"I want to celebrate and live my life..."

Lately I have been really busy and half the time feel like I'm just barely hanging in there. Monday night Wyatt and I were driving home from what seemed to be the longest day of my life and I just wanted to be home. Pretty safe to say I was ornery. While flipping through the radio stations one of Wyatt's favorite songs came on, Dynamite by Taio Cruz. Immediately from the back seat I am being told to turn it up and roll down my window and really, who can argue with that? I crank it up and listen to Wyatt sing loudly from the back seat "I want to celebrate and live my life, saying ay oh baby let go", not a care in the world. I'm not going to lie, I had a moment. What a perfect ending to my crazy day. Love that kid.

be grateful

This child of mine will be 5 years old in about a month and eight days. Whoa. Where have those five years gone?

Wyatt and I have a nightly ritual and in all honesty I think it helps me probably more than him. Maybe. I'm sure or hope he will look back and remember. Every night we climb into his bed and talk about our favorite things that happened that day followed by a "heavenly father" aka prayer. It definitely helps me to realize in this busy crazy life of mine there is still a lot to be grateful for.

Wyatt is such a sweet kid. I'm a lucky mom and very blessed to have him be a part of my life at this exact moment. Definitely one thing I will never take for granted. Love him.

Monsters, Green Monsters

These monsters don't live under your bed or in your closet. I'm not really sure why they are called monsters, but they are. Maybe to some people they are terrifying.

They are all the rage and I'm pretty sure there are a million blogs, books, articles and whatnots about these little monsters.

For the past week I have been thinking that I need to give them a try. My diet is probably horrendous and this is a definite step in the right direction. I have a hard time eating breakfast in the morning as well and this seems like an easy solution to my problem. Today while I was with one of my sisters she mentioned wanting to give them a try and it went from there. I bought a few ingredients to try out, she sent me some information and that was that. I made mine not to long ago for the morning and it is super good. The color is questionable and isn't as beautiful as the one pictured above, but it will do.

I used spinach, 1 banana, handful organic frozen strawberries, handful organic frozen raspberries and chia seeds.

And here is how I put it all together. (It's definitely NOT brain surgery)

8 - 10 oz water
2 handfuls spinach
1/4 tsp chia seeds (These are a personal preference)

Blend well together.
I then added the banana, blended, then the frozen berries.
If you use fresh berries you will need to use ice. 

And that's it! Super easy.

There are some great recipes that I will be trying out. This one seems to be pretty standard. They say you can add sweeteners like Stevia or agave nectar but I think it is plenty sweet without.

I'm excited to see how it impacts my over all health and now maybe all my work outs will start actually showing.

Give em a try and let me know what you think!