No Coffee…

…but I am having some tea this morning.  Today is a rest day and I slept in until 6:45-it was glorious!  Although Lu learned how to make one of her musical animals work.  She thought 6:15 was a good time for music.  Silly girl!

I made some juice this morning, using, what I thought, was a very strange ingredient 🙂

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Baby bell peppers!  According to this those puppies have 4 times as much vitamin C as an orange! I also found that they are the base for paprika-who knew!

I did cut the tops off, but look at what a pretty glass it made:

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I couldn’t taste the peppers at all.  Since drinking it, I have had some pepper aftertaste in my mouth though.

Random Blog Stuff

I made some updates to the blog yesterday by myself! Shaun was so proud! 

-I added a tagline that Mel came up with-“Live. Laugh. Love. Eat. Just Be.” Isn’t it perfect?!?!?!  Thank you Mel! Shaun will have to help me get it into the header, so stay tuned. I actually had him change the code when I set the blog up so that there wouldn’t be a tagline since I couldn’t think of one. Mel to the rescue!

-I added a “Subscribe” button.  I know many of you asked for this and so there it is on the sidebar.

-I added “Subscribe to Comments” ability on posts.  So if you are interested in the comments on a particular post you can get emails.  There are some interesting comments!  I even posted my schedule in the comments yesterday 🙂

-Lastly, the one I’m most excited about is that I made it so that the title of my post is in the URL.  Shaun thought that that was a hard thing to do but it turns out that it’s just a setting in WordPress.  I did the research and figured it out.  This is big, I usually let Shaun deal with the techy stuff.

-Have you seen the giveaway?  There’s still time to enter!

Beautiful Blogger Award

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Both Amber and Tasha awarded me the Beautiful Blogger Award.  They said some of the nicest things about me too-both of them made me well up a little bit.  Thank you girls so much.

Amber and I met at the KERF meet-up in November and I’m so glad we did.  She is such a sweet soul and has some of the most amazing style EVER. Seriously. 

I found Tasha’s blog one day by putting in “Clean Eating, Gum” into Bing (Yes, Chelsea really does Bing!). She had a post about what she considers clean and I was hooked!  It turns out that her little boy, J, is just about a month younger than Lucy-so we have a lot in common!

So, here’s how it works: I have to tell you 7 random things about me, and then I choose 7 of YOU to do the same.

Random Things-these were hard!:

1. I like my shoelaces to be the exact same length and will re-lace my shoes if they are not.

2. I had severe dyslexia as a child-I still technically do.  With the help of the Irlen Clinic and colored lens therapy, I went from not being able to see vowels to a voracious reader and excellent student.  This meant that I had bright purple lenses in my glasses as a child-talk about mortifying.

3. I like to fall asleep with the light on.  This one actually has to do with the dyslexia.  I have scotopic sensitivity which means that lights actually make you sleepy.  A sure fire way for me to fall asleep is to turn a light on.  Weird.  Too bad someone else is in the room with me!

4. I’ve wanted to be a mom for as long as I can remember.  When I was 18 my uterus would ache when I saw babies.  That aching didn’t go away until I got my own.

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5. I loved being pregnant.  It was AMAZING.  Even though I felt like total crap for the first 13 weeks and was on bedrest at the end, the fact that I was growing a life and that she was with me at all times was indescribable.

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6. I can’t to time math.  I have to count it out on my fingers.  I probably could do it, but I still count out time on my fingers.  For example, if I fall asleep at 10 and wake up at 5:30 (oof!) I have to count that out on my fingers to figure out it’s 7.5 hours of sleep. Even though it’s insanely easy math.

7. My hair is naturally curly.

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But turned straight when I was pregnant.

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And went back to curly when Lucy was about 8 months old.  I use a straightening iron every day.

Wasn’t that fun?

Now onto the 7 lovely ladies! Please don’t feel like you need to pass it on-No pressure-just fun! I wish I could pick ALL of you!

1. Mel-she is an amazing Mommy who is also incredibly talented.  She makes the most beautiful bows and other baby things.  She’s also one of the funniest people I know.

2. Ashley-another amazing Mommy who has some pretty lofty goals for 2010.  I still can’t get over number 1!

3. Amanda-again, a mommy (to beautiful Ava)! She’s doing a 365 project with photos-she’s truly an awesome photographer.

4. RhodeyGirl–Sabrina who WILL be a wonderful mommy someday 😉 We met at Calorie King and she inspires me all.the.time with all her hostessing abilities-she’s amazing.  Whenever I have people coming over, I always think, “What would Sabrina do?”

5. Monica-another fabulous mommy-I’m seeing a trend here!  We actually met on the interwebs a loooong time ago on Calorie King.  She’s been out to California numerous times and we always have fun together.

6. Lauren-A Louisiana girl who always makes me smile.  I couldn’t believe that she just turned 20! Happy birthday!

7. Tania-I miss you!  I hope all is well and maybe this will bring you out of your break.  Tania is a total foodie who is on a quest to lose weight the RIGHT WAY.  She makes the most delicious and beautiful food.  Her honesty is so inspiring.

Okay, work cropped up in the middle of that (WORK!) and that took way longer than expected.  Till later!

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