Family fun

We are working on some free time between our morning, and afternoon schedule, and the kids are busy crafting and enjoying their time together!

This is when you smile, and just feel good that everyone is happy, smiling, and working together without the aid of planned activities.

Behind the kids you can see our new cabinets for putting all our homeschool material together in one place! This is a first for us, and has made a big difference in our day to day school life. For an extra bonus, it even locks to keep Adrian out of things he should not be into!

Today is the first day

Today we tried our new lifestyle change. We got up and ate Apple pancakes. It is made with Whole wheat flour, stevia, and egg whites. We also tried to use Olive oil to cook them in. AHHH! I was so frustrated. the pancakes I tried to cook in the good pampered chef pans stuck to the pan, and the cheap pan, cooked them beautifully! I have no idea what went wrong!

We served it with plan yogurt, and berries, also sweeten with stevia. I was so full after two, I couldn't eat another, but Kenny, ate tons of them!!

One meal down..... tons more to try!!

Apple pancakes
1 1/2 cups water
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
3/4 cups Whole wheat flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
2 drops stevia
1/2 large apple, finely chopped

Put the water and oil in a blender. While it is running, add the dry ingedients. Pour into bowl and fold in the egg whites, stevia, and apple. Bake on a hot griddle sprayed with olive oil. Serve with berries sweetened with Xylitol or stevia.

New Lifestyle Choices

We have decide to make some changes to our life. We are cutting down dramatically on our complex carbohydrates and red meat, as well as taking white sugar, and white flour out completely,! This is something that I am sure will benefit the whole family! We are nervous, and excited at the same time.

Today we went shopping, and purchased tons of fruit, vegetables, eggs and fish. We went past the bakery, and most of the middle aisles. We even made a stop at the health food store for some Stevia (natural sweetener), and brown rice syrup (Thought we'd try it out!)

We are hoping to also increase our exercising, and become an around healthier family!

Here is to trying it out!!!!