Cruff Family Chronicles

Holy October. It's been a wild month. I have to say it's magic we survived it at all. Adam has had to work extra Saturdays and a few days during the week between the last couple months to make October work. The first weekend of the month was the only Saturday he worked because we literally had something going on the last 3 weekends. The second weekend we were supposed to be in Gaylord to do the Gaylord Half Marathon (just me) and we were going to leave the kids home with my mom. Well, the race was postponed until the spring so we decided to just go ahead and NOT lose the money we had already paid for a camping site. We decided to go camping, visit my brother and drop my mom off at his house for a couple days. Ya'll know how I feel about camping. I want to love it, I really do but I JUST DON'T. I hope to when Ari gets older, can listen better and actually sleeps decently in the camper. Until then, I do it for the kids and if I'm camping, theres a 99% chance I'm...

Marathon Weekend: We had been much more prepared this week so Adam came home Friday at lunch, got his last minute things done and I picked the girls up from school. We ate then headed down to Proud Lake State Park. We got there about 4 pm and the water was turned off. Note to self: Quit fall camping! Anyway, Adam got the camper ready, got water for the camper from a faucet outside that worked (not like the one in Gaylord that he had to pump). I really wanted to get down to the expo Friday to get an "Underwater Mile" shirt as I heard they sell out fast. So we left my poor mom with the kids and headed down to Detroit. We checked out the expo, I got my bib and packet, got the shirt and headed back to the campsite. I felt a little rushed because since we ate late, we didn't have dinner before we left. We ended up getting back at 8 pm. Ugh. That hot dog did not hit the spot. The week of my marathon, I was fighting a wicked cold/sinus infection. I got an antibiotic Thursday b...