Spring Happenings

Today my friend has a post at MW - how their family worked with God to help their daughter with Kawasaki Disease. 

I submitted for my Humanities mid-term! It is such a relief to be halfway through the class. Applying for foster care lit a fire under me, I really need to finish this class and be well on my way to finishing a Psych Stats class before we get into full-time fostering. After that major class the remaining classes will be cake, with a few rocks baked in. 

I finally planted seeds! The warm weather encouraged me to believe that it will eventually get warm enough for things to grow. They sprouted  quickly this year. 

 

I also tested my garden soil - it is pathetic. Low on everything although the acidity levels are good. But by the time I adjust all the other issues I'll probably have issues with acidity. Composted manure here I come!

Today I finished The Sugar Queen. I highly recommend it, this book came along just when I needed it. A good story with a magical lightness. Yummy!

News Flash - Eating well is difficult. I have to share how horridly I ate on Saturday so I can feel good about improving: 

Breakfast: Lucky Charms with lowfat milk. This makes no sense. I should have poured on the heavy cream while I was at it. We never have Lucky Charms in the house, but I got them for J's birthday. 

Lunch: At Chuck E Cheese for J's friend's birthday party so, you guessed it: 2 1/2 slices of pizza and soda. Why not the salad bar? Because the pizza was right there in front of me while the salad bar required a little effort. 

Dinner: Popeyes. Do I need to tell you the scary details? Full confession purges the soul - two deep fried fish fillets, biscuit with honey, cole slaw (got a veggie in there!) and a full sugar sprite. 

Is there any wonder that I had a headache and achy knees on Sunday? My body was nearly suffering from malnutrition even though I went far over the number of calories required to sustain life. So after that I'm quite proud of myself for eating these things today (although not necessarily the best choices) 

Breakfast: granola bar, a few grapes, and water.

Mid morn snack - juice and 2 whole wheat muffins (I noticed that most juices now have water and sugar as their leading ingredients. We aren't drinking juice, we're drinking sugar water, like hummingbirds.) I'm under no delusions about the sugar content of this meal, even with the whole wheat - not good choices. 

Lunch - Ham and cheese sandwich, half of Baby's chocolate muffin. Don't say a word about that muffin, it was going to waste. 

Afternoon snack - V8 juice and a trail mix of nuts and dried blueberries (a new find that is great! So great I think I ate too much.)

Dinner - Haven't eaten yet but plan to train wreck the day with scrambled eggs, hashbrowns and juice because I don't feel like making dinner. I'll make it up tomorrow by making Chicken Chili. 

I'm telling myself that we'll eat better soon when the veggies are in season. 

To end this scatterbrained post, here's a picture Baby took of herself.

 

Comments

[Selwyn]

1.

Hey Jendoop! Just wanted to say G'day, that I enjoy your comments at Segullah, and I read Sugar Queen last week and enjoyed it too! Not as much as Garden Secrets, but I still laughed out loud and wanted the same whimsy in my life. :)

[Julie M]

2.

Hey Jen,
I'm eating Lucky Charms while reading your blog. It's past bedtime but I couldn't sleep.
Thanks for the book ideas. See ya

[Amanda D]

3.

You've gotta love pictures kids take of themselves.

I eat a good breakfast 6 days a week (Fiber 1 cereal or whole wheat toast) so on Sundays I always eat a big bowl of unhealthy sugared cereal. YUM! I figure one day isn't going to kill me.

Thanks for the book recomendation. I'll have to add it to my list!

[Sue]

4.

I just bought The Sugar Queen and Garden Spells on my kindle. Thanks for the recommendations!

=)

[jendoop]

5.

I'll have to read Garden Secrets, another book for the list!

It sounds like I need to make Lucky Charms my friends' Christmas gifts this year ;)