Sweat Pink Laces!!

Look what I got today in the mail:

I won these the other day from Sarah at Run, Mommy, Run!

Please check out her blog (linked above) and follow her here on Facebook: 

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Camping

So J recently decided to join the Cub Scouts. 

This means we will have camping trips in our future so we decided to go ahead and buy some camping stuff. (We being my Dad and I).  We decided we didn’t want to look like total fools in front of a lot of people so we wanted to go out and attempt to set up the tents when nobody was around.  So we took an overnight camping trip at a local campground.  (This overnight trip happened back in October)

We decided to head up to a local campground, about 3o minutes away.   We chose a close, non remote location just in case….  The campground had mostly spots for trailers so trying to find a good tent site (close to the bathroom)  for two tents was not an easy task.  We finally found this spot and decided to make it work.

Tent #1 (NOT fun to put together)

Tent #2 (aka J’s tent, MUCH simpler to put together)

After we got the tents set up we decided to start a camp fire and had a gourmet dinner of:

Afterwards we had to have S’mores.  What kind of camping trip is complete with S’mores?!?!?

 

For entertainment, once the PSP battery wore out, we brought a birthday present to play with!

 

Which was fun, until Mom had to go hunt the foam darts amongst all the leaves.

So we decided to play with wrestlers in the tent for a bit.

 

Eventually it started getting dark so we just hung out around the fire until it was bedtime.

Are you afraid of the dark??

Of course the fire had to be poked several times….

Let me just say, the night was pretty miserable.  J and I slept together in the little blue tent.  Now I am not a tall person (5’ 4) and I could not stretch out straight.  Pair that with a boy with dystonia that can not control his legs and it made for a very interesting, sleepless night.

Someone had a pretty good seat supervised the cleanup the next morning.

Overall we had a good time.  Camping with someone with special needs can prove to be challenging because there are just different things to have to think about.  The weather, thank goodness, stayed nice.  It was cool but it did not rain which made this momma very happy.  We definitely will be going again soon.  J loved it!  (And as long as he had a good time, I had a good time.)

Failure

Well I already failed on following through on my last post.  I kind of think it might be self fulfilling prophecy.  I DID do the first week.  Then I made 101 excuses why I needed a break.  So let's just move on.  I really have no idea where to go from here.

In unrelated news, I had my last day today in my current job.  I am moving from being an inpatient respiratory therapist to an outpatient one.  Instead of doing breathing treatments and ventilator checks for patients that are in the hospital, I will be doing home oxygen related stuff.  While I am excited about the change I know I will miss my current co workers like crazy.  The good thing is, they will be right across the hall.

So, I guess I need to figure out where to go from here.... as far as this blog is concerned.  I think I might make it a goal to post every day this week.....so here we go.

Let's see if I can do this....

 I am HORRIBLE at follow through.  But I am going to attempt to step out of my normal bounds and attempt this:

(Image is linked)

This means I will have to go to the gym.  (I have access to a free gym at work, well I had to pay $5 for a key).  I really have no excuses.  I will start tomorrow because I didn't bring any work out clothes with me today.  Tomorrow is my day off so it will take some pure motivation for me to get up and come over to my work place and follow through.

Wish me luck!

p.s.  I actually "started" this 4 weeks ago by signing up for the emails but never actually started.

p.p.s I am actually really only following the work out plan 100%.  While I am reading the rest of the plan the work out part is what I am most interested in accomplishing. 

I DID make it ...

 ..through my first ever half marathon.    I will post details later.  I really kind of suck at this blogging thing....