January always inspires me to cleanse my life! It's wonderful! My husband and I set goals in all areas of life:
Spiritual
Relational
Health
Professional
Financial
It took some time to think and pray about them, but we have them written down! The problem with many January Goals; by March they are a long lost memory!
So, this year we scheduled a monthly follow up meeting! I am so excited about it, because I think it will be fun and I also think it will be a good way to hold us accountable.
One goal tying in with yesterday's post is to discover my true passion and hone in on it. That is what this blog will do... develop, display, and (with God) direct my passion.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's Health Cleanse I have been doing...it all has to do with FOOD!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Follow Through...
My sister has started a great blog http://www.lovinggodthemost.com/.
We were chatting today about why I haven't kept up my postings on this blog...basically, I am not good with follow through...especially when I feel lost. So the blog takes the hit!
I do feel a bit lost right now, maybe overwhelmed is a better word. There is so much I could write about, so much I could do each day and to pick the perfect thing is so challenging!
So, I have decided to take a seven day prayer challenge (and follow through with it) to ask for direction and guidance on what God wants me to share with the rest of the world... or how He wants me to!
I know I have passions and I know God will guide me in them... so here is to "ANOTHER start"! I need a little more Faith in myself and to Trust God!
We were chatting today about why I haven't kept up my postings on this blog...basically, I am not good with follow through...especially when I feel lost. So the blog takes the hit!
I do feel a bit lost right now, maybe overwhelmed is a better word. There is so much I could write about, so much I could do each day and to pick the perfect thing is so challenging!
So, I have decided to take a seven day prayer challenge (and follow through with it) to ask for direction and guidance on what God wants me to share with the rest of the world... or how He wants me to!
I know I have passions and I know God will guide me in them... so here is to "ANOTHER start"! I need a little more Faith in myself and to Trust God!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Change of Plans
What started as an attempt to be the a wonderful wife... prepared, helpful, foodie, loving, and all that a wife should do to help her husband leave town free of stress...
Ended in a melt down on the kitchen floor at eight o'clock at night
Do you ever have plans like that goes this way? It seems that when I thaw meat out and want to cook a great meal for some reason plans change or when we plan to go out and end up staying in there is no food to be eaten.
Plans in my life are always changing and which sometimes makes me feel like I am failing and cant get anything right. My husband always explains I have higher expectations in my head then anyone else. This is true but the even more blaring truth is, plans change!
Luckily we have a never changing GOD Yaweh He is who He is and never changes!
I am sure Glad because the ingeredients to my life change daily. Whether its just dinner plans or much bigger plans!
Whatever your plan is give it up to the Lord the unchanging God and allow him to let it roll!
Ended in a melt down on the kitchen floor at eight o'clock at night
Do you ever have plans like that goes this way? It seems that when I thaw meat out and want to cook a great meal for some reason plans change or when we plan to go out and end up staying in there is no food to be eaten.
Plans in my life are always changing and which sometimes makes me feel like I am failing and cant get anything right. My husband always explains I have higher expectations in my head then anyone else. This is true but the even more blaring truth is, plans change!
Luckily we have a never changing GOD Yaweh He is who He is and never changes!
I am sure Glad because the ingeredients to my life change daily. Whether its just dinner plans or much bigger plans!
Whatever your plan is give it up to the Lord the unchanging God and allow him to let it roll!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
National Love your Body Day
In Honor of National Love your Body Day www.loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org
Loving your body this day and age can be one of the most difficult things for a women to do. Why is it such a hard task? Great question! If I new the answer I would probably be making lots of money and I wouldnt have days that I look in the mirror thinking oh I wish I could change (fill in the blank) about myself!
I have learned that on those days we can do a few things to improve our image of ourself and to help us LOVE the Body we were given!
The first thing is ridding our minds of the lies we begin to believe about ourselves. Lies creep in day in and day out, as we compare ourselves to others and as Satan likes to place them in our heads. In order to kick out the lies and replace them with the Truth we have to know the truth!
Here are some truths I am certain of:
1. I are fearfully and wonderfully made in Christ image
2. I am uniquely made to be special and different from anyone else
3. I can identify a list of 5 things we like about myself and why? example: I have legs full of muscle to help me run... even if I want them smaller I can focus on the postive.
4. Fat is a feeling
5. The feeling of not liking my body, I have most likely felt before and it comes and goes. The truth is that my body is no different then yesterday.
6. I am a woman with hormones that play into all the lies, feelings, and fluxuations I have!
Take heart in the list of truths I have found and find your own truths... start by making a list of the things you do love about your body!
JR
6. There are many people that love me and the way I look
Loving your body this day and age can be one of the most difficult things for a women to do. Why is it such a hard task? Great question! If I new the answer I would probably be making lots of money and I wouldnt have days that I look in the mirror thinking oh I wish I could change (fill in the blank) about myself!
I have learned that on those days we can do a few things to improve our image of ourself and to help us LOVE the Body we were given!
The first thing is ridding our minds of the lies we begin to believe about ourselves. Lies creep in day in and day out, as we compare ourselves to others and as Satan likes to place them in our heads. In order to kick out the lies and replace them with the Truth we have to know the truth!
Here are some truths I am certain of:
1. I are fearfully and wonderfully made in Christ image
2. I am uniquely made to be special and different from anyone else
3. I can identify a list of 5 things we like about myself and why? example: I have legs full of muscle to help me run... even if I want them smaller I can focus on the postive.
4. Fat is a feeling
5. The feeling of not liking my body, I have most likely felt before and it comes and goes. The truth is that my body is no different then yesterday.
6. I am a woman with hormones that play into all the lies, feelings, and fluxuations I have!
Take heart in the list of truths I have found and find your own truths... start by making a list of the things you do love about your body!
JR
6. There are many people that love me and the way I look
Monday, October 11, 2010
Life without a faucet
Life without a kitchen sink faucet and dishwasher + no furniture = Crazy! To say the least!
Well that sums up my life right now. quite the challenge for a food loving, clean kitchen, budget contious person! So I find myself just trying to laugh about it and be creative.
Hubs and I could eat out for the next two weeks which would mean some damage on our budget and most likely our waste line!
Our solution is the bathroom sink and the refridgerator water! Dinner lastnight was a success! PTL we have a working oven and cook top!
So in the world of food... we ate pretty gourmet last night rosemary roasted chicken with mashed cauliflower and baked cinnamon apples! DELISH!!!
Since I am trying not to eat much meat... I subbed the chicken for some shredded wheat (OK, I now not as gourmet but deffinitly budget concious (got the entire box for 89c. THANK YOU target clarence)
Off to coffee with one of my besties! Kelli! Stay tuned for Hubs and I fitness challenge... it will be unrolled tomorrow!
Well that sums up my life right now. quite the challenge for a food loving, clean kitchen, budget contious person! So I find myself just trying to laugh about it and be creative.
Hubs and I could eat out for the next two weeks which would mean some damage on our budget and most likely our waste line!
Our solution is the bathroom sink and the refridgerator water! Dinner lastnight was a success! PTL we have a working oven and cook top!
So in the world of food... we ate pretty gourmet last night rosemary roasted chicken with mashed cauliflower and baked cinnamon apples! DELISH!!!
Since I am trying not to eat much meat... I subbed the chicken for some shredded wheat (OK, I now not as gourmet but deffinitly budget concious (got the entire box for 89c. THANK YOU target clarence)
Off to coffee with one of my besties! Kelli! Stay tuned for Hubs and I fitness challenge... it will be unrolled tomorrow!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
No more MOO MOO
Good Eats...
I seriously had the best lunch today! I was surrounded by some of my most FAVORITE PEOPLE!!!
My Pops was having nose surgery of some sort... to clear his airways, but I like to say he was getting a nose job! Haha! So we gathered in the waiting room and feasted while he was under the knife! Sorry Dad you missed out!
We had salads from my favorite deli in town! Shout out to Palmer's Deli: www.palmersdeliandmarket.com/ ... Although it is my favorite deli, I must say the experience was very hectic this time. The combination of a "to go" order and the noon hour rush was not a good idea. My salad had peas (SICK) instead of beets (YUMMY) on it... Hubs salad had the same confusion... Oh well! Even with the wrong ingredients, it's still yummy.
My sister (one of my favorite peeps) was excited to have feta cheese on her salad after refraining from it the whole time she was pregnant, but it's a short lived treat and once again she can't have dairy since her nursing son is having a reaction to it... Poor Weston!
She will miss her morning "wake me up" of cereal, with lots of milk. Poor Sissy!
I will post the recipes just as soon as I perfect them.
PS... making your own oat milk/ rice milk will save $$ YAY YAY
I seriously had the best lunch today! I was surrounded by some of my most FAVORITE PEOPLE!!!
My Pops was having nose surgery of some sort... to clear his airways, but I like to say he was getting a nose job! Haha! So we gathered in the waiting room and feasted while he was under the knife! Sorry Dad you missed out!
We had salads from my favorite deli in town! Shout out to Palmer's Deli: www.palmersdeliandmarket.com/ ... Although it is my favorite deli, I must say the experience was very hectic this time. The combination of a "to go" order and the noon hour rush was not a good idea. My salad had peas (SICK) instead of beets (YUMMY) on it... Hubs salad had the same confusion... Oh well! Even with the wrong ingredients, it's still yummy.
My sister (one of my favorite peeps) was excited to have feta cheese on her salad after refraining from it the whole time she was pregnant, but it's a short lived treat and once again she can't have dairy since her nursing son is having a reaction to it... Poor Weston!
She will miss her morning "wake me up" of cereal, with lots of milk. Poor Sissy!
So the VitaMix to the rescue... I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! our VitaMix! (Hubs uses it every morning for his smoothie breakfast!)
Anyway... I am going to make some RICE milk and OAT milk for sissy tonight!
I will post the recipes just as soon as I perfect them.
We also talked about natural protein powders for the VM... any suggestions?
PS... making your own oat milk/ rice milk will save $$ YAY YAY
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
FOOD and FINANCES
I love food, I enjoy making it, eating it, experiencing it, seeing it, smelling it... the list goes on. But this love can become very expensive!
How do you save money when it comes to food? whether is Grocery shopping or Dinning out?
Hubs and I find that we have to Budget both areas. When it comes to eating out we view it as a treat and our entertainment! We love fine dinning and like to find gift card deals... like on restaurant.com or other deal websites.
I do all the grocery shopping in the house and really enjoy prepping food. So here are some of my money saving tips of the day.
1. I buy meat on sale and freeze it or plan our menu's around the deals of the week
2. Make your own... snack packs, granola bars, anything package... even alternative milks
3. Enjoy the process of hunting for the best deal.
4. Dont stick to one grocery store.
This morning was Oats as always and for lunch I had steamed vegi's, brown rice, edamame, and miso soup... with my momma... we have not had enough time together so it was great to catch up! I LOVE HER!
JR
How do you save money when it comes to food? whether is Grocery shopping or Dinning out?
Hubs and I find that we have to Budget both areas. When it comes to eating out we view it as a treat and our entertainment! We love fine dinning and like to find gift card deals... like on restaurant.com or other deal websites.
I do all the grocery shopping in the house and really enjoy prepping food. So here are some of my money saving tips of the day.
1. I buy meat on sale and freeze it or plan our menu's around the deals of the week
2. Make your own... snack packs, granola bars, anything package... even alternative milks
3. Enjoy the process of hunting for the best deal.
4. Dont stick to one grocery store.
This morning was Oats as always and for lunch I had steamed vegi's, brown rice, edamame, and miso soup... with my momma... we have not had enough time together so it was great to catch up! I LOVE HER!
JR
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