here is my question about family: when do you break off and be your own family?? For example, when do you start to celebrate the holiday's with your sibling and parents instead of your parents siblings?? At first we were thinking when we have kids we will start to host holiday's. Which will definately happen for Christmas morning, but we will still probably be required to go visiting... Holiday family functions are my Achilles heel.

You could always send brownies to get brownie points!!

See then I'd be the bad Mom that sugar'd up the kids.

See then I'd be the bad Mom that sugar'd up the kids.

no for the teacher... believe me she won't share the treats with the kids! haha

we definately do have a turkey trot!!! DH's aunt hosts thanksgiving usually and last year she made a comment about us getting to do it when we have kids... they have the youngest kids. And I said to Brian it makes sense because then we don't have to cart our kids around and by then her kids are old enough to be entertained without their toys. So it might be coming in the next year or two LOL. Yeah it will all be tricky, but it will work out - it definately helps that my mom and dad are still friends. If not that would be much harder.

Shan, If we all came and visited you trust me, we would race. My money's on Erika. 10.5 miles 9:09 pace, but the miles were everywhere from 10:08 to 7:20. The run doesn't get fun till the 5th mile.

Dave's DW - GREAT JOB!!!! Bugs - you too!

I just noticed Bug's new avatar. Nice. Are you allowed to use a glamour shot?

Wow all this attention is making my week. I'm wearing my Grandma's Marathon Sweatshirt. How can your eyes not sparkle when wearing your marathon sweatshirt? Side note, just 3 more weeks of training and then's taper time. Makes me nervous. I need some good running books to get be motivated during taper.

I'm running a 5k trail race tomorrow morning. It's the course the high school XC teams use, and DS1 has already warned me it's rooty and can be slick in spots. I am sooo not risking a fall! I'd blow it off entirely except that I'm one of just a few who have run all the series races so far, and there's an extra prize at the end of year awards for doing them all (last year was a very nice long-sleeved black tech shirt). So, I'll go run it as part of my total miles for the day, and add 3 more on as warm-up and cool-down to get 6 or so total. DS2 has soccer tryouts tomorrow too. For next year's ODP team (Olympic Development Program), not his comp team (that's two weeks later). He had so much fun at that camp in Oregon this year, and learned so much, he's really hoping to make it again this year. Then DH wants to take the boat out on the river to toodle around and try some water skiing before freeze up. The weather has been perfect this week and should continue into next week. He'll need to wear a wet suit cuz the water is soooo cold! But as long as it's still kind of high from the recent rains, we should do ok. He has a little Bayliner and it doesn't like our shallow rivers...(long story about the boat, but he bought it a few years ago from a pawn shop!) Family stuff...ours can get complicated since DH's family always seems to be battling some issue or another. My family is much more easy to get along with. They all live here, except DH's brother and one niece (in NY). For the most part, we sort of do our own thing now but get together for dinners, brunches, desserts, whatever. When the kids were small though, it seemed like huge productions but never at our house (yeah) because it's too small... DH's sister has 5 kids, the other has 3, we have 2... can get to be a big crowd.