Csara

Ever since my friend, Hannah, stepped into the gym with her cool looking  MBT Shoes and raved about their health and body-toning benefits, I have been obsessed. If it weren’t for the steep price tag and the fact that I had just gotten a brand new pair of orange pumas, I would have been sporting those puppies months ago. Then came FitFlops, the flip
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So this diet thing just isn’t working out too well for me. I am all about the exercising, which is way more important in my opinion, than some fad diet, but it sucks that I haven’t lost any weight yet. I actually do feel stronger and firmer and my stomach doesn’t look quite so big and bloated as it did a week ago, but
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I keep talking about how tired I am and I finally realized why in addition to the exercise and limited food intake, I feel like I am going to collapse from exhaustion several times throughout the day. Jett has been teething and I didn’t even know it. What kind of lame mom am I to not realize that my baby just had THREE molars
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Today’s entry is going to be short. I had a long day and I’m totally exhausted. Breakfast: slice of ezekiel toast with almond butter Lunch: “good grains” bagel with eggwhite and turkey sausage from Einstein’s Bros Dinner: I did not even keep track tonight as we were at a big family dinner, but I know my portion sizes were pretty small and I had
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Someone recently asked on the Mama Meetup Forums if anyone missed being single. I really don’t, but it brought up the idea of how much I miss being childless. I am not afraid to say it. It doesn’t mean that I don’t love my kids or that I don’t enjoy being a mom, but I will readily admit that I really do miss those
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For those of you that may not know, my family and I are going on a road trip up and down the east coast of the USA. My husband and I have been talking about doing this forever and we finally have our ‘excuse’. My cousin is getting married in New York so we have a destination. Well, my grandma and my aunt and
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Here’s a list of finger food favorites: • Cheerios • Toasted bread or bagels (spread with vegetable puree for extra vitamins), rice cakes or crackers broken into small pieces • Small chunks of fruit such as banana, mango, plum, pear, peach, cantaloupe, or seedless watermelon • Small cubes of tofu • Well-cooked pasta spirals, cut into pieces • Small chunks of cheese (although I
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