Two things
Happy Thursday friends!
The past 24 hours have been a little on the crazy side. A good kind of crazy if that makes any sense? Yesterday morning we received a tweet from Megan, a blogger friend, stating….”Well, good morning there featured recipe maker on Tasty Kitchen today! That soup looks insanely diving. Just sayin’!” Our heart skipped a beat. We reread the tweet at least five more times before the news finally sank in. Featured? Our recipe? Really? On Tasty Kitchen? No way! We sprinted to the computer, stood, and typed tastykitchen. com into the browser as fast as we could. And 2.2 nano seconds later, we saw this… We grinned from ear to ear. Holy recipe balls! There’s our giant grill for the whole world to see. We couldn’t believe it. After spending a year submitting recipes to Tasty Kitchen, our hard work had finally paid off. It was a surreal and exciting moment (still have jazz hands as we type this post!). But the craziness didn’t stop there. Apparently when we asked February to “bring it”, she heard us loud and clear. We have been agonizing over whether or not to run the Chicago Marathon this year. There were so many reasons to not do it – time, money, and sanity. We kept asking myself, do we want to this? Do we want to fully commit to running another marathon? If you’ve read this blog you know the struggles we experienced while running The Big D last year. From the heat to the hills to the wind, it was enough to make us never want to run a marathon again. Thankfully our mother, who is a saint in our eyes, ran the last 5 miles with us otherwise we don’t think we would have finished. Anyways, after thinking about that insane race, we came to a conclusion. The only way we were ever going to run another marathon was if we had a running partner. Enter, Listy. She has 3 or 4 marathons under her belt? (Sorry friend, we couldn’t remember!). If she wasn’t going to do it then we were out for sure. No pressure, right? Yesterday was the first day of registration and we kept emailing Listy, did you sign up? Are we doing it? We're sure we wasn’t annoying at all. Finally, at 2:36 PM, Listy forwarded us her registration confirmation. Gulp. As soon as we saw it, we knew there was no turning back…. We are officially registered to run the Chicago Marathon. Yes, we realize this is crazy. But the more we thought about running by Lake Michigan, the Sears Tower, and Grant Park, it brought back many wonderful memories of the time we spent in Chicago. The next thing we knew, all of those negative thoughts we had about running another marathon went out the window. Chicago here we come! Alright, we are off to sit by the fire. Mr. B and we did make it safely to Park City. Can’t wait to show you pictures! See ya!
