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Before going plant-based, I rocked mac and cheese. To the point that, because the only cheese ever used was Tillamook cheddar, I wouldn’t eat anyone else’s. A batch would be whipped up and devoured by my family, every time we declared it was the best one yet! Since ditching dairy, homemade macaroni and cheese holds…
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“Mom, I think we are weird. Like we are a weird family,” my daughter declared to me in the car on the way home from school. Laughing, I asked for clarification. She went on to explain that her friends’ anecdotes of their life at home and relationships with their parents were not the same as…
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PeloFondo is an endurance event where participants pledge to ride x number of miles, then set about doing them over 1 or 2 days of a weekend. There are other events over the year, including a running event as well as a simulated cycling climb. This weekend was PeloFondo. In 2020 I pledged 30 miles,…
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The days are long but the years are short as they say, and the cliche rings true. Hard to believe there’s enough one day at a times strung together to add up to 7 whole years, but here we are. Over these 7 years I’m more comfortable in my skin than ever before. Saying no…
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Today marks my 208 week streak (4 years!) with Peloton. It’s no secret that dumb things motivate. Hello?! I ride a bike in my house that goes nowhere and get virtual badges for my efforts. On paper – I get it. SO. DUMB. But…it works. This is the longest stretch of consistency with nutrition and…
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I have started more than a few organized running programs, such as Couch-to-5k and others from famous running coaches and apps – but I’ve never completed any of them in 13+ years of running. Because dumb things motivate me, such as virtual badges of achievement, I started yet another program, only this time it was…
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Ahhh, sports. Athletics hasn’t been a huge thing for us as a family. Our son dabbled in little league for a couple of years. He was more interested in picking dandelions in the outfield than watching for pop fly balls. (Later we learned that his right eye is blind and of course that impacts his…
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The school had had an active shooter practice drill a couple of weeks ago. My daughter was in class, but students were working in groups and didn’t hear the announcement that it was just a drill. She thought it was real and texted me. She was upset the rest of the day. We talked about…
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The house we are renting needed to be treated for termites. As in whole house wrapped up in in gift wrap tent fumigated treatment. Obviously we could not stay in said gift-wrapped house while the treatment was performed so we arranged to go “camping” for the few days that the home would be uninhabitable. We…
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