What a blast! Have you ever run a race and found three tables full of cookies waiting for you at the finish? Thousands of them- literally- of all different kinds-chocolate chip, sugar cookies, peanut butter, oatmeal, cranberry almond, even dairy-free blueberry cookies. If this sounds fun to you, come join us next year at Continue reading →
Four weeks down, 16 weeks to go! I didn’t go quite as many miles this week because of our Team Orphans Cookie 5K on Saturday! (another blog coming in a few days with pictures!) Friday was CRAZY busy with 5K preparations- like putting out hundreds of little yellow and blue flags on the race course Continue reading →
I find it funny how much I’ve learned about parenting from – get this- the Ironman! I never thought those two things had anything in common. Then I trained and raced two Ironmans. There’s definitely something about an Ironman that can be all-consuming, expensive, and exhausting, like parenting, but I’ve found more similarities along my Continue reading →
There’s nothing like the smell of freshly baked cookies to lure you into the kitchen….or to lure you into a 5K! Grand Rapids, Michigan is hosting the first ever 5K (that I know of) that boasts thousands of homemade cookies at the finish line. You can decide if you’d like to run the 5K, walk Continue reading →