Nutritious Food

Halloween is just 2 days away and my daughter has changed her mind 3 times about what she wants to be. Her original costume was to be Micheal Jackson. I know that’s so cute. She loves Micheal Jackson. We bought her the essentials CD, every great MJ song. She knows all the lyrics to every song. The Micheal Jackson costume is easy, she wants to be the Billie Jean MJ. I’m borrowing I suit from a family member. I thought I had it good, not having to buy a costume but now she wants to be a zombie or a skeleton. I think I’ll wait until the last minute when she decides.

Last night was so much fun, we carved our gigantic pumpkin. Surprisingly there wasn’t alot of seeds or pumpkin guts! We have the best pumpkin the famous Micheal Jackson pose.

I have a couple Healthy Halloween recipes that I would like to share:

Yummy Pumpkin Cupcakes

Preheat oven 350F.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/3 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 3 cups organic raw sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger or use fresh ginger
• 1/4 cup of wheat germ

Mix all the dry ingredients. Then add 1/2 cup of sunflower oil, 4 free range eggs, 1/2 cup of crushed pineapple drained, 2 cups of pumpkin. Depending on the consistence add about 2/3 cup of water or apple juice to make the batter just right.

Prepare muffin tins with some festive Halloween cupcake liners. Fill 2/3 full with pumpkin cupcake batter. Bake for 20-30 minutes. Until toothpick tested in muffin comes out clean.

Let cool then try topping with whipped vanilla icing colored with orange food coloring. Or cream cheese icing.

Use some fun candy treats to place on top of iced muffin. Small Halloween candies like spiders or eye balls!! You can also add your favorite nuts and dried fruit like cranberries or raisins.

Spooky!!!!!

I’ve always had a curiosity about boxing but I never followed through with the feeling. I started running over a year ago and just love it. Running gives me a feeling of self power, confidence and lets be honest, it helps maintain body weight. I’ve been so self conscious about my body size and never really had the motivation to keep up a steady fitness routine. Going to a personal trainer really helped out with the motivation part of it. Once I had the motivation I found myself conquering my goals. I was eating really good as in no junk!! I never bought into the protein drinks and greens. I thought why don’t I spend the 60$$ on real food like organic fruit and veggies. It basically comes down to if your 100% committed then chopping up veggies and blending up smoothies become your daily routine to a better you. The personal training was really great I was able to take what I needed and applied it to my own fitness. I really became interested in fitness and one of my goals was to learn more about the body and health. So that’s what I did I started taking fitness theory which was helpful when it came to the basics of fitness. Then I took the weight training course, that was really interesting. I was able to come up with my own weight training routines and actually understand the way the muscles work. That to me was awesome. Also learning about fitness training really gave me the incentive to stay on track.

Still thinking about boxing I started looking around for something like kickboxing or some sort of training other than running and lifting weights. I wanted something that would completely give me a great overall workout that would basically just kick the shit out of me. I wanted something intense that would keep me coming back for more. I found it!!! If you haven’t already heard about it, is one of the best gyms I’ve been to in a long time. It’s called Capital City Boxing. I’ve been going to this gym for almost a year now. It has everything that I’ve been looking for…….. self confidence, core strength, total body work out mind and body. I’m in the boxing/fitness bootcamp which means early mornings but it’s perfect for me. I’m back home with plenty of time to get my daughter ready for school and have coffee with my husband. The fitness couch Sandy is one of the best trainers I’ve met. She has such a great way of making you feel incredibly great about your overall mind body and soul health. This is the perfect class for me this is what I’ve always wanted to do but could never find the right place or time. The cost is very affordable there is no contracts or yearly membership fees.
If you are thinking about giving it a try don’t let one class decide if it’s for you. It’s very humbling because if you haven’t jumped rope since you were in grade school then this will definitely be a new way to start your workout every morning. I love skipping there is alot of skipping techniques that can become just one of your skills.

I hope to become a role model to my 5 year old daughter, that will empower her to want to try anything that she sets her mind to and realize that she has the ability to do anything once or twice.

It’s been just about four weeks that my daughter has been in kindergarten. Nobody told me about the guilt one would feel about sending her to all day kindergarten. I thought this was a great opportunity to increase my monthly income. My daughter would go to school 9am to 3pm not a real long day and I would pick her up everyday at 3pm. Unfortunately my daughter is not happy about me working and her having to go to school everyday. I know this is all new for her because she has been very lucky since birth. I’ve made sure that either me or my husband would always be home with her if one is working. My parents have also been there since her birth to help out whenever they can. I’ve been lucky to be able to be a stay at home mom with my daughter, so really this is me just trying to get some feedback of other families in the same situation. Getting back to my child keeping busy I thought it would be a great idea to sign her up for gymnastics. I don’t want to change her routine through the week because she really needs to get used to 9 to 3pm school days. Starting this Sunday and every other Sunday after that she will be going to blow of some steam. I think this is a great out of school activity that she will love. Plus she will be with her dad and that’s something that they can share together.

It’s so funny because she’s so excited about this so she thought it would be something cool to tell another kid at school. This was our conversation in the car after school. My daughter ” I told my friend that I have gymnastics after school.” The friend said that gymnastics isn’t cool.” Then I asked my daughter what she said.” My friend thinks she is a princess.” Then my daughter tells me that she told her friend about gymnastics because she thought she would think it’s cool. My daughter is 5 years old and already worrying about if some one thinks she’s cool or not. I said to my daughter don’t worry about what others think of you. Do things that you are happy doing, things that you love.

I really hope she will have fun this Sunday and not worry about what other think. She’s definitely on the right track!!!