Thursday already?? This morning’s Pandora shuffle landed on a great one from Journey and it’s been in my head all day. I overslept this morning but thankfully, my kids know what to do when they arrive each day. We have such a staggered arrival time over 20 minutes, they have an easy-breezy social time until …
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Even the camel is tired of this. Did I run today? Nope. Did I go to CrossFit this morning? Nada. Guess what I did? Dream of staying home in my snowman pajamas, which is what I SHOULD have done. Instead, I thought working would be a swell idea. So I did a lot of walking, …
My evening is shaping up to be a wild night. Pitch Perfect, doTerra Breathe essential oil diffusing and so far, that is working miracles. And a few cups of chicken broth with lemon and pepper. Honestly, there isn’t much of anything else I would rather be doing. I feel pretty rough and it’s cold outside. …
When I woke up this morning, dragging, the first thing I remember thinking is about our date night to Chipotle tonight. I already knew what I was going to have because it is the ONLY thing that is Whole30 compliant-Pork Carnitas salad. The other meats are cooked in rice bran or soybean oil and I …
Happy Tuesday, everyone! I know, tuesdays are usually not my favorite days and I may have whined about them a LOT in the past. I’m sure I’ll find more reasons to severely dislike those days, but this morning was not bad at all. I woke up, not too terribly exhausted, and I was HUNGRY. I …
This morning, I woke up after a HARD sleep. It was one of those not sure where I was and what I was supposed to do next kind of sleeps. After a hot shower and coffee, all was good again. Breakfast cups and scramble. Coffee for the road. I still have a hard time with …
It’s a thing of beauty. And the highlight of my Saturday. I slept all day, waking up at times to take cold medicine and read a little. Stephen surprised me with steaks and baked potatoes. It was so good and I was hungry for beef. This has got to get better and I know from …
Coffee. Tons of it. It still tastes bitter. Confession: two weeks ago, I was putting 1/8 a cup of sugar in my tall coffee mug. For real. Yes. I do need more time. I need time to sleep some more. It’s all I want to do. I feel like I’ve been digging in a …
I’m cold. I’m hungry. I’m irritable. And I don’t have the energy to run or workout…yet! This is the main reason I need a complete break from sugar and non-gluten grains. Sugar is highly addictive and the severity of addiction varies from person to person.With me, I’m extremely dependent on sugar. I crave it like …
Time to get moving and get busy! I normally hate Tuesdays on principle, but today started out great! My drive across the Black Warrior bridge. Beautiful sunrise. I’m slowly working on a half marathon training plan for a local half in March. And I need to figure out where to travel for my 3 Rock …
Back to school for us teachers today. We have big changes going on at school and they begin today. The kids do not come back until Wednesday, so we have 2 days for professional development and working in our rooms. We had a big administration change at our school in September and the new principal …
It’s that time of year again. I’m honestly glad to get past the holiday foodapalooza and back to some form of healthy eating. Sugar is my demon and it must be defeated. If you are new to my site and interested in hard and fast results of my first, and most-succesful (more on the failed …
Today was an epic fail. All around colossal epic FAIL. Let me paint you a picture. 2:30am. Spending some time hugging the bowl. Nerves or glucose out of control. This can happen in the early days of cutting sugar completely. My pancreas doesn’t know how to handle the lack of incoming sugar. 5:30 am. Go …
I woke up really early because I had two things to accomplish: Escape Wal-Mart with all my appendages in place and get to the Farmer’s Market before it got too hot to enjoy living. Normally, getting to Wal-Mart before 10 am was a good bet. But this is Tax-Free weekend for back-to-school. I expected a …
Some of the things I had to give up when we found out about Celiac disease were my favorite Asian dishes like Pad Thai. Most of these have soy sauce which is a big NO. I did find gluten-free tamari sauce which helped a LOT. However, the sugar in most of these dishes is not …
After church, we decided to visit a new place..and this one is familiar with Stephen’s footsteps, but not mine. We were looking for rain gutters. And I was looking for the big rolly thing. I knew from experience that Home Depot had a great one and I need to try the big blue one to …
I woke up ready to get to the stores before they opened. I have the main components of furniture finished, now it’s time for the decorating. Sneak peek at the details. This time next week, the home office should be complete! And so should the Taxes. We are doing them tonight and if there was …
The last work day of Spring Break and I need a new break. We have worked ourselves to smithereens. We both need to go back to work so we can have bail money. Home Depot is going to lock us up forever. I have made more visits to the big orange box this week than …
Well, not literally. But my second trip to Home Depot made me feel like a demolition woman on a mission. I found something to go in the “teacher corner” of the office. Not really…but it might go on a Christmas list . Although…that is way too pricey for me. I’m more likely to get a …
I woke up ready to tackle the world. Or at least this. This is the Random room. It’s where we put stuff we don’t have a place for yet. And the craft room filled with half-completed projects. And the photography room where the food pic magic happens, but the real magic is wading through this …