Posted on August 27th, 2008 in My little Angel by Vegan Momma
The first day of school has come and gone without any problems. The night before Aiyana told me that she was nervous about school. I told her this was fine and perfectly normal to feel this way.
Going to school is a huge step. I also told her about the times I’ve been nervous. Listening to me relay the times I’ve experienced nervousness and how I went about dealing with it made her feel very relieved. Naturally, all the parents accompanied their children into the classroom. The Teacher’s assistant had wisely set aside pictures at the children’s desk so they were occupied as soon as they got there. Twenty-four heads were bent over their pictures coloring their house to their preference.
When I picked up my daughter, she told me she missed me but wanted to go back to school the next day. She also talked about some of the children she had met in school. My daughter is very social I knew she would not have a problem meeting and interacting with other children once the nervousness wore off.
I’ve been preparing her for school for months. It’s something we discussed daily I wanted her to be prepared when the big day approached. Although I missed my daughter while she is away, I’m able to accomplish so much during her absence and that is a wonderful thing.
Anyone else having children that are going to school for the first time? Or if you’ve already been there care to share your child’s first day experience? Leave a message in the comment section.
Posted on August 23rd, 2008 in My little Angel by Vegan Momma
With school staring Monday my daughter is starting to get excited. Ok, who am I fooling she has been excited for quite some time. It will be a huge change for both of us, but I know she’ll do well. She’s five years old, already knows how to read and write and knows simple addition and subtraction. We spend a lot of time doing “fun learning” at home.
This past month we’ve spent most of our time together which did not leave my time open for a lot of extracurricular activities such as personal blogging. With her going to school, I’m slowly getting into the routine of blog writing again.
It’s a beautiful day in Maryland and my daughter has asked whether I will cook outside. I love cookouts as much as her so I’m more than happy to accommodate her. Over the next few days (most likely weeks) I’ll be making the blog rounds and catching up with my blog pals to see what is going on at their virtual homes.
Posted on August 12th, 2008 in My little Angel by Vegan Momma
The past few weeks I’ve been noticeably silent on my personal blogs, although I’ve been writing elsewhere I decided to lay off posting on my personal websites.
My daughter will be going to school on August 25th, and she is extremely excited. This month I’ve been spending most of my time with her, so I guess you can say that I’ve been having a “mini-vacation.” We’ve gone to a lot of different places here in Maryland such as kiddie carnivals, reading groups for children, and her favorite place to play kid games Chuck E. Cheese.
I’m slowly getting back into writing for my personal websites I truly have missed it.
What are we doing today? We’re having a cookout. I’m making veggie burgers, hummus, and a garden salad that naturally came out of my garden. That is one of the perks to having a garden.
This week is starting off well regarding my gym workouts. Currently I’m hanging out in my daughter’s room; legs are sore. Yesterday was leg day. I worked out with D (which is always great) we push each other and the time passes by quickly. We spent a lot of time with hack squats. My goal is to lift as much as I was lifting with hack squats as I did when I was in my twenties. I have about 150 pounds to go before I get to that point. My goal is to get there by the end of next month. It’s definitely doable. I really don’t work my legs hard they are very strong. Since I have someone that I work out with consistently I’m starting to focus on getting back to a point I’m comfortable with.
The ice packs came out yesterday something I always have handy for the times I work my muscles harder or do different exercises. Cardio is something I do daily. I have a very active five-year old remember? A lot of our time is spent outdoors.
The song above is Straight to Video by Mindless Self Indulgence. It’s something I downloaded into iTunes. I originally heard it on YouTube while checking out a WOW video made by a player who was deleting his epic geared level 70 toons. I’ll be uploading the song to my iPod nano later this evening so I can have when I work out tomorrow. I’m not stuck into one genre of music so you’ll find a variety of music in my collection. If I like, something I’ll listen to it.
If you are an iTunes you can download a cool feature that shows you the lyrics of the songs you listen to It’s called Sing that iTune. Of course you have to be on a Mac. I’m sure they have similar apps for Windows computers.
Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight To Video
All aboard
Hit the road
All the bullshit
Can’t be ignored
It’s hard to place
In my face
No emotion
All the problems
Make me wanna go
Like a bad girl
Straight to video
Little darling
Welcome to the show
You’re a failure
Played in stereo
Hiedi ho
Here we go
No solution
Strong undertow
Quite unfair
Quite a pair
No box office
All the problems
Make me wanna go
Like a bad girl
Straight to video
Little darling
Welcome to the show
You’re a failure
Played in stereo
I never noticed
No, never noticed
You’re so amazing
So amazing
I never noticed
No, never noticed
You’re so amazing
So amazing
All aboard
Hit the road
All aboard
Here we go
All the problems
Make me wanna go
Like a bad girl
Straight to video
Little darling
Welcome to the show
You’re a failure
Played in stereo
I never noticed
No, never noticed
You’re so amazing
So amazing
I never said it
No, never said
You’re suffocating
Suffocating
I never noticed
No, never noticed
You’re beauty’s fading
Fading
[tags]exercise, fitness, Straight to Video, Mindless Self Indulgence[/tags]
I finally got around to making hummus yesterday. Remember those beans, well I used the leftover ones in this dish. I’ll write more about the topic when I post the recipe on The Raw and The Cooked.
Trust me, it’s almost complete. I just need to snap a photo and upload it to accompany the delightfully tasty recipe. Actually, there are two versions a fat free version and a version that I’ve added healthy fats (sunflower seed cheese, it’s actually quite tasty.) Sunflower seeds is an excellent source of vitamin E, magnesium, and selenium.
I didn’t use bread for the dip as shown in the picture, veggies were used for the dip along with raw vegetable chips (My diet is at least 80% raw foods) a healthier alternative and a delightful change. The recipe is simple and definitely ebook worthy so it’s going into both additions of my ebook the free version along with the paid version. I haven’t decided on when I’ll be releasing it, but it’s coming. I’ll also be releasing an ebook that focuses on natural remedies that you can make at home.
Changes are here, and more to come…
The past few months have been extremely busy for myself. I’m behind the scenes working to complete the goals I’ve set out for myself on my personal websites. Some of the changes I imagine are starting to be noticed here on Vegan Momma. It’s evident in the new readers I’m picking up and the websites that have been linking here.
I’ve always wanted to come back to writing about health, nutrition, and exercise on this website and I do a lot of that already. There is still a lot of misinformation out there about health, nutrition, fitness, it’s too much a part of my life not to. Food politics (that don’t necessarily have to do with veganism) is a topic I’m passionate about and you’ll see me write about it here a lot more. Yes, I’ll be writing about veganism.
My stats show me that I still have a lot of readers that land here searching for information about the subject so I’ll try to do my part to educate those who land on my website. I’m definitely not ashamed of being Vegan although I haven’t talked about it as much as I used to in the early days of Vegan Momma. I definitely don’t want to be “preaching to the choir” and have a vegan only website. There that focus solely on veganism and do it very well.
Although I do my best not to make feel uncomfortable (it’s definitely not what I’m about) The website is headed in a different direction, so it might not appeal to everyone and I’m fine with that. I cannot please everyone all the time. However I’ll be writing more about topics I love. It will be interesting to see what goes on here over the next few months. I’ve enjoyed the interaction that I’ve had with the many I’ve met on this website, through email, and many other websites.
A lot of people have been instrumental in making me get off my butt and move into the direction I’ve been fighting for over a year and I’ll be mentioning them in another post. I’ll be writing that later this week.
[tags]vegan, food politics, ebook, The Raw and The Cooked, raw food, food politics[/tags]
I finally got around to making hummus yesterday. Remember those