The trip went without a hitch until about 1,600 miles in when the huge black truck in front of me was only going 55 on a 55 single lane mountain highway. I had six hours to drive, and driving exactly the speed limit was simply unacceptable. 5 over is fine so 5 over is what I wanted to do. Far in the distance I saw a car speeding towards me buttell me the rest!
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The Marine Corps: destroyer of idols
Last night I had the chance to see my husband for an hour. Sixty minutes. It was wonderful. Our situation really is great. First, getting to see him at all a huge gift because many wives don’t even get sixty minutes, sometimes for a year at a time. Second, he’s only gone for three weeks. You seasoned military wives are probably chuckling right now–three weeks is nothing in the Marinetell me the rest!
When the days blur and Christmas spirit is lost
The house is quiet. The baby is sleeping. My husband is gone. Just like yesterday and the day before that and pretty much every day since we moved to North Carolina. Now the baby is awake and instead of eating he’s squirming and trying to climb on the keyboard and finding all sorts of ways to cause enormous amounts of pain with his tiny razor blade fingernails. I’m trying totell me the rest!
Over the edge of a boom
My husband has been encouraging me recently with constant reminders that getting started is the hardest part of running a business. Last week I wrote about the challenge that has been starting my own business, and I mentioned that I didn’t have any new business updates. Are you ready for this? That’s right, y’all–it finally “boomed.” The hardest part of starting a business is, of course, starting it. I am livingtell me the rest!
The flavors of fall: 4 ingredient breakfast butternut squash-adillas
All morning long our china has been rattling in the cupboards and our ceilings have been shaking as if a fat guy is doing ballet upstairs. It’s artillery rounds from the military base we live next to, and the sounds of a war zone are hardly conducive to sleep, leaving me up far too early. There is one thing that excites me about getting up early and it is this: I cantell me the rest!
Sometimes we just need to hide in the closet
My son can’t walk. He can’t crawl, he can barely scoot, and he is certainly not mobile. Yet sometimes I still need to just go and hide from him. Yesterday afternoon my husband walked into our closet to find me curled up next to the electric fireplace (which we moved in there to keep the baby warm at night–yes, he sleeps in our closet). In the dark. With the door closed.tell me the rest!
21 Day Fix round 2: week 3 (we finally finished!)
Today is day 22 and both my husband and I have yet to break the eating program. He had Shakeology for breakfast and I had cottage cheese and a cup of tea–we don’t have tons of junk in the house but we have some hidden high in a cupboard and even though I know it would taste good I don’t really want it. It has been three weeks since I’ve tastedtell me the rest!
21 Day Fix round 2: week 2 (we said no to all the candy)
The big bowl of individually wrapped mini chocolates sat by our door, hardly touched, taunting us. I just wanted one. For all my fellow healthy eaters on Halloween, I feel your pain. This was a rough one. It didn’t get any better later in the week when we walked into Red Robin and saw smore’s sweet potato fries on the menu–we had to physically put down the menu and push it away sotell me the rest!
21 Day Fix round 2: week 1 (we enjoyed yoga)
Last night my husband and I went out and spent…let’s just say a lot of money on groceries. I felt like a complete wet blanket after telling my husband no a million times over, but all he wanted was the Velveeta cheese and the cinnamon rolls and the Cheez-Its. Even though he knew I was going to no, he still looked at me as if I was the Destroyer of All Thingstell me the rest!
3 ingredient protein balls
If you’ve spent any time on my blog, you’ve probably realized I am a firm believer in simple recipes with few ingredients. This would definitely be one of those. These are not a low-calorie food because I believe calories are necessary to fuel your body, and after a tough workout or in the middle of a long afternoon at work, energy is necessary. Zero calorie foods do not give youtell me the rest!