Month: October 2014

October has been a really full and fun month with the KC Royals winning the playoffs and advancing to the World Series! What an awesome month of baseball. We also had a lot going on socially and I got to enjoy my daughter Tess being in town for almost a full week! That being said, I’ve just been a really crappy Weight Watcher member as of late. I’ve drank too much, I’ve ordered food items when eating out that I don’t typically order, and I’ve lacked on my exercise. September was such an awesome month with my 100 Mile Walking Challenge, and I liked what the scale was doing. I got on the scale yesterday morning, and it was actually less than I was expecting, so like an idiot, instead of taking advantage of that and feeling like I had a head-start on my new weight watchers week, I ate […]

(revised 10-29-14 with banana snack that I forgot about!) That’s the chant you will hear all throughout the Royals games at Kauffman Stadium. If you’re a baseball fan, heck, even if you’re NOT a baseball fan, you likely know that the KC Royals won game 6 (10-0!) of the World Series last night. That means we are now 3 and 3 in the series with the Giants, which means we will be playing Game 7 tonight to become the World Series Champions of 2014!!  This has been such an exciting time in Kansas City! Fountains around the city have Blue water….   ……T-shirt stands are set up on corners all over the metropolitan area, people have an extra energy about them and you can feel the pride in the city! I’m so excited for the game tonight! Let’s DO THIS ROYAL’S!!   While watching the game, we were also watching […]

I had a great time with my daughter last week, then Mike and I went to a beautiful wedding out of town this weekend. I ended up taking an unplanned break from the blog and totally went into vacation mode. Tess and I ended up watching the Royals game on Tuesday at a great little Brewery, of course. Then we watched Wednesday at a favorite place of ours where we met a few friends, made a few new friends, and cheered really loud! Tess paid a little tribute to our Mimi on Instagram one of the nights while we watched the Royals play!   l found this picture today that a photographer took of Tess and I at the Pep Rally downtown that we accidentally came upon! We are all about our Kansas City Royals and our blue shirts, and we still can’t believe we happened upon this big pep […]

Okay, so here’s what I’ve proven to myself time and time again. When my daughter and I get together, I totally regress back to my 20’s and we just have a really, really good time. She moved to Dallas after she graduated from college, almost two years ago, and every time we get together, it’s like some kind of mini vacation for the both of us! I said that I would count my WW PointsPlus this week and keep on track, but I knew that it would be tough. I’ve totally failed at that. Saturday included an Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Breakfast, A Quinoa Bowl for lunch, and a Chicken Sausage with Sauerkraut and Sweet Potato Fries for dinner. Sunday my meals included Bagels and Cream Cheese at my son and daughter-in-laws new house, a leftover chicken sausage at home, and we then went to a BBQ dinner for […]

Had a great evening toasting with our kids!   Here are yesterday’s eats! Breakfast Egg Rolls 5 PPV   Lunch Carrots, Hummus Banana and Nut Butter 3 PPV   Cheeseburger Quesadilla 7 PPV Ingredients 2 Small Corn Tortilla’s (3 PointsPlus) 1 Slice of 2% Sharp Cheddar Cheese, torn into pieces (1 PointsPlus) 1 Cooked, Morning Star Spicy Black Bean Burger (3 PointsPlus) Directions Lay one tortilla in a heated skillet sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Tear half of the cheese slice into pieces and place them on the tortilla.      Lay the cooked veggie burger on top of the cheese pieces and tear the remaining half slice of cheese into pieces and place those on top of the burger.   Top with remaining corn tortilla. Spray the tortilla with nonstick cooking spray. Heat, flip, and continue to cook until tortilla browns.    This would be awesome topped with some […]

It’s going to be a busy day, and a great weekend! I hope that some of you found a Quinoa Bowl that you’d like to try in yesterday’s post! I’m getting a haircut today, by my lovely daughter, Anne. My hair hasn’t been this length in forever, and every time I try to curl it, I look like I’m right out of the 80’s! I’ve asked her to help me look a little more “current” today! Our son, Jake, turns 30 today, and we are going to see him and his wife tonight at their new home that they just bought! I’m trying to come up with a clever gift to show up with for the first time home owners. They have a ton of tree’s, and all I can think of is a rake and lawn bags!! I’m picking up my Little Sis, Samone, in the morning, and we […]

Revised 7/22/2018  I’ve been doing several meals lately with quinoa, and some of these dishes have really turned out yummy! When I first tasted Quinoa, I wasn’t too crazy about it, but after hearing the suggestion that I cook my quinoa in chicken broth, or vegetable broth, verses cooking it water, I did that and I thought that it made a huge difference! Now I like it to keep Quinoa cooked up and in the fridge. I’ve added it to my eggs, I’ve added it to salads, I’ve made breakfast bars with it after cooking it in water, and I have eaten quinoa in a similar way that you would eat oatmeal, but my favorite way to eat Quinoa, is cooking it in chicken broth, and eating it hot. I like to add a variety of cooked veggies to it, along with Laughing Cow Cheese Wedges. Often, I’ll throw in […]

ca·tas·tro·phe ca·tas·tro·phe kəˈtastrəfē/ noun   an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.   If you read my blog regularly, you know that along with battling how to maintain a healthy weight, and party like a 20 year old on occasion, I usually have a random story. Today is no different. Trying to get my dogs to poop in the rain is a real chore. Monday night, after a FULL day of rain and neither dog wanting to stay outside long enough to do their business, I put Tucker on a leash and literally walked in circles in the front yard while Mishka followed us. I was going around and around and around the tree, hoping to give each dog enough exercise to poop, and I was hoping the tree would shelter me a bit from the rain. After 10 minutes of walking in circles, and […]

I enjoyed a really relaxed Sunday yesterday. I had decided early in the day, that I would basically do a whole lot of….well…..absolutely nothing. So that’s pretty much what I did. Mike had a golf date and was out the door right after breakfast. I got caught up on the blog, emails, phone calls and text messages, all while curled up on the couch with a blanket and multiple cups of coffee. I didn’t get dressed until about 3:00 pm. I had decided to go to a Yoga class at 5:00, and I hadn’t ever done a class on a Sunday. It was the perfect way to end my relaxing day of doing absolutely nothing. Here’s what I ate during my nothing doing.   Frothy Coffee 1 PPV   Breakfast Biscuits and Gravy, Egg Whites 9 PPV Ingredients 1 C. of Frozen Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Crumbles Flour Skim Milk […]

I didn’t get a blog posted on Friday morning. Nope. I had other things going on. Let’s see…. Friday morning, at 5:00 am, Mike woke me up saying….”I think Tucker pooped in his kennel”. First of all, I’m not one of those people that gets out of the bed in the morning feeling elated and overjoyed. Never have been. My feet touch the floor, I sit on the side of the bed pondering…..”What day is this? Why did morning come so fast?”  I slowly walk to the bathroom. I brush my teeth, (not really, but I guess I should, right?) I go downstairs, I let the dogs out, and I start my coffee. By coffee time, I have realized what day it actually is, and I start to come alive. Hearing the words….”pooped in his kennel”….at 5:00 am, dreaming about more sleep, didn’t really help me come alive in a […]