Im mulling over the (I think) last portion of this series before returning to exciting things like: Nathan telling me “when you say ‘I swear’ do you know what that means? That means you are going to kick someone in the head….with your foot. Thats what it means.”  Yes- for $400 a month you TOO [...]

Filed under: "Its called food, you eat it", yes he said that- and no I didn't teach him

We got some movies from Netflix today. Food Inc was in there. We watched it. I was practically drooling I watched it with such intensity. And at the end the question that kept rolling around in my head was: where along the way did we sell our SOULS?
Honestly. (And this isn’t my usual ‘Oh HONESTLY’ [...]

Filed under: "Its called food, you eat it", Iowa and Corn Make Me Happy, The Whole Wide World

The official drawing from a Lightning McQueen bucket

$10 iTunes winner is #2- Jessica
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While I wholeheartedly think that exercise plays a vital role in health, if we really want to point the finger the gold medal goes to: Our diet. We (meaning Americans) eat garbage. We have a diet that is killing us slowly and its [...]

Filed under: Because I'm NICE like that, fitness!

Im not what you would consider a particularly athletic person. I never did sports growing up….unless you count tennis lessons in the summer as kids which I think was more for my mom’s sanity than anything else. I have always hated running. In gym in high school my friends and I would watch for the [...]

Filed under: Because I'm NICE like that, fitness!

part one if you haven’t read it.
My reason for boring you with that long dissertation is to say, I’ve got some ’street cred’. I’ve been on both sides of the coin. I know what its like to be on the pudgy side of the spectrum and I know exactly how hard it is/seems to be [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life, fitness!

*I always think of my friend Viv who, when interviewing a potential nanny, asked the person to, “tell me a little about yourself” and her response was “where should I start….like when I was born?”
I won’t start quite that far back. Also, if you’re particularly sensitive (no, I don’t hate fat people) or don’t [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life

I should really stay up and write my health/fitness/food/wellness post that’s been rolling around in my mind for the last several days. Especially because Im all fired up right now. Get this….
I bought a box of angel food cake mix. Despite my adherence to making things from scratch I do buy cake mixes….(but I don’t [...]

Filed under: Because I'm NICE like that, Lets Eat!, its not just good-its just good enough

Im aware that Mackenzie gets more detailed updates on here. There is no real reason for this other than after she was born the whole notion of keeping up on her milestones in a baby book wasn’t going to happen, so I started monthly letters. I should be doing the same for Nathan…even if it [...]

Filed under: Nate the Great

Mackenzie,
You turned 15 months old this week and you started walking (for real this time). I love watching your face as you toddle across a room, part exhilaration and pure excitement of your newfound freedom, part fear of toppling over. I had forgotten how much fun this stage is– just a few short days of [...]

Filed under: McSassy

Im not a big fan of the New Years resolutions. Like because you have a new calendar hanging on the wall its a good reason to lay down some new rules for your life. I mean– what percentage of Americans do you think have some form of “lose weight” as their resolution? Last year I [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life