![]() ![]() Your registration also includes one free registration for the in-person 5K (non-timed) and Kids Fun Run on April 22. A 1/2 marathon finisher medal will be presented to the first 50 participants. All participants will receive a DRINK TICKET for use at participating Run Club venues to celebrate the Rundie. ![]() Winners will receive a Gold Medal and a Run Club Trophy. Participants will complete a 5k or 1/2 marathon between 4/12- from the location of your choice. New this year- Triangle Run Club Challenge!Īre you a member of a Triangle based Run Club? Join our inaugural Triangle Run Club 5k and 1/2 marathon challenge. Virtual registrants will receive race t-shirt and be eligible for special Virtual Rundie prizes! Virtual Rundie- Participate in our Virtual Rundie anywhere and anytime on race weekend between 4/21-4/23.Kids Fun Run will take place before the 5k start. Kids Fun Run- must be 12 or younger to register for this event.Non-timed Participant- you will receive a non-time chipped bib for the 5k.Timed Runner- you will receive an official record of your finish time and be eligible for race awards.In our family, there's no need to be anyone else, or to wear matching socks. ![]() So when I see my kids wearing their unmatched socks, and as I do the same, I remember that socks that are about the same height are good enough, that I’m good enough, and that what I once thought of as a flaw has become an endearing part of my family’s unique morning routine. Trying to be someone else is too much work. I am who I am, and my number-one goal as a mom these days is to stay true to myself. Then I realize: if I was more like them, I wouldn’t be me. Some days, I still compare myself to those moms who not only match socks, but also bake, clean, and host parties, and for a split second I wish I was more like them. I stopped worrying about what someone else would think, and I stopped believing that household chores, in any way, define me as a mother. I stopped keeping mommy-score and started living. I stopped expecting myself to do the things that just didn’t get done. A mother who will tell the dentist every six months, "I will do better with flossing their teeth," but secretly knows there is no way in hell she is flossing the teeth of three kids each night. A mother who realizes a clean car is a luxury she will have maybe in about eight years. A mother who dances with her kids in the messy kitchen to soak up their youth and love just a little bit longer before bedtime. A mother who chooses to play one more game of cards with her kids over doing the laundry. A mother who knows her strengths and weaknesses. When I finally accepted this as my reality, I created the sock bag/basket, and life got a little bit lighter.īehind this sock basket is a mother who accepts herself as she is. If given the choice to match socks or do anything else, I will always choose anything else. I'm not one to put the time and effort into sock-matching. It didn’t take long to realize that matching socks was not one of my strong points. I believed that part of being a good mother was providing that top drawer full of clean, matched socks for each child, and when I failed to do that, I was a failure by my own measure. There was a time when I expected myself to match the socks with each load of clean laundry. It represents the one thing that has saved me as a mother: lower expectations. So we continue with our sock basket-routine and quite frankly, it adds character to our crazy family. Three of them, one of me, sports, homework, life, no-time-for-matching-socks busy. Two socks that are about the same height and in the same color scheme, that will do.Ī few times a week I will say, “I am going shopping this week and everyone is getting brand new, matching socks!” but it never happens. They're never matched up anymore, and the goal is no longer to find a perfect matching pair, but simply two socks that match just enough. Not just all unmatched socks, mind you, but all of our socks. The kids are referring to the wicker basket, an evolution of what was once a sock bag, that is home to all of our clean socks. This is a frequent, morning question in my household. ![]()
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