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No cavities!
A few changes for this month’s picture. I had to move to the carport since the side of the house was too sunny, and I used my new camera. I might start using the garage doors as a backdrop more, I kind of like this. Then again, after glancing at the monthly picture page, I realize I haven’t used the side of the house since February. Anyway. Whatever.
Automatticians on their phones. Probably playing 2048.
I was in Chicago for a work trip over the weekend, and the conference was at the Second City theater. Very, very cool.
Uh, I think I’ll pass.
After school snack time at Miss Alicia’s new shop. Everything’s all natural and grain-free and Paleo friendly. They love the chocolate chip cookies, and my favorite is the dark chocolate pecan cookie, which is sadly not Whole 30 compliant. But I did get a pack of vegetable chips to bring on the plane to Chicago the next day.
Miles noticed this face in the arm of the minivan seat when we were getting out at the dentist’s office. It reminds me of Kevin from Up, but maybe that’s not right. Any other ideas? It’s definitely something familiar. Hmm.
Go check out my latest post over at the New Orleans Moms Blog. It’s an academic treatise on the difference between infant and school age triplets.
Or not.
So kind of on a whim (which is typical of me), I decided to try to do the Whole30 challenge. It was the day before Easter when the idea came to me, so I thought, I’ll start the day after Easter so I can still indulge in my mom’s scalloped potatoes, the boys’ candy, and wine.
But then I remembered that I was leaving for a work trip to Chicago on May 1, and let’s face it, one of the highlights of these work trips are the meals and drinks. And Chicago? Hello, deep dish pizza! So I decided I could at least do a Whole 10 until I left. Better than nothing, right?
Here’s the lowdown on the Whole 30, in a nutshell:
Sounds fun, right? It’s not all that different from Dukan, which I had success on two years ago, so I knew I could do it if I wanted. And after seeing Jillian Michaels talk earlier this month, eating cleaner has been on my mind anyway.
What can I eat?
I’d say the biggest challenge has been artificial sweetener. Of course it’s crap, I should have given it up long ago, but black coffee is…not my thing. I’ve been drinking tea more, since that’s more palatable without sweetener in it. Pizza, which is one of the boys’ staples, is of course completely off the table, and when I took Miles to Costco the other day, the hardest part for me wasn’t the pizza (which is probably my favorite food on earth) but the lemonade. Mmmm, sweet, sweet lemonade. Alas.
I’m on day 9 now and feeling pretty great, except for my back, which I hurt about two weeks ago. (Good news, it’s just muscular, not anything disc-related.) So I haven’t been exercising as much as I’d like, but my eating has been good.
And now I’m contemplating not going off it for my Chicago trip.
But here’s where I have to confess, I’ve had a glass of wine here and there. And I might in Chicago, because I am only human. And possibly a slice of deep-dish pizza…
I’d love to know if anyone reading this has tried it, and if you have any tips or comments or questions about it….
This is what I get when I try to get a picture with one of my boys. Sigh.
I took a lot of pictures this weekend, and it was hard just to pick a few for the 365 project. So here are the “rejects”…
I took some family pictures for a friend, and while most of the photos are pretty classic (these children are criminally photogenic) this might be my favorite of all.
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