6 miles at Trinity River at 6:30pm with Ashley and Wendy. Average pace=8:12/m. Fastest mile = 7:45 I missed 2 weeks of running due to several things that happened all at once. First, we had a death in my husband's family... The funeral was out of town. Second, I had to clean house and cook for our entire family to come to our house for my son's 2 year birthday party. (It sounded like a good idea 6 weeks ago... HA!) During this weekend, my in-laws stayed two nights with us. I didn't get any babysitting to help me prepare for any of that so I was very busy getting my house ready. Third, we finally found out about the Italy job my husband was being offered... If we take the job, it will be a pay cut! We decided that we are not willing to do that... so much for changing my name to ItalyLindsey... oh well. And finally, and ironically, forth, the day after we found out we will not be moving to Italy a friend that I used to work with called me to inform me that my old manager was hiring and he wanted me to apply. (I worked in procurement on the F-35 program at Lockheed Martin). I have been a stay-at-home mother for 4 years. Money is getting really tight here because inflation is going up faster than my husband's salary. My husband just told me that I couldn't buy new running shoes for a couple weeks because bills were tight. Ok... now, wait a sec... I am willing to cut back on many things so that I can stay home with my kids but, I draw line at "can't afford running shoes"... So I sent my resume in. I had a phone interview and it's looking like I've got the job. Possibly I'll start in 3-4 weeks (bureaucracy...). So I'm preparing to get my kids into daycare for the first time in their lives. Next week they are going to 3 days a week to get them acclimated before I go back to work full time. So huge life change is coming. It was a hard decision but I think it is the right time for us. We just can't afford for me to stay home any longer. This is going to be doubling our income almost instantly. This evaporates so much stress in our lives. We're also going to be able to do fun things like go on vacations. I can afford to run more races. We can afford to do fun things with the kids on the weekends. Now I've got to figure out how to balance running, working and kids. I'm sure I can do it. Lots of other people do. I'm actually looking forward to the challenge! I've got a 10k this weekend. Considering the lack of fitness that I'm in right now, I'm just going to be happy with a 8:00 pace. It's a hilly course. I think I'll sign up for a bunch of 10k's and 5k's and just work on improving at that for a while. | 