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Fourteen years

 

Some people might say you can't meet a great guy in a bar.

 

But I did.

 

Fourteen years ago today, the best thing that ever happened to me walked into my life.

 

 

And on that day, he made the other two best things that ever happened to me, possible.

 

 

 

Randomness

This is what's going on over here in our house today...

 

Breakfast started with a muffin top.

Do you remember the Seinfeld episode when Elaine is obsessed with muffin tops and she has this idea that they should only sell muffin tops because that is the part of the muffin that everyone loves best anyway?? 

 
 

Well, Belle and I make the perfect muffin-eating couple.  She hates the top {I know, I don't know where she comes from either} and loves the bottom and I love the top and can take or leave the bottom. 

 

 

So this is what my plate looked like this morning....chock full of TOPS.  How great is that?

 

Then Lily who for days {four times a day in fact} has been telling Drew and I all about the Water Cycle decided to draw it out for us...

 

 

And while Lily was going on and on about condensation, Belle decided she wanted to add blond highlights to her hair...

 

 

 

 
 
I actually thought it looked pretty cute.

 

Then we started watching a movie about the Mayan's and this is how the girls watched most of it...

I guess I will have to deal with the consequences of that decision later, probably right around bed time.

 

And now I have to go out into the 18 degree weather to get myself a pair of Abercrombie and Fitch sweatpants because I am beyond jealous of how soft and warm the girls' pairs are.  Although the challenge will be finding a pair that doesn't have all that silly writing down the side of it so I don't look like a thirty-eight year old trying to be sixteen.

Wish me luck.

Two week check in

I have been trying to stick to a diet full of fresh veggies and fruits since I had my pipes cleaned out a few weeks ago.  I have found that it is simply too hard for me to not eat pizza because that to me is like the equivalent of a body not needing water.  

I have changed what I eat on our pizza night(s) though. Now I first have a salad slice and then I have another small slice where I basically rip all the cheese off of it.  I know some people feel what is even the point in eating a slice of pizza when you rip all the cheese off of it, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make for my insides not to mention the other added benefit to my hips and thighs.  And when I only eat one regular slice I seem to savor it so much more.

What I have been doing quite well though is sticking to the promise to myself of eating one apple a day.  I used to snack on a few bits of chocolate and I still do, but I make sure it is dark chocolate which is very beneficial to good health as it has lots of antioxidants.  Instead I have given up the little Twix bars or the tiny Milky Way's and instead I eat my apple WITH the skin on, something my children could even imagine.

 

And now in the morning at work I drink this awesomely fresh strawberry-banana smoothie that our cafe sells. Bananas are sort of a no-no but I just sip on my smoothie and pretend I don't know that.  I pretend that the need for potassium far outweighs the bad banana stopping-you-up-quality.

 

 

I also went out and bought a great blender so I can whip up my own smoothies at home and will show you how I do that soon.  I mean I am obsessed with this smoothie and I could drink about eight of them a day, but everything in moderation, I know, singing to the choir.

 

If you have any great smoothie recipes please share them with me!  Please I am obsessed....!