Jenny's Journey

Well, just like that Christmas has come and gone. And next year it will be just as fast, as Thanksgiving is late again next year. I did not have to work Christmas this year, though I did have to work my next least favorite day to work - the day after Christmas. Boo Hoo. Its over, done..I got through it just fine, now 5 days off. I do have to work New Years Day. Big deal, much to old to even want to stay up that late. We attempted to stay up and watch SNL this past Saturday and we did it, but both of us dozed off at different times throughout the show, we each saw completely different skits! Since I was home this year for Christmas morning, I was looking for something quick and easy to make in the morning to have after opening gifts. I wanted to attempt Monkey Bread. Lots of recipes out there for it all with slight little differences. With time constraints(the girls wanna get to opening their presents, duh!) I opted for a quick and easy version(that I prepped what I could the night befo...

Happy day after Turkey Day, everyone! I sit here waiting for an Amazon lightening deal (I am on the waitlist, so I am hopeful, but doubt I will get the deal) and trying to decide what the girls and I are going to do today. Yestereday, my M-I-L and I competed in the Watertown Run Turkey Run 5K. OMGosh! Was it freaking cold. I was hoping to have a Thanksgiving Day like last year. YOu may not remember, but I do. It was beautiful. Sunny and a ton warmer. James went hunitng in the morining, shot a buck, brought it back for the kids and neighbors to see and then had to rush off and get it processed because it was to warm to let sit around! Yeah, well not this year. My MIL's goal was to run/walk the 5k and finish in 45 minutes. She did that and then some. She did it in 40:40!!! I think she is hooked. My goal was to do it in under 30 minutes. Though at like 1230 on Monday at work that goal was looking unreachable. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am clutsy. Well, carrying 3 large bo...

So today is my day off for working next Saturday. Though unlike the last days I had off I did not leave the house (yet..its 1:37..I still could). I asked James to guess what I was gonna do today…he said “run Fowler (lake)” Nope. I am gonna do NOTHING! I guess the 5K I ran on Saturday really kicked my butt and I also am sick with a cold so that's not helping things either. Can’t say I haven’t done anything today but I haven’t left the house but to go to the mailbox and see Jenna to and from school. Even when I say I am not going to do anything…that’s not really true. I have a very very hard time doing nothing. I did a load of laundry, folded another load, put clean dishes away, put some laundry away, got dinner cooking in the slow cooker, fed Jenna lunch, cleaned some smudgy fingers prints off a few windows…oh and conditioned my hair with coconut oil. Yup, a lot of my time today has been spent on Pinterest and FB. Pinterest is where I found some pins accidently about conditioning yo...

Well, the first day of school has come and gone. Jadyn went off to 3rd grade with only a few worries ("do you think I am gonna do good this year?"). Jenna, my baby, is also in 1/2 day 4K. And from what I can tell, she is liking it. Though, 1/2 days of "school" are very tiring. She did ask me the other day when would there be a day of no school...not ti l the end of October baby, sorry. With the first day of school, working Labor Day weekend and my Mom being on her European vacation, I have had a lot of days off of work. Meaning, with Jenna is 1/2 day school, I have like 3 full hours of "me time!" I find it hard to not clean my house when I am alone, but I have made myself not take a whole 3 hours of cleaning...not yet at least. Most likely will happen when the weather gets cold. But not yet! Instead I have been doing stuff I like to do. (I like to clean though...so...) No really! I have been running, going to yoga, climbing the Lapham Peak Observation to...

One of my new favorite things is my recently acquired foam roller.  No, not foam rollers for my stick straight hair, but rather a foam roller for deep muscle massage.  I am not kidding you on how much it hurts soooo good.  Seriously, it can really hurt, but I can really feel it working.  You can massage almost any part of your body.  Calves, shins, quads, hammies, triceps, glutes....anywhere but over a joint.  Jimmy really likes the hurts so good feeling for his overly tight hamstrings.  I really like it for my IT band (which runs up the side of the leg from knee to hip and get tight in runners.)  I am not by any means a hard core runner but I do have some effects of running and I can seriously say I feel a ton better after using it.  I actually crave it when I am at work and my hips are sore and tight.  I want to roll right now actually.... I went on YouTube to view a few of many videos on how to use a foam roller.  I also got...

Here is an update to one of my newest things I told you about a while back.   I have started getting my biweekly CSA (community sponsored agriculture) shares!   It actually gets me a little excited because I never know what I am going to get.   And WOW!   Do I get a lot!   The more the weather helps out the more I benefit as well. Over the last 3 shares I have gotten the following: Broccoli Garlic scape and garlic heads Fennel Kohlrabi Kale Lettuce - many different kinds (mixed greens, bib, red leaf….) Spinach Onions Peppermint Lemon balm Celery Rainier cherries Raspberries Mulberries Napa cabbage Micro greens – pea shoots, micro kale, sunflower shoots Cilantro Beets (an d I am probably missing somethings!)   It has been fun but also challenging to make sure to use all the stuff.   I have made enchiladas with cilantro, green smoothies, lettuce wraps, salads, salads and more salads (whic...

I have wanted to tell all of you about these new things I have!      Are they not just the cutest clothespins you have ever seen?!?!?! They make me even happier when I am hanging out my laundry! (I love hanging laundry on the line - I don't know many people that still do it)   I had told someone (who goes by Guy in this house) that I LOVED these while we were at this cutesy book store in Oconomowoc...and next thing you know they appeared at my house!  Thanks Guy!  Don't they just make you want to smile  (especially since these birds will not poop all over your nice clean clothes!!)   Folding the laundry though does not make me smile.