I know this is a health and fitness blog but the last few days I’ve just been enjoying some simple pleasures. I think that’s healthy too and I hope you’ll bear with me. Today I enjoyed making pizzas with a friend and our kids. Beautiful Laura. Homemade Pizza Dough Oh cheese how I love thee. […]

Today was an awesome day. We had a peaceful morning schooling. I got dressed by noon. My husband shaved. (nothing like kissing a smooth face) I also got in a few kettlebell swings. I’ve been wearing cut off tube socks “gloves” on my hands the last few days. (I ripped a callous off on Monday. […]

Update:  You can read my  FULL REVIEW of the Bodybugg V3 here! I did something impulsive. I emptied my sock drawer.  Not of socks but of the last of my birthday money.  I was planning on buying a pair of designer jeans. Instead I got this. See the black thing on my arm. That’s my […]

Yesterday morning we got up early and went to a breakfast for The National Day of Prayer.  It was at a hotel on the beach and simply lovely. When I got dressed it didn’t occur to me that I might match the decorations. We prayed for our city, our country, and our world.  I hope […]

I was planning on finishing up Part 4 of my Climbing the Ladder Series:  (Tools to Keep Your Weekend Interesting) but while I love lists (that was one of my first and all time favorite posts btw) I’m just not “feeling” my scheduled post today.  Instead, I want to talk about the 10KChallenge I just completed […]

This month I set out to complete the 10,000 swing challenge. This meant I “have to get  my swings in” be it the In-N-Out parking lot or rest stops. Never mind if people stared at me as if I was insane or I was embarrassing driving my family nuts. No siree. I won’t quit. The great […]

Ten years ago today a brand new chapter of my life was opened. I gave birth to my son via an emergency c-section. I was a senior in college and struggling with a severe mental illness but with his birth I God birthed a new me. While life has not been perfect since (it never […]

Source It has been one of “those weeks”.  I’ve felt stuck in tiny room with one only one window that’s covered thick with grime. I know there is a beautiful world out there but my Windex bottle is empty.  Dammit. I could ramble and muse on (and on and on) about my feelings but, honestly, […]

This year for Lent Brent suggested we give up meat for 6 days out of the week.  (Don’t ask why 6 days b/c I don’t know.)  It wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would it be, annoying at times, but not necessarily difficult.  I chose not  to talk about it publicly on my […]

Don’t tell anyone but I can be a little obsessive and what some might call a tad bit obnoxious. For instance, packing for our road trip across the desert to Arizona on Friday I insisted that we take all our veggies (including wilted dandelion greens) from the CSA despite knowing full well we wouldn’t eat […]