Friday August 20, 2010

Food plan for the day:

Breakfast: Steel cut oats for me, coffee (2 glasses water)
Snack: Yogurt with blueberries (eat before leaving for pool club or on the way).
Lunch: Mom's pesto, whole wheat ronies, my salad with 1 tomato, 50/50 dressing (bals. & olive oil) and 1/2 chicken breast (about 2-3 oz, since I'm having ricotta in the pesto)
Snack: Cantaloupe & Almonds (bring to pool club to resist other snacks) & vitamin water
Dinner: R & I - Grilled shrimp, homemade fried rice, steamed broccoli stir fry, raw veggie.
(AM Prep: Cooked the rice & the broccoli and defrosted the shrimp from freezer).

Kids:
Breakfast: Kids choice: (B) cereal, milk, blueberries (AND Applejuice, he doesn't stop eating in the AM!), (D) Toast with PB, blueberries, milk (E) Cinn toast, OJ, Babybel cheese.
Snack (on the way to pool club): Almonds & raisins
Lunch: Mom's Pesto and juice boxes (100%)
Snack: Cantaloupe
Dinner: Not sure - maybe I'll stop and pick up Applegate farms hot dogs and Martin's rolls to put on the grill for the kids, will keep some rice plain for B. Have the kids try the rice & the shrimp (need to start them on seafood). Pork N beans for E (R will eat some too).

FRIVOLOUS things in life...

I'm borrowing this list from Heidi at Mt. Hope Chronicles blog. I have to say, the thing I love most about Heidi's blogs is that she makes me THINK about myself sometimes!! I have been so busy with kids for the last few years that even thinking about my "Pre-Kids" life seems foreign and light years away! I enjoyed going thru this list and reminescing about my "other" life, as I call it now. It was great, though, to put a bunch of things on my to-do lifetime list too!

Items in blue are ones that I have done. Items with an * are ones on the 'to-do in my lifetime' list.)

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (I think...)
3. Played in a band (does a school orchestra count?)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain*
9. Held a praying mantis (well, I took a photo of one..)
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped (closest thing was a slingshot, which I'll count, since I'll never bungee).
12. Visited Paris*
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (does photography count?)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (grew up in NY and didn't until I was in college)
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb (nope, held a kid (baby goat! LOL) at a farm once, though).
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon*
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person*
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Italy)
35. Seen an Amish community (Lancaster, PA)
36. Taught yourself a new language* (Been trying to learn Italian for years...)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied*
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person*
39. Gone rock climbing *
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted*
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris*
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (been snorkeling and have swam with stingrays, but because of my asthma, was rejected for a scuba diving course)
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business*
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen*
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching (& dolphin )
63. Gotten flowers for no reason (have I?)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (I need to - haven't since I've had kids, but multiple times before)
65. Gone sky diving (no thanks)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (by accident!)
68. Flown in a helicopter*
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (not the ones I would have liked, but my mom has some still)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt*
73. Stood in Times Square (yup, hubby works there!)
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person*
80. Published a book*
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem*
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible* (working on it)
86. Visited the White House*
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (does fish count? then, yes)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club*
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee (and realized I was allergic when my leg blew up!) :)