How does your garden grow?

I’ve been planting a garden for a few years now, but it’s always been a struggle to reap much of a harvest from it.  Between the kids, dogs, and my horrible weeding habits, it’s been very hit or miss.  This year, things have changed! Last fall, my dad helped me build two more garden boxes to finish off the terrace of boxes in the west end of my yard.  Then this spring, he and I built a fence to block the garden from the rest of the yard.  Finally I can keep the vegi’s safe from unwanted attention from both the kids and dogs!

My baby is 3!!!

My youngest daughter Olivia turned 3 this past weekend.  She is my very charming, opinionated, loving and spunky one.  She also loves all things pink, or rather is obsessed with all things pink.  Olivia also loves puppies.  So when I asked her what she wanted for her birthday cake, she requested a pink puppy, or rather a toy pink puppy.  

Hemphearts, A Review, and a Giveaway!!

When I was given the opportunity to review hemp hearts, Manitoba Harvest hemp hearts, a few weeks ago, I jumped at the chance. I had tried them before, and knew how tasty they are, and how easy they are to add to my regular food.

What I eat…

The running (specifically running social media) community seems to have a lot of opinions on what we (runners, athletes and human beings) should eat.  I have generally remained fairly silent on this cause, but that does not mean that I don’t have some fairly strong opinions on it.  Perhaps it’s because of my strong opinions that I’ve remained silent.

No Cook Freezer Meals Winner!! Plus a review and some tips…

Sorry I didn’t have a chance to post yesterday, but we have a winner of the e-book No Cook Freezer Meals!! The winner is: Carly!  I’ll get Kelly to email you with a copy of her book 🙂

Freezer Meal Swap Night! AND a Giveaway :)

In the past I’ve done all my freezer meal creation on my own, but a couple friends and I have been talking for a while about getting together to do a meal swap.  Lindsay had her second baby last year and is due to head back to work in a week, so she was eager to get some meals in the freezer to get ready for the busyness of working full time and having two kiddo’s at home.  Laura is just a couple weeks from her due date with her second baby and is equally eager to get some meals in the freezer in anticipation of the craziness of having a newborn at home (plus her VERY active almost 2 year old).  We decided to each bring the ingredients for 4 meals (x 3 batches), which would be 36 meals in total (12 each to bring home).  Not only would we go home with 12 meals, but we’d get to try out some new recipes – WIN-WIN!

The making of The Wizard of Oz cake

We celebrated my oldest daughter’s birthday yesterday.  It’s hard to believe that she is turning 4 this week!!  It’s been a tradition for me to make and decorate a cake for my kids.  Last year Maiya was completely obsessed with the Big Bad Wolf, and I made a Big Bad Wolf cake, with Little Piggie cupcakes.  It was my first effort at a fancy, decorated type cake, and it came out really well I think.  This year when I asked Maiya what she anted, she was at first still very obsessed with the Big Bad Wolf and was still stuck on that topic, but just in the last few weeks, she’s seen and fallen in love with The Wizard of Oz. 

Sunday Runday, a Soup recipe, and finding time to blog…

It seems as if it’s been FOREVER since I’ve blogged… and I guess that’s because it has been.  I know there are a lot of bloggers out there who do a great job of writing nearly every day, or at least a few times a week.  The question was asked in a group of bloggers I’m a part of last week, “How do you schedule, or plan out your blog posts?”  Well the truth is, I really don’t.  I write when I have time, and when something inspires me.  I’d love to write more, but I have a lot of things in my life that trump blogging; family, work, running…. just to name a few.  I do love sharing my journey though, and have really enjoyed what this blog has become, so I’ll continue to write when I can. 

Soup-er Sunday

The first thing that was super about today is that it was Sunday Runday!  Lori and I met and ran 20 km’s.  It was much cooler today than yesterday, but just -9 C, so not too bad.  The pathways around the reservoir were in fairly good shape, but we ran up to, and into Fish Creek for just a km or so before we turned around, and it was a skating rink!  We were very glad to have our spikes with us as we put them on our shoes so that we could get down the hill without falling.  My major goal today was to NOT fall, and I’m happy to say GOAL REACHED!

Leftover Turkey Pot Pie!

We had our Christmas at my mom’s house yesterday, and she sent me home with some leftover turkey.  This inspired me to make one of my favorite leftover turkey meals.  I thought I’d share the recipe here.

YUM, it’s out of the oven and looks delicious!