I do desire to help my family stay healthy and well. It doesn't take a PhD to know that the way Americans are eating is making us unhealthy. My goal is to get to a place where I'm not making dinner out of a box. Also I'd like to move away from processed snacks for the most part. No more cookies and chips aisle! Yikes! I need to pace myself because I get overwhelmed with the whole idea of making a dinner menu, writing out a list of ingredients, trying to save some money by using coupons (I am so not an extreme couponer!), and then getting to the store to buy all the needed things.
I think this is on my mind tonight because here's what I fed my family today...
Breakfast: Dry cereal and milk
Lunch: Fish nuggets and tater tots (Philip ate a banana with his; Braewyn says she doesn't like bananas these days)
Dinner: Mushroom pizza from Pepperoni Express around the corner
NOT ONE VEGETABLE ALL DAY. That's shameful. I'll do better tomorrow.
And finally, I'm going to bed with a clean kitchen and I think I might vote for Ron Paul for president.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Back to Blogging
Hello, blog world! I'm deciding to blog without pictures whenever possible and with pictures when possible. We've been doing a lot of fun things recently and I've been taking pictures to blog about however the time runs out and the thought of saving pics to the computer, resizing them, posting about them seems too daunting a task. Whew, breathe... I make myself crazy thinking I'm so behind on blogging when in actuality this blog is the least of my things I'm so behind on, things that really matter and would make like run more smoothly. But I thank my God for my wonderful husband who recently blew new wind into my sails!
Last week, my children, my parents and myself took an 8 day trip from SC to GA to FL to GA and back to SC! It was wonderful introducing Juliet to her last three living great grandparents on my side of the family (she's now met all 5 of her living great grandparents!) and letting them and some of my aunts get to know Philip and Braewyn better. The downside was a packed to the hilt Trailblazer, sleeping 8 nights with my loveable yet sprawling sweetie Braewyn, and breaking up countless fights between my older two as I parent-ed solo for the week (albeit Nana and Papa were there but just not the same as Daddy).
All that said, we came home to a very cleaned up house thanks to my main sweetie, Matthew! He said he didn't get to the vacuuming but I didn't care... every toy was in its place and the final boxes which we never unpacked in our master bedroom were now gone, put away into more appropriate places! He even changed the kids' bed sheets!
It was a wonderful feeling walking around a picked up house and rejuvenated me with a desire to keep cleaning harder each day. Ok, ok I'm not making any promises but just saying that currently, I am in a much happier mood and do want to be a wife Matthew will be proud of by keeping a tidy house and making this a place we are happy to call home.
All that being said, I'm going to sleep with a spotless sink! Some of you know how I've struggled with housekeeping all of my married life and how I've tried 3 or 4 times to follow the FlyLady's system (www.flylady.com) only to bail out a few weeks in. Her number one rule is to go to bed with a clean kitchen sink. Seems funny but I'm going to stick with it and see if it rubs off onto a better grasp on cleaning the house in general. Also, need to make time to sit down and right out a monthly chore chart for the kids and me. I'm still hanging in there with my daily schedule I created after reading Managers of Their Homes (www.titus2.com) but only successfully sticking to the schedule until 1pm. The afternoon hours are still getting off track because I don't have the schedule printed out in front of me and every day seems to go a little different from the others.
Ok, more to come about how things are going these days... we've enjoyed meeting twice now with our once a month 1st grade co-op, read through Charlotte's Web and then saw the play, began attending Children's Choir with Philip in the choir and Kim leading a 4th grade class through their rotations, spending a super fun weekend in the Georgia mountains, having fun and learning at the same time at an apple orchard and an aquarium, and watching our newest little Brooks grow by leaps and bounds overnight! And I'll throw a picture in now and then too.
Ok, here's one picture!
Last week, my children, my parents and myself took an 8 day trip from SC to GA to FL to GA and back to SC! It was wonderful introducing Juliet to her last three living great grandparents on my side of the family (she's now met all 5 of her living great grandparents!) and letting them and some of my aunts get to know Philip and Braewyn better. The downside was a packed to the hilt Trailblazer, sleeping 8 nights with my loveable yet sprawling sweetie Braewyn, and breaking up countless fights between my older two as I parent-ed solo for the week (albeit Nana and Papa were there but just not the same as Daddy).
All that said, we came home to a very cleaned up house thanks to my main sweetie, Matthew! He said he didn't get to the vacuuming but I didn't care... every toy was in its place and the final boxes which we never unpacked in our master bedroom were now gone, put away into more appropriate places! He even changed the kids' bed sheets!
It was a wonderful feeling walking around a picked up house and rejuvenated me with a desire to keep cleaning harder each day. Ok, ok I'm not making any promises but just saying that currently, I am in a much happier mood and do want to be a wife Matthew will be proud of by keeping a tidy house and making this a place we are happy to call home.
All that being said, I'm going to sleep with a spotless sink! Some of you know how I've struggled with housekeeping all of my married life and how I've tried 3 or 4 times to follow the FlyLady's system (www.flylady.com) only to bail out a few weeks in. Her number one rule is to go to bed with a clean kitchen sink. Seems funny but I'm going to stick with it and see if it rubs off onto a better grasp on cleaning the house in general. Also, need to make time to sit down and right out a monthly chore chart for the kids and me. I'm still hanging in there with my daily schedule I created after reading Managers of Their Homes (www.titus2.com) but only successfully sticking to the schedule until 1pm. The afternoon hours are still getting off track because I don't have the schedule printed out in front of me and every day seems to go a little different from the others.
Ok, more to come about how things are going these days... we've enjoyed meeting twice now with our once a month 1st grade co-op, read through Charlotte's Web and then saw the play, began attending Children's Choir with Philip in the choir and Kim leading a 4th grade class through their rotations, spending a super fun weekend in the Georgia mountains, having fun and learning at the same time at an apple orchard and an aquarium, and watching our newest little Brooks grow by leaps and bounds overnight! And I'll throw a picture in now and then too.
Ok, here's one picture!
We were visiting a bear attraction/zoo in Helen, GA. I love my three bears!
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