Rain equals shopping

So I had the best of intentions of working on a project here at the house.  This beautiful mess.

So we bought this house last August and the landscaping is less than desirable.  I live in South Carolina and am learning to work with red clay.  Red clay is slimy putty like substance that you cannot level out.  The landscaper that worked on my house didn't bother to try and level it he just dumped plants in red clay and tossed pine straw on top.  Now I have the job of digging this nasty stuff out and adding top soil, leveling the dirt, putting down landscaping fabric and buying all new pine straw.  I worked for about an hour until it started storming.  So inside the house for lunch I went.  Lunch was easy today just a peanut butter sandwich, peach yogurt and plenty of water!

Now what does one do when you are stuck in the house and it's raining...you go shopping!  So the family got in the car and we went to Earth Fare.

  Now I love this place.  I love going to a supermarket that sells mostly healthy food.  I didn't buy any fresh produce there but I did pick up a couple of goodies.  Justin's Almond Butter is a favorite of mine and with only two ingredients you can't go wrong.  I also got some Wasa flatbread and Eatsmart Naturals Tortilla Chips.  Dinner ended up being at Cheddars.  I went with Key West Chicken & Shrimp which consist of marinated grilled chicken breast topped with grilled shrimp and pineapple pico de gallo.  It wasn't the healthiest option but it did hit the spot.  After the kids go to bed it is P90X time and tonight is Kempo.  This workout is great with all the kicking and punching.  When I first did  kempo it was not fun for one reason, I am uncoordinated.  Today I feel I can kick and punch with the best of them and feel so powerful doing it.  That's the thing about getting stronger is you get more confident in your own abilities.



Waving Hello

OK new blog so lets start off with a little bit about me.  First of all I am a wife to a great guy of  eleven years.  I have two darling children that keep me busy on any given moment.  I love cats and have had my two for eleven years now.  I love to read cook books, now this does not translate into I love to cook by any means.  I would love to try and get to a place were I love to cook healthy meals with real ingredients and leave anything boxed behind.  Recently I bought a Cooking Light cookbook and told myself  I would start making at least one dish from it every week.  Well I started off with great intentions and it lasted all of two weeks and now the book is sitting in my bookshelf gathering dust.  So one of my goals with this blog is to force myself into cooking better meals and sharing with you and as a way of keeping myself in check.

I am also into physical fitness.  This past winter I started jogging here and there.  At that time my husband brought  a copy of Insanity home.  I tried it a few times and got my rear handed to me and that is being polite.  So he borrowed a work buddy's copy of P90X and talked me into doing it with him.  Now lets fast forward to week eleven of the program and I am in love with this workout.  I still have a spare tire that refuses to go away but I am so much more toned and my energy is through the roof.  As for the spare tire it is much smaller and just going to require a little more work and I am sure it would be helped if I improved my diet as well.  Now this brings me to reason number two to start a blog...keeping myself accountable for my workouts. 

I am a woman of many interest so here is a third reason to start a blog...photography.  I love taking pictures but I rarely spend the time required to get better at it.  I figured if I had a blog well then it would need pictures therefore my camera is going to need to be out at all times.  My ultimate goal with photography is to one day take classes and become professional but that will have to wait until my kids are a little older.  I don't live near family and seven and six year olds take a lot of time.

Now for my last a final reason to blog.  I want to write.  I love to read and by that I mean anything I can get my hands on.  Well since I love reading so much why not express myself by writing what interest me.  So welcome and have fun reading about my life.

This mornings breakfast was a wonderful bowl of steel cut oats with banana, agave nectar for sweetness, flax seed and cinnamon.  Not pictured is my four cups of coffee, yes I have a problem but at least its a tasty one.