Time to Start Training

So I'm putting this out here, that way there is no backing out!! I have decided to run my 2nd 1/2 marathon on May 5 for the Capital City 1/2 in Columbus, OH (I would do the full, but they only have a 1/2 on this one) and then I'm going to run my 1st full marathon in Oct at the Columbus Marathon.  So here are some of my training ideas.  I found a 12 week pre-training training program by Hal Higdon's (I used his 12 week 1/2 training for my 1st 1/2).  I plan on doing this only because I'm trying to get to 8 min mile, so I'm dropping my mileage down right now in order to get faster and then I'm going to mix in some tempo runs.  After that 12 week training I'm going to jump right into the 12 week 1/2 training program.  The 1/2 is in May so I will have almost 5 months to train for the full and I will already have a high base mileage to start training for the full.  The question is, do I have enough time to train properly working full time and having a child.  I know it's going to be time consuming, but it's something I want to do.....soooooooooooo wish me luck!!! I need to buy me a new pair of running shoes!!!

LET THE RUNNING BEGIN!!!!

Where has the time gone?

So my little girl will be 5 in less then a month. OMG, she goes to school next year!! So I was looking through some old pictures of her past birthdays and thought I would share:

Kadyn's 1st Birthday: 

Look at those cheeks, I miss them!!

The toothbrush never left her hand

 She actually was taking icing off of my friends cake and brushing her teeth with it, GROSS!!

She hated the cake!! Screamed during the whole cake thing.

 

 

Kadyn's 2nd Birthday:

She was yelling at me to stop signing, she doesn't like people signing Happy Birthday to her!

Unkie Budd taught her how to wash a bike!

 

 

 

 

I'm a bad mom and I can't find pictures from her 3rd birthday, so moving on to

Kadyn's 4th Birthday:

Her amazing cake made by my good friend Jamie!

The Princess herself!!

Her little shit grin, up to no good!!

 

 

 I looked through all of these pictures today and started crying! My baby is no longer a baby. It's amazing the memories pictures bring back and how much she has changed over the past 5 years!! All you Momma's out there with little ones, enjoy every second of it because it goes by so fast. Seeing these pictures makes me want another one and then I snap back into reality and I'm like HELLLLL to the NOOOOO!!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

It's OK Thursday

"Its Ok Thursdays"

ITS OK......

I have parked illegally at work most of the week due to being late and not wanting to walk across 2 streets in the rain. 

I bought my daughter a Ninja costume for Halloween. She loves it and has worn it the past two nights running around doing Ninja moves!!

I drank my dinner last night, I love me some Yuengling Light lately, and Ohio finally sells it.

I had my first glass of red wine and actually liked it. I actually liked it so much that I drank the whole bottle that night.

I haven't ran in a few weeks, I have been moving and that's my excuse!!

I let my daughter take 40 minute showers in the morning just so I can have 40 minutes peace and quiet while I get ready. Water bill WHAT??

Halloween is a week from Monday and we still don't have pumpkins or as Kadyn likes to call them pum-kins 

I don't even want to begin thinking about Christmas, I have three birthdays before it.....Where's that money tree I always hear people talking about?

That I'm still trying to figure out all this blog stuff, I'm a newbee and haven't found my niche yet!!

Senior Homecoming

So my little Budd, who is not so little anymore, had his senior homecoming this past weekend!! I think I'm just going to say it....once again Budd and Tay get the cutest couple award!! Every year they always look the best, just take a look:

The happy couple! 

 

 

 

Aren't they cute!!!

Get out of my face!!

See they do like each other

Nathan (my 2nd brother by another mother), Budd and Tay

I love these three!!

 It's hard to believe that these three are seniors!!

Meet my Ninja

So yesterday we went Halloween costume shopping. Now Kadyn has been back and forth on what she wanted to be...we first started out as wanting to be an Army girl, then we moved on to a Ninja, then she wanted to be a police girl, and then finally back to a ninja. So I figured once we got to Halloween City she would see all the girly costumes and princess and Disney characters and change her mind. NOPE, NADA....this girl was going to be a Ninja and that was it. So here she is, Mommies little Ninja.....she is SOOOO my child!!

So What Wednesday

This week I'm saying SO WHAT if:

• I bought my first bottle of red wine on Thursday night and drank the whole bottle that night. Shit was good!!!
• I let my 4 year old hit pine-cones in the parking lot at Easton with my brother's hockey stick. Girl has skillz and mama was talking about the game!!
• I haven't ran in what feels like forever!! I have been busy moving.
• I was suppose to run on Sat and Sun but it was just too damn windy out, I didn't want to get blown away.
• I'm thinking about transferring my car loan over to a credit union, they told me if I do it in November I won't have a car payment for 3 months and they will give me up to $500 cash....HELLO Christmas $$$$$$. Somebody might have a nice little Christmas!!
• While I'm at that, I might even transfer my credit card balance over, they will give me $150 for it :) :) :) Mama might be rolling in the dough real soon!!
• I bought my daughter a ninja costume for Halloween, she wanted it. Out of all the princess, Disney, girly costumes she wanted to be a ninja....but a damn cute one at that:
• I just pulled my credit report for the first time in years because I was afraid to face the fact that I have soooo much student loan debt!!! I need alcohol!!

What are you saying SO WHAT to this week!!

ADHD

So I have decided to do a serious post for once. Don't get use to it though, it won't happen often. So my daughter was diagnosed with ADHD last February. Everybody thought I was crazy for having her testing, everybody kept telling me it's my parenting and I should be doing things different. I knew she had ADHD and I approached my pedi about it. Lets backup a few years first, I had Kadyn evaluated at 6 months for behavior issues. Yes I said 6 months old, kid has been a challenge since birth!! At 6 months old, she was almost kicked out of the babysitters...rebel child!! At this time my pedi spent 2 hours with her in his office, he asked me question after question. At that point, he told me I have a "difficult child"...(well no shit Sherlock, I could tell you that).... gave me a few books to read and said she is probably ADHD but they can't treat or diagnose that at this age. So last year I was having a really hard time with her and she wasn't doing well at the babysitters again. (I'm convinced I'm ADHD, which is why I have so many issues getting things done and I do not want her struggling the way I did) So I started doing my research, I started reading article after article on kids with ADHD. I took Kadyn to her 4 yr old check up and asked my doctor about it. He gave me a 15 page book of questions to fill out, gave my babysitter one also.  That was probably one of the hardest things I have ever had to fill out. I felt like when he was reading it he would think I hated my child. I had to write horrible things down about her and it was HARD!!! 

I do love my baby, how could I not just look at her:

Lets get one thing straight before I continue...ADHD is not just the hyper activity, it's soooooo much more then that. I can handle her crazy hyperness, I'm crazy hyper all the time!! It's the lack of sleeping through the nights (girlfriend was up at least 5-6 times every night and she is 4), the difficulty she had completing the simplest tasks, the frustration she had from being in trouble, the fact that her mind is going 100 miles a minute and she can't process everything going on in that little head of hers, the fact that she couldn't conform at the babysitters and she didn't understand why she can't sit there and read like everybody else or why she is always in trouble because she can't settle down when it's time to. The fact that she can't do the simple things like get dressed without any distraction. It's tough staying patient with her esp when I'm in a hurry. These are the things that made me question the ADHD and have her tested.

Girl is a bit crazy also:

  

and LOVES being dirty:

People judged me, people thought I was crazy, people didn't understand why I would even entertain the idea of ADHD. Everybody told me it's the age...Wait until she is school...School will change her...She needs to be challenged.  My response, why wait until she is in school....Why wait until it's a bigger problem..Why not fix it before she ends up in trouble at school or thinks she isn't smart, or thinks she has something wrong with her. So go ahead and judge, I put my daughter on meds. YES that's right, my 4 almost 5 year old is on ADHD medication. She takes Focalin XR. It is a slow release drug that starts working immediately and is completely out of her system by 2-3. Yes you can tell a difference in her while she is on it. No she is zombified!!  She can focus, she can sit still, she isn't in trouble all the time, she is sleeping through the night. I never give her her meds on weekends because to me weekends are a free for all, which brings me to my weekend!!

I will start giving her them on weekends because it is bad when she isn't on them. It's frustrating for her and it's frustrating for me. The task of getting dressed is a 40 min production!! So this weekend was the last weekend of me NOT giving them to her...OMG I almost started drinking at 8 am on Sat and Sun!!

So before you judge listen to my reasons for medicating my 4 year old:

• She was always in trouble and I do NOT want her thinking she is a bad child because she has a chemical imbalance that makes it hard for her to do things that a normal child has no problems doing
• I struggled in college, high school, and even at work to accomplish the simplest tasks because I can't focus and I do NOT want her to struggle like I did. ADHD is not an excuse to be lazy
• I want her to be able to thrive with every opportunity given to her.
• I want her to do well in school and be able to focus on what needs to be done.
• I did NOT want to see her frustrated anymore!!
• I want her to be happy and know she is smart and can do anything she puts her mind to.

 But she is a HAPPY little 4 year old: