5 Dinner Guests

5 Dinner Guests. Who are 5 people you’d love to have dinner with (living or deceased) and why?

 

Not my table, but this is so cute.

Well I love to cook so you would think this would be easy. But I actually found it to be very hard. The first person would be my mom because I love to cook for her. She cooked for me for so many years I love cooking for her.

Second would be the hubby because I always enjoy his company and he can always make me feel better about the food I make.

Third would be Wolfgang Puck as he is my favorite Food Network Chef.  I always have to eat at his place several times when we go to Disney World.

Fourth is Bethany Frankel because I just love her. She is so real and seems so down to earth I would love to just meet her for a night.

Fifth,  this was actually a hard one but I picked Khloe Kardashian. I feel like she is very down to earth and has struggled with a lot to become the super strong person that she is. I really hope that all the rumors are untrue and her marriage is fine.

Who would be your 5?

Open a book

Open a Book. Choose a book and open it to a random page and point to a phrase. Use that phrase to get you writing today. Free write for 15-20 without stopping.

After yesterday’s post, I thought this would be the best book to pick up today!

I opened to chapter 42 and the title is “Spend a Moment, Every Day, Thinking of Someone to Love.” How perfect for me! Although I think about my daughter everyday, I have realized that a lot of time now my life has been consumed by her and I forget to think about the hubby, my mom, myself, and everyone else as much.  I think this quote to me really reminded me that I have to think about some one different each day. I get so focused on little miss that I think I forget everything and everyone else. I know that is not good for me or anyone else, but again it is something I am working on. I have to realize that the relationships in my life have always been and will continue to be the most important things to me and I need to nurture ALL of those.

I think I will make it a goal to think about a new person I love each day for the rest of the month. 12 people ready go….

Who are the most important people in your life?

Learned the Hard Way

Learned the Hard Way. What’s a lesson you learned the hard way? Write about it for 15 today.

 

I think recently the biggest lesson I have learned the hard way is that I can not be perfect. Shocking I know! But for me this was actually a lot harder then you would think. I have been an overachiever my WHOLE life, so when I got pregnant I thought having a family and working would be easy. I mean I was fine with having my hubby, the house, my job, the puppy, the baby would be easy! Boy (or girl) was I wrong! I guess I never imagined how much time I would want to spend with little miss! And that would not really be a problem, accept for the part where I still expect myself to do everything else, perfectly!

I think the hard lesson for me was realizing that I have to stop being so hard on myself if things are not perfect. I am the only one that would know things like the cleaning are not 100% perfect all the time. This seems so easy but as any mom out there knows it is so hard! I am getting better at realizing that I need to ask for help and be ok when things are not all done all the time. The laundry will get done, and yes hubby can do it too!

 

 Any advise to help me with this? I know I am not perfect, but I want to be so badly!!!

Pinboard

Pinboard. Create a pinterest board for your health focus. Pin 3 things. What did you pin? Share the images in a post and explain why you chose them.

My health and fitness pinboard has 3 things that have keep me in shape the past few crazy months with little miss! 

The first is my yoga mat.

I love this mat, I used it all through my pre-natal and mommy and baby yoga classes. The bright flowers on it always make me smile. So much better then a boring plain mat.

I have some of my favorite DVD’s

Have to love Jillian to kick your butt when you need it!

Any finally my newest obsession, Zumba!

I am loving Zumba because even when I have no desire to workout I get in a great workout and have fun. I have been using the Wii version and love it, maybe sometime soon I will take a class…….

 

What are your favorite ways to stay in shape?

Quotation Inspiration

Quotation Inspiration. Find a quote that inspires you (either positively or negatively) and free write about it for 15 minutes.

“Life is not measured in moments of time, but in timeless moments.”

This is the quote I placed on our wedding album. I think this means so much to me because it makes me remember that the moments that are most important are those that cause everything else around us to stop. The moments we really just do not think about anything else but let ourselves go and enjoy everything that is happening. No phones, no tvs, no interruptions just the people we love and the moments we will remember for a lifetime.

I think now as a working mommy this quote means more to me then ever before. I try to make sure when I am with my daughter I am 100% there. I try to save things to be done when she goes to bed or naps and not worry if things are not done all the time. (I try to do this, I never said I was good at it). I think that the quote just reminds me that it is not always the amount of time we spend with people, but the quality of that time.

What is your favorite quote?