Untangling Christmas

I have found a fantastic site to help with Christmas planning. www.untanglingchristmas.org. There is also an ebook, which i am in the process of reading.

About Untangling Christmas:

Armed with strategies to simplify and de-stress, as well as tons of doable ideas and delicious recipes, Karen and LeAnn have put together a wonderful resource to help you feel blessed, not stressed!
This practical go-to guide will empower you to:

• Evaluate your current seasonal strategies (or lack there-of!) and identify re-occurring holiday hassles.
• Set up a simple Christmas Planner designed to enable you to be on top of the holidays, rather than the other way around!
• Acquire fast and frugal decorating tips and creative, but simple, gift-giving ideas.
• Whip up delicious holiday foods – both the “from scratch” sort dear Grandma would have made and other simple, short-cut recipes for when time is tight. 

Sounds wonderful right? check it out.

Tennessee Ragnar Relay

I've signed up with 10 other girls and 1 guy to run the Ragnar Tennessee Relay. The Tennessee Ragnar is a 196 mile running event through the birthplace of country music.

"Starting in Chattanooga you will hug the Tennessee River and head northwest. Your team will run, day and night, across the rolling hills of southern Tennessee while enjoying the stunning November foliage. After the hills, you will move on to the ‘stills, as you pass through historic Lynchburg. The race (and your stamina) will wrap up, when you honky tonk your way to the Country Music Hall of Fame, in Nashville, Tennessee."

I am so excited. We start running at 7:00 a.m. Friday morning November 4th. We each will run 3 legs - and hopefully be done sometime Saturday afternoon. I will run a total of 16 miles.

My first run will be 5.2 miles:




My second is 4.3 miles


and my last leg is 6.5 miles:



We are going to have a blast and be totally sore and sleep deprived by the time Sunday rolls around.

Can't wait. :o)