New Year's Weekend
We had a mostly enjoyable New Year's Weekend. I had a personal day to use up from work, so Jim and I were both home with the kids on Thursday. Friday night my dad had bought us (my two sisters, my brother-in-law, my dad, Jim and me) all tickets to the Grand Rapids Symphony for their performance of various appropriate New Year's Eve selections and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so we had a sitter watch things while we were gone as we had put the kids to bed just as she was arriving. We were home from the concert about 10:50, but then Abby woke up and said she was thirsty and wanted something to drink. I gave her some hot chocolate, then Becca woke up and wanted some too. We put the kids back to bed before midnight, then Jim and I toasted the new year with champagne, then went to bed soon after.

We were sound asleep until about 2:00 AM, when Abby woke us up saying "I threw up a little bit on my pillow." After Jim took a look at things, it wasn't exactly a little bit, to put it as delicately as possible. So we both cleaned the bed (twice, after all was said and done), put Abby in the bathtub, and put the sheets in the washing machine. Mind you, I'm running a race the next morning at 8:30 AM. But I wasn't able to go back to sleep....until about 4 or 5 AM, and then I had a weird dream about my mom discovering mice in my piano (which wasn't even my piano in the dream).

In the morning, I ran the Resolution Run around Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids, finishing the 4-mile race in a time of 40:05. I thought beforehand about making a sign (though I did not actually do this) to wear on my back saying something like "cheer for me, I had a sick kid at 2:00 AM!" It was one of the best race paces I've done (very slightly over 10-minute miles) but oh-so-close to going under 10 minute miles. Later in the morning, I took Becca to my mom's for her annual New Year's family breakfast, while Jim stayed home with a recovering Abby.





- posted by Kristen @ 1/02/2005 04:50:00 PM