I think I can... I think I can.

So, today I am officially signing up for the 5K on Thanksgiving. I am very excited about it. Tho, I feel kind of weird getting all excited about 3 miles. I mean, didn't our parents walk 3 miles up hill everyday to school? But we are talking about old, overweight Cindy running 3 miles. Something I never thought would ever happen.

I'm training with 2 friends. We meet MWF and run. Yesterday we warmed up, then ran for 8 minutes, walked for 5, then ran for 8 - tho it was probably closer to 10 because somehow I hit the pause button on my phone! Can you believe it? Me... running for 8 minutes, and being ok. Yes, toward the end I was more shuffling than running, but I never walked. I kept going. And it felt amazing. Runners high maybe?

I just feel.... I don't know. I am just feeling good about myself. And that doesn't happen very often.

Alex is amazing me with the things he is learning in school. Homework started this week. He was a list of things to do for the week, and we have from Monday until Friday to get them done. So, when he gets home from school, he can play/watch tv, then we have dinner and then we do homework after dinner. He is working on the letter S, so we had to color a picture of S words, cut out pictures that start with S in the newspaper - He cut out a Steeler! HaHa. He had to count as high as he could, and then we did heads/tails with a coin and counted which had more, which had less. He knows how to tally - where you draw 4 lines and then cross them to make the 5th line. I just am amazed at what he is learning.

And I still wish I could be in his room all day. I just want to see what he does. At dinner we talk about his school day and what he learned, but I know I am missing out on fun stuff he is doing. I told the teacher at his conference that I would love to volunteer in his class. So I need to make some time to do that.

On Thursday, we met Paula Deen! I love her, and her southern accent. Her hair was as big as it is on tv, and she was just as sweet. She played high five with Alex and kept saying - you're missing sugah! It was so cute. But since she was playing with him, I didn't really get to talk to her. But, now I have a signed book from her. It's probably the first non-Star Trek person I've gotten a real autograph from. Except Barry Williams when I was in college. :)