dressing in green, wearing shamrock stickers on our faces and running in the
annual st patrick's day run at the bay. actually, i was the only one who wore the
shamrock on their face this year. the boys refused saying they were "too old for that".
we invited mr. g to join us as a courtesy, but we know he plays tennis on
saturday mornings and since the run has been a mom/son thing more or less
over the years {with auntie jen joining a few times}, we were perfectly ok with this.
despite a wetter than usual winter, it stayed away for the run and the weather
turned out to be perfect for running. this year we stayed together for the first mile
and a half, but after that, the boys took off. i was in no shape to sprint to catch up as
i haven't been running regularly. as i ran, i came across my neighbor's 6 year old daughter,
grace alone. since her mother was no where in sight (she has triplets), i told her to stay
with me and we'd meet up with her mom at the finish line. my boys were there to greet us,
and a few minutes later, grace's mother crossed the finish line.
there was no time to eat pizza or drink green beer this year. the gerblets needed to
get home asap so they could shower and get ready for the FIRST robotics competition
with c. i chose to stay back this year as i didn't have 8 hours to watch other kids compete.
as i explained this to finn and gave him a big hug goodbye, he said "don't worry mom,
in two more years, i'll be on the Holy Cows team and then you can come watch ME compete.
absolutely i said.
