anxiously awaiting

December 21, 2011

Oh. My. Goodness. Have you ever once spent your day(s) with 21 fifth graders who are excited about the impending holidays? Ha! It’s been quite humorous on my part the past few days. The kids are so stinkin’ anxious to get out of school, so they have been very squirrely! This has definitely made me more tired the last few days. Two more days until our break begins!

Breakfast – 6:15 AM

Notice the time change? Yeah, probably not, but I’m going to pretend like you did. I’ve come up with a new morning routine which has me spending less time doing blog work in the morning before I go to work. I have found out it IS possible for me to work out at 5 and be out of the house by 7. Success!

More chocolate protein oats (half eaten – whoops!) topped with dried cranberries and Teddie peanut butter. I got my Teddie on an Open Sky deal from Tina. (Could I have any more links in that sentence?) It seriously is one of the best peanut butters ever.

Treats for the Husband

Every year the parents at my school host a cookie exchange for the teachers around the holidays. While I usually can’t eat any of the treats, I always load up to bring some home for the Husband! There were so many delicious looking things I almost put my caring about not being sick aside to eat one of those peanut butter chocolate bars. Holy cow, they look so good!

Lunch – 11:30 AM

Lunch today was pretty delicious – some leftover soup that I made on Sunday. It has lentils, celeriac, carrots, kale, and brown rice in it. Anyone want the recipe? I would have to go take some better pictures because this one is looking pretty blurry!

And the soup is a weird color because I used purple carrots – they bled!

On the side of my soup, I also had about a cup of Chobani 2% mixed with cinnamon and 1 tbsp. chocolate protein powder.

Snack – 3:30 PM

I left school feeling so exhausted. Those kids sure know how to wear a lady out! On my way home, I snacked on (what else?) raisins and almonds.

Dinner – 6:15 PM

Dinner was just disappointing. It ended up being pretty good, but it was definitely not substantial. I had planned on making pasta, but then discovered there was only enough for one person so I ended up making it for the Husband (sacrifices, I tell ya…). Since we had a spaghetti squash, I decided to make that for myself instead. Then I turned it over and found out half of it was rotting. After cutting off the rotted part, I microwaved it for about eight minutes and when I “forked” out the meat, it tasted funky. I ended up tossing it.

Instead, I ended up having a big salad filled with tomatoes, onions, and chilled roasted beets (which I made over the weekend).

And by far the weirdest combination of the day, roasted cauliflower, sliced avocado (it’s under there!), and marinara sauce. Why I didn’t put the avocado on the salad is beyond me, but I thought it would get all creamy and delicious with the marinara sauce. I was right – it was pretty darn good!