The Beauty of Womanhood

"Yet the vision [of womanhood] our culture offers is a sad consolation that exchanges the glory of feminine strength for a treadmill race to nowhere.  It squanders the kind of influence that is found primary in the soil of the home...And what does it offer in return? Women who strive against themselves, at war with the seeming redundancy of two X chromosomes, in a competition we were never made for, and in our hearts, don't really want to win. For when a women sets herself up alongside a man - as made for the same things and without distinction - the result is not uniformity, but rather, a reverse order. Indeed, in order for her to become like a man, he becomes less and less like one. And that's someone that most women, even the most ardent feminists, recoil at in their heart."

Excerpt taken from here.

Us For Them

"May our judgment be love." May You keep changing my heart to be more like Yours.

Running Adventures

I went for another run yesterday (who am I?!). I made sure to be more prepared compared to my first time around when I didn't even put on a hat and ended up coming home with a huge headache. I've been running in the evenings after putting my kids to sleep so by the time I get out it's actually quite chilly out. Yesterday I layered on another turtleneck and put on a toque...and was headache free when I came home (it's all about the little victories over here).

I went a little farther and my time was a bit better (although still slow by most people's standards, but whatever) so I'm quite happy about that. Overall, I'm feeling pretty good about things and I'm actually looking forward to my next run!

Run Sharon Run

I took my running shoes out for a run this weekend! Ok fine, it was more like a walk/jog combo if anything and according to my phone my time was terrible so maybe my jogging was actually more of a glorified walk, lol. Oh well, it's only up from here right?

Sneaker up!

I bought a pair of runners yesterday and I'm excited to put them to good use (and I hope this isn't just the novelty of the new shoes talking!). I'm not a runner by any means, but hey you've got to start somewhere. Unfortunately (or maybe conveniently) it snowed last night (what the heck, April?) so I'm going to wait for the stuff to melt and temperatures to warm up a bit before I take my shoes out for their inaugural run. (Ok, realistically I know it will be more walking than running and possibly more stopping to catch my breath than walking post trying-to-run; I'm more than a little out of shape, but that's ok...this is why I bought the shoes!)

Anyway, get your sneaks on. Let's do this!