Happy New Year!

I'm not making a New Year's resolution. I'm carrying on with my quest to organize the house and make me the best me ever. I've moved some recipes over to my family site, but will be keeping my ramblings about my house keeping skills (or lack of!) and trying out new stuff in the kitchen and recapturing my health.

Over the past few days, I've been cleaning out my sons' dressers and shared closet. It's such a great feeling to know that the only clothes in their room are clothes that fit, are clean and not full of holes. Clothes that are ready to move on are in the guest room waiting to be tagged for the upcoming Just Between Friends sale. I've been ironing the little shirts and slacks every night while catching up on Season Two of Glee on Netflix.

I've also used my baking soda/lavender essential oil mix to clean the boys' mattresses. A light dusting on each mattress, let it sit for about 20 minutes and vacuumed it up...ewww. Even more eww, the kids looked at it under the microscope (pictures on the family blog). Their blankets, pillows and stuffed animals were all washed on the sanitary cycle tonight and were snuggly warm from the dryer just in time for tuck-ins.

The kids are still home on Christmas Break from school and I thought it would be a treat to have Chic-fil-a for lunch. But wowsa - the price of healthy fast food (two sandwiches on wheat buns with child sized lemonades and small fruit cups; two salads; and one order of chicken strips, small lemonade and small fruit cup = $33). Clearly, we won't be dining out that frequently anymore with our plan to use Dave Ramsey's principles to keep us from going in the red when I embark on my journey into Grad School in about 5 months.

It's been in the low 60's here for the high during the day. I made a delicious quick chunky chicken noodle soup for dinner. I enlisted some help from Wolfgang Puck and these yummy gluten-free noodles.
While the soup was cooking, I took out my new toy - a Ninja blender and made the hubby and me some nutrient-packed smoothies. So yummy...

- Almond Milk

- Frozen fruit

- Kale

I added my supplements to mine...and then it ended up tasting gross, so I dumped it down the sink. Next time, I'm only adding the chia seeds and leaving the Maca Powder (which doesn't taste too bad in OJ, but not so much in my smoothie) and the Spirullina out.