I’m so excited that we’ve restarted the Ultimate Coffee Date! It is always one of my favorite posts to write. So I hope you will join me and Coco and Lynda for our monthly virtual get together. We’d love to hear what you’ve been up to this past month.
So please pull up a chair, relax and join us with your favorite cup of coffee.
If we were having coffee, I’d tell you… I think I am enjoying my my new Keurig too much because my dentist just asked me if I’ve been drinking more coffee. What? Me? I have no idea what he’s talking about.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you… While I am trying to write this my kids (14& 17) decided to make chex muddy buddies on their own for a bake sale and lets just say that putting warm chocolate in a ziploc is probably not the best idea they’ve ever had. When you hear, “Oh no! Go get the mop” things are never good. Not sure the kitchen floor will recover anytime soon. Love their initiative though!
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…I can’t believe it’s December already! I feel like there needs to be more time in between Thanksgiving and Christmas and Hanukkah. Things just seem to go at whirlwind speed this time of year. So, who has started their shopping? We are having our family Hanukkah party this week and I am debuting my healthier Potato Latkes. Look out for the recipe this Monday.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you…I am running The Jingle All The Way tomorrow with my son and my MRTT friends. Last week, I couldn’t keep up with him on our run so we will see if he can finally beat me! It’s such a fun race to do because everyone gets so into the holiday outfits and there is such a great festive feeling. Last year it started snowing just as we were finishing and it was so beautiful. DC is a great city to run through and it’s so pretty this time of year. This is last year’s photo so stay tuned for an update this week.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you...I am trying really hard to stay on track with my eating and exercise this Holiday Season. I’m participating in The Holiday Sweat Challenge and a Virtual Elf Run to help me stay accountable. I love having support from others and getting ideas from them as well. I am doing pretty well but “Hi my name is Deborah and I am a chocoholic”.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you… I am so proud that my daughter was just accepted to Indiana University so we are now Hoosier fans! WooHoo!
If we were having coffee I would tell you…I finally joined Instagram and I am having fun learning how that works. I’d love to connect with you there too. Find me here
What are you most excited about this Holiday Season? Anybody doing any Holiday Themed Races? Who else is doing a Holiday Challenge?
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Chex Mix Muddy Buddies! <3 I love those mixes. I've been meaning to make my own for the holidays, but haven't gotten around to it yet. 😡
Congrats to your daughter, and welcome to the instagram world! Thanks again for rescuing this linkup! It's one of my favorites as well! :]
So glad you joined us and yes muddy buddies are great except when they are all over the floor!
Good luck at the Jingle All The Way! I’m keeping up with my exercise but my food is off track. ‘Tis the season!
Food is a little tricky this time of year! So glad we were able to meet for coffee -love our dates 🙂
So glad you restarted this posts because I love them! You are too cute with the Instagram comment 🙂
We are glad to be back too! Love to see you all and catch up.
WE shall learn instagram together my friend! Congrats to your daughter! I was born in Indiana and looked at that school as well but the weather is SO nice in Florida 🙂 I made it to Phoenix! Enjoy you run with your son!
Thanks and so glad we got a chance to catch up over coffee. 🙂
Have fun at Jingle All the Way! I think this will be my first year without a holiday-themed run – just couldn’t fit another thing in! Congrats to your daughter 🙂
Thanks! Yes I love the holiday runs. Our group gets very into it as you will see with our pics this week. Thanks for stopping by for coffee
Good luck on your run this morning! And thanks for hosting this great link up! Oh and last but not least congrats to your daughter. I went to college in Indiana too 🙂
Thanks! I love the link up glad you made it. She is excited for IU
Good luck on your Jingle all the Way run! Sounds fun especially doing it with your son! And congrats on your daughter getting accepted to Indiana University ! How exciting!
I’m looking forward to heading back to Seattle for Christmas and hanging out with family and friends!
Thanks and have a great trip yourself! Thanks for stopping by
Congrats to your daughter! At least your kids are old enough to clean up their own messes! My 4.5-year-old and 2-year-old aren’t quite there yet. 🙂
Well you would think they are old enough to clean it up but help was needed for sure!
Congratulations to your daughter and OH melted chocolate in plastic bags? YIKES!!!! I’m not sure about that one. Ha! Enjoy your run tomorrow. Should be fun. None of my children want to go run with me. ;-/
Yes always love when the kiddos get great ideas to create things!
Congrats to your daughter! That is very exciting! I have to say, the chez mix story made me LOL.
Good luck on your upcoming races! I think it’s awesome that your son is doing the one with you.
I am excited that he is running with me too. I think he is faster than me now as it should be I guess
Congrats to your daughter! I already know that when I break down and get a Kerig, I need a whole whitening plan to go with it 🙂
Ha ha yes you will! And thanks she is really excited
I have OCD!! In more ways than one. LOL
Ha I think we all do sometimes 🙂
Congratulations to your daughter! That’s very exciting.
Thanks! We are all really excited and relieved too 🙂
I’d tell you that I”m not anywhere near ready for the holidays. As usual.
Ha ha is anyone ever really ready??
If we were having coffee I would tell you that my son turned 18 on Fri and my daughter will be 16 on Mon and this mom is having a hard time. So proud and tearful at the same time 🙂
Oh I know exactly how you feel. My daughter will be 18 soon too. How did that happen? I can’t believe she will be going to college. It’s funny how they age but we don’t !
Thanks for hosting the Ultimate Coffee Date! I had made a post but had no idea where the linkup had moved to. Now I know! 🙂 I just ran a holiday themed event yesterday! I’m with you, so fun and what a great excuse to dress up in a costume!
Oh sorry you couldn’t find us! You can still link it up if you’d like it’s open all week. Otherwise, we will see you next time
Woohoo for chocolate and coffee…two of my favorite things 😉 Congrats to your daughter for getting accepted…so exciting!!! 🙂
Yes chocolate and coffee are the best! Thanks we are really excited for her and relieved
Congrats to your daughter! That is so exciting! I have to admit, I am very, very glad to be done with that stage, lol….
Get the mop is never a good thing to hear. Regardless.
ha yes! We are very excited for her and very relieved that the stress of the process is over.
Wow, lots going on! So bummed I missed the race today…darn bronchitis really knocked me for a loop! Congrats to your daughter on her acceptance! That must be a mixed bag of emotions for you 🙂
We missed you at the race too! Hope you are feeling better. I am really excited for my daughter but yes emotional roller coaster for all of us. I still don’t know how the kids age and we dont 🙂
Congrats to your daughter!! That is so exciting!! Such a fun time of life! …also, that is so funny, “get the mop!” thats cute though! 🙂 Love this blog post idea btw!!
Thanks we are really excited for her too! I hope you will link up for the next coffee date in January-it’s one of my favorite posts to write
Congrats to your daughter!! And hope you had a great time at the Jingle All The Way race. 🙂
Thanks we are really excited for her and glad that we don’t have to stress about it anymore. The jingle was lots of fun! Thanks for linking up with us. I love virtual coffee dates!
Hope your race goes well. Sounds fun. I can’t believe Christmas is almost here either. Where did the year go?? I got a head start on shopping this year. I never want to be that person Christmas Eve at Wal-Mart. …hhaha. Congrats to your daughter. I had friends that went there and they loved it.
Everyone does seem to love IU! That’s comforting bc I have to let my baby go. Mixed feelings indeed. No you don’t want to be shopping on xmas eve!
Oh, I saw someone wearing that shirt at the race yesterday and I didn’t even think to look and see if it was you. I agree that this was a really fun race. I might make this one a yearly tradition 🙂
My friend and I were wearing matching shirts-I bet it was me. Too bad we didn’t meet!
HOORAY!!! Big congrats to your daughter!! So exciting!
Thanks we are really excited and relieved that we don’t have to worry about it over winter break
Wow big congrats to your daughter! I love that you have 3 kids too 🙂 If we were having coffee I would tell you that I’m hosting the 25 days of Strength fitness challenge 🙂
only 2 kids! That’s enough for me! I saw some of your fitness plans and they look great. I will check them out again today.
Congratulations to your daughter!!! That’s so exciting. Hilarious about the muddy buddies – at least their first comment was to get the mop, not “HEY MOM!!”
Thanks for hosting!!! I’ve been wanting to join in forever, glad I made it.
Well that was their second comment! LOL
I can totally imagine your kids baking in the kitchen… It made me laugh!congrats to your daughter for being accepted at the college, what a big accomplishment.
They are quite the duo sometimes! Thanks having the college acceptance in is a big stress reliever for all of us. Hope you will join our January coffee date it’s this weekend-Time flies!