Catch my new blog

For those of you who might have just found this blog here is the link to my new blog that I created last year.

I Run Read Teach

I no longer update or post anything to this 6th Grade Scott Foresman Reading Street Resources blog.

FYI-I am currently teaching 5th and 6th grade history this year along with 2 small blocks of 5th grade english. Next year I might be teaching 6th grade SELF CONTAINED which means LOTS of new stuff……………………

Come visit me to read all about my teaching, reading, and running!

Back from the beach

I wrote a post on my running blog about our trip home from the beach. You can read it here:

http://everystepcounts365.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/back-from-the-beach/

It’s back to work tomorrow after a wonderful and relaxing week of spring break!!!!! Only 4 more weeks til summer vacation!!!

Flat is good

Flat is good. Well, maybe not in everything.

Flat tummies are good. Flat sodas are not. But today I found something flat that is VERY GOOD! Roads!

Here at Panama City Beach, FL (where we are on vacation) the roads are flat and NOT hilly!!! So good!

I ran for 60 minutes which might equal 7 or 8 or 12 miles for a lot of runners. For me-about 5! Through “flat” cute neighborhoods. Loved it!

I also started (one more time) HIIT-High Intensity Interval Training. I did this for 12 minutes. Sprint, walk, jog, walk and then repeat. It was pretty fun and went by really fast. Not sure how much REAL sprinting I was doing toward the end. I’ve heard that this 1. Burns calories/fat more than just steady training. 2. Will maybe hopefully help to increase my speed in running?

Anyway, I’m going to give it a shot. I downloaded a HIIT app to my phone so that it counted down each interval for me. Nice.

Needless to say, I was a tad bit sweaty after all this. But felt so good!

I would show you a picture of what I looked like, but my phone is NOT cooperating with me inside this condo this week.

Then I vegged by the pool the rest of the day before we went to eat at Breakers and then walked around Pier Park.

Here are some pictures of me, my daughter, and my mom after we got back from supper. We decided to play around with the camera a little.

 I have no idea what my mom is looking at. Sorta scary isn’t it????

Does my mom look like a grinning hyena or what? I promise we had not been drinking!

We all got the giggles-I guess from looking at the camera that we had situated inside the microwave to take our picture. Do you know how stupid you feel smiling for a camera with nobody behind it????

We leave tomorrow to head back home. Sad face. But as much fun as we have had and as relaxing as it has been, I miss home. My house, my husband, my stepson, my dogs, my life.

Running on vacation

1st day of vacation! Ahhhh….it feels so good! We are at Panama City Beach, Florida. And it is cold! 71 degrees this afternoon. 61 degrees at supper. So what I’m saying is this-I did NOT wear the cute little dress I bought when we went out to eat. The blue jeans were calling my name. And before you think that I was warm enough to eat supper with just my t-shirt on-think again. I took off my jacket JUST for the picture.

This is a 3 generation picture. Me on the left. My daughter (who is on a TIGHT leash right now!). My 65 year old mom. She doesn’t look 65 does she? She has lost 25 pounds recently and “says” she is going to start the Couch25k program so she can run with me! My daughter said she’s going to start it, too! I sure hope so. I LOVE running partners!

Today is our 1st day at the beach. Got here a little after 4pm. Guess what the 1st thing was that I did????? You guessed it-I ran! 2.1 miles in 23 minutes. At St. Andrews State Park. While my mom and daughter sat in the car and read. It felt sooooo good to run again!

And, shhhhh, don’t tell anyone, but on the way down here I told my daughter that I knew I was forgetting something REALLY important, but couldn’t remember what. Well, I guess my brain went on vacation a day early because I FORGOT MY RUNNING SHOES!! OMG!! My sweet daughter (who is on a TIGHT leash right now) was kind enough to let me borrow her running shoes. You know-the ones I bought her! But if we are all going to run (walk) tomorrow, I’m not sure how we are going to fit 6 feet into 4 shoes!!

Might have to go shopping!

Here is a quick rundown of what we ate at supper at Sharkys tonight (and evidence that I need to run more than 2 miles each day we are down here!):

Baked oysters, Salad, Roll, Cod, Vegetables, Fried Dill Pickles-That’s what I had!

Taylor told me she had something to tell me right when the waitress brought her entree. These were her famous last words-”I’m full.”  You will be proud of me. I did NOT hit her. I merely told her that she would be enjoying her shrimp for lunch tomorrow.

We went to Walmart after supper to buy groceries for breakfast/lunch. Oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, cereal, turkey wrap ingredients. Healthy and yummy.

Now we are all 3 sitting in the living room of the condo WITH OUR EYES WIDE OPEN!! None of us are sleepy. At 11:35 pm! Guess we will be sleeping late tomorrow.

Good night!

Finally some fun!

Still practicing for the ARMT. Still being bored. Still longing for the state test to disappear forever in a black hole out in space get here and get gone.

But at least we had some fun today. The juniors and seniors played in a Powder Puff game today. My daughter was one of them. Her team lost.

This was our one cheerleader, Bailey, who was cheering for the juniors. Boo!  He did 2 toe touch jumps-can’t wait to see him walk tomorrow.    That’s my #5 throwing that lethal block.      AND here are some of our “tough” 6th graders getting out of the sun so they won’t bake.

 

 

    Don’t ask me why these pictures won’t get in the right place for me tonight! I can’t get my cursor to drop down below the pics. Oh, well-you can see we had a fun afternoon. The kids needed this!