Life with a kid changes life with a dog. When I was pregnant, I couldn't imagine loving a kid as much as I loved Alice. She is my running companion, snuggle partner, best pal. She …
I am taking the day off of work today and am quickly realizing it will not be the day I had anticipated.Bug is sick. Her first sickness and I am feeling guilty because, in thinking …
Last weekend we went back to the Big Hole valley for a little camp adventure/wedding/hiking/patagonia outlet shopping/crazy people watching.Seriously, people who camp down there are nuts. There was the lady last year who had a …
I haven't been running much. I miss it. Everything after pregnancy and childbirth is really different, although I beg to differ with people who claim you can't do everything you did before. Because …
Yesterday involved a should-have-been-six-hour 30 mph drive through a blizzard after a heavy few days with Andy's grandma at St. V's hospital in Billings. Dolly Mae is doing a bit better. We got home …
Easter day started with Alice briefly but thoroughly enjoying the new toy I bought her at Goodwill.Then I made two blood orange upside-down cakes.It was only 8:30am. Partly because I was productive and partly because …
Yesterday I ran with bug and Alice. This was no small endeavor and I feel great to have done it so I can say that I have and move on to becoming better at it.As …
I ran today. I ran regularly for the first five months of pregnancy and then about once or twice a week until about seven months. When I set out on this snowy Sunday afternoon, I …
This is the face I see every morning after I put on my work clothes and not my running clothes. I am initially greeted with a hopeful wagily butt that fades into disappointed eyes. Our …
Alice and I had a bunk run this morning. I felt slow and frankensteinish. Neither of us have been in good health; my ankle sprain and her I don't even know what. But she …
