More Than Conquerors

Remember how I said I had volunteered at the YWCA? One of the things we heard about while talking with the volunteer coordinator was an opportunity to run for the YWCA in the upcoming Fargo Marathon. Three of the five of us are already signed up, so we have decided as a group to raise some money for this organization that does such wonderful things. Check out more here.

Our goal is to have  at least 25 people donate at least $33 which covers the cost of one woman staying one night at the shelter. That's not that bad right? Not bad at all. Totally doable.. So please check out our fundraising page and consider joining us! 

Of course you can always come watch us run too. :) 

Three of us are running the 10K (gulp) and two of us will be walking the 5K for now. We'll see if we end up adding more or not later. 

I added a link on my sidebar to easily access our fundraising page. If you are at all interested, please check in once and a while and see how it is going.

We need to raise this money by the race days which are May 17-19. Thanks for reading about it! 

Midweek confessions

1. I get so annoyed when reading articles/blogs/stories with too many explanation points. In fact, sometimes I just have to quit reading it altogether to avoid my blood pressure rising. This may seem like an exaggeration because it is, but only slightly. Feel free to call me out when I get a little over excited with the !!!!! in the future.

This face is like four explanation points.

2. I also get really annoyed when commas are overused or in the wrong place in a sentence. I'm no grammar expert, but come on... we all had to take the basic English classes growing up. It just erks me. Erks... look it up. :) (Again, feel free to call me out, but not too often because I'm sure I do it too all the time and I can't handle that kind of criticism on a daily basis. I never call others out on it, it just is in my head every.single.time).

3. I don't feel like I've  had quality time with Josie since she's gotten this annoying cold. When she is awake, she is so determined to be active and on her own, and when she's getting tired, my efforts are all focused on getting her more comfortable for bed. I don't feel like we have any fun anymore! A small part of me gets scared that she won't even like me after this is all over (the cold, not her childhood) even though I know that is ridiculous.

How is me being a baby babushka not fun?

4. We've lived in our house two years now and we still have not decorated many of our walls. We have some large paintings that I inherited (and love to death) but its hard to decorate around large paintings. I would just leave them up alone without another thought if they took up enough of the wall space, but unfortunately they do not. It's just awkward.

Now that you mention it, you could really improve this place.

5. I have two pairs of shoes that I leave at work because I wear them often enough. I'm so lazy these days that I am basically only wearing those two pairs because I don't feel like carrying/wearing a different pair. So all of those shoes in my closet that I need to have? I still need them...just not using them... If you are wondering what those two shoes are, you are in luck. I will share. :) One is that nude heel I had talked about here and the other pair are the boring black shoes I mentioned here. Safe, reliable, totally me. Someday I might step out of the box but that someday is not today. It's too easy!

My kicks are better than yours.

Linking up with E... click below to read other confessions.

Seven months

Happy Seven Months baby girl!

Initially I didn't think we were going to get a good picture. This is the reaction I was getting.

But she perked up after a while!

This month... this month Josie was movin and groovin all over the place. She got crawling down, sitting up on her own, and just recently started propping herself up on her knees. I would predict that by next month, she will be standing on her own easily.

She's been trying a lot of new foods as well. Variety of veggies including peas, beans, carrots, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, and corn. Fruit includes pears, bananas (so. many. bananas.), and peaches. She is still loving her puffs and they work great as a distraction in almost every single situation.

She has been sleeping ok although we never did get back to sleeping through the night. Our routine works great with one of us putting her to bed (no matter how many times it takes going in and out of her room) and the other parent getting up in the night (no matter how many times she's up).

She's really reduced how much milk she drinks and she's slowed down a bit with growing now that she's moving so much. She really does have quite the appetite though so we aren't worried about it!

I'm thinking we are going to skip the bangs stage with her hair which means that she has hair in her face about 90 percent of the time. I put it in pigtails or ponytails almost every day and she sits still so good in her high chair until she's looking just perfect! I hope this lasts... I'm working on a braid but it's so soft and slippery...maybe next month.

She spent the last half of the month being sick with a cold, so we are practically counting down the days til she's her goofy smiley self again. The cough isn't going away so she might be visiting the doctor soon.

We traveled to the cities (3 1/2 hours straight driving) without a hitch which shocked us all. She's been a lot better chilling in her car seat lately. Such a relief after the screams she used to give us even with just a short five minute drive. Lately she even gives us some chatter while in her car seat; totally melts my heart!

This month flew by and this is the best winter we've ever had hands down. The weather helps, but she just brightens every day (no matter how cheesy it sounds).

She's done, so I am too.

Love you little Josie Grace!

Techie baby

Why oh why do the babies go for the cords? I have no idea how to baby proof all the cords. It's going to be a long process getting everything put away while she explores this house over and over and over again.

Tomorrow we're back. And by we I mean me. And by back I mean working out 10k training style again. Bring it on bad ankles and lazy attitude! I'm in the mood for getting my bum kicked and you don't waste moods like this!

After all of the eating this weekend, it's going to take everything I have to lose the desired amount of weight this week. Here we go!