rub your back a long time. 

8/3

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Miles is flipping. Wanting another book

Says "if you don't read me another book I'll kick you in the face"

Hey Miles that isn't nice 

Miles: How about this. If you read me a book I'll rub your back 

Miles that is a much better way to say it.

8/7

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Reading book. Get to butterflies. I say nothing.  And Miles says "this is no ordinary butterfly. This is a monarch butterfly". He was right

8/8

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When I was taking Liam upstairs 

Miles: I hope you have a good night getting Liam to sleep 

Me: thanks Miles. Me too. That's so nice and kind of you to say. 

Miles: I know.

8/20/20

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Are you sweeping up your mess

Liam: Yea

Good job 

See video

8/26/20

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Miles. (About air dry clay): It'll take a few months to get. I'll be an old man by then. 

8/28

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Miles: Mommy there is something suspicious in my chair

{I didn't take a pic and have no idea what it was now!}

8/29/20

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Miles walked in after preschool and said "wow those cleaning ladies did a really good job"

8/31/20