Happy Birthday (or is it “Blogiversary”?) to me! Keeping Mommy Sane is now officially one year old! I can’t believe an entire year has gone by since I started this little venture, which was initially intended to be a creative outlet, a place where I could unleash my inner writer and write what I know […]
Archives for August 2013
Operation “Organize Kids’ Artwork”
You ever have a household chore you’ve been putting off forever because the idea of it sounds so, I don’t know, unappealing? For me, that project is the piles and piles of my kids’ artwork and schoolwork that I’ve been collecting over the past, um, five or six years. I am terrible at throwing their […]
Date Night!
I love getting dressed up. I love having an excuse to experiment with makeup, actually blow dry my hair and dig out those dresses collecting dust in the back of my closet. But like most moms, “fancy” nights out aren’t exactly common – and if they do happen at all, it’s usually because we’re going […]
A Creature of Habit
My longtime readers have probably figured this out already, but when it comes to running, I’m a bit of a Type A creature of habit. Okay, that may be an understatement. Let’s review: I run at either 5:30am (for weekday short runs) or around 9am (for weekend long runs). That’s it. For my weekday morning […]
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Win Tickets to King Richard’s Faire! (Giveaway)
I have a confession to make: I kind of have a thing for the whole Renaissance and Elizabethan eras. I have read “The Other Boleyn Girl” and all of the other Phillippa Gregory’s historical novels from that time period at least a dozen times. I love movies like Elizabeth, Shakespeare in Love and even Kevin […]
Meal and Exercise Plan and an At-Home Boot Camp Workout!
Ever have a week when you’re just not into meal planning? That’s where I’m at. Maybe it’s just me, but if I repeately eat similar foods, then I develop an aversion to them, and I have to avoid them for awhile. So I don’t know if I can do another salad with greens, barley and […]
Training For My Second Half Marathon
Here we go again! In 10 weeks, I will be running my second half marathon – the Baystate Half Marathon in Lowell, Mass.!! I admit, I was pretty psyched with how my first half went, both in terms of my training and my performance on race day, but it was a little lonely. This time around will be a totally […]