Yep I know, it's already halfway through the month. Better late than never. Life took over for a few months so I wanted to do a quick life update and share goals for this year. In November, we went on a last minute cruise. Our first one. And we loved it. I'm still writing that post over on … [Read More...]
Health & Fitness
How Does Exercise Help Beat Stress? Get Yourself Moving and Find Out!
How Does Exercise Help Beat Stress? Before we talk about exercise for stress relief, let’s begin by talking about what types of things cause stress. There are many things that can cause stress. Anything from work to family situations and beyond. For example working long hours, being unhappy in your current position and losing a […]
The Perfect Fitness Fashion This Winter
Athleta has released their NEW winter collection! I’m not a huge fan of winter BUT I do live in Chicago and have to deal with it so what better than to get all bundled up with Athleta. It would have been nice to have a comfy warm coat this past weekend. As you saw in […]
Food & Recipes
Healthy Holiday Desserts: Fresh Fruit, Parfaits & Cookies!
Healthy Holiday Desserts The holidays aren’t really the holidays without scrumptious desserts, luscious cookies and mouthwatering cakes and pies. You can have your cake and eat it too with these waist watcher desserts. Fresh Fruit Wreaths Low in calories and full of fiber and vitamins, fresh fruit is perfect for dessert. Up the presentation by […]
Do You Love Peanut Butter as Much as I do? Open up!
Anyone who knows me, knows that I LOVE peanut butter so I thought I would do a fun peanut butter recipe roundup before the holiday’s. For you chocolate and peanut butter lovers, this one’s for you. You can thank me later. Here’s to some simple baking inspiration for the holiday season! If you haven’t finished […]
Family Life
Wauconda Fire Department Open House: Fire Cadet Volunteers!
Our 16 year old granddaughter, Rhyanne is part of the Cadet program with our local fire department. She has been part of the this program for the last 3 years. They were previously called Fire Explorer’s. Last year she got an award for most improved and this year she got the great honor of Cadet […]
A Packed and Busy Non Stop Week{end}
How was your weekend? This weekend we were on the go. It all started Friday night when our middle granddaughter and I drove out to meet Kev at his work. After a week or more of researching options for an affordable couch and ottoman for Wilbur’s cat room, we finally found something on Thursday (thank […]