heh heh, you said you envied some of our "more active" lives.
BTW, I've been wanted to encourage you some by mentioning that when I had little kids running around, I was feeling pretty good about getting in 20 minutes of aerobic exercise 3 days a week. Weight lifting was when I carried them or stirred whatever I was cooking. And I could do some gardening while they played.
On to my report for the day:
My run today was different in a couple ways. It was 88% humidity, for one thing. Not something I'm used to around here. All the thermometers were not agreeing, so I'm going with the one in the shade on my back patio, which said 80°F. That makes it an officially warm run!
It was both hard and good. I started off trying to relax for a long run, but seemed to fall into about an 8:40 mm pace, so decided to try to feel that rhythm as long as I could, which was amazingly for 8 miles. The 7 -8 miles felt like they were getting hard, so to avoid accidentally slowing down, I tried to push it a bit and did 8:30 mm miles. So, after that I let myself do a cool down for mile 9 and ended with a 9:07 pace. All flat around my local ponds. I believe that makes it my fastest 8 miles ever, by a smidge, if I compared correctly to last week's run.