Kat was scheduled to do the Falmouth Triathlon today as part of her training. She did it last year, as well, with Cole…except, last year she had one of our old mountain bikes that had some sort of basket on the front. It wasn’t “ideal” competition gear, to say the least. This year, she bought a real, big girl road bike the day before we all came down here for the month…it even has a…
It wouldn’t be characteristic of me to spend this much time with these athletes and not share something about each of them on this blog. They all sort of gear up for it now, anyway. They know that when they come and hang out in my presence that anything and everything is fair game for content on this blog, unless they specifically tell me that they don’t want something quoted, photographed, or shared in any…
People have been making fun of me all week for this sleep mask I found at TJ Maxx. Matt O’Keefe keeps saying it looks like I’ve got a mini bra over my face. And, everyone is just generally making fun of me for wearing it and swearing that I sleep better with it on. Yes, I know I look like a tool. But, I am telling you the honest to God truth, I sleep deeper…
I’m sitting here on the deck of our rental house on the Cape getting amped up to write a blog post, which is in all seriousness as good as taking valium to me. These moments when I get to do this are few and far between on vacation because it’s hard to peel myself away from the kids and just trying to make the most of every second, every moment, we have down here. But,…
Maya and I have been having some great conversations while we’ve been home together, as is par for the course when you hang out with this girl. The one that we got deep into today was about our home. Maya was talking to me about how much she loves our home because she always feels like whenever she’s there, she always feels like there’s something for her to do: hang out with random combinations of…
One of the best things about Ben is that it’s in his nature to be a leader. It’s not just a coaching thing, or a business-owner thing, or even just a dad thing. He is a phenomenal leader. Ben has a way of leading people in a way that he makes you want to follow him, and buy into the message he’s laying out, and you just want to make him proud of the…
There’s a little bit of a story behind how we ended up renting a house down here on the Cape for the month. When CrossFit announced that the Games would be bumped back to the first week in August, we realized it posed a little bit of an issue for our family. Our usual post-Games, early August family vacation down on the Cape wouldn’t be able to happen the way it has for the last…
We’re doing our best to settle into a rhythm (thank GOD for spell check, as I don’t think I will EVER learn how to spell that word correctly) out here. A month is a long time to spend at a new place; it’s long enough that you want to bring things that are part of your normal routine, but not so much that you feel like you’re moving in permanently. Unfortunately, that line is like…
When Maya’s friend, Casey, passed away on the field with her last year, we all took an immediate liking to rubber ducks. Casey loved them, and all of a sudden, we were all obsessed with them and needed to have as many as we were willing to buy. We even went as far as Chatham on the Cape to Duck In The Window to get as many as we could. We got one for every…
I swear to you sometimes I think I’m borderline schizophrenic. One minute, I am floating around our home watching the little kids play nicely with one another: giggling, hugging, having their own little conversations that no one but them would understand. I hear Maya ask me to help her get on her crutches so she can go to the bathroom and am so, so grateful that I get to be there for her when she…