Aspirations

  • Digital Mom

    I guess that is the new term for my demographic. It was a feature on the Today’s Show earlier this week, and they even had one of the funny mommy bloggers that I recently started following. It’s kind of exciting to have an official classification like this, because I always just thought I was geekier…

  • KC Mom Bloggers Contest

    My coworker sent me a website link and then I heard the same commercial on the radio, so I had to check it out. There is a contest for Kansas City area “mommy bloggers” to test drive a new Chevy Traverse for 8 weeks and blog about it. Since I am already in the market…

  • Random updates

    – Skyler is repeating so many words lately! If she knows what something is and I point to it and say it, she tries to say the word also. It’s so cute because her versions are vary toddlerific – diaper is “biper,” up is “Puh,” Bruno is “Bobo,” pasta is “papa,” and so on. It’s…

  • Weighing In

    Skyler had a check-up this morning, complete with another part of her flu shot, which is always fun! It was fairly uneventful (though you would think from her wailing that they were torturing her with 1,000 needles), but she got weighed and measured and she has gone through quite the growth spurt! She was 21…

  • Resolution

    Last year, I didn’t make any. I was already on the quest to lose the baby weight, so I didn’t really feel like it counted, and that was enough of a project that I didn’t want to add any new goals to last year. But now I’m here another year later and still haven’t lost…

  • Shooting Blanks

    I think every blogger can attest to the phenomenon. Every day thoughts run through your head of this great topic to blog today, once you find the time. You imagine how whitty or profound the post would be, but by the time you find the time, if that ever happens, you can’t remember what it…

  • Ronnie – 2:07, Lori – 2:40

    Saturday morning Ronnie and I got up bright and early (approximately 5:30 a.m.) to drag our butts to Crown Center for the Waddell & Reed Kansas City Marathon. We had signed up to run the Half Marathon which is 13.1 miles, and here we were, this chilly October morning. This was Ronnie’s first race ever,…

  • Is progress impossible?

    I swear my scale is broken. It must have been the kind that has only one weight programmed into it, and it only fluctuates a couple pounds above or below that weight (usually above, though). I have been 135 since I bought this scale back in February or March. I’ve had various phases involving consistent,…

  • Catching up – Part I

    Thank you, Amy, for the reminder to publicize my weight loss progress! Overall, my nutrition has been pretty darn good. I will admit to two meals over the weekend that were far from healthy, though. One happened at a couple’s wedding shower we attended on Saturday, involving bbq, cole slaw, breads and chips and dip,…

  • Still got it!

    I stuck to my guns and went for a 5 mile run today. Considering that I don’t remember the last time I ran (how bad is that when I have a half marathon coming up in T minus 6 weeks?), it felt pretty darn good! It was a gorgeous, partly sunny day but the temperature…