gosh its been so long...

Ive not been here in quite awhile :/ ive come so far in my journey to getting healthier but alas I don't have much weight loss to report. Its been really hard trying to figure out the combination that's going to work for me. I think ive finally got it though! I lost 10 pounds in about 2 weeks! Thanks to doing ALOT of research into plant based eating recommended by Rip Esselstyne Dr Caldwell Esselstyne, Jeff Novick, and Dr Mcdougall. Ive mainly cut out almost all fats almost!, and no more cheese or dairy of any kind. I feel much better and my arthritis feels better. I have better range of motion in my knees now. Its been a long road to get to this point and I keep back sliding. But I'm determined this time if I have say some icecream I'm not going to beat myself up over it. I'm just moving on and the next meal make it good. Knee of my daughters and my husband are doing a version. Of the military diet and having quite good success. Since that diet isn't plant based. And they do not want to give up meat anytime soon I make plant based meals for the most part for us all on the 4 days they are off the diet. For example we have spaghetti with no meat in the sauce or piazza no cheese for me of course. Tacks but I cant get them to eat the beans yet. I'm slowly working on everyone :) like ive said many times its a journey and of course we wont get there in a day. Disclaimer we went to a local ribfest this weekend big mistake as a vegetarian it was gross but I did have a strawberry shortcake I shared it with my husband but I still ate some of the icecream in it :/ so I fasted the rest of the day and am trying to get back on track today :) I'm not going to weigh myself today because I don't want to get upset if I gained any weight back I will check later in the week when things have leveled back out. I tend to wallow in my misery if I mess up and I don't want to trigger that kind of reaction. Ive been gardening a lot more lately. Ive got lots of peas n lettuce coming in and I'm still getting tomatoes n cucumber and peppers out of my garden :) I love to garden and I hope to have my own land one day to do lots of that! Well goodbye for now. Live simply laugh often and love generously...

hello its me again :)

Wow its been a couple weeks since I was last on but that's certainly better than the few months it had been. Things are a bit crazy around here. For example we have an extra tenant now. My mom has come to live with a us for awhile because of a terrible family tradgedy. We don't know just yet how permanent her visit will be but we are trying to make the best of the situation. As I'm sure anyone who's gone through a similar situation knows it is not without its challenges! I will leave it at that!!
Somehow id like to transform this blog to an on-line journal of sorts. Which probably is what I should have been doing to begin with. I'm beginning an on line class from beauty that moves about whole goods. I'm very interested in living a greener life and have been for quite sometime so I know my post will have a decidely Eco friendly substance to them. I'm learning to go with the flow a little more and live my dreams. I hope in this journey ill bring a few along with me but if its just me that's ok too. I'm still a vegetarian but I don't like labels so I refer to this as just part of my journey.
One day soon I'm hoping to find that perfect house in the country. Sadly this search is taking a little longer than we expected and we are afraid we may have to open our search up a little farther out than we had originally wanted. Which poses the question can we still work, and send our kids to school in town while living out of town and be Eco friendly too? We will see. I read somewhere that a vegetarian driving a Hummer still wouldn't have the environmental impact. That a meat eater driving a Prius would! Interesting if its true! ;0)

Love, Laugh, and live simply...

update

Its been a year now and although I'm not completely where I want to be as far as going completely began I'm still going strong as a vegetarian. Yeah me! I didn't think id make it this far and believe me I still have days where I want to say forget it! I keep on keeping on though.
Christmas this year was very surreal. We had a huge family crisis and well now my mom lives with me. Which is an adjustment to say the least. But my sweet husband got me a kindle fire for Christmas, which is what I'm posting on right now so maybe I can keep up with posting now! I'm seriously considering doing the whole foods kitchen workshop over st beautythatmoves blot. Go check it out! I'm getting pretty excited I just hope with everything young on I can to it!
Well tats for now, hope to br posting soon!





Love, laugh, live simply......

These days...

These days seem to be running together and passing by quicker than I can count. I realized today upon having to email my son's teachers about his grades that it's nearly mid September. I've been dreading it coming. I've been anticipating it's arrival for the last couple months. But life, life has a way of distracting you even if just briefly. As I sorted files today at work and thought about what the date was I felt so sad remembering that in 3 days it will be one year that my dad passed away suddenly. So much has happened in the past year that I would love to share with him! I'd love to tell him my son scored his first goal at his middle school game yesterday and then scored another just to make sure it took :) But I know he saw it. I would have loved to have seen his face though. I would love to tell him about my youngest new little business of making a selling braided and knotted bracelets, and that she is doing very well at it. I know he would smile at her ingenuity. He always thought she was something special and was going to take this world by storm. I would love to see his face smiling at her though. I would love to tell him about my oldest having to fight for her position on her high school soccer team and how she has risen to the challenge quite well, and finding herself and her strength in the process. he would smile and say he knew she could do it. But I would have loved to hear him smile at her and say it though. These next few days will be hard. I'm not looking forward to it. But I know when I come out the other end of next week a little stronger he will smile at me and say that's my girl I knew you could do it. I'd still like to hear him say it though...

I think...

I think I know what I wanna be when I grow up or rather sooner than later! I'm 37 years old and I've been trying to find myself and figure out where I go after my kids are raised and what I want to do with my life once it is my own again. Not that it will ever truly be my own, nor would I want that. My family is truly everything to me!

I want to be a farmer! I've felt this for a very long time. I've wanted a home in the country away from all the hustle and bustle of everything forever, my whole life really! I've only lived in town since my 20's I never lived in what is considered city limits really till I started staying with my grandmother and although I didn't really live out and both places I still had neighbors very close it wasn't in town. I don't want my neighbors so close anymore that they can see me roll my eyes at them ;) or vise versa :p I knew this is what I wanted when we bought this house right practically in the middle of town. Stupidity I know, but we couldn't find any place in our price range at the time that wasn't right in town. So we bought the first house that was suitable to our needs and in our price range that needed no work to be able to move in. It was only suppose to be 5-10 years and then we would move on after we fixed it up a bit and made some money on it. well it is approaching 8 years here now and we are no where near ready to move. It's very depressing it has me in almost a panic mode all the time because I just want to get all this stuff done and get on with it. I'm not getting any younger and now I have arthritis and just want out of this house with all the stairs that hurt me to walk them :/ We have recently been looking for property so that we can get started on the farm part of the dream even if the house isn't there yet. We can always build or buy a trailer and live on the property while the house is being built. Doesn't matter to me I just want out of here! but I'm trying to breath and remember to be thankful for my blessings. Right now I have a home, a garden, my health, (for the most part,) a dependable vehicle, husband has a good job, my family and their health, so the rest can hold for now...

I just want a simple life with simple pleasures and a simple garden to tend. This sounds crazy to some I know! But I'm certain it's all I want. For now;)

Laugh, Love, Live simply...

First Day Blues

Today is the first day back to school for the kids around here. It is sorta surreal for me because I am offically through with my Elementary school days with all my children. No longer will they get excited to see me at their school volunteering. Their first thought will probably be- "What did I do?" DOn't get me wrong my kids are very well behaved at school. I don't ever recall being called to the school because of their behavior. My son's inabliity to sit in his seat straight much less at all well that's another story! ;) The boy can't help it! He just can't! I hope his go go go mentality helps him later in life :)

I was fine or I thought I was till I got home, my husband is here because he recently had hernia surgery. He wanted to watch a movie and he of course chose Secretariat. I was game for a moment while I drank my nerve pill (English Toffee Cappachino) until the opening scene is where her mother dies and she comes back home for the funeral. They show flash backs to her childhood. Well that's all it took with my Dad's death still being fresh in mind, and my baby going off to Middle School. The tears came uncontrolably. So I excuse myself to get started with the laundry:0 I'm just not in the mood to have a full blown melt down today. So I switched out the laundry and here I am in my basement hiding till the movie gets happy again :) And trying to keep my mind off my babies at school! I miss them already! As crazy as they make me, I still miss them and it just makes me realize sometime in the not so distant future... they will be gone. It will just be my husband and I. I have no idea what I'm going to do when that chapter is closed. I have no plan for the next sequel! What do you do when 22 years of your life is spent raising kids? I don't really have an educatiion to fall back on. Although I would love to start a craft business from home but the question is how? I guess these are things I need to be finding out. I only have the next 7 years to figure it out:) Those will go by quickly, before I know it. It will all be over and nothing left but wait on the grandkids and hope that I raised self sufficient adults;)

Just so ya know!

Just so ya know, I'm still trucking along. I've had a few setbacks. I didn't eat any meat of course but the vegan thing isn't coming along so well. I did it for about a month and my weight started to come down and I was feeling so much better. But it is so hard for some reason. So now I just try really hard to stay away from dairy but I don't beat myself up when I do. After all it's a journey. I love my life, because I have this choice to eat what I want, not what is necessary to survive. Everyone should keep that in mind.
In other news I've been working part-time and this makes me so unorganized! I haven't kept up with most of my green living beliefs! That has to change!!!! I plan to reduce my hours this week and get myself back on track! I really think this is what people have problems with is finding the time! I have to make the time no matter how bad I feel not to take the easy way out. There is so much more I could say on this subject but I will stop for now ;)

Live, Laugh, Love... simply!