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Fridays are rest days ... not for a stay at home mom though !!! HA

Rest day for a stay at home mom, is there really such a thing?  If I'm not cleaning or picking up after my daughter, I am doing laundry or cooking.  There is no such thing as rest.  Days are gone when I worked full time in front of a computer.  When I would sit in a chair 8 hours a day and browse the internet and look for good sales.  Gone are the days of high heels and work clothes, replaced with comfy flats, knits instead of wovens, t-shirts instead of button downs, capri pants instead of skirts.

So it's my rest day, and what do I do instead?  I walked, about 7 miles today.  I am fortunate to live close to a really nice mall, and I walked to it twice today :)  (Hmmmm fortunate for me, not so fortunate for my hubby!)
How will this affect my 5 mile long run tomorrow.  Guess we will see.  No treadmill tomorrow, too, it's time to take it outside in the nice weather.  Thankfully Chicagoland is cooling down, I was getting pretty tired of the 90-100 degree weather.  I did some carb loading.  Not too much, just a few bites of angel hair marinara.    It's just 5 miles after all.

Have a great weekend!

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