Emergency Soup Day!
It is pouring outside and I am feeling like soup and warm bread. So straight from the freezer, I am warming up my beef stew that I made some weeks ago. I love freezer cooking:)
Our latest adventure
In order to add more veggies into our diet, we decided to juice. After watching Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, did lots of research, and not wanting to spend a lot of money, we ended up with this juicer. It works pretty good. We made all those jars on Sunday. Jeremy will be drinking two [...]
Week 6 of 4 days of exercise!
Six weeks ago I started to jump roping. I couldn’t even remember when the last time was I used one. Since I didn’t have a timer, I counted how many jumps I could do with out messing up. I could only jump 24 times without stopping. On Friday 2/10, I jumped 199 times and I [...]
Cooking Dinners and Lunches for February
This weekend is a cooking weekend! Friday night I did most of the shopping and cooked all the beans. Yesterday I made bean salad, a dozen bean and cheese burritos, 12 turkey burgers, ham and potato soup, turkey bean and veggie chili, ham and lentil soup, veggie soup, black bean turkey taco filling, chicken taco [...]
Week Five
One of my goals for this year is to rebuild my gym life. I do well when I go to the gym 4 times a week. Since I started working last year I haven’t worked out consistently. Now that the kids have basket ball practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they go to Kit Fit [...]
Morning Happiness!
I know it’s not the healthiest and it’s not as wholesome but it makes me happy in the morning. For the last 10 out of 11 YEARS I have been having a Luna bar with my coffee off and on. I have tried to give it up but I always go back to it. What [...]
Oh what a week!
I am so thankful we can wake up every morning and start over. New mercies every day:) Being a woman, a wife, a mother, and a teacher is quite the job. The responsibilities are endless. I am celebrating my 4 times a week attendance to the gym:) friends the goal is to keep that up [...]
Rememberance! Thanks to Pastor Mark
This is one area of my life that is worth applying this concept of where would I be now if I let go of what I’ve learned? For those of you who don’t know back in February 2001I joined weight watchers. It took me 5 months of HARD work to loose 25lbs and became a [...]
Slow cook or not slow cook lasagna
I need to know if you all can read this. I am learning how to do all of this on my phone. After having a 911 call from my friend Cheryl, helping out my friend Dusty, and seeing the long lines at weight watchers these last few weeks I decided to put this website together [...]
2011 Appliance Fest!
In my adult life I have only owned a magic bullet and a crockpot. When both of those died:( I decided it was time to have all the things I’ve been missing out on. Yes I use all of those at least once a week. It makes my time so efficient. I will be investing [...]
