I loved reading about all your holiday traditions! Seems like a lot of people get new pjs for Christmas :) That’s actually one of my favorite things! I love sleeping in a new pair of pjs for the first time on Christmas Eve.
My sisters and I also used to sleep in the same room on Christmas Eve – well, we tried to sleep, but we normally just kept asking each other if we could get up yet! One year, we just couldn’t wait and we made my parents get up at 3:30 in the morning to open presents! Then my parents went back to bed for a few hours while we watched a movie :) Fun, right? I’m sure I’ll be repaid for that whenever we have kids.
Lunch today was hard to put together.
We had NO leftovers to bring – and I mean nothing.
I ended up packing a sandwich, which is usually my last resort, but it turned out to be a great lunch that brought back a lot of memories.
I made a chip-wich!
Do you ever do this?
In middle and high school, my mom always packed a lunch for us and it almost always included a sandwich and some type of chip/pretzel/cracker. I LOVED putting my chips on my sandwiches.
The best combos always included doritos or cheetos, and this lunch just made me smile.
I made a ham + provolone sandwich this morning on Nature’s Pride 100% WW bread with a little olive oil mayo, and then layered on some Salt + Pepper Popchips at lunchtime.
I just love the crunch in the sandwich – and it doesn’t matter what chips you use. It’s always good.
I also had a tangerine with lunch and am planning on having these veggies + hummus later on.
Okay, maybe not the carrots and not all of that hummus :)
I’m actually going to get my hair cut during part of my lunch break – I can barely see because of my super long bangs!
And have you donated yet?Head over here and help Holly build a much needed well in Cambodia. I donated – now it’s your turn! Every little bit helps and it’s the giving season – she’s so close to her goal!!!
Happy humpday, people! Thank goodness this week is just about halfway over. It’s just been a mess so far!
I think my computer issues should be a bit better today at work – plus, we have an exciting thing happening on Friday, so I can’t wait!!!
I was so excited when I was getting peanut butter out of the jar yesterday because I knew it meant I could have this today.
Today’s mix was all about the peanut butter + apple.
1/3 cup oatbran, 1 cup water, pinch salt
cinnamon!
1 small apple, chopped and heated up for 1 minute with MORE cinnamon
about 1.5 Tbsp pb in the jar
I love the big blob (ha, I wrote blog!) of pb that’s waiting at the bottom of the jar, but I think my favorite part about doing this is the little bites of melty pb that follow you down the sides of the jar.
If you haven’t tried this, you should! It’s good with regular pb, flavored pb, almond butter, nutella…you name it.
While finally getting to watch the latest edition of VeggieGirl tv yesterday (my internet is too slow at home), I started thinking about my family’s traditions at Christmas.
We always open one present on Christmas Eve, and that present is always new pajamas
No one can open anything on Christmas morning until we’ve gone through everything in our stockings
We always go to a family friends’ house – that might as well be family – for breakfast on Christmas morning to exchange gifts with them and have breakfast casserole, fruit, juice, and coffee
Since Nick and I have been married, we’ve actually only been at his parents’ house for one Christmas so far because of schedules, but we’ll be there this year.
I do, however, remember that Nick’s parents HID all the presents that were under the tree and we had to go on a scavenger hunt to find them again. :)
What are your family traditions around the holidays? Specific meals? Places you go?
From 8 am – noon, I sat at my computer at work, watching it start and stop working, having to “rebuild” my database over and over again, and just hoping it wouldn’t crash again. We think it may be something wrong with my email setup, but our IT guy is still working on that part.
Right before lunch time, it started working right again, so I guess we’ll see how it does the rest of the week?
Nick and I ate lunch together before running some errands, and we both had leftovers today.
Leftover shepherd’s pie, broccoli, and an apple for me.
Since I couldn’t do much in the way of work the past day and a half, this afternoon was super busy. I was going through all my emails that came in all day yesterday and this morning, processing stuff, getting it where it needed to be…it was nuts!
I ate my snack while going through emails this afternoon, but this did nothing to curb my hunger! I was starving this afternoon for some reason.
After putting gas in the car at lunch, we ran over to our favorite little bakery (Our Daily Bread) and I got a golden raisin and black currant bran muffin to try.
I actually brought granola to put in my yogurt, but decided to save that and have my muffin instead :) It was really good! It has this light sugary glaze on the top of the muffin, so it didn’t taste too healthy AND it wasn’t really dense and heavy like most bran muffins tend to be.
Before I knew it, it was 5. I didn’t get through all my emails today, but I only have a few to do tomorrow. Of course, there will already be new ones in the morning but it shouldn’t be too bad to finish catching up.
I think this day filled with doing nothing and then busting my butt at the end of the day just wore on me. I have been in a weird mood today and I’m ready for it to be over. I’m also really sore from yoga yesterday and it keeps catching me off guard – especially in my abs! I kept laughing at stuff at work and would forget I was sore until my muscles were killing me a minute later ;)
Dinner was a toss up tonight and I decided at the last minute what to make.
I had a bag of chicken/veggie potstickers in the freezer, so I made a stir fry with lots of veggies, some seasonings and the potstickers.
I just took 2 bags of frozen stirfry veggies and cooked them in a large nonstick skillet with a little oil. Once those were heated through, I took the veggies out of the pan, added a bit more oil and put the potstickers in with 2/3 cup water.
Then you just cover the pan and let them cook for 8-10 minutes or until most of the water is evaporated. Take the lid off and let them brown up on the bottom.
Once the potstickers were ready, I put the veggies back in the pan with the sauce that came in the potsticker package along with some extra soy sauce, garlic powder and ground ginger.
And we always top our potstickers and dumplings with red chile paste – spicy! I had a huge glass of water and a bunch of napkins with this dinner :) My nose always runs with spicy food.
Not surprisingly, I’m sitting here hungry again already. I think I may have some popcorn tonight – it’s been a while!
I woke up on time today – I think my body is just getting into a rhythm of sleeping a bit later on the days it knows I work from home :) Because Mondays are the hardest days for me to get up now!
The only thing that took some time this morning was getting a few wrinkles out of my corduroy pants for today.
But my method lets me make breakfast while waiting. ;)
See, I don’t iron. Well, I don’t iron unless it’s absolutely necessary OR unless Nick has it out and I ask him nicely to iron something for me.
I just put my pants in the dryer for about 5 minutes – perfect!
And by then, breakfast was ready.
1/3 cup oatbran, 1 cup water, pinch salt
1/2 banana, sliced
1 Tbsp crunchy pb
dark chocolate chips, butterscotch chips
cinnamon!
If nothing else, at least my pants will be wrinkle free today. I’m not sure what work will be like when I get to the office!
Do you iron, steam, or fluff your clothes to straighten them out?
