I considered myself to be a pretty healthy eater until this past Tuesday when I attended a lecture called "Special Diets for Special Children." As if traveling and eating healthy wasn't hard enough, now I'm faced with traveling and supporting a special diet for my kids. Talk about pre-planning.

Let me just say that as I listened to this seasoned nutritionist talk about all the junk that we put into our bodies, a lot of which…

Well, it is official. The check has been cashed (and cleared) and I am officially registered for my very first triathlon - the Iron Girl. I don't normally say these words: "I am scared ____less!"

My friends have regularly called me adventurous, experimental, exciting, dramatic (though I've raised an eyerbrow one or two times at the context in which this was used), resilient. However, I have to call myself crazy this time…