Mother Runner

I typically run to stay fit and feel good. Running is my favorite way to distress and spend time outside.  I can and prefer to run along with no expectations other than to just run.  But on occasion I like to run with other people.  When I can manage it, I drive to downtown Houston in rush hour traffic to run with a running group.  At times, there are 100+ people that show up and run either a 5 mile loop or a 3 mile loop.  I've recruited a couple people to run on Wednesday's as well. I've missed about 3 or 4 Wednesday in a row and will miss today as well because....LIFE.  As a working professional, wife and mother of 3 driving 30-45 minutes downtown during rush hour can be almost impossible. And then I was invited to run with another group that meets up on Saturday mornings around 5 or 530!!  It's perfect except for the fact that this Saturday, my husband has plans to help a co-worker move.....such is L.I.F.E. Our kids are still not at an age w...

The Instagram Giveaway was a huge success, thank you everyone for participating!! The winner was announced Friday evening and posted - what a lucky lady :) I will be hosting another giveaway via Instagram and Facebook during the month of July and will post details next week. So yesterday, was my birthday and it was great :)  I am one of those people that still loves to celebrate my birthday even as an adult and look forward to it and my special day. The kids want to get me a new car because mine is fat.... There are three of them and I drive an SUV.  If I had a smaller car, they wouldn't fit with all of their "necessary" items, haha.  Anyway, it's been raining like more than usual for Houston and I'm dying to get out and go fro a run.  I love to run in the ran but I'm will not go out if there are flash flood warnings (except for Harvey....I ran in that), lightening or thunder.  To many horror stories about people either getting swept away or electroc...

If  you haven't checked out the Insta giveaway, what are you waiting for?! The giveaway ends on Friday at 12:00PM CST and the winner will get..... A survive pack of IDLife products!  The products included are Hydrate in two flavors, Energy in two flavors and two Sleep Strips to help you get the best sleep around :) All you have to do is follow me, motherrunner0619, and like the original post.  Easy peasy!  And if you want additional entries, simply tag a friend.  Each tag counts for an additional entry so tag as many friends as you would like. I'll announce the winner Friday evening.  Good luck everyone

Today is the day!! I will be hosting a giveaway on Instagram this evening - around 5 p.m. CST.  The giveaway will run for the week and a winner will be selected on Friday. I'm super excited to share this product with you but I still can't tell you what it is :) You'll just have to follow me on Insta to catch it - @motherrunner0619

Hello Everyone!! To go along with my last post and the changes that I will be making to the blog I will be posting a special on Instagram!  You can find me on Instagram with the handle motherrunner0619 June is my birthday month and the 19th is my actual birthday so I'm going to do something fun next week leading up to it. It will deal with fitness and nutrition to help people get healthy and *hopefully* stay healthy.  Starting and maintaining a healthy way of life is very difficult because we've made it so easy to be lazy, sloppy, and obtain junk food. But as a society, we also send conflicting messages.  Be pretty, be skinny, be fit, be yourself, love yourself, fat shame, skinny shame....  There is no room for any of it.  We all, or most of us, know if we are actually being and eating the things that fuel our body properly. We know that eating cotton candy and drinking a coke is not the same thing as eating a salad topped with veggies and drinking wat...