20 done and twins update

Last night I completed my final seriosuly long training run for the Marathon, 20 miles, it went pretty well though it was so cold and windy and I kept thinking it was going to rain, I saw lightning several times but I think it rained after I was home safe asleep in bed.

So next week the long run is 12 and then the week after that is great- I do 3 miles the 17th, 4 miles the 18th, and 2 miles the 19th, 20th and 21st are rest days(though one of these days I need to drive to Chicago to pick up the race bib and t-shirt), then Sunday the 22nd is the full 26.2 mile Marathon!

When I got home last night the twins had drawn tons of beautiful pictures of animals, they are learning this from a book they got last year for Christmas.

Next week Aga's friend Beata will be visiting us, she originally of course is from Poland though now her and her family live and work in Ireland. So next week besides getting those final intermediate training runs done, I will be spending tons of times with N&J, including a trip on Friday to Rosemont Theater to see "Mickey Mouse's Magic Show".

N&J start a gymnastics/tumbling class today after school, we decided no ice skating classes this year though we will still go ice skate with them some nights occassionally. So Mondays they have ballet class after school and Thursdays they have the gymnastics. Busy girls!