Where have I been?

Wow, I feel likeI have not written much of anything lately.  It's amazing how quickly you can get out of your routine.  Saturday, as I posted yesterday, was pretty busy and I didn't get in a run.  Sunday I did run, but it was only 4 miles (I usually do more than that on Sundays) and I went a new route and it had a really steep hill, which I had to walk up.  It was the first walking I've done in a very long time during my runs and I totally felt like a failure.  However, my time was still decent, 9:55 min/mile average.

Father's Day was okay.  I felt like I stood the entire day. I posted yesterday about it a little, so I won't go into any detail, but I was exhausted.  We sat and watched a movie after dinner, Demolition Man, which I had never seen, but was pretty good.  I fell asleep in the last 10 min and totally missed the end.  Oh well, I'm sure that Chris will insist we watch it again another time.  Actually, Chris had already seen it and he went to bed about half way through the movie.  So Damian and I watched the rest.  Damian had to wake me up off the couch to go to bed.  :-)  Good boy, he easily could have stayed up and watched tv or played xbox, but he went to bed. 

Yesterday was Maddox's first birthday.  However, Damian has his end of year show at gymnastics this week, so he went to that and Maddox didn't get to open his presents till late (7:30).  Of course, he didn't know any different, he just knew he was super tired.  :-)  We tried to give him a cupcake, but he wasn't too interested, he just wanted "Mommy time" (nursing) and bed.  We decided not to have any sort of party for him, he's only 1 and he won't remember it at all.  Plus, all of our family is at least an hour away, most being over 4 hours away, so there was no point in it.

I totally meant to go for a run yesterday.  I usually take Mondays off because I do a long run on Sunday, but since I didn't do a long run Sunday and I skipped Saturday, I was going to run yesterday.  However, I didn't run.  We ended up going to Costco after dropping Damian off at gymnastics and then I fed Maddox dinner when we got home.  Then back to get Damian from gymnastics and then Maddox's birthday stuff.  I also was going to write a second time on here yesterday because the first one was so short, but time just got away from me and I went to bed instead of write anything.



The card was a pop-up card, which he loved




He was way more interested in the ribbon than what was inside.



Damian's last day of school is today.  I remember being out of school the first week of June, so this middle of June thing is very weird to me.  Not just the middle, but the end of the middle of June.  It doesn't help that the schools here close down if there's a hint of snow, they had 5 snow days this year, and I think that only 1 or 2 was warranted, and even that, if it was anywhere else in the US, wouldn't have been any snow days.  We never get more than 6 inches at a time of snow, and even that is not very often.  I remember getting tons of snow in eastern WA and going to school.  I guess that's what happens when I move to western WA and they are scared of snow.  In fact, if it is sunny for a week or more people completely forget how to drive, and that's in a part of the state that rains 90% of the time.