Moments

Having three kids is exhausting. Favorite stress moments of the week:

1. Superstore, grocery shopping with the kids. We're at the back of the store when Jesse says he has to pee. Washrooms are at the front of the store.

2. Trying on a sports bra at the mall while Afton crawls out of the change room.

3. Driving to my sister's house to watch her kids when I turn a corner too sharp and completely demolish the tire, at which point I get the kids out of the van and start the hour-long trek home.

4. Performing the heimlich maneuver on Afton. When that was done I was shaking and crying and didn't stop crying for the rest of the night.

5. Swimming lessons, followed by an afternoon at the lake with Jesse's preschool and a crying, tired 6-month-old.

The funny thing is, probably my favorite moment of the week was looking at and smelling a lilac tree on  the way home after ruining the tire on the van.

Oh, no! Nevermind. My favorite moment of the week was this:

After a long run today I was supposed to meet Brad and the kids at the river down in Fish Creek park. As I turned the corner and saw the bridge where we were meeting it started to rain. I was disappointed to see they weren't there to greet me but thought they must have turned around when it started to rain. So I kept on jogging. After a while I could see the hill to get home when I heard Brad call out in the distance: "Sarah!" I couldn't see him but I was sooo glad to hear I wasn't alone down there in that cold wet valley. A few minutes later, I saw these kids running down the hill yelling "Mommy!":

Such a happy moment!

And at the top of the hill this little one:

Preciousness.

I'm glad to be running again but I'm relearning some forgotten skills. One of them? Always cut your toenails before a run. Halfway through I could feel one of my toenails falling off and it hurt. Now it's all black and blue and getting ready to fall off. So worth it though :)