My New Love

I don't think you will find many blogs out there from women proclaiming their love for their new zero-turn riding lawnmower, but you definitely will here!! I love it, I love it, I love it!!!! This weekend was great because Mark only played music Friday night which meant that we had the whole weekend to ourselves. We got alot of napping in, but finally on Saturday afternoon we went to make our purchase. Since buying this house, we knew that the lot was going to be too big to just push mow. The back still does not have grass, but weeds, that are needing to be whacked down. The front was big enough alone to push mow, but now that we have the most priceless piece of yard equipment I am ecstatic. After getting the final things assembled on it, I had Mark jump on to it so that he could figure out how to drive it. Wow does that thing fly!!! I immediately kicked him off so I could give it a try. We couldn't just drive it up and down the driveway, no, we decided that we should take on the backyard mess. It took no time!!!! I cannot wait for there to be grass out there now. I had been contemplating just poisoning the whole yard so that nothing would grow back there, but now that Toro has saved my life, I can't wait for the grass to start growing!!! I'm thinking about having Mark write a song to our beautiful Toro mower. It's perfect.

Friday night since Mark was playing music, I decided on a whim to do some sewing. I've done baby quilts, blankets, etc., but have never made clothes. I knocked out 4 dresses for Ella and 1 outfit for Hayden. I had a lot of fun, but stayed up way too late. Thank goodness for lazy Saturday. I needed it!

Last of all, my running. Ugh. That's all I can say. UGH. I'm so far behind because of last week that my motivation is running out. Not that I am going to stop, but the 6+ miles may have to end. I ran 3 miles yesterday and the first 2 were nearly impossible. How was it that I ran 8 miles the Friday before. It could be that I still have so much congestion my head hurt or that I only ran once last week, but I definitely struggled. I did however enjoy lifting weights for the second half of my workout and have decided that if I can stick between 3 and 5 miles each time I workout then I can get a great cardio workout in and still have time for weights. We'll see. My mental toughness that I was so excited about is slipping, so I think I need to step back and reevaluate what I'm wanting to accomplish here. I'm just ready for this allergy thing to clear up!! It is killing me!!

Kiddos are still doing great! We're counting down to Ella turning 3 in a couple of months and Hayden is getting funnier everyday. We finish up Ella's gymnastics this week and will looking forward to the things that summer holds for our family!