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A Newbie’s Experience with Race for the Cure
Welcome guest blogger Stephannie Baker, who recently completed her first ever 5k at Arkansas Race for the Cure... If you had asked me one year ago if I was a runner, I would have told you that I am just not biologically cut out for it. I have always been relatively fit but not athletic. Sure, I can handle some yoga, some weight training. But cardio? Not so much. I was that girl at the gym who would run on a treadmill for about 1 minute and get so out of breath that my ribs would hurt and my thighs would itch. I really just assumed there was something wrong with me. But I love obstacle courses, at it brings some kind of adventure into my life. You will get what I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fitness, Guest Blogger, Health & Fitness, Mommyhood
Arkansas Consignment Sales
Last week I had the thrill of having an article published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette for the first time. The article was about consignment sales and ran as the lead story in the family section on Wednesday, September 29th. I’m not going to re-post the whole article here, but it ran with a sidebar that listed all the upcoming Fall sales across the state. I thought that might be useful, so I’m posting it. For those of you who have not experienced a children’s consignment sale, it’s a great way to score some excellent clothing, toys, and gear at great prices. It’s also a good place to make some money on all the stuff your kids are growing out of. It’s also very eco friendly, as you’re helping to recycle … Read entire article »
Filed under: Frugal Fawn, Spending Less, Write & Blog
I'm Going to Camp!
WordCamp, that is. I’m all signed up and anxiously awaiting my trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas to attend WordCamp Fayetteville. WordCamp is a small conference for people who use the WordPress platform to blog (and/or do other more techie stuff that I don’t understand). WordCamps are held all over the country, but this is the first one in Arkansas. Other than clues that the names of the conference sessions give me, I have no idea what to expect. I won’t know anyone there. That really doesn’t bother me, except that I just hope I’m not the only one that doesn’t know how to code in HTML or why I get 20 hits a day on my blog for people searching for “fire ant”. I also hope no one laughs when I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Travel, Write & Blog
MOMcation 2010 Wrap-up
MOMcation 2010 wrapped a week ago. So, I’ve had a whole week to ruminate and reflect. If you want it in a nutshell, MOMcation turned out as close to how I had imagined it as possible. Minus the tornadoes. But then, it’s really fitting that Mother Nature would come and show off her skills, talent, and personality at MOMcation too. It was, after all, a retreat for every MOM. The longer version, for those of you who like details and pictures, starts with the fact that 18 wonderful women showed up to Heifer Ranch, near Perryville Arkansas. Some of them had friends in tow, and some of them didn’t know a soul. We had young mothers and grandmothers, working moms and stay at homes, single, married, and things in between. The … Read entire article »
Resolutions: Eat, Play, Write, Play Some More
The first day of the new year is coming to a close. We’ve already said goodbye to 2009. I hope that you are as excited as I am about the promise of this new year. As that Semisonic song goes, “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” Normally I am not one to put big stock in New Year’s Resolutions. However, this year I have some very real goals that I plan to make good on. I think having this blog to write these goals in actually helped me to think harder about what my goals should be. Plus, I recently learned that you are 10% more likely to reach a goal if you share that goal with someone else. So, now you can all hold me accountable. Buy More … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fitness, Grocery Shopping, Health, Health & Fitness, Homemaking, Write & Blog
Arkansas Race for the Cure 2009
Last weekend I ran in my second Komen Race for the Cure 5k. I fell in love with this event last year – there is just something so electrical about 45,000 women gathered in one place, for one cause, with one purpose. There are men and children there too, but it is the girl power that I especially feed off of. This year, this was doubly true, as I fed off of the girl power of the entire crowd, but also of one specific girl in particular that I did not expect. I challenged myself to run the 5k in less than 27 minutes, knowing that it would motivate me for training and also get me a spot closer to the starting line (faster runners wear colored race numbers that gain … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fitness, Health & Fitness, Mommyhood
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