WOD: Workout Of the Day. I did my first CrossFit WOD today! Rowing machine 2K, 40 wall balls (12#), row 1K, 35 wall balls, row 500m, 25 wall balls, all this in just 34 minutes and 32 seconds. CrossFit is an exercise methodology and crossfit.com posts a new workout daily. Tomorrow morning I’ll be drinking [...]
Author Archives: Kristina
Kids’ Birthday Parties in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor
So Jaron is turning five in April! Rather than keep track of scrawled notes on paper scraps for years to come, perhaps this is a good place to jot down my birthday party research. Fort Collins: GK Gymnastics $150 for 1.5 hrs, up to 8 kids, $10 per additional kid; incl. 1 hour gymnastics & [...]
Hamilton Mountain for Two
It’s practially impossible to hike mountain peaks with preschoolers. Technically, they can ride along in a [very heavy!] child pack and I guess one could stuff in earplugs after the kids’ patience limit expires, but seriously, a 5-hour hike is sooo much more fun for two. And on a weekday, we mostly had the trail [...]
Horsetooth Falls
Horsetooth Falls family hike, May 2011 – pics only until I have more time on my hands! Fun stuff!
West Bank Dignity
Jalazon is a refugee camp where stones and ashes are as common as bread where Arab children scatter like stray cats from the fire of God in every rifle shot In Jalazon hot dust falls upon three feet of rubbish once three stories tall torn from the alley like a missing tooth like a gravestone [...]