Holy cow did you watch Grey's Anatomy last night... OMG... wait am I the only one who still watches it?? Sometimes I wonder. But oh my heavens it was heart wrenching. I mean I was ugly face crying over this episode. How do you kill McDreamy? I just don't get it. It really was very sad and just not a great ending for such a beloved character. But what I will say is that the last song was so perfect and sad for that moment. I love the group Sleeping at Last, and Chasing cars is one of my favorites. Anywho, I believe that I will be in mourning for at least a week over this one. But not to worry. My food game is on point and don't get me going on the greens and water! I'm pretty sure that I made the decision to do two weeks of Atkins induction phase to kick start my life. But oh the food... I'm also going to share and AMAZING desert that I made last night that is low carb that I will probably make some form of it for many weeks to come! Cheers y'all have a great weekend!

I've been drinking all the water, all day long. Pretty much daily I'm drinking 4 liters, and 8 oz. of water, little over a gallon a day! Yay! Go me!! You should jump on the water band wagon. It's good for you! I said so!! Just do it! It's a choice, but it is most def a good one! That's all.

This has been a long week, not a bad week just a long one. Buddy got his cast off Monday, we had tball Tuesday, I had a meeting last night and Buddy has AWANA. So we have pretty much been on the go since Monday with not one night home before 7pm this week. That makes for long days, especially when our days start by leaving the house at 6:30am. Today I left at 6am, yowza! But in the grand scheme of things we have had a good week, but I am ready for the weekend!!! Plus, the house is a nightmare that needs to be cleaned. So...moving on... the benefit to this week is that I have honestly had the best sleep of my life for really the last month. I feel so rested and happier (as I just yawned :)) But in all seriousness I really have been sleeping well. I re-ordered my greens, and I am going to be making my sleepy cream from our oils. Buddy loves that I slather it on his feet at night, and I even put it on Julia and Sam last night (and yes I had to put it on EVERYONE!!!) But everyone slept good so there you have it. Julia said that she fell asleep, slept good and never woke up once. I will say that I do sometimes still wake up in the middle of the night, however when I do it's funny because I will wake up and feel like I have been asleep all night and I have no problem rolling over and falling right back to sleep. I only threw that in there because let's be honest, I think I'm hilarious.. ha ha, just kidding, but no really I do! ANYWAY, I'm just in a super good mood today so I just would like to say that I hope you have a super duper pooper scooper Thursday!!! Luv ya! Sleep good my friends! And in the event you would like to sleep better too let me know! xoxoxo

Did you watch The Fast and the Furious 7? Oh my, I loved it, and I cannot get over the end and the tribute. I love the song they used, it is a mixture of sad and happy and I just love it. I really hope that they do not make a Fast and Furious 8. I think it would ruin it. I think that it was perfect and a fitting end to the entire series. I really loved Paul Walker! Oh my.... In other non Paul Walker related news... my little buddy got his cast off last night. He was so happy!!! But let me tell you that his arm smelled so bad, it was disgusting. And just look at those dirty little fingers! Even after his shower his arm stunk. I ended up using a mixture of coconut oil, (Young Living) Purification, Peace and Calming, and Lavender (because it was bedtime) and rubbed on his arm. The smell went away and the boy went to sleep no problem. I even put a little on the bottom of my feet with socks and that combined with my Greens gave me an AMAZING nights sleep. I think I am completely hooked. I will be using the coconut oil mixture on my feet for the next week just to see but oh my. I honestly have had the best sleep of my life this last month. Greens and oils man! They are the way to go. And no I am not embarrassed to say I have become one of those people! Oh and remember my little war room idea for my boy? Well we had one crazy fit the other night and he asked to go to his war room. I put him in the space that I planned for this and played some worship music and brought in the diffuser with a calming mixture of oils in it and honestly it was amazing how he calmed down. I will definitely be utilizing this space again. I also noticed something this weekend. We had his best buddy over so that they could play and we went to the movies, and both boys got a Slurpie and a little candy. Later that afternoon the crash was ridiculous. He was a nightmare and I realized that he hadn't eaten lunch (he was with someone previously to coming home and I didn't realize that they hadn't fed him lunch and we were busy and I didn't ask) I was doing some reading on sugar and also how if you do not keep up on their food consumption they can have their blood sugar crash which can turn into a crazy fit, just like the one we had. I immediately fed him and holy moly the boy didn't even mention that he was hungry but he ate Mac n cheese, two fish sticks, yogurt, a baby bell cheese, and an apple sliced with some nutella. I'd say he was starving. BAD MOM! So I am really going to be trying to make sure that he is eating something every three hours. This makes a ton of sense to me. I also read that for some children when their blood sugar is low in the morning because it's been so long since they have eaten have terrible mornings. BEEN THERE! So they suggest a snack before bed and breakfast immediately upon waking. Done! I will be giving his a snack every night before bed (something healthy) and breakfast within ten minutes of him getting up. I am also going to make sure that even if he is buying lunch at school that he has a snack for recess so that there is less time between meals for him. Hey I am willing to try anything! I prefer my happy buddy as opposed to the monster that creeps out at times! I have not for probably the last 3 nights gone to bed before 9pm (sad face) but I am still a work in progress. I also must confess that I did get upset with buddy this weekend when he was having his meltdown. Hey I'm human. I struggle with this. But I will say that my eating was on point all weekend! So here are my goals this week: 1. Drink all the water!!! oh yes, chug chug!! 2. Bed by 9pm (except maybe Thursday night because Grey's Anatomy looks amazing) 3. Eat within my plan 4. Don't waste money!!! (I added that one because I need to save)(it doesn't help that I have received 4 parking tickets in the last two months! ahhh the joys of working in the city!)(I'll start parking in my space in my parking structure!) Get it together Heather! ha ha!!! Anyway, make it an AMAZING DAY! XOXOXOXOXO

Its a little crazy to have the time to blog... I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself. Well I do know that I will probably be blogging at least 3 times a week goodie!! So I'm looking to do something that will help me make a little extra money. I'm exploring a few options, I'm trying the Young Living Oils, I'm trying out some IT Works products so we'll see. I would NEVER sell or try to get someone else to sell something that I personally don't believe in. So at this point I'm still looking. I can say that I LOVE the greens from IT Works!!! Best sleep of my life without Benadryl or a sleep aid! I also am really liking the oils so I'll keep using different products from these companies to see how I like them. Even if I don't sell them you should try greens!! They will change your life, if only your sleeping life. I look forward to going to bed at night now! BUT there is a caveat, you must find the right mixture or they taste awful! I use 8oz. of water, greens, and 1 whole packet of Crystal Light Peach Mango Green Tea and it tastes wonderful! I think it tastes a little like a Flinstone vitamin. Trust me you won't be sorry you tried it! Last night I made Cauliflower pizza for dinner. It was very yummy! Sam (who hates cauliflower) said I hit it out of the park! So that is a win! I don't feel like writing the recipe...I'm super lame right? Basically I put cauliflower in the food processor - microwaved after for 8 minutes - let it cool - added 1 egg, salt and pepper, mozzarella cheese, and parmesan cheese - squeezed together and mixed - pressed into a Pam sprayed pan - baked for about 15 minutes at 425 - added pizza sauce, cheese, turkey pepperoni, heirloom tomato's, mushrooms, olives, and fresh basil - put back in the oven and baked another 10 minutes - sliced and ate. There you have it! HA HA if you really want to know the exact deets let me know and I'll tell you. It was yummy! Try it today! Super easy! BTW I was in bed at 9pm last night! Yippee!!! Everything else went well. Working on keeping up the fight! Have a fab day my friends!!! Let's rock it together!! But first lets go get a green tea from Starbucks!! XOXO

Ha ha!!! I actually don't dread Monday's too much! I don't love getting up early but I do like my job so it is not so bad. So here is how the weekend stacked up... We had a fun time at tball and had a two hour batting practice later Saturday afternoon at the park. Momma is a good batter, we actually all had some fun using the pitching machine at the park. Mommy and Daddy had a contest to see who could hit the furthest and we even had a little straggler join us. We had a great time Saturday just hanging out. Sunday we went to Church and bbq'd at home. Nice and relaxing weekend! He is so cute in his little uniform! Our little princess Ice cream smiles are the best! Today is buddy's best friends birthday... We love this little dude! Happy Birthday friend!!! This weekend the only goal I really kept was going to Church. But at least I got the most important one done. Oh and my words were pretty good also! So here are my goals for the day and week: 1. Drink a gallon of water (today and each day this week) 2. Be in bed by 9pm (everyday - I did this last night yay) 3. Have my cleaning done each day (I'm doing a little each day, we'll see how that shakes out) 4. My words... (everyday) 5. Eat within my plan (everyday) 6. Hit my goal number (I'll keep this to myself, but I will let you know if I hit it!) Anywho, that seems like a good start! Happy Monday Folks!!! XOXO ~kisses

I'm so excited for the weekend! I feel the need to decompress a little. T-ball with the little buddy in the morning, oil change and then I'm free. I picked a couple new hiking spots that I'm excited about so hopefully we can hit up at least one of those. Maybe we'll even get to two of them. We'll see, lets not get too crazy.. Anyway, have continued with my gallon of water. Hit that goal everyday! Go me! Eating has been on point. Words...I'm working on this daily! Sleep. I really need to get to bed earlier but I must say these Greens are kick ass! I sleep so good. I honestly don't remember when I have slept better. I can honestly say that I look forward to going to sleep at night knowing that I am going to get a great nights sleep. I hope I never forget to drink them! I'm thinking I'm going to try a couple of their other products since I love the Greens so much! Oh and I got my Young Living essential oils on Wednesday and I LOVE them!!! I'm going to keep experimenting with them. But I made a little concoction I called clean and happy and I really liked it! I shall keep mixing. I am super excited to order a couple to mix up a potion for buddy to focus better. Anyway...it is Friday afternoon I'm going to finish up my work so that I can get my weekend started! Have a great one! Oh yeah my goals for the weekend: 1. Drink ALL of my water 2. Be active Saturday and Sunday 3. Get to Church on Sunday 4. Keep my eating in check I'll leave you with my fabulous Friday fashion!! Cheers!

Happy hump day! Shocker I know, multiple posts! They may or may not be a more frequent thing, but only because I am trying to hold myself accountable for goals, parenting, and other stuff. Here were my goals yesterday: 1. Drink 1 gallon of water 2. Get to bed by 9pm 3. Stay within my eating plan 4. Focus on my words Here is how I did: 1. I did it!!!! 2. Was in bed at 9:30 probably asleep by 10 but I could have slept by 8:30 3. Did pretty good all day long. Slipped a little last night but was still down in weight this morning. 4. Daily struggle - But for the most part did good. Today's Goals: 1. Drink 1 gallon of water 2. Get to bed by 9pm 3. Stay within my eating plan 4. Focus on my words the rest of the day 5. Put into practice some new methods of dealing with an angry little boy So here is what the deal is with my angry little man. Lately he gets really angry when he gets mad, and angry over nothing. What I have been doing is working so I need a new approach. I've been doing a bunch of reading because I honestly hate yelling and I feel like I am spinning my wheels at times. So I am going to really focus on staying calm and giving him his moment and then speaking with him. Also I am going to resort to oils in the air to see if that helps. But I think that what is really going to make the biggest difference is the talk I'm going to have with him tonight and what we will be focusing on over the next few weeks. This morning I noticed when he was upset and angry in the car I didn't say anything and I put a song on the radio by Jeremy Camp. Give me Jesus. After the song had been playing for a minute I could tell that his anger had dissipated. My baby loves Jesus. We prayed and I thought we would have a great day but something else set him off when we got to school (he wasn't listening and I told him I was going to take his sharing home with me because he wasn't listening about it). This resulted in a ten minute tantrum back out in our car. As I drove to work I really got to thinking about what might work with him, something different. As I thought about it I really thought that the best approach with him right now is to focus on his love of Jesus. His love is fierce and he will ask you if you believe in Jesus and tell you why you should and exactly how to get into heaven. I decided that I'm going to ask him if he wants to be a "warrior for Jesus". I printed some color pictures to put up in his room. I'm planning on explaining that when we love Jesus so fierce that sometimes we get attacked and don't even realize it. And that our anger is a result of that attack. And that we have to fight back against the attack by putting on God's armor. I will explain that and explain that prayer will help. But I think I would also like to create a space for him called his war room. This place will be where he can go and have his moment and focus on fighting his battle! I'm not sure that this will work, but I'm willing to try. I think that if this does work it will give him an outlet and a way to battle on his own his anger. I'll let you know how it goes. Anyway I hope you have an amazing day!!! XO

Still sleeping awesome! Just sayin! I am really excited actually about how great I am actually sleeping. I found myself looking forward to going to bed last night so that I could get sleep! Last night we were in bed by 9:30 but my goal tonight is to be in bed by or before 9pm, and if you know me you know that I am a night owl so that is early for me to be in bed. Here is what I am hoping by this extra sleep. I am hoping that it helps me lose weight. Not that sleep makes you lose weight but I have read that extra sleep does assist in weight loss when you are trying to lose weight. Which I am as always. I swear one day I will be happy where I am and stay there. I am also hoping that the extra sleep will help my face... lets face it... it needs help. Ha ha. But seriously, I'm drinking a gallon of water a day to help my weight loss and also to help my skin. Extra sleep can only help my skin look better and more rested. I'm focusing on small goals. Making them and making myself hit them. I think sometimes we set ourselves up for failure by giving ourselves these crazy goals that we just cannot attain. Tuesday Goals: 1. Drink 1 gallon of water 2. Get to bed by 9pm 3. Stay within my eating plan 4. Focus on my words (I failed yesterday, will do better today) Honestly, the words we say really do make a difference. For example yesterday someone annoyed me (someone close to me) and instead of just letting it go like I told myself to I made a remark to that person and it felt good for all of two seconds because that person responded with remarks as well that were in direct effect of what I said. So a situation that could have just gone away by me being the bigger person and keeping my comment to myself turned into something lame because I ignored my better judgment. This will be a struggle daily so I am REALLY REALLY going to be working hard to be better in every situation. At work, at home, and in my daily life. I'm also super excited that I ordered my Young Living oils yesterday. I have heard awesome things about them and am so excited to try them out at home!! I'll let you know what I think after I try them out a few times. I'm hopeful! Anywho, hope you have an amazingly great day!!!! XOXO

Happy Frigen Monday! Ha ha not really but yes! I most definitely want you to have a happy Monday, but just a happy one! I'm happy, currently listening to Maroon 5 Sugar. I think it is going to be a Maroon 5 Monday and I'm going to play them all morning on my office computer! So to start your Monday off right I want to share the pics that I found on my ipad this morning.... That is enough to cure any Monday blues! This boy is such a cute sweet, loving little butt head. My heart, and sole! He had a rough day yesterday and it broke my heart. Being a mama is a hard job sometimes. We are moving forward taking each day as it comes and hoping to just grow and learn from everything that comes our way. Our focus this month is going to be our words and really thinking before we speak. Are my words kind, necessary, and true. This is what I want everyone in our house to focus on for the next month. I'll let you know if it works! In other news I started drinking "Greens" by It works last Monday and I have to say that I have slept better than ever starting on the first night that I drank it. The first day was rough because it really tasted gross. But from day 2 on was great. I just had to find the right mixture to drink it with. I didn't want to drink juice (which I would recommend) so I drank with 8oz. of water an entire packet of mango green tea crystal light and the greens. The final result was a drink that tastes like a Flinstone vitamin. So far I am loving this! I am hoping that I will see other benefits as well but the sleep part is AMAZING!!! I will be trying additional products hoping to see benefits from them as well. Who knows maybe if I love everything I'll become a distributor. But that is a down the road thing. But so far so good! But I would definitely recommend the Greens to anyone! XOXO

So I guess I should start out this post by stating that I am so excited to say that since my last post back in February I started a new job! I am so happy to be doing something I love! I actually wrote the previous post entitled "Change" as a writing sample for my new job. The people are wonderful and I feel like this is going to be something great. The only thing I can honestly say that I am unhappy about is the fact that I completely set aside my goal of getting back into shape and losing the weight that I gained. In fact I gained some more. I am really unhappy about that. I am really hoping that I have the resolve to commit myself back to being where I want to be. My goal for the month of April is to be consistent. Stick to my plan and hopefully see results. I've added a few things into my plan to help me out hopefully. I'll let you know more as I go. I am not doing any craziness, but I would like to see how things progress before I put it out there. I will say I am back on my gallon of water a day. This picture is my new head shot for my new job. I am please with how it turned out! My little buddy broke his arm about a month ago which threw a wrench in our baseball season, but we are hopeful he will get to finish the season. I had my birthday! I was very nice! Got some flowers, dinner and fun! Ok well this is a short post... gotta run get my mom and dad at the airport. But I will keep you posted about the month ahead! But I'll leave you with this sweet pic. XOXO

Change is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's intentional. Sometimes is happens on its own. Sometimes you don't even notice it until you take a breath and say, "wow I didn't even realize". Change can be exciting, but it can also be scary. For me, change has always seemed like something that I didn't really care much for. Not that I spent much time really thinking about it. I like things how they are most of the time and just stay the course. This year though I feel like that is changing for me. How ironic. It's funny how the turn of one year to another can make us reflect on the time that has past and what we want for the future. Life is evolving and changing and I'm ok with that. I want to embrace that. As I look back on the last year and years past I am proud of the things that I have accomplished and the times that I have pulled up my boot straps and pushed through. I think that being a mom changes the way that you look at life and everything that comes your way. Even Easton has gone through change over the last year. Going from his safe and loved Montessori school to public school has been an adjustment. Together we are navigating through this and adapting to the new ways of learning and moving forward. Every day is not easy, but we keep going. I continue to encourage him through his tough days and tell him that I know that he can do it. It’s these things that I say to my son that also encourage me on my hard days. I know that every day is not going to be a cake walk, but I also know that if I just keep on going it will get better. I sit here today happier than I was yesterday. Hopeful that the days ahead are going to be brighter. I have big goals this year. I feel more equipped than ever to achieve them. I was listening to a song the other day and I thought it was just the perfect theme song for me this year. It was I lived by OneRepublic. It’s funny how music can speak to the places that you are in your life. The song talks about taking chances, not looking back, doing it all and living. This is exactly how I see the year ahead for me. The whole idea of just going full steam ahead and reaching out for my goals, making positive changes, growing and watching the old fall away excites me. The awesome part about all of this is that I don’t think I have been this excited about where I am before. Good things are in store this year. I feel it. I was talking with a co-worker the other day and he was telling me about something that he and his daughters do every year. They pick a word to represent their year. A word that will be their theme for the year. I told him that I have done the same before. But what was different about what they do than what I have done is that they also pick a word that they want to get rid of. A word symbolic of what they are leaving behind. I loved this idea. For 2015 I really have two words that I feel are the essence of who I am and what I want the theme of my year to be. Obviously, CHANGE but also INSPIRE. I want the positive changes that I make to be inspiring. Inspiring for me, but also inspiring for others. I cannot even put the words together to explain the anticipation that I feel for the future. I can only describe it as the feeling that you feel when you first meet someone and you feel that excitement and anxiety all at the same time. All the good butterfly feelings. I feel butterfly’s for the next chapter. I am happy. Then there is the word that I leave behind this year. I really had to think on this and decide what I wanted to let go of. The one thing that really stuck out for me was settling. I don’t want to settle anymore. I don’t want to settle for half of my dreams coming true, for being ok with just being ok. I will not settle in 2015. Big things are ahead. I feel it. I am on the verge of greatness. I am excited and I know at the end of this year I will be able to say I lived!