7QT: Trump, Runs, and a Giveaway!

Hey y'all it's FRIDAY!!  That was quite the long short week, amiright?  Here we go...

1)

I am seriously so "off the grid" sometimes.  I had to google this morning to see if it was Inauguration Day.  I don't watch the news, I don't read the newspaper or any online news sources, and I'm not on Facebook.  So yeah, today's kind of a big deal for our country!

I'll make fun of his hair, but that's about it.  He needs to prove himself a terrible president before I start protesting him as a president.  I'm not a huge fan of his personally, but I don't know what he'll be like in office.  I really don't like sending a message to the rest of the world that we are a nation divided.

2)

My two middle schoolers completed their Science Fair last week and did amazing.  They both put so much hard work into their projects, wrote their papers, and ran their experiments.  We didn't have to help JP at all on his, and Andrew only needed a little guidance as this was his first one.  

JP made electricity from mud (the science behind it has some long name but you'll have to ask him for specifics!)

Andrew studied the link between being active during the day and sleeping at night.  He had ten test subjects (Theresa was one!  Thanks girl!)  provide their activity tracker data and unfortunately found no correlation.  Too many variables.

3)

My oldest brother turned 50 (!!) on Christmas day and I made him this book:

You see, he always pokes fun at me for taking photos of cakes at family parties, so in the back of my mind I knew I would make him a photo book one day, and what better time than at your 50th birthday?  He loved it and laughed so hard.  #nailedit

4)

Lucy Doodle Martin is getting so big.  She's 5 months and since she's crate trained while we are at work, when Phil gets home at 3, he likes to take her out for a run to get some of her energy out.  Yesterday they ran 5 miles together!  Isn't that so cool?

I always thought it would be awesome to have a well-trained dog to run with.  We're still working on the well-trained part ;)  I remember when I was a kid, I used to make my little cairn terrier pull me around on my rollerblades to "poop city", which is what we called the area of our neighborhood where he would always poop.  Poor Scottie, RIP.

5)

By the time Phil got home from his doggy run and I got home from picking up all the kids, I changed to go on a run myself and was a little frustrated that it was already 4:15 and would be dark soon.  I mumbled something obnoxious about how I hoped I wouldn't get murdered and so during my run Phil sent me this text:

That guy in the gif was like dying from a slow run.  Which made me laugh and feel silly.

6)

Since Christmas, Declan has had three episodes where he's been running around hard (twice outside and once inside) and started wheezing and having trouble breathing.  It's so scary, and we took him to the doctor who said they can't really run tests for asthma on him until he's five (he's only 2) but prescribed us an inhaler to use if he needs it in the mean time.  Phil had childhood asthma that he outgrew so I hope Declan will follow suit.  It's gonna be hard to slow him down because running around outside is literally his favorite thing to do :(

7)

Now for a GIVEAWAY!!

I first was introduced to this author when my parish did a Women of Grace group and invited Johnette Benkovic to come speak.  I really like this book of hers because there are short daily meditations that can start your day off on the right foot, or end your day on the right hand (?).  This is tomorrow's little gem:

I will be His who first chose me for Himself.

~St. Agnes at her martyrdom

God has chosen me for Himself, just as he chose St. Agnes.  Am I willing to choose Him first in all things?What one choice is He asking me to make today?  What is my response?

 Anyways, if you'd like to win a copy from Sophia Institute Press, just leave a comment below and I'll pick a winner in the next Seven Quick Takes.