That fruit/veggie goodness

Every day this week except today, I've made a smoothie in the morning.  They consist of 2 handfuls of fresh spinach, a handful of frozen strawberries, handful of frozen blueberry, and a splash or two of V8 fruit/veggie juice (there are so many different ways, this is just what I have on hand right now).  And all 3 mornings, I have a lot of energy, feel good, mommy super strength.  Now, I've done smoothies before, and each time, I had this feeling too.  There's just something about chugging all that raw goodness!  In any case, I did not make a smoothie this morning and I can def say that even with rockin the caffeine, I'm feeling sluggish.  Just thought I'd note this.  I love my ugly smoothies (although with the blueberries, they aren't super ugly, very purple-ish, instead of rotten green...lol) and I promise, if you are hesitant to try them, you seriously can NOT taste the spinach or tell it's in there other than color.  Try it sometime!!!!  Once I put sliced cucumber in there...still couldn't taste it, but it added a really neat freshness to the smoothie.  Sometimes, I add greek yogurt, or if I have banana, I'll add some peanut butter.  I tend to use frozen fruits so that I don't have to add ice.  What is your fave smoothie combo?

Not just a one time post

See?  I didn't really leave you guys...still here.  Second post this week, go me! 

Update from yesterday, I ended up not going to the gym.  When I picked D up, he'd had an awful day, so we went straight home and I put him to bed after dinner.  The good news, I made a totally kickass dinner and he devoured it.  What was it?  A grilled cheese sandwich with avocado and East Texas tomato slices inside.  YUM!  I used I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray on the bread and a bit of garlic salt, so aside from the cheese, it really wasn't too bad.  I used less cheese on mine and it was still delicious.  Add a side of fruit (natural applesauce for D, an orange for me) and you have a meal that is simple, easy, and no oven (too hot here for that!).

Today I'm taking D to his GI doctor appt in the afternoon, but otherwise it should be a fairly typical day, so I should be able to stay on track esp since I already have food at work (and already had my ugly smoothie this morning too!)

Almost 3 months later

Ooof.  I'm a slacker, sheesh.  Not that I didn't have enough going on the last 3 months.  My last post was on May 2nd regarding date night.  Well, I WAS dating someone.  It ended towards the end of May.  I have since seriously slacked on working out and eating good, and in fact the first month, I didn't even ATTEMPT to eat decent.  It wasn't pretty.  However I've held a few things together (such as not falling back into downing Dr Pepper...that was a BIGGIE for me), but yeah, I've gone backwards.  So...today is a new day.  It's had a good start, I got up early and made an ugly spinach smoothie (those are SO stinkin yummy!), and have already downed 32oz of water at 11:15am.  I also went to the store at lunchtime and got decent food for teh whole week for breakfast, lunch, and snacks, so I have no excuse whatsoever for leaving the office at lunchtime.  This evening, we are planning to hit up the gym.  I am pretty sure that I'm back at square one, but that's ok, it didn't take me long to work up to that hour on the elliptical.

Ok so 3 months...time flew.  Here's what else went on!  Well, there was the dating.  She ended it.  That's right.  She.  I did go on 2 dates with another chick shortly after, who I connected pretty well with, but ended up realizing pretty quick that I needed time to heal.  So I cut that off.  I can't say I haven't browsed around online or talked to a couple of other chicks, but overall, I'm trying to use this time to process and just make sure I'm fully prepared next time around.  And I can't say that I'm not a little jaded from the whole experience, but I guess that's a part of life.  I did learn a lot from it, took a lot away from it, so I can honestly say I do not regret it.

I had a birthday last week.  I'm now 33 years old.  Not quite old but not quite young, I'm not sure where I fit in.   In any case, happy freakin bday to me.  Weekend before last, D and I took a roadtrip to Missouri to see one of my best friends.  It was just what I needed, to get out of Dallas and Texas for a second.  Unfortunately we kinda brought the hot weather with us.  Oh well.

Ok on to the boychild.  He had a birthday in June.  He is now 8 years old going on 30.  He had an MRI done on his foot, there's a lump there.  The orthopedist determined though that it was just cartilage and some bone, wasn't doing him any harm and it could safely stay on his foot as long as it's not bothering him (it's not).  And really soon now (1 month!!!), he will be going into second grade.  *gasp* I know!  So I've been getting ready for that. 

He also is about to see another specialist.  The last two years he has battled eating issues.  He was actually diagnosed as failure to thrive for awhile, might still be, I'm not sure how they determine that.  But regardless, he's skinny.  His weight has definitely fluctuated.  He'd gain a pound and then lose 2.  However, his new pedi (SO GLAD WE SWITCHED) thinks she knows what it is and is sending us to a GI doctor to get an endoscopy done.  Will update on that later.

I believe that's about it.  I'm definitely back to updating this again so stay tuned, much more to come.