Yes, it has been over a month since my last post. That month went by so fast, I can't even believe it. I did, however, get my pictures hung, pantry cleaned out, some exercising in and I've started to eat better (which I'll explain here in a little bit).
So, what have we been up to this last month you ask? Well let me tell you! First let me give you a little background information. For my birthday this last year James bought me a Nook (you know the electronic book from Barnes and Noble). I love my Nook and I use it even more now that I have Connor because its easy to use when I'm nursing him. Also, because of Connor, I have been trying to lose my pregnancy
weight. So I was looking through the online bookstore to find a new book to read when I came across the book
"Skinny Bitch," whose tagline is "A no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous." How could I NOT read it? I wanted to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous. Lucky for me, my Nook lets me download a sample of the book for free, so I did. I read the first 2 chapters, which were on how bad soda, coffee, alcohol and refined sugar are for your body. The women who wrote the book give it to you straight, they don't sugar-coat anything and they use a little foul language, which actually made me laugh. So after reading the sample and laughing out loud a couple of times I thought, "What the heck, I'm gonna buy it." Little did I know how this book would put me on a new way of life, I didn't have a clue what the rest of the book would be about, or I never would've read it. Since reading this book I have decided to not eat meat anymore. The graphic images the book paints of the way animals are raised for human consumption made it impossible for me to look at meat without it turning my stomach. The book explains how these animals are pretty much stacked on top of each other, unable to roam free in the pastures, treated inhumanly, injected with all kinds of steroids and hormones to get them to grow bigger and faster, and then slaughtered in the most unclean, nasty environments I never dreamed possible, all for the sake of MONEY. The bigger and faster they grow the more money the ranchers make. Even if I could look past all of this, the book makes a strong point of explaining that what you are eating is a dead, decaying carcass of animal. Again...turned my stomach! It's been a month since I've read the book and I haven't eaten any chicken or beef, I did eat some salmon the other night but that's it. I can't say that I feel any better because for the first couple of weeks all I did was trade out meat for junk food. And when I realized that wasn't going to work I bought another book, "Appetite for Reduction." It's a vegan cookbook.
What I loved most about this specific cookbook compared to the other 100 I looked through was, (1) the recipes are designed for the cook who doesn't have hours of time each day to prepare meals. Most of the meals come together in about 30 minutes, which is perfect for me with a 4 month old, (2) the recipes don't require a bunch of ingredients I've never heard of, and (3) most of the meals are around 300 calories or less, which is perfect since I'm trying to lose the last little bit of pregnancy weight. Now I haven't actually cooked anything out of it yet (LOL) but I will tonight and I'm pretty excited about it. So I'll keep you posted on how the recipes taste. Maybe I'll even take some pictures and share a few of the recipes with you! :)In other news...
On September 6 Connor and I stayed the night in the hospital. He developed croup and the doctors were concerned with his breathing. Everything turned out fine, it was a really long night in the hospital and I ended up in tears a few times (mostly when they were trying to get an IV in him and stuck him 4 different times before finding a vein) but he was released the next day around 3pm. He still has a bit of a cough but he is a happy little boy for the most part. His sleeping patterns could use some work, especially at night, but I'm sure we'll both make it through. He is getting so big! Tomorrow he will be 4 months old, ALREADY!
On September 10 Sabelle got married to Chad. I was lucky enough to make their wedding cake for them. After stressing more then once that I wouldn't get it done in time, (because of a hospital stay that lasted 24
hours when I should've been baking the cakes) it turned out beautifully. Luckily for me, (but not our bank account) James didn't have to work that week and was able to help me with taking care of Connor and then actually helping me decorate the cake Saturday morning. The wedding was beautiful and the bride was stunning. I don't have any pictures of the wedding to post yet because I spent 90% of the wedding walking around the church with Connor who cried for 85% of the wedding. He was NOT a happy camper. I did get a picture of the cake (of course!) and that was it.
Well, for now (since Connor is awake and demanding my attention) that's our update. We had a ton of other things happen during the month that I'll have to post about at a later date :)
