I've been awful at blogging lately. It's not for lack of ideas. It's for lack of time. Summer is a really hard time to find the time to blog, especially with kids underfoot.
I've also had numerous irons in the fire. Our basement flooded in June, and the entire summer has been one slow slog to bring it back to normal. Demolition, then reconstruction, drywall, paint, carpet. The carpet is the last step; we're almost in the home stretch.
We spent a week in Wisconsin in August. My husband and I ran a race together, we attended my (gulp) 20th class reunion, and we took the kids to a number of tourist destinations that we remembered fondly from our childhoods.
And last, but not least, I decided to train for my first half-marathon. I'm following a 16-week plan and have 6 weeks left to go. I run four days each week with my mileage going up gradually each week. My long runs started at 3 miles. Now I'm up to 9-10 miles. I think training is going well, but I go back and forth on whether or not this will be my first and only half, or if I'll run another one after this. I gotta say, I really like 5 and 10 K races. We'll see how the first half marathon goes, but training really takes up a huge chunk of time.
I'll try to be better at blogging in the next few weeks. I've got a few projects to share, a few recipes I want to blog about, and many, many thoughts going through my head. Stay tuned.
