Day 49

Good evening everybody. Today was a pretty ok day. This morning, Lex got up, but didn't get fully ready till about 7:35. Suddenly she was on the bed next to me saying "Daddy I'm ready to go." I looked at the time and thought "Shit, it's 7:35!" I gave her a (to-go) breakfast, and grabbed my keyes. When we first got downstairs I looked down the street to the bus stop and the kids were still waiting for the bus but I figured that by the time I got lex out the door that the bus will have come and gone.

Sure enough, two minutes later we were walking out the door and the kids were no longer at the bus stop. I drove her to school, and then came home. By this point it was 7:50, and I was thinking "should i do my run?" I wanted to, but at the same time I was thinking "damn I'm tired." I felt more tired than I usual feel after waking up and getting lex off to school. Probably because of only getting a few hours of sleep saturday, and then still being tired sunday so I guess it carried over to this morning. I ended up deciding that I would go back to bed and that I would do my run this evening when it was starting to cool down. Erin went to work at 11, and within an hour or so, I got Zoe out of her room, and had her come in to the bedroom with me. I was like "Close the door sweetie" and she did. My goal was to have her climb up in bed too, and that maybe that way I could get more sleep. However, I stayed awake for a little while because Zoe would curl up beside me for 10 minutes, then get up and start trying to get into stuff like Erin's side table drawer. I'd be like "Zoe don't you dare get into that stuff."

Then I realized I fell asleep when it was over an hour later, and I rolled over and saw Zoe smiling at me while opening a bottle of lotion or something. She's not one of those "open and taste" kids, she's more one of those "I want to open and dump this out" kid. LOL. The funny thing was I had just woken up from a dream that was so realistic. I literally dreamed that I got up out of bed, got Zoe dressed, and that we had gone downstairs and were hanging out watching something on the netflix. Well, when suddenly I woke up, rolled over, and realized it was all a dream, I was amazed. To go from thinking I was already downstairs to waking up and realizing it was not real. Wow.

So I realized when we were watching buffy earlier that Erin was reading my blog from last night because suddenly she goes "go run your 2 miles!" I was like "Huh?" She was like "You haven't done that yet today have you?" I was like "Well, no, but I'm waiting for it to start cooling off. I don't want to go for a run in 85 degree heat." It wasn't much later when I decided to go for the run. I'd say it was just after 8 pm. Lex came downstairs, and I was like "I'm going for my run. Do you want to go?" She was like "yes!" I didn't even know which route I was going to head. I did know that I wanted to do at least 2 miles if not more. As we headed out the door, I thought "hey, let's take teagan with us." He pulls a lot when we try to walk him, at least up until we go a little ways, and he tires out, then he literally will trot right beside us.

So, I decided that I wanted to take the Riverwalk path. I know it's at least a mile or two long. So me, lex, and teagan jogged and walked our way down to wendys, turned left and headed up the road a little ways and then turned left onto the path, crossing the bridge. We went till we were going under a bridge that I realized is the bridge we take to go over to fulton to take lex to her gymnastics. This is the first time that I had gone past this bridge. Half way down the trail, we passed a marking that said "2 miles" but was pointing towards the direction we came from. Eventually I figured out that towards the end of the trail was main st in clinton. So basically, we went south, turned off onto the trail, curved around however many times, then near the end, getting off on main st, heading over to 3rd st, and then down till we got to our house. It was really nice. Of course, I was drenched in sweat when we got back. I would give lex a hard time, she would nudge me in the arm, and then i'd open my arms and say "Give me a hug!" and she was like "NO! EW!" lol.

So, we got back, drank lots of water, and cooked up some dinner for all of us. I carried Zoe upstairs *who was already asleep ontop of mommy* and put her to bed. She hugged me tight as I carried her up stairs. Yes I was still damp from the work out, but it didn't matter. So, this is definitely something I plan to do every day. I know I need to do pushups and situps again but i'm still dying from the last one. It's weird. It's been 2 days and yet my abs are killing me. You'd think I just did more than just 40 situps or whatever. So, i'm going to call that it for tonight. I will write more for you all tomorrow.

Thanks for being here.

CB