Category: From the Heart
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Inspiration Saturday 8/30/14
So, today’s inspiration is going to be something a little different than what I’ve posted over the last couple of months. My dad is visiting my family this weekend for my birthday, so the last thing I want to do is sit around looking at magazines! He was able to watch Emma at gymnastics today.…
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Running 8
What?! Stage 7? I can’t believe it! As you know, I stayed in stage 5 last week to get a little stronger. It was a good idea because I finished on top this week. The runs went smoother and I actually spent a lot of time thinking and looking around enjoying the scenery. When that…
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Throwback Thursday- love
This image is of Allie and Pandy. They were two and five. They are now Alix and Amanda. They are 21 and 19. This is a photo of them when I was a young single mama raising them on my own. I remember feeling terrified I wasn’t going to be able to make it. I was…
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Thankful
Sometimes while I’m running I try to think of good things. I remember one run I went on where I wore my Nike “Running Sucks” t-shirt and it was a terrible run. By the end of it I decided it was a bad run because I covered myself in negativity just by wearing that shirt.…
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Inspiration Saturday 8/23/14
“Emerald Bay” by Michael – originally posted to Flickr as Emerald Bay. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emerald_Bay.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Emerald_Bay.jpg T his week has been filled with a different type of inspiration hunting for sure! Instead of looking through magazines I’ve been on home finding sites! My husband has three years before he…
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Running 7
Happy Friday everyone! So here we are at the end of stage 5! I hope you are all feeling great and moving up to stage 6! Personally, I’M NOT MOVING UP! As much as I’d love to say I’m awesome and I’m on my way this week, I have to admit I’m pooped! It may…
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Staycation- San Juan Capistrano
A couple of Inspiration Saturdays ago I posted a Sunset Magazine article about visiting San Juan Capistrano. This weekend Emma and I bopped on down to San Juan just to have a stroll of the area Sunset had written about. It’s an area we frequent often but rarely as tourists. So, on Friday we pretended…
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Inspiration Saturday 8/16/14
I‘m Finally approaching the last two stacks of magazines. I can’t believe I’ve made it through 3 years of saving them up! I’m excited and I’ve been working on getting my tear sheets filed. So, without further delay here are my picks for this weeks inspiration.
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Running 6
Hello! I’m so happy to have found out that there are a couple of new runners this week!! Yay! This week on day one I thought I was going to die and seriously was wondering if I should stay in week 2 for a couple of days longer. However, on day two Steve and I…
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Throw Back Thursday -For the Love of Teenagers
Today’s throwback picture is of my living room. There was a time in my life that I had a good decade of young girls hanging out at my house. So many different girls ranging from 5th grade to seniors in high school. Before I had children I always wanted to be the kind of mom who…
Multi-ti-purpose Room 