30th January 2015
Be too busy working on your own grass
to realise if someone else's is greener!
I had the best surprise in the post
yesterday, a parcel that I wasn't expecting and when I opened it, there was a t-shirt
with "I'm kind of a big thing on my blog". What a fantastic gift! It didn't say who it was off but it did have
an Edinburgh post mark on and because of that I had a good idea who it was
from. I just love it when someone does
something spontaneous like that, really made my day. I'm funny about gift
giving, I don't like to feel I 'have to' buy someone a gift because it's their
birthday or Christmas, I like to buy someone a gift when I see something they'd
like or when I want to take a moment to say how important they are too me. So this was my idea of perfect give giving
and I'd like to say a big thank you to Deb for taking the time out to buy it
and send it all the way to Wolverhampton to make my day, it really did.
Stomachs much improved, so I think it
was probably the iron tablets that caused the problems, still not 100% so won't
be going crazy on the eating side but I'm going to brave more varied food
again. I will be including more
'healthy' stuff in my diet though, I like the idea of the grains, I had basmati
brown rice with quinoa yesterday and I really liked it.
I found a smoothie recipe I want to try,
it'll be good for mom as well as she really struggles and I'd like to keep my
stomach a happy stomach so I don't get to a point where I have those problems,
ACID REFLUX
Smoothie
Ingredients: 1 and 1/2
cups diced fresh pineapple, 1 banana, 1/2 cup Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup ice, 1/2
cup pineapple juice or water. Blend to consistency of a smoothie.
I don't mind a smoothie, so will
definitely be trying that, it'd maybe set my stomach up for the day if it was
breakfast and that's got to be better than taking gaviscon!
So yesterday as well as being my
busiest work day of the week was also fun of laughter, my mom is just the most
amazing lady, it still makes me happy every time I realise how well she is now
compared to how poorly she was this time last year. I listen to Radio 2 now, it's my age I guess,
anyway a song came on and I was instantly transported back to my childhood when
mom and I used to cook Sunday dinner and she'd sing and dance round the
kitchen, so I went to buy the song Misty but Ray Stevens and when I checked on
my itunes I already had it, so when she came up I played it to her and this was
the most wonderful reaction I could've asked for;
It'll only take 2 minutes
to watch and I promise will make you smile, her last line is just perfect. My mom really is on incredible lady, she's
given birth to 7 children, had 4 under the age of two and spent her life taking
care of us kids. She was over 18 stone
at her heaviest and now has maintained her gold weight for over ten years. Yes it took her years to crack her weight issue,
she's attended meetings for as long as I can remember, I used to believe
everybody left school and went to Weight Watchers, it's what I did! We're now both mostly healthy & usually happy,
I thank Weight Watchers for teaching us both to eat healthy. I do love her
very, very much. That video is a peak
into what my childhood was made of and why I still laugh a lot because it's what my adult life is about too!
Anyway
enough of the mushy back to food, my lunch yesterday was delicious and took 5
minutes;
It
only cost me 8pp too, 5pp for half pack of the Tilda rice/grains and 3pp for
the chicken, the whole packet is only 3pp and it's delicious hot or cold. Save's all that faffing about cooking when
you're in a rush. I cooked the courgette
on my George Foreman.
Right
mom's just woke up so I'm off to get her a cuppa tea and breakfast and sort her
medication out for her, then my paperworks getting done before I meet up with
another leader to do some promoting of our meetings around Bentley Bridge, if
you see us, come say hello.
Have a
wonderful day, hope the snows not spoiling your plans.
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