Mama's Got New Shoes!

You know what makes me happy right now? Putting on my headphones and running like there's no tomorrow. The scale is NOT cooperating right now and I kind of have this attitude that the scale can suck it. I don't even care. I like to run. More than that, I like training for something. I don't know if I'll get pregnant next year. I don't know if I'll have a baby anytime soon. What I do know is that I'm not going to just sit around and be miserable until it happens. This whole getting pregnant and having babies business has never been easy for us, and I didn't expect that to start now. I'm stubborn enough and we want it enough that we will just keep plugging along until it works. Realistically, we will have 3-4 chances in 2013. A typical IVF cycle is about 8 weeks, then a 2 month break if it doesn't work. When I stepped back and thought about it, that's really not very many cycles in one year! Instead of focusing my life entirely on my reproductive organs, I am choosing to do what I know I can. We are signed up for a Graffiti Run February 1st. By we, I mean the whole family. Kids and all. There is a race almost every month, but these are the ones I have my eye on:

1. Graffiti Run 2/1
2. Hot Chocolate Run 2/9
3. Firefly Run 3/23
4. Color Run 4/6
5. Too Hot To Handle 7/14
6. Race for the Cure 10/19
7. Turkey Trot 11/28
8. Glow Run (Nov)
9. Frosty 5K (Dec)
10. Dallas Marathon (half) (Dec)

I'm not dumb enough to plan many summer runs. :) I'm sure I can find one in May and September, but nothing has caught my eye yet. My goal, and it may not happen in 2013, is to run a race every month for a whole year. It's doable, just expensive! I will have quite the collection of t-shirts though! This is something I CAN do. I can't force my body to have a baby, but I can force it to keep moving forward towards that Marathon next December! Maybe I'll get brave and run the whole thing! Right now I'm really just aiming for the half because the idea of running 26 miles just isn't all that appealing. I won't even drive 26 miles to go somewhere without complaining it's too far. :)