Jana and her teammate, Miniya are two diverse running strategists. Miniya pretty much starts out at one pace, and goes. It's like, instant on and she's fast. Jana likes to start at the end of the pack, one-by-one, she works to pass runners. It creates a heck of a dramatic effect and leads to an awful lot of yelling and cheering at the Finish line ( Read more... )

J had to bring a list of 4 songs to her bass teacher today that she'd like to learn to play: "Come with Me Now," "Beat It," "Another One Bites the Dust," and "Under Pressure." I'm good with this list.

J ran the 1500 in about 7 min, her PR is 6:18. She ran the first half in about 2:48 and her PR for the 800 is 3:04. When she ran the 1st of 4 laps in 1:14,  I knew that was too fast. "Mom, this was my warm up for the 800." That's a heck of a warm up.

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I see the last time I posted was in September 2012. The other day, I received a notification to renew this account, which I just renewed ( Read more... )

Saturday was supposed to be simple, Michael goes to Cars and Coffee and Jana and I hit the library and stop by the bank. While I was getting myself and task list together, I asked Jana to get dressed to go to the library. She dressed up. I figure, okay, we're due for her annual birthday photo shoot. This year, we did our shoot at Phipps ( Read more... )

Our, "Hunger Games" DVD arrived yesterday, and we've already watched it twice. J has pointed out, "I like her boots." "And those boots." "I like that dress." "I like her arrows." "Oh, the horses!"

Okay, so I only have this old photo of Jana for this post. I'll have to fix that soon ( Read more... )

Had an interesting afternoon. While we were at my in-laws, grandma wanted a closer look at Jana's earrings. What they found disturbed Michael a little who decided to wake me from my post double-serving-of-wine-with-lunch-nap on the couch with a cryptic message. He then leaves. I sat up and saw my kid happily come into the dining room with grandma ( Read more... )

I am waiting to read Amy Chua's book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." I need to prune my library, get it on my e-reader or just wait for my turn at my local library. So although I've made up my decision to read this, I can't make up my mind how to. Go figure.

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Jana has started the 1st Grade. Today was day 3 as well as the first day of soccer practice. And it's been a rough transition ( Read more... )