Mom On The Run

Or have I already lost it? I think the bad rainy, overcast, foggy shitty-a$$ weather has completely caught up with me. Or maybe its the fact that I haven’t exercised in nearly two weeks. I feel so blah – blah, blah, blah! I’ve been feeling so shitty (and lonely) that today I actually yelled at Sierra for crying (she was tired and ready for her morning nap). It kind of went like this:

“Why the F are you always crying kid? Grow up! What do you think you are? A Baby?”

Of course she responded by crying harder. I’m a horrible, terrible, no-good mother. A mother who seriously needs a break. How could I yell at my baby like that?

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!@(smile.jpg popimg: “Smiley Girl”)Picture Of The Day: Sierra laughing at her Daddy

Although Sierra is still sick, I just HAD to get out of the house – I was going stir crazy ’cause other than my interview last week Thursday, and Sierra’s immunizations on Wednesday, I hadn’t !@(larger_magictrainer.jpg popimg: “Magic Trainer Sippy Cup”)been out for almost a week. So I packed her up and took her to the mall where we spent 3 glorious hours shopping! Yay! Shopping! Unfortunately I haven’t done my Christmas shopping list yet, so I didn’t buy anything – well except for a sippy cup … I’m hoping to teach Sierra how to use one ’cause it’s starting to drive me insane that I can’t go anywhere without her. I’m dying to go out for a run on Sunday mornings with my club, but if she’s refusing a bottle, how can I do that? Yes – my loss of freedom is starting to get to me – I’m beginning to feel isolated, a prisoner of my own home. – even downright lonely. Sure I see my parents and my hubby, but even then we stay at home – I need to feel like a real person again! A fully functioning member of society! When I do say f-it and take her out, Sierra repays me by being incredibly fussy and tired all evening – going to bed early and then getting up early the next morning! Arrgh! I can’t win!

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!@(daddynsierra.jpg popimg: “Daddy and Sierra”)Picture Of The Day: Cosmo Boy cuddling his sick little Sierra @ 6 am.

That’s what Sierra sounds like today: Hack, hack, hack. She sounded like that yesterday and on Friday too. She has a bad cough – very phlegmy (is that a word?) and congested I wish I could be sick with her cold for her. Hmm on second thought – I’ll probably be sick with it myself in a day or two.

Sierra went to bed way early yesterday (@ 6:45 pm) and woke up several times in the night. Each time she settled down and went back to sleep as soon as I placed my hand on her back and whispered, “Shhhh, shhh, baby – Mommy’s here, everything is ok”. That was fantastic and I’ve never felt so important in my whole life. Then this morning at 5 am she wouldn’t go back to sleep (go figure she’d already been sleeping for 10 hours!). So I figured I’d keep it low-key and try to nurse her back to sleep. It was working beautifully until…..

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THIS explains my AB* body to a T:

A mother’s body … has wrinkles and stretches and soft places it didn’t have when it was just a girl’s body. Those are all the signs of a well-loved body.

Ahhh yes… very well put Mindy! And now, I’ll have another slice of apple pie thank you very much!

*BB = Before Baby AB = After Baby

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After a 6 month hiatus she’s back – and back with a vengeance. That’s right, I’m sure you all missed her as much as I did – Kimmie at One Lazyblonde is back! It was a long 6 months but it was worth the wait – for now there are even more lazy’s in her family, little Brayden was born on September 23rd (?). Let’s all give her a hearty Cosmo GRRL! welcome back!

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I was hoping that by the time I was able to figure out my password, that I would have something cool and inspiring to say, but I don’t. Marie has a cool blog and here I am typing away with stream o’ consciousness drivel.

Ok, now I have it.

What am I thankful for? I’m thankful for the whole cool blogging community. I totally missed a very important anniversary this year. On August 21, 2004, I moved from Bl@gger, over to Complete Running, onto Mark and Aaron’s site. Totally free of charge and I’m not even Canadian! It was a really cool gesture on Mark’s part to make the offer and I’m thankful to him for doing it because 1) it freed me from the Bl@gger monster, and 2) it introduced me to a million other running bloggers just like me. Well, not just like me (because how strange would that be?), but going through stuff that I’m going through while I’m trying to learn how to run.

Thanks, Mark and Aaron!

Visit me over @ Chocolate Runner’s Blog

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And I’m thankful for Marie having Free-for-all-Friday.

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