Rules for Eating

Kim's mother-in-law sent this in her weekly newsletter and I really liked it, so I decided to post it here so I could always remember it and try to live by it. Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry. Avoid foods that have sugar listed in the first three ingredients. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third grader cannot pronounce. Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. Buy your snacks at the farmers market. If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't. It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car. Eat your colors. Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. So there is the good advice of the day!

Song Writing Duel

So this morning on facebook, I wrote this song: ♫♪♫Saturday is a special day, when I wish that my house was much smaller ♪ We clean the kitchen and scrub the toilets and we say that our mom's into torture ♫♪♫ My friend Rachelle completely topped me in AWESOMENESS by responding with this song: ♫♫♫If you torture and you know it clap your hands, (clap clap) If you make your kids clean go on clap your hands (clap clap) If you torture and your mean,say oh well, our house is clean, Tell your kids guess what, we'll clean next week again!! (Horray!!)♫♫♫ How AWESOME is she!! I bow to her greatness!

The Boob Nazi Read My Blog!!

It is so not like me to post twice in a month (or really even once a month - you all know that I re date my posts, right) but I am so excited. I always wonder if I should admit to stalking blogs or if I should just lurk in creepy silence. Well, since so many people ask me which ones I read I decided to just take all the ones from my google reader and my favorites list and update my blog list on my blog. Well today one of those that I creepily stalk commented on MY blog!! I love the Boob Nazi. She is so hilarious that I sometimes wonder if we are twins separated at birth (about 10 years apart!) I have secretly been considering us e-BFF's and wondering if she wants to go on the girls trip with us this year, because she would SO fit in with the family! So now I feel famous because I always see her comment on the BIG blogs I read (which, by the way is one of the main ways that I find new blogs to stalk. If you make a funny comment on someones blog, I will click on your name to see if you have a blog.) I am so happy! My life would be complete if I could get TAMN to read my blog!

ABC's of Me!

A- Age: 35 (good thing you asked before my birthday, or I might not tell you! B- Bed size: King (sleep number, but do you think it keeps Jeff from crossing the line onto my side, NO!! It turns out we both like the foam strip down the center, go figure!) C- Chore you hate: All of them! Folding laundry, bathrooms, cooking etc. But if I wasn't a stay at home mom, I would hate my job too! So whatev ya know! D- Dog's name: Don't have one. Never will! Sorry kids, no matter how much your dad talks about it, I just sit back and quietly let the storm blow over. No way am I taking on responsibility for a creature who (in my neurotic opinion) has more germs than a bathroom! E- Essential food/item: I don't know if I can narrow it down - anything carbolicious (That is why I am off sugar, and soon to be off bad carbs too!) F- Favorite color: Denim G- Gold or silver: Either, not picky, depends on the mood H- Height: 5' 8.5" I- I am: losing my mind! (Why am I even doing this? Oh yeah, cuz Melinda asked nicely!) J- Job: Holding down the couch - and I am a seriously underpaid professional! Oh and I also do real estate and mortgages on the side, so if ya need one ;) K- Kids: Four too many! Courtney 11(going on 25) Brooke 10, Jake 8, Gage 5 L- Living arrangements: Just shy of qualifying for hoarders!! M-Mom's name: Lois N- Nickname: Cyn, Cyn-O-Dee-O, that &%*$ witch! ;) (You know who you are!) O- Overnight Hospital Stay: Only for the kids! P- Pet peeve: To many to even start to name! Q- Quote from a movie: it is a tie between "Toe-pick" and "I carried a watermelon" R- Right or left handed: Depends, I write and eat with my left hand, but do everything else right handed S- Siblings: Kim (Warren), Rebecca (Felipe), Chad (Kim), Beau (Alicia) T- Time you wake up: As late as possible, but usually 7:30 Which is at least half an hour earlier than I need to get up most days. Dang body clock - so not looking forward to daylight savings on the 14th! U- Unique thing about your car: It is a H2 and most days, that is unique enough!! I feel pretty lame in it, but hey, you can't hate paid off right! V- Vegetable you hate: All of them and I do it with a passion. I only "like" green beans, tomatoes and cucumbers - oh and Corn, but all of you who have ever dieted know that corn is not a vegetable! X- X-rays you've had: Teeth and thumb. That is all I can think of. The thumb thing is kind of funny though. I was walking along the top of our pole fence and the pole turned. I fell off and landed on my thumb. I am cool like that! Y- Yummy food you make: All of my food is just freaking amazing!! NOT - I don't really enjoy cooking, but once in a while I come up with a good idea, and I am killer at tweeking a recipe to be edible, but less that 5 ingredients and less than 15 minutes prep time! Z- Zoo favorite: I love the monkeys the most, but lately the tigers have been cool too. And I LOVE any trained animal shows, like the elephant, reptile and bird show!! I am supposed to tag someone, but most of you are good bloggers anyway so how about I say - whoever doesn't already have a cool post for this week!