Is it Friday yet?

I am so tired. I think I finally got into bed at 1:15 this morning and then I sat there and kept worrying if and when I was going to fall asleep and then you know how it works the more you look at the clock and worry about it the more you stay awake. I think i finally dozed off close to 2 AM.. The days seem so hard when you are going on no sleep. Exspecially when you are doing it all on your own with 4 kids. The night doesnt come quick enough to get them all in bed. Alas I finally got all my orders caught up and done and I may just make it into bed tonight before midnight. I think that would be a first in about a week. LOL
Well I'm a little bummed out today. I found out I will not be able to run my marathon ever. It really stinks to get old... I so really wanted to start running but it doesnt look like its in the stars for me.. For more details you can check my other blog here..
The day's been kinda a blur for me. Still alot of run run. And still not enough time in the day to get everything accomplished... Guess there's still tomorrow.. Well I think I will call this good.
Until tomorrow....

Another Crazy Day

It's been another crazy day for me. Steve left yesterday I miss him already..I spent most of the day putting my blog page back up. The last blog I posted with the slide show somehow pushed all my widgets and side bar stuff down below my post and I couldnt figure out how to get it back. By the time i got it figured out which was pretty simple once I got the awnsers I had already managed to delete all my side bar stuff and change the layout so I spent all day trying to put it back together. I had 6 orders come in over the weekend and today so I am trying to get caought up on them. I have managed to get 4 done since I put my kids to bed and only have 2 more to go,but seeing how it is 12:25 in the morning I think I will wait until .... I was going to say tomorrow but it is already tomorrow... LOL gosh just not enough time in the day to complete everything I want to... And I'm guessing today is going to be another long tired run run day. I have dr. appts and kid activities already lined up.

Wish I was my friend jodi right now probably soaking up some sun on the beach of hawaii. Catch some rays for me girl its been pouring all day here. Well if I am going to be able to function in a few hours I best be off to bed.

Help with page

I lost all my side bar and widgets. Somehow my post pused them all down in a row under the post. Anyone know how to get them back up on the side where they used to be?
Thanks

Perseverance

I dont think I knew the meaning of perseverance until today. I just wanted to share our day so far. This morning my husband and son got up early and went to play basketball at the church. So I got up went and got in a short run and met up with the family to go to my son's big belt rank advancement test in karate. I was expecting it to be much like the testing they did in utah. About 1/2 to 1hr test. Minimal effort. Basically showing the forms and sparring, self defence and be done. Wow was I wrong!!!!
This ended up being a 3 hr test which was very rigorous, and difficult. They were split up in 3 groups of 6-7 kids. 1 group would go in front of the judges and pass off their kicks while the other 2 groups were doing either crunches, push ups, running in place or jumping jacks. Then they would rotate. It was a continouse rotation the whole 3 hrs. After oassing of the moves they went to passing off their forms. They would pass off 1 form at a time then rotate. The most omount of forms soe of them had to pass off was 7 so it took a very long time. Austin had to pass off his forms 1-4... He did great and was so sharp and crisp in his moves.
Once everyone had a chance to pass off their forms it went to passing off self defence and then 40 minutes of sparring. 3 rounds with 1 partner then switching partners and going another 3 rounds. 3 diffrent partners with 3 rounds and a minute to two break in between. It was so tense. And the pushups they did were men pushups. crunches had to be with the shoulders coming off the matt and with running in place knee's had to be high. They would literally do these push ups and crunches or running for 4 or 5 mins at a time until they rotated. I think i would have killed over. I couldnt believe the stamina and perseverence these kids had to have to pass. There were some who did not pass and get their belts because of laziness or lack of knowledge of their forms. It was so strict and hard. Back in utah when they would test to become a blackbelt they would have to spar for like 5 or 10 minutes or something like that and it was called sudden death and i thought that was crazy but it didnt compare to what these kids had to do and they are not even testing for their black belts.
I could see my son throughout these 3 hrs give up and shake his head and mouth to me i'm done and he kept saying he failed because there was a kick he just had learned this week and had to pass it off for the test. He did not do it very well and the master was yelling come on austin get your leg up jump. It's called a jupmping spin cresent kick. Its difficult. And he tried real hard to do it but assumed he failed because of it. He was so tired and exhausted and the sweat was just pouring from him. I kept trying to reassure him and say keep going you will do it.
This master was hard on them i am not sure that I could perform like he wanted them to after doing pushups and crunches and running for 3 hrs. He would say some of you have already failed and you would have to go through all the test wondering if you were that one who failed.
Well Austin was so shocked when they called his name to get his belt. He couldnt believe it. He was on cloud 9 for hours. So excited.
I dont think I have ever been more proud of my son for accomplishing something then I am today. He worked so hard and persevered. I just cried when they called his name. I'm so proud of him.. And to find out he did all this on an empty stomach because he skipped breakfast this morning to go play basketball with his dad and had to come home and hurry off to karate. How he went through all that without passing out is incredible. And he didnt even tell me until after the test because he knew i would have been freaking out... I was on the end of my chair the whole time...
Today is his day.... We are going for icecream a little later then having pizza for dinner and watching a movie as a family. This was his special request..... What a little man I have...
Steve flies out tomorrow to florida for a week with work. It will be the longest he has been away since we moved here. It will be a hard week. It seems we have alot of things going on as well. It will be run run for me. We will make this night with the kids great and memorable to get us through the week. Gotta go get some grocery shopping in before Steve leaves so I wont have to go do it while he is gone. So i better be off. I am including some picts of austins test. I had a hard time with the camera so I apologize for the quality of the picts... If it is just showing words and asking for email and stuff just click the x in top right corner and it should start showing the pictures.....