I CAN DO HARD THINGS!

This past Saturday the wonderful ladies I run with and I decided to do a 10 mile run. This run is in preparation for a 1/2 marathon we decided to sign up for about a week and a half ago (the 1/2 is on Saturday). Pretty crazy but the 1/2 marathon is in preparation for another crazy race we signed ourselves up for. Anyway, it has been a while since I have run that many miles so I knew I needed to get a good nights sleep. Dave and I went out Friday night but we got home at a decent time after eating a carb enriched dinner. After I got back from taking the babysitter home I went to check on Ella and I heard the most distinct and unmistakable cough...the croup. She didn't feel warm and she was still sleeping so I put the humidifier in her room and figured she would wake me up if she needed me. As I was just drifting off to sleep at about 11:30 (much later then I planned) Ella started calling and crying. And this is how the rest of my night went...

11:30 - Get Ella and bring her in my room.

11:45 - My sweet hubby takes Ella into a hot steamy shower to help her breath so I can get some sleep.

12:15ish - Our fire alarm goes off. When Dave opened the bathroom door all of the steam set off the alarm.

12:30ish - Dave finally gets the alarm shut off.

1:00 - Ella drifts off to sleep.

1:15 - Dailee comes in our room in a panic over Ella being sick and the fire alarm going off (very understandable).

1:30 - Dailee calms down and sleeps in the chair in our room.

1:30 - SLEEP!!!

3:00 - Aurbrey wakes up and is barfing in our toilet#@#!!??? Dave, again to the rescue as I lay in bed wishing I was asleep dreaming about the 10 mile run.

3:30ish - Quinn wets his bed.

4:00ish - Just try not to think of anything but sleep.

5:45 - Alarm goes off!!! Put on those running shoes!!!

6:00 - 7:30 - RUN 10 MILES!!!

Yes, I did it and I proved to myself that I can do hard things, at least physically anyway. I just hope I'm not barfing Saturday morning...