I was hoping to head straight to the grocery store after work tonight...but since Matt had a dentist appointment before work, he had to drop Liam off at his mom's house. That meant I had go over to pick him up after work. By the time we got back to the house it was only about 15 minutes ahead of when the girls usually get home from school so not enough time to run to the store. I started making my shopping list and getting some of the Primary Program parts ready to deliver.
I took those around while Liam played for a few minutes at a friend's house. Heidi's house was the last one I needed to drop off parts to so I spent a few minutes talking to her while waiting for the girls to come home. She had mentioned putting together a little race around Halloween time for her runner friends when we went trail running last week. I asked a bit more about it and told her that I would love to participate and help her plan it. My only problem is that I have my first timed 5K on the Saturday before Halloween, which also happens to be the day before McKenna's birthday. She might organize hers for either the week before or after that though, so hopefully it is a day I can go.
The girls got home from school while we were talking and ended up playing at Heidi's while they were waiting for us to finish chatting. They opted to stay there while Liam and I ran to the grocery store. It was so much easier only taking one child! We were in and out in less than 45 minutes! The bad part was loading up the all the groceries in the pouring rain.
We got home and picked up the girls then had a quick dinner so I could get the kids started on homework. At 6:30 it was still raining pretty hard and there was quite a bit of lightning. Since I was supposed to run tonight and I wasn't sure if the weather would clear up, I ended up deciding to go run on the treadmill at the gym for the first time ever. I have heard many people curse the treadmill so I wasn't exactly excited, but I really wanted to get in a run if I could. While I was telling the kids what my plan was I told them I was going to drive over to the gym and Liam pipes up with, "Mommy, you could just run to the gym...because you're the best at running!" Man, I love that kid!
I didn't have much time to run by the time I drove over there and got things all figured out so I only ended up running 2.68 miles. It was hot and stinky and I swear I never sweat that much even when running outside in the middle of the day! Yuck! I think I'd rather take my chances with the lightning next time.
The kids survived me being gone and proudly pronounced that they got along well with each other as soon as I opened the car door. It makes me suspicious, but since they all agreed to it, I guess I'll let it go. ;) We finished homework, got the kids through the shower and I finally got 5 minutes to myself to relax. I'm starting to get really nervous about the 5K on Saturday so it was a nice busy day to take my mind off it!
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