Yesterday Bill ran his first (yes, I do expect another one
in the future) marathon. 26 miles without stopping to walk was his goal and he did it. Started running about 9 months ago and made it to marathon already. See how he does things with the making a descision and then going at it full force, purchasing lots of gear that goes with current interest, sticking with it (that's the bit that throws me off track, I can get with the motivation for a day or two...), AND then going until we reach super-human expert levels.We are all so in awe of him and proud of him. I mean, do you know how far 26 miles is?!!!
Yes, I am inspired and as I'm getting older (but not as old as all my friends with March birthdays-happy birthday) I should really make excercise part of my life, today my girlfriend and I did a stair workout in our stairwell, which felt like it might have been 26 miles and I'm going to yoga tonight so, that's impressive.
We don't have pictures of him at the finish line (yet) so here's a random assortment of kids sledding in our 'backyard'. This is after most of the kids went inside and just the die-hard (all homeschooled) kids are left as it's getting dark. The other day we had a round of flashlight tag for all the neighborhood kids and it turned into a wicked huge snowball fight.
Billie's hair before her haircut.
Billie representing Japan for her Girl Scout world thinking-day and eating Onigiri, our favorite Japanese snack.
Thank you, Yukari-San, for sending us the flavoring mixes!!!
Billie and Sloane making muffins.
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Oh how I love you all, but, yes, running a little bit on the stair wells does not put you in the running for Olympic tryouts. And Yea Bill--I just don't know WHERE he got frightening focus from. But somehow I like it, heaven help me. Don't let him start reading books by Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama, though. Kisses to all. I had such a great time in Seattle and was operating at all times (in between pink eye bouts) on different life memories--Rosy looking and acting SO MUCH like baby Meg; us obsessing over Billie, when she was your first and only; thinking of this summer when the Solley 6 and Kriege 3 will all be together. Ah, families. How can life be so sweet?
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