OK Mom, Awesome Running Pants

Ugh...January in Wisconsin...Is anyone else sharing this sentiment with me right now? I know they say it's all relative or, "It could be worse." I get that, I feel that, but I want to have a little bit of a pity party. So if you could, give me, say, 30 seconds of your time? I promise, I'll suck it up after that. It's All Relative... This month has bit the big one! The stomach bug hit our house along with a cold and fever which led to multiple,  MULTIPLE days off of school for our Kindergartner, who happens to hate missing school. (Proud mom, struggling parent when it comes to explaining why we can't go to school and be Boogers-McGee sneezing germ goblins on our friends.) Add on top of that our little bug, Julianna, turning 3, (Ninja Turtle-themed birthday party had to happen of course) a busy 8-12 hour night work schedule for my husband (we're only half way through that one...), and just the general fun that is winter marathon training in Wisco...

As I'm writing this, I'm playing Playdoh, responding to emails, and planning how I will get my miles in today. It's a snow day, so both children are home, and I'm feeling the "hump day"effect on top of it all. (Okay, but seriously, this needs to be invented...) In fact, this is totally me today; albeit, "Doctor Who" needs to be swapped with anything on HGTV.  ----->  But as my wise beyond his years 5-year old, JD, once told me, "Once you get there and you get energies and you're running and working, you'll feel good! So let's do it!" With this in mind, it was off to the gym for another adventurous day of training for my second marathon.  My name is Jill, and I'm like any other small-town Midwestern, middle-class, and middle-aged women in many ways. Two kids, a house in the suburbs, married to my high school sweetheart and enjoying my work as a stay-at-home-mom as well as a small business owner (musician)....