Quick Tuesday!

Wow today totally flew by and I am not complaining at all!! I was dreading it since I got done with work at 3:30 but had a meeting at 4 :( Luckily it was quick and painless!!

Onto today's eats:

Breakfast was a bowl of oats (usual but with some Pure Protein in Chocolate) added in.. MMM chocolate in the morning!!! I also brought my mug of coffee on my walk with me. It was in the high 20's but I didn't know if I'd have the energy to head to the gym after my meeting so I figured any walking would be something. The morning flew by and before I knew it, it was lunch time! I walked home to pick up my car, get more coffee and snack on some grapes before I headed back and had some lunch. I had a yogurt with some of my granola and cantaloupe on the side. I also had a few bites of pizza since it was pizza day.. Oh how I love working with kids! hehe

After work I had a cookie and more cantaloupe on my way to the gym. I did a quick 2 miles while watching the end of Oprah and a bit of Tyra and came home to shower and inhale some din din :)

While getting my salad and sweet potato I had tons of grapes and some pretzels.. I had the same salad as a few night ago with a small piece of sweet potato and Newman's Own Salsa. MMM MM GOOD! For dessert I had a piece of chocolate (not pictured) and some apple with some PB2. I had mixed some of the pb up on Friday and tried it plain and wasn't thrilled.. I think my expectations were set a bit high from everyones blogs. I decided to try it again with an apple and really liked it this time!I think I'll be buying a 4 pack from their website. I just got off the phone with my cousin, we were talking about the wedding and about her baby shower! She is due in August. I'm off to watch some Real Housewives on NY and go to bed! Have a great night :-D

MMM Dinner At The Parents

Hey there chickies!

Today was a gorgeous day here at the good old Jersey Shore! It was over 60 degrees here and I enjoyed it as much as I could. I was up at ready to go and made a yummy bowl of oats and brought a mug of coffee with me on my walk to work. The morning flew by since we were outside playing for about 40 minutes. Before I knew it, it was lunch time and even though I wasn't too hungry I ate my yogurt/cereal mix and some pineapple while talking about our favorite bad for us fast foods :) I love working with all women sometimes, at least we all know what the other is going through when it comes to eating.. lol

I was out the door for my walk home at 3:30, I came home ate 2 handfuls of grapes and got ready for the gym. There I did 2 miles on the treadmill and lifted, and came home to get ready for dinner with my family.

We were celebrating Adam's birthday and my dad made veal bolognese with tortellini and I made my "famous" garlic bread.. hahah omg I ate so much!!!!! It was so freaking good! I miss living at home let me tell ya ;) I also had a few bites of Adam's cake (a few too many) lol

It was nice to sit and talk with my family for a while since dad is still not doing too well :( He is now retaining water and thinking it might be heart related.. since he hasn't been eating anything too salty and he is already on water pills.. UGH! can someone say stress?!?!??! at least the weekend is almost here! I've got a girls night out with one of my bridesmaids on Friday and I can't wait :-D Hope everyone had a great day.. See ya tomorrow!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

HI ALL!!

I woke up with a bellyache this morning and wasn't feeling too great, so I thought I'd try something light on the stomach.. I had a handful of grapes and a Gnu Bar, I tried the Cinnamon Raisin Bar. I thought it was GREAT!!! I really enjoyed it and once I was done wished it was bigger! Thanks again to Gnu for sending me their AMAZING samples ;-D

The Cinnamon Raisin Gnu Bar is brimming with aromatic cinnamon and plump, juicy raisins. You'll think you're eating a chewy cinnamon raisin cookie instead of a healthy High-Fiber snack.
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Ingredients:
Gnu High Fiber Blend™ (whole rolled oats, organic whole wheat flour, wheat bran, organic kamut, psyllium, flax, millet), chicory root inulin, fruit juices, rice dextrins, raisins, canola oil, apples, plums, rice, wheat protein isolate, vanilla, cinnamon, baking powder.
CONTAINS WHEAT AND PSYLLIUM. MANUFACTURED ON EQUIPMENT THAT PROCESSES PEANUTS AND TREE NUTS.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 bar (45g)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 130
Calories FromFat 30
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 3g
5%
Saturated Fat 0g
0%
Trans Fat 0g
0%
Cholesterol 0mg
0%
Sodium 30mg
1%
Total Carbohydrate 32g
11%
Dietary Fiber 12g
48%
Soluble Fiber 8g

Insoluble Fiber 4g

Sugars 11g
Other Carbohydrate 9g
Protein 3g

I brought a big old mug of coffee with me to work as usual.. Tuesdays are always CRAZY!! I had 12 kids which is a pretty big class of 2 year olds.. let me tell ya.. lol It wasn't too bad though since we got outside for about a half hour which always makes the day fly by.. Lunch came quick and I wasn't too hungry but ate my apple and cottage cheese anyway. I also snacked on some of my homemade granola since it was in my lunch bag and looked tasty ;) After work I picked up Adam and ran over to the catering place that sells the PB2 since I tried to go on Saturday and they were already closed. They close at 4 so I was cutting it close getting out of work at 3:40... but we made it :) I think I may try it out tomorrow since I wanted a real pb and jelly sammy tonight.. After buying it we went for a walk through Spring Lake town since it was nice and sunny out, and Adam needing some cheering up.

When we got home I relaxed and got in the shower and made my dinner of a pb&j sammy on ww bread and it totally hit the spot! I also had some pickles and some Stacy's Pita chips on the side. This didn't help my stomach feel better but its comfort food so it at least made me happy! I also had a bite of Adam's pork roll since he made eggs/hash browns/pork roll for dinner tonight. Dessert was a big bite or 2 of his birthday cake that I made for him (all chocolate) and tons of grapes! MMMMM I'm off to catch up on some blogs and relax with my sweetie pie.. Hope ya'll had a great day/night :-D

BACK!

Hi Guys! I'm back :-D

Things have just been a bit nutty here... but oh well.. that's life right? I'll start off with last night since we celebrated Adam's Birthday with his family. We went to the http://www.thehickoryhog.com/Home.htm in Point Pleasant NJ. We have been there once before and the food is great! They give HUGE portions.. I wish I would have taken pictures, but my mind was on other things.. and trying to happy.. For our apps we got the onion loaf which is onions rings but in the shape of a loaf! I had one little onion ring since I really try to not each too many fried things.. I also tried a bit of a spicy pub pickle which is a fried pickle, this was actually pretty good.. and then we got some bbq nachos, they were great! I had a few chips and it came with pulled bbq pork on them and cheese and hot peppers.. MMM I was full just after snacking on those!! hahah I got the Mango BBQ Pork it comes with cornbread and 2 sides I got tator tots and hot cinnamon apples. This was AMAZING! but way too much food for a unhappy/stressed belly. I brought TONS of leftovers home so we will be eating these again, and I'll have some pictures for ya ;)

Onto today, I had a bowl of Kashi Blueberry Oat Clusters, Trader Joe's Raisin Bran and a banana with cinnamon and skim milk. I also brought my coffee with me on my walk to work today. The morning flew by and was great! The kids were so cute and good today.. (KNOCK ON WOOD!) Lunch came and I was starting to get hungry, so I had a light Wegman's blueberry yogurt with some of my homemade granola and pineapple on the side. One of my coworkers made a pistachio cake so I tried a couple bites of it.. it was really good so I took the recipe (Adam loves pistachios). I walked home and snacked on a 2 handfuls of grapes and was off to the gym. I did 2 miles on the treadmill and weights and came home. Adam and I then ran to see daddy and say hi! I just had to give him a big ol' hug.. We then went to Dunkin Donuts so I could get the kiddies munchins for St. Patrick's day :)

We came home, I showered and made up a salad with romaine, cucs, green peppers, red onions, roasted red peppers, croutons, and tuna. I put some Catalina dressing on it (this was my favorite dressing growing up!) I got some things done around the apartment and sat down with a brownie and frosting. JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED! I am now off to digest and catch up on blog reading.. Hope you all had a great day! See you tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Adam!

Evening All

I woke up early again... darn water! lol I got up and started my day.. Checked my email, watched some of the news, and made some coffee and oats. I enjoyed the oats (same ones as always) while watching the news. I was then off to work for a nice somewhat easy day! The kids (all 12) of them were actually quite good for once.. WOOHOOO Before I knew it, it was 11:40 (most kids leave at 11:45) I was so happy :) I then cleaned up the room and went to lunch.

I wasn't very hungry but figured I might as well eat anyway. I had a stop & shop light coffee yogurt, it was pretty tasty. I put some granola that I made over the weekend on it and had some cut up pineapple too. At snack time I had a couple pretzel rods with the kids since they looked good. On the way to the gym I finished up my pineapple for a quick energy boost. Once I got there I did a quick 2.25 miles on the treadmill as I flipped channels on the tv.

I rushed home to get in the shower and start making Adam's birthday dinner. I made up chicken parm and some ww pasta. I also made some garlic bread on ww bread. I also had some random roasted red peppers on the side since I saw them in the fridge and they sounded good.. haha It was yummy and sweetie enjoyed it! I also had a small glass of pinot grigio with it since it was a special night :)

I mixed up a microwave cake since we are celebrating his birthday on Sunday with his fam and Monday with mine and I plan on making a regular cake for Monday night. I had a few bites of the cake and 2 mouthfuls of his Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Garcia. MMMM Perfect Ending to a very nice day :) AND TOMORROW IS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you all have a great night, see ya tomorrow.

Ice Ice Baby!

OMG the roads were so bad this morning! Thank goodness for only having to go around the block! HAHA This morning I was up before the alarm as usual and started to get ready in hopes my car would start.. I made up a bowl of oats with an extremely ripe nanner... It was so creamy and tasty...mmmmm mmm good! I also brought a mug of coffee with me to warm me up since it was 11 degrees out.

There were only 6 kids in my class today which was extremely nice. Luckily the morning flew by and it was time for lunch and boy was I hungry, I had a Dannon Light and Fit with a pear and some froot loops.. so so good! It was one of the kids birthday so I also had a chocolate munchin for snack.. After work I went to the gym and did 2.25 miles on the treadmill while watching Oprah, and then did some weights.

I came home and did some things around here, and cut up some veggies for my salad.. talked on the phone with my friend Kelli, showered then ate. I had a salad with lots of veggies, hummus, croutons and the last of my Newman's Asian dressing. I also had some leftover sweet tater fries that I burnt in my toaster! UGH! It totally smelled like smoke, so I opened up the windows even though its freezing and lit some candles.. now it smells delish :-D

I was in the candy mood so I had some chocolate covered peanuts (pic x2) lol. Well I hope everyone had a great Tuesday.

Do you have anything exciting going on this week?

I have a work meeting tomorrow and then my brother's fashion show for the Academy of Finance that he is in.. It should be fun!

See ya'll tomorrow!

SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!

I originally took today off from work but ended up having a snow day anyway! We found out last night around 9ish.. I can't believe we got a foot of snow at the Jersey Shore!!! Its exciting but a pain all at the same time. I got up around 8:15 and was so happy to have slept the whole night :)

I made some coffee and a nice bowl of oats. Then I got to making that yummy Irish Soda bread, I kept some for us and gave one to my parents and one to Adam's mom. We then went out and cleaned off the 3 cars which took almost an hour to do! YUCK! Thank goodness the wind wasn't too bad at that moment.. Around 1 I started to get hungry so I had a Yoplait Cinnamon Roll yogurt (not my favorite too sweet!!) and a pear. I also tried a piece of the bread to make sure no one gets sick :-P I cleaned a bit then we took Adam's work truck out to the store from some eggs and bread, and stopped by my parents to drop off the soda bread. I got some stuff done for work then showered and got dinner together. We had some leftover sloppy joes with sweet and regular fries that we made.. MMMM so good! I also had a pickle on the side. Dessert was a chocolate covered peanut and an almond Hershey's kiss... YUM YUM! I am off to relax and watch tv with Adam.. Have a great night guys :-D

ITS ALMOST FRIDAY!!!!!

HIYA!

I barely slept last night, but surprisingly I'm still kicking and its after 8! I woke up at 6 after finally falling asleep around 1:30ish. I got out of bed at 7 and checked my email and talked to my mom. I then made up a bowl of oats and some coffee for breakfast. I walked to work today since it was supposed to be toasty=50! It was a nice easy day in kiddies land at the morning flew by since we were outside for over a half hour. By lunch I wasn't very hungry but figured I might as well eat. I totally putzed out this morning (since I was on barely any sleep) and brought 1/2 a sweet potato instead of my cut up pear :( So lunch was the sweet potato and cottage cheese.. It tasted good but just wasn't what I wanted. At snacktime I had 3 handfuls of froot loops since I wasn't feeling too satified from lunch. I walked home after work to get ready for the gym and had about a cup of grapes since I was getting hungry!

I went to the gym and did 2 miles on the treadmill while reading a trashy mag and did some weights since my wrist is feeling a bit better :) I stopped off at the parents house quickly to pick up a few things and say hi. I came home showered and made up some din din. I didn't know what I was in the mood for, so after having 2 big forkfuls of cold baked ziti I decided on an Amy's burger with Laughing Cow Cheese, homemade ketchup which was very thick, some pickles and a few pita chips. Desert was a bowl of Cherry Jello and Cool Whip, I also may have had a chocolate chip cookie from mommy.. hehe I'm now sitting with Adam (he's doing good after his surgery! :-D) watching Survivor. I decided on going to Atlantic City with the girls this weekend so its should be a fun time! I plan on resting up good tomorrow for a LOOONG night Saturday ;)

Hope your Thursday flew by like mine did!!! See ya tomorrow.

Question:

Do you have any fun plans for the weekend?

Lazy Days....Well Sort Of...

Good Evening All!

Here's my recap of my day.....

I was up at 7 since I can NEVER sleep in on the weekends..I got up around 8 and made some coffee and tried to hold off on breakfast until Adam got up but I couldn't wait. I had my usual bowl of oats but for some reason they came out EXTRA CREAMY today! I am not complaining at all.. they were delish! I was full but had to finish em off cause they were that good! I went to the gym, as Adam was getting up lol and did 2 miles on the treadmill doing some intervals and some weights. I ran to my parents to pick some things up for my brother's Bowling party tomorrow night.. He is the only senior on the varsity team so my mom was "in charge" of the party.. I get to bowl with him, since neither of my parents bowl anymore.. Lucky me!! :-P I'll kick his butt! I came home showered and got ready to run out to do a few things.. We picked up some things at Walmart (I needed socks, Adam got some Gatorade) then we went to Big Lots (its right down the highway from Walmart) and Aldi just to looks around. We didn't find anything but it was fun to just walk around and look at the randomness.. We got home around 1:30 and I was STARVING! I had munched on some nuts and dried fruit before we left because I knew I would be hungry.. I had my yogurt parfait that I picked up at Wegman's yesterday.. I love these so much! I then had a few Doritos and jelly beans through out the afternoon ;) I did some reading today, mostly looking at the sale fliers and looking at the deals on new cars ;)

I cleaned up a bit and got some work done and vegged out for the rest of the afternoon until it ws time to throw my ziti in the oven. Boy was I glad I made up it last night so all I had to do was cook it tonight. We also had salad and some garlic bread with it, this totally hit the spot. I made it was WW penne and ff ricotta to make it a bit healthier. I had a small glass of Pinot Grigio with it since it was a nice dinner kinda night. For dessert I had (unpictured) a few chocolate covered honey roasted peanuts and some cherry jello with cool whip. I still have the garlic taste in my mouth from the bread!!! OPPPS I hope it goes away for work tomorrow! I think I'll be brushing my teeth again before bed! :-P

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I have a feeling it will be a late night tomorrow with bowling and all, but I'll try to do a recap! Toodles!

Can't Wait For Superbowl Commercials

Happy Sunday everyone!

So is everyone as excited for the commercials tonight as I am? And Bruce is doing the half time show :)

But onto the eats of yesterday... Went to the gym and did 2.5 miles on the treadmill then hit up the parents to do laundry and bake them some brownies (and eat way too much batter) :-D I then came home put all my shiznat away and showered and made up some yummy yogurt. I had a Fage 0% with strawberries and blueberries. I also mixed in a ton of Grape nuts for some tasty crunch. Once Adam was home we ran to the library to pick up books for work and to get my ring cleaned. ITS SO SHINY AGAIN :-D When we got back we snacked on some Herr's pretzels and relaxed and did some wedding stuff..

Then it was time to make the dinner, Sloppy Joe's made with that tasty sauce we get from http://www.suziehotsauce.com/ We also used 99% ff ground turkey in it. I made up some sweet potato fries also and put mine sloppyness on a sandwich thin and had a pickle with it. MMMM so so good!

We had our "date night" so we walked around the dollar store and then hit up Barnes and Nobles. I picked up a bunch of trashy magazines and a decaf coffee at starbucks. I also had 2 bites of Adam's Blueberry Scone. We came home and I tried to figure out our new dvd player. This took forever :( I might have had a twix while getting frustrated.. haha

This morning I woke up a tad before 8.. woohoooo I made up a bowl of oatmeal with banana, soy milk, cinnamon and grape nuts. I also snacked on some grapes while making it. I'm trying to lay off to coffee today since I have a sore throat and I feel like I've been drinking it too much lately.

Today I'm going to do some cleaning, hit up the gym, look at new cars and go food shopping before the game comes on. See ya later :-D

Oh and here is Mr. Popcorn making our dinner.. Isn't he nice?!?

MMM Crunch Yogurt and Couscous!

BUT NOT TOGETHER DON'T WORRY ;)

Hi everybody!

How's your day going? Mine went pretty well today. I started out waking up at 4:45 when Adam's alarms went off :( I got up and did a potty run and thankfully fell back to sleep after I made Adam get his butt out of bed. hahah I finally woke up at 7:30 for real and got ready and made my bowl of oats. It had soynog, banana, cinnamon and some Back to Nature granola. I also brought a mug o' coffee with me to get me through my day.

The state came for our inspection of the Nursery School! I answered the door and was like OH BOY! I ran around the school and let everyone know, cause I'm nice like that ;) I helped the one teacher who was alone get her kids set to go outside and then was back to my class. It went really well but we were glad when she was GONE!!! :-D Lunch was a Breyer's Yo Crunch Light with Vanilla Yogurt and Oreo pieces.This is so good! Not my usual yogurt so it was a treat :) I also had a bunch of strawberries on the side. Snack today was goldfish so I had a handful of those around 2 with the kiddies. After work I was off to the gym, I did about 30 minutes on the treadmill and some weights. I came home and relaxed for a bit since I got out of work a little earlier today, I snacked on some nuts while watching the end of Oprah.

Adam and I had Chicken baked with Fiber One as bread crumbs and we had this delicious couscous with mushrooms in it :-D This dinner was great! After dinner I went to the library to get some books for the kids and then came home and made some popcorn in my new microwave popcorn popper!!! Healthy popcorn that is way cheaper than buying the micro bags ;) It was so good! I sprayed some I Can't Believe Its Not Butter on it, and we chowed down!!! (we inhaled it so quick I forgot the picture) I then got to painting pretzels for a project I'm having the kids do at the end of the week. I am finally relaxing watching The Real Housewives of Orange County. Just the way I'd like to end my Tuesday.

I hope everyone had a great day! See you tomorrow ;-D