Wilderness Ride?

I could not sleep last night- all I did was toss and turn for hours. So when the sun was up and the fog had burned off enough, I strapped on my tennie-runners and went for a bike ride. Remember the show Men in Trees? Remember how Marin would ride her bike thru the tiny Alaskan town and see beautiful parts of this great country? I did that today. Only not in Alaska. I rode down the street, and had to stop for the passing herd(?) of deer. Further on I was met with a field full of horses. A couple blocks later, I was chased a bit by a rooster, who had a lot of early morning sounds to be making. Finally there were these beautiful birds that were flying over me. The ends of their feathers were white, just something I noticed, while I was worried they were going to poop on me. They didn't. Whew! I rode about 2 miles, and made it home in time to eat breakfast! That was one crazy wilderness ride- if country back roads counts as wilderness.

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Dear World~
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Thank You
Yours Truly,
Mandi

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Day One~

Off to a great start! I woke up extremely early. The only people that are awake at the time I woke up today, are up to no good and God. I entered the kitchen, turned on the light, and the grinder on the coffee maker started. It was kismet! I savored my delicious cup of coffee. Then I busted out the Zumba! and then my daily yoga and meditation practice. And started on water! Time to get the last sleeping girl up and share a yummy breakfast! Day one is going fantastic so far!

*disclaimer* you don't get to remind me of how fantastic this day started, when I fall off the bandwagon- the key is getting back on*

Bright, Bright, Bright Sun Shiny Day!

The last few days have been cloudy and in my opinion, gorgeous. However today has been a bright, sunny shiny day! We didn't have plans, and sometimes the best plans come out of days, where there are no plans. Over our bagels and coffee breakfast, we decided to take little PJ for a bike ride! Didn't really have any plans as to where we were going, except to 7-11. We had to go there, because there was an urgent need for "'opsicle! 'opsicle". So this was our answer. We rode down to the library. There is always something new and exciting there. Then made our way across the street to the 7-11. And ended up at the giant local playground. First she started out sneaking up on squirrels and we decided it was time to go when she climbed back into her bike trailer... she was tired! Had a quick lunch and down for nap. A hopefully nice long nap. 'Cause that's where I'm headed too, a nap!

Wonderful relaxing Saturday

I had a wonderful Saturday! I woke up to a beautiful yummy pot of coffee! I then left my girls at home to play with Daddy, while I headed out shopping. It's not often I get away alone. It's even less often that I feel like shopping with that alone time. Yesterday I did. I shop, did I ever! I went to the closest mall. I'm not a big fan of any of the malls here. It's just not the concrete utopia of the malls from my hometown. So I went to the mall closest to my house. Which also happens happens to be outdoors. I heart outdoor malls. Not, strip malls. Not an area of stores. No, malls that are designed to be called Outdoor Malls. And it was raining. 2 points!
The first store I went to wasn't as successful as I was hoping but the second and third were more then I could have expected. Where I went doesn't matter. What matters, is I had fun, shopping, by myself, at the outdoor mall, and it was successful. I got what my husband calls, "All Grown Up".
I didn't look at my watch once, and I didn't think about the kids. I enjoyed my alone shopping time.

Saturday evening was an extension of a great time. We had our littlest miss scheduled for a Parents Night Out evening of care. We had hoped to put all of our misses in this facility so we could have a real Parents Only Night Out. Alas, this clearly didn't work out. The age span of our girls is proving a problem, too young, too old, etc. I was also thinking about using more than one facility to get this mecca of alone time with my husband to happen. No go. The multiple facilities don't have even one hour of over lapping time. Boo. Double boo. So we made do, with a Parents Night Out Plus. We went to dinner. Our first choice had a suuuupppper long wait, so we went next door to Panera. Bonus: we got breakfast for Sunday! We spent the whole time eating, laughing. Loudly, laughing. It was fun. I challenged our guests to see if they could pick out the actress common to tonight movie, Alice in Wonderland, and to them a classic, Harry Potter and then etc. We then ran thru the parking lot in the rain to the movie. Waiting in a giant line. At last the movie started. Roll credits: then came the guesses. They were all wrong. Not even close.

All in all I had a wonderful relaxing Saturday. Full of laughter and a tiny bit of mystery! I hope your Saturday was as fantastic as mine.

ZUMBA!!!

I went to my first zumba class on Wednesday.

I had fun, I sweat- A LOT- I felt great!

I went to my second zumba class on Thursday night. My darling husband Robert volunteered to go with me, and "see what Zumba is all about". Not many husbands would do that. He was the only gentleman in the class.

I had fun, I sweat- A Lot- I felt great, sore slightly but great!
Robert is complaining about a sore chest. (sucker!)

I did my daily yoga practice this morning... good day to do- after all that crazy dancing Zumba!

All in all- bring on the Zumba! To accompany my yoga, not to replace. :)