super sunday

What a weekend I’m having!

Saw good news on the scale this morning; only FOUR more pounds to go!

We tried a new church today. We sat under a tent (something they are doing for the summer) and there was some decent music. Not sure we really liked it, so the search continues.

Here’s my post-workout breakfast:

OIAJ!

It was fabulous! Here’s what I used:

– 1/4 C old-fashioned oats

– 1/2 C water

– 1/4 C milk (added after cooking to thin the oatmeal out)

– 1.5 tbsp leftover Trader Joe’s Sunflower Seed Butter

– 1/2 tbsp flax seeds

– 1/4 C blueberries (YUM)

– 1/4 C Great Harvest Groovy Granola (double YUM)

Andrew and I enjoyed our breakfasts (I made him a mango/peach/orange juice smoothie) in the car on the way to church.

Afterward, we toured a friend-of-a-friend’s house that’s coming up for sale soon. We aren’t excited about it; it isn’t really what we want and it’s above our price range. It does have potential and a great location, but still.

We’re going to a local German Festival today; here’s to German beer and great German goodies!

OIAJ!

I made my first OIAJ today! Actually, I made it last night. I read about it on KERF and have anxiously awaited my chance to enjoy some as soon as I got to bottom of one of my nut butters.

That day was yesterday 🙂

I used the remaining tablespoon of peanut butter with half a banana, 1/4 C old-fashioned oats, 1/4 C plain yogurt (homemade!), 1/2 C milk and 1/2 tablespoon flax seeds. Mixed all those together last night, covered it up and stuck it in the fridge.

Today AFTER my run (chose to have just coffee and half a banana before–lesson learned!), I grabbed it, added some toppers: 2 tablespoons of Susy’s granola and some Honeyville whipped pumpkin spice honey. I nuked it for just 30 seconds to take the chill off, and the lukewarm oatmeal is actually pretty good, since it’s getting warmer here. OIAJ is SO good! I love the extra peanut butter flavor!

On a side note, see my chives? They are actually growing now since Zorro (one of our two cats who are currently living up in Buffalo with Andrew and his parents during our move-process) isn’t here to snack on it!

I’ll be taking a short hiatus this weekend…going to visit Andrew in East Aurora and visit some open houses! I’m bringing the camera so I can document some of our weekend and post when I get back home. I’m really excited to drive up with Andrew’s mom and sister, Abigail, who just finished her freshman year at Penn State!

Heather will be home holding down the fort for me and enjoying some much-needed quiet time.

For all you praying people out there (and I know most of you are!), please say a quick prayer for our house! We have a second showing Saturday morning and our first open house Sunday.

Happy Friday!

A little bit of the tropics in a freezing house…

This is what my thermostat said this morning:

I was freezing! It didn’t help that Hadrian had OD’d on water last night and had me up at 4 AND 6 a.m. to pee.

Because it’s Thursday and that’s the day I don’t go to gym until 9:45 for yoga, I could actually sleep past 6 a.m. But no, not with Hadrian’s bladder.

Anyway, I had a very ripe mango on the counter, so I’d been planning on making a smoothie in the morning for a light breakfast. Not this morning! I wanted to get warmer, not colder!

So, I pulled a Kath and made oatmeal.

I still wanted to use the mango, so I came up with a “tropical” theme of sorts. I used rolled oats, a splash of OJ, milk, lowfat cottage cheese (for protein), half a banana, about a third of the mango, flax seeds and a little honey. I threw in a bit of Jamaican Allspice as well. I topped with just a bit of sweetened, shredded coconut.

Yum! It was a bit sweet and weird (there is a reason mango isn’t a favorite topping for oatmeal), but not bad at all. It was a bit watery as well…maybe less milk next time? It definitely kept me full until I had lunch around 12:30.

Thankfully, we have a break from the rain today AND tons of sunshine, so I’m planning on taking the pup for a nice long walk. Other things on the agenda:

-a complete closet clean-out! (my jeans are too big–yay! scored FIVE pairs of size 8 pants at Goodwill today, and with the move coming up, I just want to PURGE all the old, worn-out stuff I’ve been hanging on to)

-errands: grocery store, Auto Zone (Andrew has to change my brake pads while he’s home this weekend), and the Fairborn city offices to get our garage sale permit

-Bible study (I’m in two different ones, so I do Esther in the morning with coffee, and the other one with tea whenever I can fit it in!)

-the neighbor kids will be mowing/weed whacking our yard–thank goodness we have a break from the rain–it’s a jungle out there!