King Ding-A-Lings

I know...I've been slacking (an understatement) on maintaining my blog. I've had my own blog since I was in my final year of college, so about 8 years now. It is much easier to blog and have people reading it who you don't really know. Sometimes I feel like I can't really write what is in my heart or whatnot. I also feel like I must post a picture...or a thousand...with each blog post. I know its quite an easy task to transfer pictures off the camera...but it takes TIME! It is easier to blog when people comment on what you've written about (hint, hint), so let me know if you read my fabulous blog postings!


So I've updated, very briefly, about the children in the two posts below. I will do my best to post after Colin's birthday party next weekend. I'm a bit sad about my baby turning one!


Let's see, what has been going on with the adults of our household? Greg is in full swing with his summer-time activities. He plays on a Wednesday night golf league and is really enjoying that. I believe this is his third year with this league. Greg is also playing on a Thursday night slow-pitch softball team. While his team is doing so-so, our medical insurance bills would say otherwise! A few weeks ago Greg took a bad bounce of the ball right to his nose. He was not worried about breaking his nose (again), but was more worried about his teeth! I quickly left the kids with a friend in the stands and made my way to the dugout with all that I had...baby wipes! I assured him his teeth her fine, his nose wasn't broken, but he did need stitches. Everyone was telling him he was fine, it wasn't broken...blah blah blah. I wanted to tell them to shut up...the end of his nose was split wide open!! I don't think the people could look past the massive amounts of blood on his face and jersey to take a real look at the damage. Four stitches and some painful numbing shots to the tip of his nose and he was good as new!


As for me? I've been on the run these days!

A group of my Mommy friends and I decided to run our very first 5k road race! Our fearless leader, Erin, had just ran the Fifth-Third Riverbank 25k when she talked us into training for a 5k. This was decided over beers of course, but we were all sober when we agreed to train and run the race! So a couple of weeks ago we ran the Reeds Lake Run in East Grand Rapids on a beautiful Saturday morning. My only goal was to run the entire 3.1 miles...and I did it in 33 minutes and 24 seconds! I have decided to keep up my running and am looking at running a couple more races this fall. My next goal is to run the distance in under 30 minutes...very achievable!

In the process of training for the race, I also have been working on getting the rest of my baby weight off. I am happy to report, I am in week 4 of my maintenance period (6 weeks total) for Weight Watchers. I have 2 pounds to get to my pre-pregnancy weight, but I am in smaller sizes now than I was when I got pregnant with Colin. I can honestly say that I haven't felt this good about myself and what I've been able to accomplish in a loooong time!

The flip side of being "skinny," it is a hard battle. I think I actually need counselling! It is much easier to be overweight than it is to be the size I am now. I liked blending in and not really getting noticed. It makes me uncomfortable for people to say "wow, you are so skinny now!" I am proud of myself, don't get me wrong, but it is hard to take compliments and receive attention.

That is the update on The Pattison's for now!