What Are We Doing?

We are mom's, wives, friends, aunts, cousins, employees, bosses, entrepreneurs, nurses, cooks, maids, and the list goes on, but are we individuals anymore?  We spend so much time trying to be everything that we no long know who we are.  It's time that we women come together and make changes.  Not only for our families but for our selves.

I don't know about you but I have spent so much time going to school to become someone only to find out that what was the most important was what I had right in front of me.  When will we all learn to stop all the looking and searching and start looking at what is right in front of us and see  what we have to offer outside our jobs?

I'm not saying run out and quit your jobs.  We do need to remember that we have so much to offer to ourselves. Let's look inside ourselves and see that we are great.  We need to sit back and take care of us!

I have no idea how to tell you how to do that, so that is my mission.  I will take the time to rediscover who I am and where I want to go, alone and with my family.  I will be posting on this and showing my discoveries along the way.

Please feel free to join me on my search and add to my posts.  We can all learn together.

MY NEXT GOAL

To make my kids vegan!!  They are already dairy and egg free but it's hard to drop the meat.  I don't eat meat but I have a hard time preparing meals that are meat free.  We are going to finish up the meat we have in the freezer and then we will carry on as vegans :)  I need to gather recipes and learn to organize myself appropriately so they don't starve.  Obviously they won't be entirely grain free or they would starve.  I'm not sure if I should go 100% vegan or if I should keep fish in the diet and/or have meat once or twice a month.  It's so hard to make these decisions with your kids.  The goal is to keep them healthy so it's important that they get all of the nutrients for growth. 

School has started so the junk food is high on the list again.  I work at their school for a few hours a day and I can't believe the food that the kids are served.  My kids aren't allowed to eat the school lunch but it saddens me that people think that kids should eat this crap.  As for all of the other kids that pack, well let me tell you that now I know why our kids are having so many health issues today.  YUK and shame on all those parents who pack crap for your kids.  90% of the kids who eat at this school are eating processed junk!!!

Gluten/Dairy free

My boys are officially gluten/dairy free and have been for a few months.  Now that summer is coming I plan to transition them into a grain, sugar free diet.  I'm curious to see if they will eat more veggies once I do this.  The transition was not hard at all.  I told D that I think this diet will help him with his speech and he never once questioned the new diet.   I suppose he really is having a hard time with people not understanding him, the poor guy.  The diet has helped with his speech a bit but more then that I have noticed that he seems to comprehend things better.  He has been struggling with colors and has finally caught on.  A week ago we went out of town and I broke down and let him have a sandwich with wheat and cheese (it's hard to adhere to the diet when you don't have a fridge or appropriate grocer).  Anyhow, I noticed that he is struggling with his colors again.  I find that very interesting. 
I plan to diary our findings as we move along.

BIRTHDAY BOY

Only a month late but this is the birthday boy and his homemade double

chocolate cake.  No, it is not healthy but it is his request:) 

My first homemade cake and they LOVED it.

Healthy chocolate pudding

My kids love this and it is healthy!! 

Patrick can't stand avocado

 

but he never gives up!

 

The end results are worth it, grin!

This pudding was made with avocado, spinach, maple syrup, vanillia, carob powder and water.

YUM!

I started off by making this wonderful meal for the boys.  I would be lying if I told you that they both loved it.  Patrick was grossed out by all of it but ended up eating most of it, go figure.  David LOVED the meal.  He ate everything but did not want to drink his green juice, which was fine with me.

 Sauted brocolli, caulflower, kale, pepper and onion with seasonings.

 Grated sweet peppers, onion and zucchini with baba ganoush made into patties.  David LOVED this.

 NO MOM, I don't want this!

 I LOVE it mom!

It's the KIDS TURN

I have finally gotten myself back into eating healthy all the time.  I am meditating frequently and breathing correctly.  I finally feel things loosening up and my body healing.  This is wonderful but I am also forgetting about other very important people, my KIDS.  Yes they are eating healthy, atleast to most other's standards but not to mine.  They don't eat most high allergen foods, eggs, dairy, chicken, peanuts, soy or corn but they do eat grass fed beef, natural turkey, salmon and tree nuts.  I let my children eat some wheat but we really do limit the amounts and try to use other whole grains instead.  This is not enough.  My boys don't like veggies and it's killing me.  The most important thing on the plate and they hate it.  How do I help them change this?  I do juice for them.  I try to do this once a day but I would like to see them eat veggies more often.  They don't like my smoothies and I can't say I blame them.  Patrick can't have bananas and that is imperative to a great smoothie.  It's time I try to find other creative ways to feed my boys more veggies and less meat and potatoes.  Join me on my journey while I post my findings and exciting pictures of the boys hating every moment of it until one day they wake up and say "mom where is my smoothie?"