Life as we know it
It’s nutty and delicious, just like you!
Is it weird to start a post about life with a picture of the quinoa I made last night? NO! Because quinoa is a delicious, life affirming food and a perfect example of how easy it is to take life by the horns.
I spent all last week feeling kind of sluggish. Bloaty, lumpy, and (sit down for this one – you’ll be shocked) irritable. I get that we all have off weeks, but I think that more often than not, off weeks are preventable. I refuse to believe that we have no control over our emotions.
So this week is going to be different. And it WILL be different, because I say so. I’m filling myself with delicious and nutritious food, and I’m being good to me.
Is it stinkin’ hot outside? Yes. Does that mean I should be stuck inside, air conditioned within in an inch of my life? NO! I have a beautiful, shady back yard that defies all attempt to over heat it. Husbandio and I sat out there for a long while last night, just enjoying the fruits of our labours. It’s important to take a second to breathe.
How can you be grumpy with Bob Marley in your belly?
I’m pregnant. And I am one of those irritatingly lucky women who have AMAZING pregnancies! No morning sickness, no awful symptoms, a fabulous glow, and totally just full of life. Somehow, last week, I let my pregnancy get to me. I felt myself using it as an excuse for stuff. I didn’t want to move, I didn’t want to participate, I just wanted to lay down and let life happen around me.
As a wise woman recently told me, “You’re alive, prove it.”
Then the Universe, knowing that I love a partner in crime, sent me the best text message ever:
“I need your expertise. I want to start a new lifestyle diet and exercise and be all fresh and clean.”
Ok, so it was my bestest friend on the planet who sent me that text, but we KNOW that the Universe helped her. So here we are, kittens, ready to get clean and fabulous. Get ready for long hair, good food, and amazing sunsets. My inner hippie is doing her happy dance and it’s about to get real up in here.
haha “it’s nutty and delicious, just like you” — you’re so cute!!!!!
I was going to comment on the nutty and delicious part too. hah:)
Oh boy, I have an idea that I am going to be the most ill individual on earth if I ever get pregnant. I will throw up for months and months straight. In between eating massive quantities of who knows what, that is!
Good for you for hopping back onto the healthy wagon (I type as I cram a whoopie pie into my mouth)!
I may have fallen into a bag of Sour Patch Kids this morning, post-quinoa.
BUT I’M BACK! I gave away the rest of the candy. I AM PURE, damn it!
Woot! Go you!
You’re alive – prove it! I love that line!
Love it! And congrats- you look incredible!
Hooray! Doing a happy dance for you – and pregnancy really DOES agree with you. You look FABULOUS!
That’s the ULTIMATE compliment coming from Ms. FABULOUS herself!
Woow.. congrates:):) and as u said u r glowing:):)