What A Monday...

Hey Guys! Hope everyone's had a great Monday.

Things here have been dreary, cold and then - WOW! I'll start with the dreary and cold first...I woke up to the sound of rain at 5:30 this morning so no running took place for me and my body is feeling it! I am currently looking into a few different gyms near my house because the cold is settling in and pretty soon (if not already) running outside won't be happening for me. I'm a BIG baby when it comes to the cold and the rain and I know myself - I WON'T do it.

So I drug myself out of bed a little while later and got ready for work. It was that kind of Monday and I passed on the make up. Everyone kept asking me all day, "Maria, you feeling ok?" "You alright Honey?" Apparently Maria - makeup = sick! Who knew?

I made my usual Sunday oats today. They were really yummy. I'm glad I went with that instead of the quick bread I made yesterday because I worked my little tooshie off right up to lunch time and that bread would NOT have held me over.

I used 1 cup of Sunday oats, a handful of craisins, 1/2 of a banana, 1 scoop of smooth almond butter and 2 big scoops of pumpkin butter. It is such a comforting way to start out the day and adding a travel mug of hazelnut coffee makes it double comforting AND super yummy!

Remember on Friday when I told you about baking 30 pounds of butternut squash? Well, today I had to scrape and then puree that 30 pounds of butternut squash to make butternut squash soup. It took ALL morning because all we have at work is a home sized food processor. I brought mine from home to use also, but it still took me about an hour and a half! It was totally worth it though because the soup turned out GREAT! :) I was really happy about that and happy to see a lot of the kids eating it. I didn't get any photos of it because the day was just TOO busy, but I did bring home the small amount that was left. Jason really wanted some so I will take a pic of his bowl tonight.

My lunch was leftover's from last night's dinner. I have to admit that my Better Than 'Meat' Loaf was even better the next day and I am officially in love with the brussel sprouts. It was a great meal for such a crappy weather day!

I finished up my work for the day, grabbed Regan and booked it home. It has rained all day and there was a small break right at 3:00 (when I get off) so I wanted to get home while it was still sort of dry out. Jason managed to get off work in time to pick Linsey up so we just met each other at home.

While getting our snacks...

(such a great bar)

I got THE email. I'm so excited about this email, but I can't talk about it for about another week! It's going to KILL me to keep this secret.

(no - it's not a book deal. YET!)

As soon as I can tell you my news I will, but for the time being just know that it's super exciting for me AND a step in the direction I want.

YAY!