What Did You Eat Today? #2

A few of my trusty blog readers (ha!) told me they liked seeing what I eat, so here is another round of "What Did You Eat Today?" I definitely don't count my calories on a daily basis, but I am trying to pay more attention in general to what I'm putting in my body. I do find it very interesting to count once in a while though, to see if I'm on track.

Here's my breaky: Oatmeal topped with peanut butter, jam, and chia seeds. This concoction was so yummy - just like a pb and jam sandwich! I wanted to make it again for lunch! I also had cranberry juice and half a banana on the side. This breakfast was about 330 calories, 60g carbs, 9g protein, 6g fat.

For a snack I had some carrots, cucumber, and hummus. In total, about 140 calories, 20g carbs, 4g protein, 5g fat.

I was still hungry so a bit later I had more cranberry juice, cheese, and crackers. This was 250 calories, 36g carbs, 10g protein, 7g fat.

My weekend eating is always messed up and I didn't end up having lunch till 2:30pm. I realized I needed to up my protein intake and decided to make egg salad with 1 whole egg and two egg whites. I added 1 tsp of both mayo and mustard to create my egg salad. I also had a handful of grape tomatoes and pickles on the side. 215 calories, 21g carbs, 17g protein, 6g fat.

For dinner I had a turkey burger, a serving of rice crisps, guac, and peas. I threw out the turkey burger box and I have no idea what its nutritional info is, so I just estimated by searching the internet. I think the estimate is high, but oh well. This dinner is huge at 650 calories, 49g carbs, 32g protein, 31g fat.

I ended the evening with a protein shake because I needed to up my protein for the day without adding many carbs. 120 calories, 3g carbs, 23g protein, 2g fat.

Today's eating totalled about 1700 calories. Too many carbs and not enough protein. C'est la vie!

Notes about today's eating:

1) I rarely drink juices (other than pure OJ) and now I remember why. They are chock full of sugar! The 1.25 cups of cranberry juice I had today were 44g of carbs, almost all sugar. I could have eaten two big pieces of bread for the equivalent number of carbs. That juice was leftover from a party we had and thank goodness it's gone now!

2) All morning I was feeling like a bottomless pit. Then around 2:30pm I realized I hadn't had any water to drink, whereas on the weekdays I'd have had at least a litre by this time. Drink water to help fill you up if you're still feeling hungry!

A Late Easter Celebration

Last weekend the fam got together for a late Easter brunch. Better late than never, right? There's so many of us now that it's really hard to get everyone together at the same time, especially with M in Chicago. Here we all are!

This is my newest nephew. So darling.

He even likes M. The other three kids are scared of M. Seriously.

He's a bit of a drooler!

Family time = fun time. I can't believe I just said that but it's true. Now I just wonder when my next niece or nephew will be on its way. Hopefully there's a bun in somebody's oven soon!

Holy Busy, Batman

Work for the past couple of weeks has been ridiculously busy. I feel like I've gotten nothing accomplished! For example, this week on Monday I had a workshop, Tuesday a presentation, Wednesday a dress rehearsal for our spring concert, and today I was at a conference with my boys reading club. Combine all of this with double recess each day for track and field practice, and time is disappearing! Not a bad thing, actually!

Today's conference was a really nice break from school. One of my favourite ladies and I took the boys in our reading club to a conference with other boys from all over Toronto.

Doesn't it look like we're having fun on the bouncy old bus?

We heard Barbara Reid talk about how she makes plasticine illustrations for her books (wow, wow, wow). The rapper "D.A" taught us how to freestyle (HA!), we had pizza for lunch, then watched this cool basketball trickster guy do tricks, and a sound effects guy make crazy noises. But the highlight was being *this close* to getting trampled on by screaming 8 year old boys in the mosh pit. Hilarious.

Tonight was also our spring concert and my kids did a fabulous job and thank goodness it's over because I'm sick of practicing the same songs a million times.

Time to curl up with a book and hit the hay! TGI(almost)F

Buck's Twin?

Do we have a Buck look a like in the family, or what?

This is my niece, dressed up as Bob the Builder, or Buck, whichever you prefer!

The Scent of Spring

The other night when I was walking I got a whiff of something sooooo good in the air. Could it be?

Yes! The lilacs are out!

Fresh lilacs have got to be one of my favourite scents. I'm not crazy about lilac perfume or anything like that, but give me a lilac bush and I could sniff it for days. And that's precisely what I did tonight. I stole a branch and sat and sniffed it. Then I brought the branch home and put it in water on my bedside table, so now I can sniff it all night long. It may or may not be giving me a headache.

Now, here's a cute story about lilacs for you. When I was young, my dad, on his way home from work, would often stop on the side of the road to pick lilacs for my mom. Ohhh, they smelled so good. And that is how my love for lilacs was born. My parents also have two purple lilac bushes, which are way better than plain old white ones, in my opinion.

Fa la la la... spring is in the air...

An Emotional Roller Coaster

My long distance relationship with my husband is like an emotional roller coaster some days. I get so used to living alone, then BAM, we're together and I get used to being part of a couple again. Then, BAM, the visit is over so I have to get used to being alone again. Ugh, less that two months left till we both live in the same country!

How could you not love this face? Bahahahaw!

After dropping M off at the airport tonight I was feeling a little down, so I dropped by the movie store and rented "Whip It". I've been wanting to see this movie for a while and it was pretty good, worth a watch! I also got some dumplings for dinner and that just perked me right up!

What do you do to cheer yourself up?

My Favourite View of Toronto

M has been home visiting for the last 10 days, but unfortunately he's had to study the entire time! We did a couple of fun things, but man, studying puts a real damper on life.

Because we're moving, we sold our season tickets for the TFC. We saved the tickets from only two games, which just so happened to be last week!

Here's M on the subway, reviewing his flash cards. Study, study, study :(

Sitting on the crowded street car.

And finally we're here! I'll miss this view.