Today is when my side of the family comes together to enjoy our big meal and decorate for Christmas. After we shopped our fannies off yesterday, we slept in a little later while the turkey was baking. Mom does this low and slow turkey magic that results in the best tasting bird. For years, we …
Posts from: November 2013
Another year, another Black Friday. My family has been doing this for many years, long before it became such a national news maker. In fact, we now celebrate our family Thanksgiving on the Saturday after the actual day. My sister and I spend Thanksgiving with our inlaws and travel late Thursday to our parents’ house …
To all my family, friends, readers, and recipe searchers: Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to use this little corner of the bloggosphere to ramble about my passions, struggles, fears, and accomplishments with running, CrossFit, cooking, photography, teaching, and LIFE! It has been an amazing 5 years and I hope to be here 5 …
Here comes the HOLI-CRAZY! We are on the fast track to the last few days of the year and leading up to the big Christmas and New Year’s Eve parties. Food everywhere. Clothes that are getting a little snug with all the extra salt and sugar. Nobody wants the pass up the favorite treats …
This week is the start to a very busy holiday season that is fast approaching! It is also the start of those great ideas “When I decide to __________ in January……” We all get to that point in the fall when we put off healthy habits and instead, think about the great changes to make …
Earlier this week, I talked a little about roasting vegetables for a quick way to get a wide variety of vegetables in my meals. One of my favorite vegetables for the oven is broccoli. Roasting brings out a unique sweet flavor that is often missed when steaming or boiling. When I added bacon to the …
Tonight, we returned to All Fired Up to continue one of our big traditions of making/painting ornaments. I’m sure I’ve told this, but I’ll tell a quick version. Our first Christmas came 4 months after our wedding and during that time, we had 9/11, loss of a job, loss of a car, and new job …
It’s time to turn the ovens back on again. If you live north of the Mason-Dixon line, this may seem like a strange statement. If you live in the South, you know where I’m coming from. In the hottest parts of the summer, turning on an oven can be very expensive and uncomfortable. I …
Mind is blown. Did everybody in the world know this except me??? As for other news, it’s cold. I’m not acclimated to it yet. Therefore I’m freezing. Oh and today is “Hat day” at school. I’m wearing my Warrior Dash hat. It looks a little like this. I’m living large this week. 2 day …
Happy Thanksgiving week! I can’t believe this week is almost here. I keep thinking that I have all this time to get ready for the holiday season. Hold on to your oven mitts, the season is already here, kicked back on the sofa eating chips and watching the bowl games and parades. I’m still doing …
With winter waiting around the corner, even for Alabama, race training is at a standstill since I’m fighting off strep throat, sinus infection and now bronchitis. Since I refuse to give into lack-of-training depression, I might as well mention a few things I WAS using a couple of weeks ago. To run long, I have …
1. I have an obsession with Christmas coffee cups. I’m not sure when it began, but it has grown into a yearly search for the coolest mug of the season. It takes a little while to unpack all these and remember when I got them. That’s half the fun of holiday decorating. 2. Let’s …
We have all seen it. The pictures at any track meet, local 5K, the Olympics. Runners sitting on the ground or standing in various stages of stretching. Over the past few years, more and more studies are coming out proving that this type of “hold for 30 seconds” stretching can be counter-productive. Think of it …
I know it’s going to be a rough day when I look for the Hump Day camel picture on my Facebook feed. Then I realized that well, it wasn’t Hump Day. It was the dreaded Tuesday. I didn’t sleep that well last night, but I woke up feeling better than I expected. The shots I …
I love a big bowl of slow cooked green beans with onions and maybe a little bacon. I like them soft and easy to chew. I have made many many dishes of canned green beans cooked for an hour in an iron pot and …
It’s no secret that vegetables play a big role in a real-food diet, and especially when I’m sticking to a Paleo lifestyle. I love most vegetables except, of course, beets. I have never made peace with them. Enjoying a wide variety of vegetables definitely helps make a real food diet seem normal…not so much “diet”. …
Well, its been a while since I’ve planned ahead enough to make a weekly menu post! Now the real miracle will be if I can stick to it and cook dinner each night instead of crashing at 8pm. Sunday: Flank steak pinwheels, mustard-garlic Brussels sprouts (done! recipe post soon!) Monday: Plantain nachos/Burrito bowls Tuesday: Roasted …
The following post is sponsored by FitFluential LLC on behalf of Verizon Wireless. A few years ago, when we moved to our little corner of Alabama, we had a problem. Our current cell service would not reach to our house, neighborhood, route to work, or route to visit family. It worked on the main roads …
Three Random Things going on this week: 1. The house is decorated for Christmas. I’m sorry to all those post-Thanksgiving purists. I talked a little bit last year about why I do it so early. And I have all bases covered. Hot soup in front of the tree in a seasonal mug? 2. First showing …
Thinking about the New Year and the resolution to get healthy, once and for all? Now is just as good as January and the gyms are not near as crowded as they will be then. Find a pair of good running shoes. Get a bottle of water and your favorite music. Go walk briskly for …