So, I hope you didn’t fall asleep reading my post last night! I have to tell you, I had to stop blogging last night because I started dozing off as I was writing!

After the museum, I drove to JB’s house to meet CKM so we could go to the Electric Run, http://electricrun.com/atlanta/, at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Luckily for me this was a 5k and we were going to walk it! Whew!

At JB’s house, they fed me, it was his son E’s birthday, yummy yummy yummy! After a while, we got dressed in our day glow funky outfits (we were the “Brightest Crayons in the Box”) and headed to the speedway. The race was capped at 10,000 participants, so there wouldn’t be too many people there.

We passed a bunch of people going to the race, you could tell, we were all glowing! Everyone gave each other thumbs up! When we got to the race, it was fun to see all the different ideas people had for this run. There were light up tutus, wheelchairs were decked out, grow ups, kids, everyone was definitely in the spirit of things! I’m excited because I registered for the Firefly 5k in July in Colorado!

There were no official start waves, they started a countdown every five minutes and we were off! There was music at the start, pumped through speakers throughout and at several stations. It was very cool, all the different lighting features along the way, umbrellas hanging from trees lit up, Chinese lanterns in the trees,all different color lights, even the water stations were cool, the cups were dayglo colors and they had these lit up tubes and when you added your cup, it created a great feature! There were tunnels with strobes and tunnels with bubbles. The course even took us onto the track! That was so much fun, and as close as I will possibly ever get to a racetrack!

The nice thing about the race was there was no pressure, just walk it at your leisure and finish when you finish. It started raining during the run, on and off, it wasn’t bad at all, luckily it wasn’t cold and we had ponchos if it got bad. After the finish was a big thumping after party, we both looked at each other “when was the last time you were at a night club?” Um…

We left after jumping and dancing for a bit, I dropped CKM off and headed home, but…I realized I was starving, so I stopped at Fellini’s for a slice and a Coke, it was heavenly! That gave me the little boost I needed to get home, it was a wee bit late when I got here. I knew I needed to blog quickly and then I passed out!

Sunday came and I amazingly enough slept in…when did sleeping until 9am become sleeping in? Oh well…I wished a few people of Happy Mothers Day, I got to talk to my sister, that was great! got a few hours packing done and then headed out to meet SDL, her sister DJL and Miss A for lunch. We went to Doc Chey’s in the Highland and had a great time, as always. I am so honored to be a part of their lives and that they let me celebrate in the big and little things in their lives means so much to me.

I posted a picture of myself, my mom, her mom and my sister, in honor of Mother’s Day and it still amazes people how much I look like my mom. People posted some wonderful things and memories about my mom, I was really touched. It was 19 years ago today, I left NYC for GA, the day after Mother’s Day, she had mixed feelings,happy for me in my new adventure, sad that I was going.

I will tell you sometime about my mom, she was quite the woman, just not today. It was nice seeing all the photos on Facebook of people and their moms and the wonderful things they had to say, some who’s moms have passed, and of course, it made me miss mine all the more.

And then, it made me a little sad, because for almost 12 years I was mom to a son and daughter (step mom, don’t want to confuse anyone too much) that I miss very much. They were 7 & 8 when I met them back in 1996! They were so little, cute and shorter than me! (That didn’t last that long). I realized that May 2008 was the last time I saw my daughter and August 2008 was the last time I saw my son. I understand that with divorce you lose your spouse, as you’re supposed to, and you might lose some friends, but the hard part is when you’re the step mom, you might lose the kids and that’s what really hurt.

I did hear from my daughter back when Hurricane Sandy hit NYC, she wanted to see how my family was doing, I was very touched. She also told me about herself, where she is and what she’s doing now and how I impacted her life and it was wonderful and made me feel great, I think I cried and bragged about it for a good week, sorry if anyone had to hear me go on and on! Unfortunately, that was the last I heard from her.

No matter what happened with their dad, I loved those two more than anything and every Nov 11 (boy child) and May 9 (girl child) I think about them on their birthdays and send them a birthday wish that who knows, maybe they feel in their heart,they may not know what it is, but it’s there.

Ok, maudlin is done.

I got home from lunch and mowed the lawn, apparently the dandelion fairy had made a stop at my house and her sack broke because my yard was a toddlers dream! All those pretty flowers for mommy! I felt much better! Sorry kids!

Speaking of fairies, I have been sending up requests to the packing fairy and she isn’t listening, I even offered cookies, no dice. BG tells me that she is trying to teach me a lesson, I have to much stuff! Gee thanks!

This is really happening! Uhaul is rented, the realtors are coming over tomorrow to sign contracts and put a sign in the yard. Maybe it’s time for a new St Joseph statue, the last one didn’t seem to work!
http://www.stjosephstatue.com/

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Now, it’s off to bed to dream about packing tape!