Maternity Leave #2, Getting Organized and Half Marathon!

Hello Blog Readers!! (and by that I mean my mom, and the one daycare mom who told me she found my blog - Hi!!)

Here we are 2.5 months into my second maternity leave. Archer was born on August 11 at 5:55pm at Mount Sinai! Things have been great, not sure if he is just more relaxed, or if we are more relaxed, probably a bit of both! I've already cleaned the house more times this mat leave than I did the whole time I was off with Charlotte.

Although I seem to have reallllly cute children, they don't sleep. It's a good thing they are so cute. Charlotte sleeps great now, but it was a struggle. Archer gives me 2-3 hour stretches, but that's it! - I know this is phase and this too shall pass. That's what I tell myself anyways

Anyhow, I'm taking advantage of my time off by organizing the house and training for a half marathon.

I've managed to keep our freezer organized and last week I re did all of our spices into little mason jars. I've been meal planning for the week and doing groceries on Mondays to prepare for the week. So far so good.

I'm doing the towomensrun.com 5k next weekend. I've done a few races in that series and they are all great. So great in fact, I've decided to sign up for their half marathon in May! I haven't signed up yet but I will. I've looked up the training and I think it's something I can do over the next 7 months. I'm happy it'll be my first half, so I will be going in with no expectations. I'm well aware that since I'm breastfeeding full time, I will half to be careful and I've been looking into the proper nutrition to make sure Archer and I both stay nice and healthy. I'm also working on getting my mom to join me! I think it would be great, especially since it's a ladies run!

I'm going to try and blog about my training. I love reading those types of blogs and I always find them motivating! So here is the first post, I hope to update one a week with my training from the previous week and the plan for the upcoming.

Any encouraging thoughts and advice is welcome!!

It's currently pouring rain, so i'm off to snuggle with Archer and research winter running gear for me!