My Path in Mommyhood: joy

Last night I found myself doing a community teeth brushing of all of G's stuffed animals. I laugh thinking how this may have looked if I could have watched it on video. It serves purposes though: participating in pretend play with my little guy AND hopefully enticing him to not act like it is torture when I brush his teeth. Because duck, sheep, puppy, sock monkey and baby doll don't cry and writhe about when they have their teeth brushed. Absurd at times--this motherhood thing :)

Great news: I beat 100 other people in the 10k Turkey Trot I finished on Thanksgiving. I guess it is true that there will always be someone slower than you. (Um...357 people were faster than moi.) 6.2 miles in a little over an hour--I'll take it. 15k race coming up at the end of January--yikes!

Running this week has been a fail due to a lovely cold that has left me feeling out of sorts. I will attempt a jog during my lunch hour today taking plenty of tissue paper to catch the inevitable drip from my nose.

Last night I tortured the husband and MADE him spend 15 minutes at a park right down the road taking a few snapshots (thank you Katie!!) to (photoshop) in to family Christmas photos. Nothing professional about our little photo shoot but a wonderful friend who helped us out in a pinch. Our scheduled photo session back in November- that did not occur- is a WHOLE other story. (God help me love my husband in spite of the ways he drives me c.r.a.z.y!)

Lastly- I recently found THIS blog. Not too many moms out there willingly talk about PPD (Post partum depression) and she does this with honesty and grace; not to mention her lovely family and all-around neat blog.

And one more wonderful site I just found lets you click on food/drink items you have in your home and voila- spits out recipes for you; could you ask for more??! Find it HERE.

Last week I showed you some tantalizingly scrumptious pictures of foods/drink I was drooling over AND here are some more: