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Kindergartening

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Kindergartening

I sent my oldest son, Toby, to Kindergarten this morning. The drive to the school took five minutes. Five short minutes to surrender my child to the large and wicked world. I started crying before we even made it through the double doors. It might have been the functionality of his school: the student monitors [...]

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Summer Running Series: Improve Your Mood

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Summer Running Series:  Improve Your Mood

By guest writer Michelle Sedas, CI-CPT. Why do you exercise? What drives you to get out of your warm bed, in the wee hours of the morning, and lace up those kicks so that you can hit the pavement? What motivates you to plan your days so that you’re able to consistently spend quality time at [...]

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Summer Running Series: Fueling Your Workout

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Summer Running Series: Fueling Your Workout

Drumroll… Welcome today’s guest writer, my running partner extraordinaire, Jerri Wright! She is an expert on all things nutrition. She can whip up a batch of tasty cupcakes with nothing but aguave necter and almond flour (neither of which are ever in my cupboard, but whatever) plus she is MY RUNNING PARTNER. And I love [...]

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Summer Running Series: Kettlebells

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Summer Running Series: Kettlebells

If you want to run strong this fall, now is the time to condition. A good regimen will target your quads, hams, and glutes to increase your speed and power.  When it comes to conditioning, sometimes it is hard to know where to start. Running is so darned simple—it seems like a travesty to junk [...]

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Summer Running Series: Hydration

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Summer Running Series: Hydration

Who loves FREE STUFF? Today’s guest from Elite Feet Inc., donated my favorite running accessory: BLINKY LIGHTS. These lights clip to your shorts and strobe so drivers can see you in the dark. Leave a comment on this post for a chance to WIN! The key to a safe summer run is WATER. Nothing is more [...]

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It’s Here: Summer Running Series

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It’s Here: Summer Running Series

It’s hot ya’ll. If you’ve granted your Mizuno’s a three-month sabbatical, HOLD ON GIRL! Summer is the best time to lay a foundation for fall road races. Build your mileage slowly so you can upgrade your race distance when the season resumes. If athletic achievement isn’t enough motivation, how about the issue of, ahem, swimwear? [...]

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Expectations

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Expectations

Some days I’m clawing for worth. I mope around, looking under the couch for Charlie’s stuffed Bee while he whines behind me. Suddenly, I’m pining for the self I wanted to be when I was seven. The seven-year-old me wanted to be known, to have some measure of my value etched upon the world like [...]

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Praying For Haiti

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Praying For Haiti

Unleashing God’s Smallest Warriors This article originally published in the Feb.-Mar. 2010 issue of Deeper. For more articles on faith and family or to subscribe via e-mail to the Mom’s Moments and Deeper Newsletters, go here. My son, Toby, turned five on January 12th. Our family laughed over pizza at his favorite restaurant just as the whole [...]

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Anna’s Prayer

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Anna’s Prayer

I wanted to share this beautiful comment from writer Anna Sklar, on the earlier post “Wingman.” She wrote: Recently I came to a place where God asked me if He was enough. If all I ever had was Him, would I be happy with my life. As I was humbled and answered Him “yes,” everything [...]

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Wingman

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Wingman

My favorite part of this new blog design is the tag line: “Choose a destination, run fast.” The only problem is me not having a destination. I spend a lot of time writing about my boys. This blog may become the longest book ever written, and if the climax is Toby and Charlie’s passage into adulthood I’m gonna [...]

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