Category: From the Heart
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Five Things I’ve Learned About Running

As many of you know I’m in the middle of a running program. It’s one of those start small and work up to thirty minutes of running programs. It’s called “Run Your Butt Off”. If you’re interested in joining me you can get the info here. Anyway, as I run I feel two things, suffering…
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Inspiration Saturday 8/9/14

I don’t know what happened this week while thumbing through my magazines. My biggest inspirations were to bake a lot of desserts, eat them along with everything else I saw and then to drink a lot of wine. Same old magazines, different mindset for sure. As we approach the end of summer I’m getting more…
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Running! 5

Guess what?! We just finished week 3 of “Run Your Butt Off“! How are you feeling? Are you still going strong? I have struggled this week because 2 minutes of running at a time kept feeling like my timer was broken and was forgetting to sound off. I kept saying,”Hey, this feels like longer than…
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Throw Back Thursday- Knowing God’s Will

I once heard an interview with Rich Mullins. He was a Christian singer and song writer who was killed in a car accident in the 90’s. In this interview he was asked how do you know God’s will for your life? (Paraphrased) He said God cares about your heart more than anything else. He said…
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Maxine

I just wanted to take a moment out to say goodbye to Maxine. She is one of my sister, Cathy’s girl kitties. She passed away last night and her sweetness will be greatly missed. She was a lovely, gentle little lady with a giant head of hair. A timid little angel who slept each night…
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Saturday Inspiration 8/2/14

I can’t tell you how glad I’m becoming that I’ve finally scheduled time each week to read my magazines! I’m not totally sure what I’m going to do when I finally get through the stacks of them. I guess I’ll have to start making some of these things happen! I have seriously enjoyed looking through…
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Running! 4

Yay!! Week two is in our past and we are moving on to week three today! I really hope you are all still with me in the Run Your Butt Off challenge! If not, get on it! I’ve been walking with a girlfriend in stage 1 and then running in stage 2 with Steve and…
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Throwback Thursday- Advice

This picture is of my first steps while holding on to my dad’s hand. My parents were divorced when I was 4 years old. My childhood was growing up with a single mom and visiting my dad and his family one weekend a month. The majority of time my step-mama, Kathy would pick my sister and…
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Sun Portal

Last Spring Steve and I took Emma up the coast of California to explore our state. While I was planning our trip I came across an app called Roadtrippers. It’s an awesome site and I highly recommend you check it out if you’re planning a trip. I think it’s a great resource just to see…
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Motivation… and the Linen Closet

I woke up today in a very crabby mood. I have no idea why. I do know one reason may be that I never posted yesterday. It’s the first day in a while that I’ve missed posting. I even started writing an entry about motivation. But I lost my motivation. I ran with Steve this…

