Everybody's doing it...

I am not usually one to cave to peer pressure, but consider me caved in!! I have enjoyed posting pictures of Anne over at www.ourbabynews.com/annesherwood, but have been quietly envying all the cute mom/family blogs of friends and random strangers. Then today, I found a website that will take your blog and turn it into a book. That was THE final straw! Anne is taking her nap, and here I am! I don't know if Sherwood Loony Bin is going to be Steve's favorite name, but he's not home right now and I am feeling impulsive! (We have rules about not calling each other for things such as the name of our blog, so don't think I am being a sneaky wife!)

To state a small portion of my case for "Sherwood Loony Bin", I will share something that happened literally 2 hours ago.

It was raining all morning. Weather.com even said 90% chance of rain. I think that is as high as their little precipitation percentage goes. After I fed Anne her lunch, I saw that it was no longer raining, and there was even some blue sky to be seen! Since Miss Anne is cutting her 3rd tooth (as of today), I decided that the blue sky I am seeing must be the extra 10% chance that weather.com mentioned and we needed to hit the neighborhood for a little exercise and teething distraction. It really did look very nice and clear outside... maybe a few gray clouds to the south, but whatever. Anne enjoyed her stroll for a good 15 minutes or so. We were maybe 1/2 mile from home and I feel the first drop... look up, still blue... no worries. I picked up the pace and began to feel a few more drops. Soon, it was pretty much really raining. And I am pretty much really 1/4 mile from the house.

Now, running used to be a thing of mine. Running fast, in fact! Like 1/4 mile in close to 1 minute fast (60.9 seconds to be exact... I know, that surprises even me these days) Too bad, my days of running glory are almost 11 years behind me. I am a walker now... I can walk really fast too!! haha!! Anyway, I ran, pushing Anne, in the rain, in front of all my work-at-home neighbors, ALL THE WAY HOME!!

Anne enjoyed it (thanks to her kick-butt stroller with a visor thingie keeping her dry). I loved it, thanks to it lasting no longer than 1/4 mile. And I didn't time myself exactly, but the run felt like about a 67 if my memory serves me correctly!! Haha!! Not bad for a momma!


Also, yesterday, Anne ate her first piece of tree bark. No kidding. So, if somehow participating in your 10 month old eating tree bark and running in the rain doesn't qualify at least me for the loony bin, then I don't know what does! (We'll get to Steve's qualifications later!)

Now I'm off to find a cute yellow FREE blogger template, because yellow is my favorite color and free is my favorite cost!

Later,
Penny :)

UPDATE: Couldn't find a yellow one that was as fitting as this one!! :)