Just a Mom Who TRI's: Friday Five-New

This week I decided to join a weekly link-up called The Friday Five by bloggers: Courtney Mar and Cynthia week is a different theme and a chance to link-up with other fitness and health bloggers. Who knows maybe you'll enjoy reading some of the other blogs as well! And if you would like to link-up your blog, please visit the hostesses pages and do so at the bottom of the posts. Remember it's good blogger etiquette to include their custom graphic and to mention their blog addresses in your posting.

This week's topic is "new." The topic can be interpreted however you like. So what's new for August?

School. It's back to school for my oldest T on Monday. And I'm grinning from ear to ear! It's been a rough summer. Summers are always difficult in our family. Change is hard on him. Being off of a routine makes him anxious and that anxiety turns into negative things. He longs for the structured days, the challenges of schoolwork and knowing he will be able to see his friends every single day. He is so excited to start school and all of the after school activities that come along with it. As much as I enjoy having my kids at home with me, I just like to see them happy. And school makes T happy. Good luck dude, Mommy is so proud of you and can't wait to bear all about the fun you'll have this year.

CROSS/PUSH. I just recently I started taking a new class that my spin studio offers. The class is a CrossFit class combined with a Spin class. CrossFit used to scare the crap out of me! But it was fun, really fun but also extremely challenging. It's a class that I want to start taking at least once a week now that the kids will be back in school soon.

Another Link-up I'll be participating in another new link-up soon. Yes I know another one? But this one is different and exciting for me as I'll be one of the three hostesses! That means I will get to help come up with the theme each week. I'm super pumped to do this one and I think it's a little different from some of the other link-ups out there. Here's a little hint...Moms Unite! My co-hosts are pretty awesome Mamas and will bring some great insight to the topics we cover each week. So be sure and look for it soon! It will be on Wednesdays each week.

New Friends In less than 3 weeks I will be boarding a plane to Seattle to go run the Hood to Coast on the Nuun team! I'm excited to be meeting a bunch of new friends. I feel like I already know some of them but it will be great to finally get a chance to hang out in person. Running a relay is also new to me so I'm not sure what to expect.

Tomatoes Our tomatoes should be ready any day now. I'm excited to get my hands on these. We planted them in a planter box and they really took off this year. Just before we left for San Diego I had about 30 that were just about ready to be picked. I'm hoping they will be good and ripe when we get home tomorrow. Yum...my mouth is watering for fresh garlic basil bruschetta.