2 quick things...

1) I'm registered for the half marathon! Woo!

and 2)... I have just discovered the amazingness of pancakes with peanut butter and jelly!!!!! Why has it taken me this long?!?!?!

Woo Hoo!

Horray! After waiting what feels like forever, they finally put up the registration form for the half marathon I want to run! And the best part? It's only $20. Most of the other half's I see are at least $50. I "officially" started training this past week, and sad to say it, but it didn't feel like it. I went running Monday and Wednesday as planned. According to the training plan I'm following, I'm supposed to run Thursdays, but it was just a crazy crazy day Thursday. I was going to to my long run on Saturday (4 miles) but we got up late and then decided to take the kids to the park. I ran to and around the park, but I only got like 1.5 miles in. But, that's okay. This is a new week and now that I can actually sign up, I'm feeling more motivated.

As for the eating better, well.... it's not going to good right now. I'm all out of the fruits and veggies I got. Either they were all eaten or went bad. Money's kind of tight and it's sad that the good healthy stuff I want is so dang expensive. But, it could be a lot worse.

However, my weekly menu is working great! Of course there's days that I switch stuff around, but over all it's been fantastic.

And I've done a couple more creative things for my kids!!! I won't post pics of them, but the first one I did for my daughter. We're starting potty training, so I just filled with piece of paper with stenciled drawings of flowers and butterflies. We have these little butterfly stickers. When she pees in the potty she gets 1 sticker and when she poops (which has yet to happen) she gets 2. We put them on the flowers and butterflies. Whenever she fills up a flower or butterfly I plan of her getting a small prize. I have yet to get the prizes, but she has yet to fill one up. The other I just did this morning. Our son is trying to learn the days of the week, so I printed out the days and made a small calendar. Each day has a picture of what we're going to do for that day. For example, Sunday has a picture of a church because we go to church. Monday has a stroller because I'm going running. One day we're going to the library, so there's books. Hopefully it works out.

Feeling crafty!

Thanks to Pinterest there's a million crafty things I want to do, and I'm not the crafty type. But today I had a couple small things come up that I just had to do! The first one came to me at dinner time. My almost 3 year old son is such a picky picky eater. Usually I'll just give him cereal or chicken nuggets or something like that that he'll eat just so he'll eat. But tonight I made roast and I really wanted him to just try it. I don't like bribing kids, but sometimes it just has to be done. I told him if he took a bit of roast I'd give him a dollar. And it worked!! He ate a few more bites! I wish he had eaten more, but you can only do so much. Anyway, my husband and I decided he's old enough and capable enough to start earning small amounts of money for things. So I came up with a few chores he can help with and amounts of money to go with it!

Here it is! My newly made menu thing! I got the original idea for this from Pinterest (of course) but the one I saw was much fancier. I just used the side of a diaper box, scrapbook paper, a glue stick, a sharpie, clothes pins, and a couple small envelopes I got at Dollar Tree a loooong time ago. I'm excited to have this! Before I just had it written on a piece of paper and it wasn't as fun.

So far my menu and snack prep idea has been going great. I love not having to spend the day thinking "What am I going to make for dinner tonight, and do I have the stuff to make it?" Of course breakfast and lunch are a totally different matter, especially with my son being so picky. The single serve fruits and veggies are great too. I take the kids out on walks a lot so we don't go crazy while my husband has the car all day at work. I just grab a couple bags and bring them along. I know if I can get a few of those down me a day I'm doing great!

I'm wanting to do this half marathon in September. It would be my first! The only problem is I can't find anything anywhere about how to register!!!! It's a yearly thing but I get the impression that they don't start registration until like August. It's a little nerve wracking. I found one of those 10 week training plans for half marathons and I officially start training next week! I'm nervous but excited. We just got our jogging stroller fixed so I'm hoping that will help me with training. With my husband's work schedule I'd either have to wake up super early to run, run when it's still 100 degrees outside, or wait until it's dark and dangerous outside. But now as long as I can push the stroller I can go whenever I want! Woo!

 So, like I said, I would post again about my progress with healthy eating stuff. i know it's only been a day, but I'm excited because I got a bunch of produce tonight! Seriously, I'm like a kid in a candy store when it comes to produce. I just wish later in the week I was more apt to eating the produce like I would candy. Anyway, I felt good about it, so here are a couple pictures of what I did tonight prep-wise.

I didn't count how many little baggies I have, but I have a BUNCH! Here I have baby carrots, salad, grapes, cherries, and blueberries. In the container is some watermelon. I wish I had money to by a bunch of little containers so I wouldn't have all the little bags to throw away, but I don't. This isn't even everything I bought! Like I said... kid in a candy store. I want to go to the Farmer's Market now that it's open, but I don't know when I'll be able to make it. Another thing I'm excited about? I got the stuff to make an awesome 4th of July cake! At least I hope it's awesome. I'm going to post pictures either way. Wish me luck!

It's been a few days but here's my new big plan for eating healthy: actually planning out meals on specific days. Sounds simple right? Only problem is I have picky eaters so I can't always make what I want. So I have to plan some things for when my husband is working late and won't be eating with us, and some for the hot hot days when I don't want the oven/stove on too long (our apartment sucks). another part of my plan? Put healthy snacks in single servings so they're ready to go! Again, real simple but I've always been too lazy to take the time to do that. Now I have this week's menu planned out along with the shopping list. I guess I'll post later on how it goes!

In another un-related but kind of related thing, I'm hoping we can get the wheel on our double jogging stroller fixed. We took the rubber off the wheel to change the inter tube but we can't get it back on!! We think we need to just by a new tire for it because the old one so really hard and tough. I'm hoping we can get this done so I can get back into running. It's been hard with Nathan's work schedule because I either have to get up super super early to run, run when it's 100 degrees outside, or wait until it's too dark. 

Ok, i'm getting bored with this post which probably isn't a good sign. Thanks for visiting me!