Just What This Mama Needed...Thank You Velma!!

Look what came in the mail this afternoon! A cute lil' card that read 'Every mom needs a good sitter' w/a pic of a comfy chair, along with a candy cane sweatband from my Bloggy Santa Velma! So sweet right? And it came at just the right time. Seriously. I immediately slipped it on:

 Yup, that's me attempting a smile, in the midst of doing post Christmas clean up and thank you cards with kids:

oh...and the kids 5th b-day card invitations

Sprinkled with attempting to re-organize our life kid's bedroom. (I couldn't muster the energy of getting a pic of this. Just visualize kid krazy kingdom.)


So by 3:02pm when the dear hubby came home, I just looked at him. 'I need a quick run' I said. (It'd been two plus days of Christmas craziness and I hadn't been alone for over ~72 hrs). He saw my face and just nodded. 


So out I went for a quick run, and it brought back some sanity to my life. And the fun thing was having the candy cane sweat band along for the ride. It gave me the nod knowing there's SOO many of us fellow mama runners out there who just 'Get it". Who understand a quick outdoor run IS what keeps us going. 
So here's me post run:)

Thank you Jill for putting together the Bloggy Santa idea. So fun!! I loved giving my card/gift to Sherri at RunningRocks. And Velma -you rocked as my SS! For those of you who haven't visited her blog, you should. Here's three reasons: 1. You can tell she's just a really, really nice person. 2. She's a professor in Criminology and Justice (right Velma?) 3. She's a fellow mama runner!!
That's it for me. Heck, I wasn't even planning on posting til' tomorrow but had to share the Santa Love and ponder on the power of the blogging world;-)
Peace out friends and I'm hoping to show the Splish suits manana!