About Us

My name is Heather and I have been the help meet to my wonderful husband, Len, for 22 years. Our children are Hope (19), Lenny (15), Lily (11), Wren (Born to heaven, 10/02), Mary (Born to heaven, 9/03), Lucy (Born to heaven, Early '04), and Peter (6). Six doggies round out our happy brood.

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The Story of a DIVA, Otherwise Known as my First Half-Marathon

Well today I ran my first half marathon.  Believe it or not, it was the Run Like A Diva Half-Marathon.  For those of you who know me in real life, you know that I am not really the Diva type.  However, I will admit to enjoying watching the ladies running in their tutus and fancy [...]

“Because I Can…”

While buying a new pair of sneakers at a local running store the other day, I saw a shirt that simply said, “Because I can..”  I had to buy it because it perfectly describes why I run – because I can…  It is something that I could never do even in my overweight youth [...]

Our First 5K Race

In spite of pouring rain AND thunder and lightning, Lenny (13) and I competed in our first 5K race today.  Mercifully, the rain stopped just as the race began.  How’s that for answered prayers!!!  Lenny placed 3rd in his age group with a time of 25:49 and I was thrilled with my time [...]

Yeah for Me!!! And the Children!!!

Well I did it.  Hope, Lenny and I ran in my first running race yesterday.  We ran a mile and Lily did the 1/4 mile fun run.

Peter and Lily before Lily’s race:

Lily, looking a bit nervous before her race

Lily’s big finish!!!

Hope [...]

Update from Doodle Acres – July 15, 2009

I know, I know, it has been a long time since I have blogged.  I didn’t start out taking a blogging break but somehow, I got out of the habit of posting.  So anyway, for those couple of you who might still check this site, I thought I’d write a post about what [...]

Exercise, Exercise, Come On Everybody and Exercise

I don’t remember what children’s show featured those lyrics in an oft sung tune, but I found this cute ticker on a running site today and wanted to share it!!! Isn’t it cute?

Isn’t He Sweet?

This morning I followed my usual routine of devotions, breakfast, and a walk.  Not to be deterred by the possibility of rain, I headed out for my walk inspite of the threatening skies.  I hadn’t walked for long before I started to see the rain making its presence known on my glass.  I decided to [...]

Some Semblance of a Schedule

OK, I admit it.  The last couple of months have been a wonderfully crazy blur, full of many blessed events (hence the reason that I have been blogging so infrequently and also the reason that I encouraged you to add me to your Blogreader —Bloglines is my personal favorite).  While wonderful, these last few [...]

Exercise with Frodo

For those of you couch potatoes like me who are looking for a way to get in shape after the holidays, I came across a website that has the “Walk to Rivendell” challenge.  We can walk ourselves healthy following Frodo’s path.  They have different distances that represent different parts of his [...]